Sykkuno’s high-profile move from Twitch to YouTube has been making headlines this week. Last night, the streamer revealed a little bit about his experience on a YouTube broadcast. It’s fair to say that Sykkuno, whose real name remains unknown, was not that impressed with what he revealed, and what it said about Twitch.

While there are many factors involved in his decision to move, he revealed that part of his choice was driven by Twitch’s treatment of him. Sykkuno demonstrated his point by showing an email they had sent, in which his name was spelled wrong, with the email sent to ‘Sukkuno’. At first, he said, he was so confused he began messaging people to find out if the email was a phishing scam.

Sykkuno said on stream while displaying the misspelt email, “I’m supposed to be the 28th highest earning creator on the platform, the 45th most followed all time on the platform, and they called me Suk-kuno”. The fact that the company “couldn’t even spell my name right” shocked him, he said.

Given that ‘Sykkuno’ is only one word, and the email was apparently related to a financial agreement between the company and the streamer, this seems like a fairly simple thing to get wrong. When you consider that Sykkuno was also one of the top 30 or so names on the platform in terms of views, and is the 45th most followed streamer of all time according to the man himself, it paints a fairly poor picture of the way Twitch treats even their bigger stars.

Offers were very close

In the same stream, Sykkuno also revealed that the narrative he had moved for money was somewhat wide of the mark, telling his audience Twitch’s final offer to him had been “pretty much even with YouTube’s.” However, he did also say that the purple giant’s initial offer had been very poor, and had only been increased after he rejected it in favor of a more lucrative deal.

Sykkuno told the stream that, at that point, he was committed to staying on Twitch with the offers being roughly equal. He went back to YouTube with his considerations, who upped their offer a bit, but at that stage the deals were still close enough that Sykkuno was set on remaining a Twitch streamer.

Key to his decision were conversations with friends like Valkyrae and Ludwig Ahgren in which they expressed their happiness, with Sykkuno stating that, to his knowledge, nobody who had made the switch has gone back to Twitch. YouTube is, according to most of those who work there, “really nice.”

This seems to be the essence of why he made his decision, the accumulation of small moments that made Sykkuno feel wanted at YouTube, and the belief they put in him as a creator. From making him feel wanted to even helping with the talent announcement, which you can see below, YouTube made him feel like a star and an asset to the company.

He did admit that he grew up on Twitch as a creator, and even met a lot of his current friends there. But as he said, he never really felt like he was a huge star in Twitch’s eyes. With several of his good friends on YouTube, the platform now has a content group to rival the likes of OTK too, making it potentially an even more significant signing than it first seemed, but only time will tell.

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