SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 23 ― After Ninja and Shroud moved to Mixer, Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang is also leaving Twitch, this time in an exclusivity deal with Facebook Gaming.
Facebook's livestreaming service for video game content, Facebook Gaming, has recruited Hearthstone and Teamfight Tactics player Jeremy Wang.
Better known by his online handle Disguised Toast, Wang said that he was given a US$20,000 (RM83,438) budget to make an announcement video, but decided to donate it to St Jude's Childrens Hospital instead.
Similarly, audience donations for his first month aboard Facebook Gaming will be going the same way.
His move away from Amazon's well-established Twitch TV follows those by a number of other popular streamers, but is the first high-profile coup by Facebook Gaming.
In October, Michael Grzesiek (aka shroud) followed Twitch's biggest streamer, Tyler Blevins (aka Ninja) in joining Microsoft platform Mixer.
Ninja had announced an exclusivity deal in August.
Jack Dunlop (aka CouRage) also left Twitch but as part of an exclusivity deal with Google's YouTube.
Blevins, Grzesiek and Dunlop all specialised in first-person action games over the course of their time on Twitch, with Ninja and CouRage best associated with Fortnite, shroud with Apex Legends.
In contrast, Wang is known for his preference for digital card game Hearthstone and subsequently a League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics, part of an emerging and fast-growing Autochess or Auto Battler genre which combines elements from digital card games and multiplayer online battle arenas like League of Legends and Dota 2.
Facebook Gaming launched in March 2019. ― AFP-Relaxnews
