2019: The year Twitch streamers jumped ship to Mixer, YouTube & Facebook

This time last year, Twitch was top of the molehill when it came to game streaming. Now several of its major stars are leaving for apparently greener pastures — namely, Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook (of all things). So what brought this on? The deepest of these cuts, by far, was Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. The most popular of Twitch’s stars, Ninja quickly rose to prominence thanks mostly to Fortnite. His celebrity is such that he can appear on a Super Bowl and even my non-gaming family members recognize him. So when he announced in August he’d be streaming exclusively on Mixer, Microsoft’s…

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BY Rachel Kaser