Wait is Pikaboo really making $500k USD a year streaming WoW?

I made a thread talking about how streamers like him just use 2s as a way to do content and how it makes the game look dumb because he’s like a multi R1 just slamming 1500 CR kids for his viewers daily.

It led to people saying he makes half a million dollars a year in subs/donos/etc.

Are people really getting that rich from destroying the 2s bracket daily? That’s better than 99% of the people playing this game lmao.

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Good, stay jealous. Hope he doubles it and enjoys his earnings.

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Well idk but I can tell you if he and Xaryu made a stream about cats I’d still probably watch because they’re funny :man_shrugging:

The integrity of the 2s bracket is small price to pay for content bro.

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Bro make a twitter already, you create a new post every 30 minutes for what

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Surprised it’s not more.

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Its not about being jealous but about a disparity in value generated vs what is earned.

Stable economies are built on tangible items/services but when services become parasocial and he earns a disproportionate amount of currency to the amount of energy expended by him, this causes an imbalance that becomes a more exponential issue for society down the line.

I don’t think the value anyone brings in one lifetime is worth being able to earn value worth 10s or even hundreds of lifetimes, no matter what they create, each person should have to prove themselves within the vacuum of their lives and the genes inherited.

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Yeah it’s honestly extremely toxic for the pvp community and any low rated players trying to learn the game, blizzard should fix this somehow

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man ur super into streamers and pika a lot.

pika chat is awesome. pika helps and doesn’t charge. you can’t really talk sh!t about pika.

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doubt its anywhere near that much money

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he’s not making money from playing 2s

he’s making money branding himself , WoW is the background to the content that is the streamer

also that amount isn’t that hard to believe if u do a little math. little numbers from a lot of people add up pretty fast and you’re talking about that daily.

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im finder.

he gets like what 1-2k viewers per stream? and makes a youtube video once or twice a week that gets 10-20k views? someone could do the math

pika has helped so many just because. im sorry but anyone talking sh!t about pika don’t know sh!t.

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He’s a great streamer, entertaining with good ol Xaryu.

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wait it looks like he gets a lot more views than i thought. yeah he could be pushing 500k maybe. off youtube plus twitch

views are ads
views are sponsorships
views are potential parasocial relationships

then people sub monthly
people gift subs
people give bits for chat badges
people donate just to say something funny
people donate because they’re parasocial and want him to pretend like he cares about what’s going on in their lives

its just small money after small money turning into big money :couch_and_lamp:

i mean i could do the math but 500K is a fine estimate
an osrs streamer was making over 2M/yr @ 4K viewers

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Well i guess im the dumb dumb and stand corrected.

Making it seem like they single handedly gatekeep the entire NA ladder; bruh they queue into the same person once in their life, maybe twice. Especially if they play at that rating.

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