'Robbery': a top streamer says the quiet part about Twitch's split
PaymoneyWubby, who streams on both Twitch and Kick, told Dexerto the standard 50/50 subscription split is 'highway robbery' next to Kick's 95/5 — and says he tells new streamers not to start on Twitch at all.
The complaint is arithmetic. On a standard Twitch subscription the streamer keeps half; top partners can reach 70%. On Kick the same subscription pays the creator 95%. Wubby's point, as reported, is that the gap has stopped being a detail and become the story: he has spent years frustrated with his home platform and names the split as the first thing he would change. He also pointed at transparency — streamers, he says, largely do not know how to even talk to Twitch. That pairing matters: a worse rate is survivable when the platform brings the audience and answers the phone; it corrodes when creators feel they get neither the money nor the conversation. For this desk, it is the same lesson our splits report keeps teaching: rate times reach decides the paycheck, and creators are now doing that math in public. When a streamer with a loyal room calls the split robbery on the record, the split itself becomes the headline — and headlines move audiences.
Source: Dexerto · October 14, 2026. Summarised by Vera Ríos for the Pangea+ desk, in our own words.