The platform Twitch has recently added a new feature that allows streamers to earn even more money at once. Viewers can now donate even more money at once. Not everyone is satisfied with this feature.
How does Twitch allow streamers to earn even more money? On Twitch, you can subscribe to a streamer of your choice. For an amount between 5 and 25 euros per month, you receive exclusive stickers for the chat and can watch the stream or ads.
Subscriptions can also be gifted by viewers. The money from subscriptions still goes to the streamers, but one of the viewers is selected at random to receive the benefits of the subscription.
On November 26, 2025, Twitch introduced a new maximum limit for gifted subscriptions: 1,000 subscriptions can be gifted to the streamer at once. This totals approximately $6,000 (about 5,100 euros) – that is the fixed price that Twitch sets for 1,000 gift subscriptions. However, Twitch offers a discount: when gifting 1,000 subscriptions at once, the giver can save $1,000 and pays “only” around $5,000 (about 4,300 euros).
Although this was a significant change from Twitch, the platform did not announce it widely anywhere.
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Criticism from the Community
How does the community react? Twitch streamer Emiru was one of the first streamers to be confronted with the new feature from Twitch. In her stream on November 26, 2025, she was playing Dispatch, when she incredulously paused the game and looked at her Twitch dashboard. She had just received 1,000 gift subscriptions at once.
The new feature was criticized across platforms, even by Twitch streamers themselves. The feature was partially described as “irresponsible” and a “risk for fraud” (Source: X).
Streamer Ludwig Ahgren stated, for example, on X, that every new Twitch feature only exists to get more money from the viewers. He appealed to the platform: “Dude, just make a decent mobile/TV app, I’m going crazy.”
Twitch streamer PointCrow also criticized the action on X: “The crazy thing is that if they really wanted to make money, they would earn more with a good mobile app than with all these [features] combined […] They’re so blind, it’s crazy.”
Meanwhile, it seems that the 1,000 gift subscription feature has been disabled by Twitch again, as also reported on X. This option no longer appears on the German website of Twitch.
Twitch now allows streamers to earn even more at once with gifted subscriptions, but it also carries potential for conflict. Viewers could initially give a lot of money to the streamers, but through Twitch’s refund functionality, they could just as easily take it back. This could lead to a situation like with Twitch streamer lightedits: Twitch streamer fights with debt because an upset viewer did not want to accept his chat ban – fans rush to help
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