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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Top earner is a role playing group. How interesting. > A band of professional voice actors improvises, role-plays and rolls their way through a `Dungeon and Dragons' campaign.

Critical Role is a relatively big deal. They did a Kickstarter to turn the first season of the live DnD campaign into an animated show, which finished at over 10 million. The rights have been bought by Amazon and it will release on Prime.

> Critical Role did a Kickstarter to turn the first season of the live DnD campaign into an animated show, which finished at over 10 million.

Sounds like how Record of Lodoss War got started - RPG session gets recorded and it went from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_of_Lodoss_War

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Insanely high or insanely low? I actually felt kind of weird that I make more as a software engineer than some of these legit celebrities (not the very top ones of course, but still more than many of the ones I follow or have heard of)

I hope I didn't misread the numbers but to my understanding it's just what they get from twitch directly (ads/subscriptions share), most streamers probably make significant amounts in donations on top of that, and probably have secondary revenue streams via YouTube (stream highlights etc.)

Not to mention sponsors, sponsored streams, etc.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

Wagies donating to millionaires is probably the funniest thing i can imagine.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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> Some Twitter users have started making their way through the 125GB of information that has leaked, with one claiming that the torrent also includes encrypted passwords, and recommending that users change their passwords to be safe. Twitch just asked me to change password for the first time, so it sounds credible.

Kind of worrying considering my twitch is linked to my Amazon account, and all my banking credentials are linked to Amazon.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

Wagies donating to millionaires is probably the funniest thing i can imagine.

Isn't that the basis of the economy with the increasing wealth gap and so on? It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Here's another link https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/ Looks real to me based on the archive I managed to download so far

What's the legality of downloading something like this? If someone is on the torrent they're effectively distributing it as well as downloading.

If you're going to download it, I would probably use a VPN or something before you do. Technically, this would be copyright infringement. I don't know if Amazon would go after people downloading this, but you just don't know.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wagies donating to millionaires is probably the funniest thing i can imagine.

Isn't that the basis of the economy with the increasing wealth gap and so on? It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie.

Maybe if viewed in a cynical way yes.

At least when i donate to blue origin i get something tangible delivered to my door.

Where is the value exchange in being one of 10k people building a faux-relationship with a hot tub streamer?

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The revenue only contains a few data points (below), things like TTS donations, 3rd party revenues like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazon Gifts and sponsorship deals are not included. Amouranth makes insane amounts from her OF alone (an estimate of 1 million $ per month based on an interview with investmenttalk). Odds are that she makes far more than him, same with a lot of other female streamers who know how to monetize the…

Oh yeah of course, twitch is probably a minority of her earnings. But what I think is more interesting is that Twitch's moves to make it easy for advertisers to opt out of streamers like her doesn't seem to have hurt her earnings all that much if she's still that high. Ofc it could be that ad revenue went down but sub revenue was way higher, which, again, is telling. Also could be that ad buyers didn't blink and cont…

Prices for ads is very poor on twitch. The claim was that amouranth made "just" some ten thousand income with ads, which considering how many viewers she has is not that high. The majority of direct income on twitch comes from donations and subs. The bigger income comes indirectly from placements and cooperations outside of twitch, which of course are not part of the leak.

Twitch is not YouTube. For some reason they had for a long time big problems to get their ad-business running, especially outside the USA. It seems because of this the payment is low for streamers.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

The revenue in that pastebin have been double counted. The corrected data is here: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam

Is that all revenue, including subscribers, donations, ads, etc.? The numbers are not that large considering it's data for almost 2 years and a half.

edit: I saw it mentioned in that /g/ thread that these numbers are without the donations.

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