He described the Partner Plus program as a “low blow” to streamers who already hustled to qualify as a Partner. Many streamers with over 1,000 consistent viewers per stream still won’t have 350 monthly subs, Oli told TechCrunch in a Twitter DM. Oli, a Minecraft streamer known as highkeyhateme, has more than 176,000 followers on Twitch but is “nowhere near” the 350-sub minimum to qualify for the Partner Plus program. Gift subs and Prime subs don’t count toward the subscription minimum, but do count toward the $100,000 annual cap - another point of contention among streamers. To qualify, Partners must maintain at last 350 monthly subs for at least three consecutive months. The new Partner Plus program, which Twitch announced on Thursday, will grant qualifying streamers 70% of the first $100,000 they make annually from monthly and gift subs. Streamers widely protested the changes, which were set to go into effect this month. Partners grandfathered into the deal would still get a 70% cut of the first $100,000 they earned, and 50% of any revenue after that. Select streamers were offered a premium 70/30 split until last year, when Twitch announced plans to cut the deal in favor of the platform’s ad revenue program. Viewers can also gift each other with subs, which expire after a month. Prime Gaming, which is included with an Amazon Prime subscription, grants one sub per month. The default revenue split for Twitch Partners is 50/50 - subscriptions (subs) start at $4.99 at the lowest tier, and can be raised to $9.99 or $24.99. “I feel like Twitch has been making not very creator-minded decisions so they are grasping at straws to do any kind of improvement to make people happy.” “A lot of people are looking for reasons to be happy with Twitch after all the recent drama,” Diva, a Twitch Partner who streams under the handle Divatopia, said. But the program’s lofty requirements exclude the vast majority of Twitch Partners, and compounds the already tense relationship between Twitch and its creators. Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier, which will grant qualifying streamers a 70/30 revenue split, has been hailed as a win for the platform’s community.
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