Twitch star TimTheTatman revealed he missed out on an easy $15M payday by turning down Mixer’s offer to leave Twitch before the platform shut down.
While the streaming wars in 2025 are all about Twitch, YouTube and Kick, things were quite different in 2019.
Ninja and Shroud, then two of the top streamers in the world, left Twitch to join Microsoft’s platform Mixer to make as much as $30 million over three to five years.
Mixer didn’t last, however, and the two received a massive payday, with their contracts being paid out when the platform ceased operations in 2020.
Well, according to TimTheTatman, he would have been right there with them if he’d agreed to take an offer when it was presented to him.
TimTheTatman “regrets” not taking massive Mixer offer
During a July 9 Counter-Strike 2 case-opening stream, Nadeshot asked Tim if he regretted not moving to Mixer.
“If I had have known it was going to cancel out within a year and I would have gotten that MG recoup in one year, I would have went,” he said.
Nadeshot then pressed Tim to reveal how much he was offered, remarking how no one would judge him for his decision.
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After a moment of silence, Tim explained that he had a massive community on Twitch, and Mixer’s offer wasn’t enough for him to leave his subs and everything he had built.
“$15 million [for two years],” he revealed, prompting Nadeshot to break out in laughter. “I didn’t know if it would work out over there. That was my ultimate thing. And it was working on Twitch. I was like, I have this huge community and this huge base.”
Tim later acknowledged that he may have made the “wrong call” and he was simply “too afraid” to try to recreate what he had on Twitch on another platform.
Luckily for Tim, the Mixer offer wasn’t his only major lucrative opportunity, because in 2021, he signed an exclusive three-year deal with YouTube.
While his YouTube contract wasn’t as much as the Mixer offer, Tim already had an audience on YouTube, so he felt it was a better fit for him. Plus, now with multistreaming allowed, he can broadcast to both platforms at once, taking advantage of the growth he saw during his exclusivity deal.
Still, missing out on a cool $15M? That’s gotta sting.
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