Twitch and YouTube creators come under fire for profiting off Depp v Heard trial – Metro UK

One of the biggest trials of the last few years has been a massive source of income for Twitch stars and it’s not gone unnoticed. Streamers and creators from both Amazon’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube have found themselves receiving flak for their weeks’ worth of content based around the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial. Twitch stars like Asmongold and xQc, alongside YouTubers such as Ludwig, streamed their live reactions to the defamation case. The various creators who got themselves involved ended up with record-breaking watch times and donations during a grim case. Asmongold has now topped out the current list of most viewed on Twitch, with a whopping 12 million hours consumed in total by his viewership, since he began streaming the court case. How much money has Asmongold made from the Depp v Heard trial? However, with the viewership figures, Asmongold has gained an astronomical amount of subscribers and followers. The following exploration into numbers doesn’t count the advertising revenue that Asmongold has received. Using Twitch Tracker, a website dedicated to cataloguing the entirety of Twitch users’ ins and outs, Asmongold earnt, through the first six days of June – with the case ending on June 1 –…
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