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She is threatening to collect her donations somewhere else. Brutal.


Putting her money where her mouth is. And Pokimane does have some pull in the streaming community, so this could hurt Streamlabs quite a bit financially


> Streamlabs is free to use, we do not charge any fees and there is no monthly price. Please note that some services such as PayPal or Stripe charge their own fees that they collect separately. We do not charge you any additional fees on tips & donations.

> Each tip viewers make will be 100% yours, excluding standard processing fees from credit cards.

You have to be making money out of something to lose it when it goes away. They will however miss pokinanes $5.99 a month pro subscription.

Will she leave and pay 5%++ to another donation provider (twitch: a $2 donation now results in the streamer receiving only $1.45 -- PayPal: A $1 tip will now only net you $0.48) on the millions a year in donations the multi-millionaire rakes in from non multi-millionaire viewers? Only time will tell.


Streamlabs is set up in a way that it's super easy to sign up for their pro thing by accident while donating to a streamer.

Their business model is "refund the complaints"

Considering Pokimane went out of her way to upper-cap donations to a fiver I doubt she's concerned with losing money from this




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