Kick's Uncertain Future — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:02] no longer have the other stake platform inside Kick in Argentina, they will not be able to pay, they will not be able to continue paying these amounts. So instead the content creators the truth, do you know what they chose to do? Voting for

[00:16] "We don't pay you because you use bots." Friends who maybe have 1000 viewers, who don't make ends meet, so to speak, and who have started streaming on Kick and earn five times

[00:28] more. It's like, "Whoa, party's over, folks. Time to get up, wipe the vomit off your face, and go get your friend who's eating a crossbar in the yard before the police arrive, because the

[00:41] green platform is about to collapse and nobody wants to be there when that happens." Or been repeating here on YouTube like a parrot. Videos titled The end of Kick, the master scam, the money ran out, but are things really that

[00:58] bad with the steak platform? Let's analyze this with a cool head and as objectively as possible, because in this video I'm going to try to take into account the most relevant points of view so that in the end you can decide

[01:10] whether it's in your best interest to continue with Kick or return to Dan Clany's arms. And for those who don't really know what's up with Kick, here's a super quick recap. Kick is a streaming platform that has been around for 2 years. It was founded

[01:24] very well, who were banned from Twitch for streaming casino games, gambling [music] and things like that. Kick has recently become very relevant, especially for the Latin American audience, because it was paying streamers very well

[01:37] , and there were no ads. And thanks to that strategy, in registering a fairly large number of users , even surpassing Twitch on several occasions. This applies to Spanish speakers. In fact, in another

[01:50] way. For the past two years, Kick was like a legendary party, one where there was an open bar and the owner of the club was the bouncer, giving away They promised paradise for streamers. 95% of the revenue from

[02:05] subscribers went directly to the streamer. Absolute freedom of expression. I could be a super fan of Trump or a super hater of Trump and there was no problem. And the famous Kick incentive program, whose official name I honestly don't remember,

[02:18] not too lazy to look it up. The only certainty we can draw from all this is that you absolutely need real viewers to get the most out of Kick, and that obviously can't be achieved with bots, but you also won't achieve it with a

[02:33] 12-hour uninterrupted stream with zero viewers. I recommend that you with a Google Chrome extension called Kickbot Downloader or from websites like video downloader. Or you can search on Google for how to download

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[03:13] extra discount. Nexus Clips, the best way to get the most out of your streams without viewers. The thing is, with that program, the green platform paid you up to $16 an hour for streaming, and this salary was independent of other

[03:28] earnings, so KCK quickly became an oasis for the Latin streamer. Finally, a platform had appeared that was actually taking us into account. It seemed that someone was finally coming to save the little streamer.

[03:41] But like at any party where everyone pretends the Virgin Mary is speaking to them with the bill, eventually someone comes to collect and the waiter with the "ass-sniffing" face has arrived, kids. That dream of a fixed hourly wage

[03:55] became a joke, a bad joke called Organic Performance Payments, which actually does sound like the punchline of a vegan Wok joke. What does this mean in cut off our tap. We have several cases of this, but the one that started this whole

[04:09] video movement was the case of the streamer Momo that I showed you at the beginning of the video, who, while streaming with La Rosalía and Trueno, internationally renowned musicians, with more than 10,000 live viewers through

[04:21] Kick's incentive program, only received a payment of $3 per hour. Yes, you heard right, tr dollaritos. He earned much more and started selling chewing gum at the traffic lights. Kick's explanation for this situation is that your traffic is not

[04:35] organic; you have bots. Ah, the bots, the Deus ex machina of all streaming platforms when things are going badly for them. And listen carefully, I want to be very precise here, I don't want to be misunderstood. I am not accusing Momo of using bots.

[04:49] or not, and I'm not criticizing the fact that Kick fights bots. In fact, I think that's great. The problem here is that at least on this side, nobody knows how the hell to define

[05:02] organic traffic. What is it for? Like when your parents told you that if you behaved well they would buy you the new PlayStation at the end of the year. But what does it mean to behave well? Clean your room? Don't burn down the house, discover a new,

[05:15] cost-effective, and fast method for manufacturing RAM. The only difference is that you could trust your parents, but you can trust the guy who was scamming his viewers with gambling and crypto casinos. Something to think about, gentlemen, at

[05:30] your 100 viewers are real and tomorrow tell you that 50 were suspicious in order to pay you half. And there are many testimonies of that on social media. For example, in this video I made a few months ago, I quoted

[05:44] Comanche, El Dead, and some streamers talking about the very disparate payments between each stream. And here, follow me on this journey. If Keek wanted to use some underhanded trick to inflate numbers, to appear as a

[05:57] strong platform and at the same time save some money by not paying streamers in full, then one method to achieve this would be for KCK itself to be using bots. Many streamers accuse the platform of inflating numbers

