>>63981744trying to monetize an field that has a cultural norm of the product being free is difficult
what obvious ways are there of monetizing the business further? they already play a ton of ads and have subscriptions and sell merch and despite all this, they still get criticized for being greedy when their millionaire .0001% of content creators renegotiate their contracts and complain about getting a slimmer slice of the pie
fundamentally, the 95% of channels that never get past single digit viewership are just money sinks to serve traffic for, but twitch also can't grow if they restrict their service for only big streamers
the whole business model in reality has never made sense as long as viewers weren't going to eventually pay for it like cable
this isn't unique to twitch anyway, Uber and Lyft have been in business a combined 25 years and lost money during 25 of those years, for example