[06:10] to boast about growth and then using those same false numbers as a pretext for not paying. That's right, I said the same thing twice, but with different words and people in the comments asking me about this part. When

[06:23] your salary depends on a secret metric that the company can adjust whenever it wants to save money, my friend, that 's not a job, it's Russian roulette. So, first conclusion: the casino scholarship is over. But that's not all. What

[06:38] has many people in real panic is the second piece of news. December 2025. Eric Craven confirmed it. The ads are coming to Kick. Kick's great promise. His war flag. There are no ads here. That was the only real advantage for the

[06:52] viewer. Because let's be honest, so you say, "How beautiful the Kick app is , how original its interface is", well no, right? And for the streamer, represent a real opportunity for growth either, because he had

[07:05] Twitch. They do not have a discovery algorithm. People put up with all consecutive ads for feminine hygiene products starring Vivi Peluche. If you take that away, what's left? A green Twitch with fewer people and worse technology. But

[07:22] like angry viewers and start thinking like shark-minded entrepreneurs. Because if you analyze it carefully, the arrival of ads on Kick represents something good, specifically two things that Kick

[07:35] desperately needs if it doesn't want to disappear next year. The first, legitimacy. As long as Kick relies 100% on casino money, it will always be seen as a shady place. Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Nike do not put their logo on an

[07:50] illegal site. If Kick wants to survive, he needs clean money. But beware, because legitimacy comes at a price that many purists won't like . Moderation. If money from big brands starts coming in,

[08:04] the party of absolute freedom will be over. Brands demand brand safety. They will not allow racist insults or extremist content alongside an advertisement for family cars. So if you were on Kick because Twitch is too

[08:17] transparent, I have bad news for you, my friend. With the announcements come the rules, and civilization will have to be forced, which I personally think is great because that way we wouldn't see news every week about

[08:30] streamers crashing their cars while doing a live stream or streamers dying after being tortured on stream for 30 days. And yes, all these things happened in kit. Now, the million-dollar question: how are they going to fit those

[08:43] ads in? If they copy Twitch's model of interrupting the best part of the stream for 3 minutes with commercials that you ca n't skip, game over, people will leave. But if they manage to perfectly integrate ads that don't

[08:56] interrupt the viewer's experience, watch out, because they could have solved the biggest problem Twitch has had in the last 10 years. It would be like if a Nintendo collaborator, who was expelled from the company, created a

[09:09] new console and this new console became more popular than Nintendo's own n't mentioned it directly, but if you're one of those people who spends all their time a series or movie, I'm going to explain it to you right now, so pay

[09:23] attention. If Kek introduces speakers, it means there will no longer be a problem with bots, in theory. So in addition to income from subs, income from donations, kicks, they will now receive additional income from ads. And

[09:36] Kick's partnership program, the one that if they were to eliminate it. Well, I think it would be justified because I would have a new source of income. I'm probably rambling too much here.

[09:49] inform you that there is currently no official date for this. In fact, there isn't even this is going to happen. This came about because of an interview with the CEO, owner, or creator of Kick. I honestly don't know

[10:03] how to refer to this guy. He mentioned that the announcements were going to come sooner or later and hopes it will be this year at the latest. So at least as of December 2025, when I'm recording this, there's nothing concrete. What I have said in this

[10:16] video and what all the other YouTubers have said in their videos is merely speculative. So, what should I do by 2026 if I'm a small streamer . Oh, that's not true. You're late to the party, my friend, because even if

[10:31] , don't expect it to make you rich, because on social media ad payments are in pennies. Unless you have thousands of viewers, well, then things change. And personally, I would tell you not to get your

[10:44] hopes up about the hourly pay. My first recommendation, if you have zero audience, your place is not Kick or Twitch, your place is TikTok and YouTube. That's the trick to getting people to watch you stream. Second, if

[10:56] you already have a community, take them to where they give you better tools. Today, infrastructure [for music] and Kick is losing its two advantages: no ads and no inflated payments. Although at the end of the day I think it all comes down

[11:09] to where you feel best, where you are most comfortable with your community, if you have one. If you're currently doing well in kick, stay there until you're not anymore. Just keep in mind everything I've mentioned and

[11:21] prepare for the possible scenarios that may occur, because the only thing I can be 100% sure of is that 2026 was a decisive year for Kick. This will determine whether Stake's platform has what it takes to join

[11:34] the four streaming giants, or if it will suffer the same fate as Mixer and the other 12 Chinese platforms that emerged alongside COVID. How curious. The land just because the owner is giving you bricks today. Tomorrow they

[11:48] can charge you rent or even evict you from the property. Build your brand around you, not around a platform. Now it's your turn. Tell me in the comments if you're going to KCK, if you're going back to Twitch, or what

[12:00] comes across some quite interesting points of view . I am Almich. The party's over. Wash your face and see you in the next one