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Twitch Streamers Receiving Thousands From Mystery Donor

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I love Twitch TV. Its like real television, only its filled with tons of stuff that people can actually enjoy. The service streams mostly game related stuff instead of the junk found on most television channels these days. Its tough making a living out of it, but it is entirely possible to do so. Streamers can receive donations from their viewers. These usually range from a buck or two to the odd hundred here and there, but one viewer in particular has been donating thousands.

During the last year, several streamers have been getting donations from an unknown viewer called “Amhai”. According to The Daily Dot, Isaac “Azael” Cummings-Bentley has received over $30 000 from Amhai, while his friend, Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris received a whopping $50 000. Lea “LegendaryLea” May, a Hearthstone streamer, also found herself  $22 000 richer thanks to these mystery donations. There is speculation as to who exactly Amhai is, but there has been nothing concrete. Personally, I think he is just a wealthy gamer who is trying to help the “little” people out. That or he just REALLY enjoys watching people play games. Regardless of who or what he is, there is clearly an excess of money that needs to be burnt.

I could really do with a few thousand extra dollars in my life. I’ve been wanting to start my own Twitch stream for months now, but our local Internet situation makes it just a little bit too unfeasible. Upload speed is key, and quite frankly, the upload speeds on offer in this country are horrendous. I just have to hope that Amhai will still be around in the next decade or so when South African Internet finally gets some sort of real upload speed.

Do you watch any Twitch? Have you, or would you ever be willing to donate money to a streamer if you found them entertaining?

Last Updated: July 4, 2014

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  1. Amhai?

    Amazing. Hai.

    I’ve cracked the code. It’s Lazygamer.

    Reply

    • oVg... what castle?

      July 4, 2014 at 14:34

      Lazy Gamer

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        July 4, 2014 at 14:34

        Lady Gamer. You sexist.

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        • oVg... what castle?

          July 4, 2014 at 14:44

          LazyGrammer ?

          Reply

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 4, 2014 at 14:47

            Like a…

    • Admiral Chief Fairburne

      July 4, 2014 at 14:36

      New staff, mysterious donations….SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

      Reply

      • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

        July 4, 2014 at 14:37

        Mmmm has someone WON the LOTTO? Quick Detective Inspector Lazy to the job!!

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          July 4, 2014 at 14:40

          But can we trust DI Lazy? He’s too close to this!

          Reply

          • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

            July 4, 2014 at 14:46

            Mmmm a conflict of interest? What about Deputy Rince and Sheriff OVG?

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 4, 2014 at 14:49

            But they’re mavericks Jim! You remember what happened in Nicaragua last time we put them on the case.

          • Rince&pop

            July 4, 2014 at 15:07

            What happened in Nicaragua, stays in Nicaragua…

    • Rince&pop

      July 4, 2014 at 15:06

      You mean, all our Tshirt money went to twitch?

      Reply

  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    July 4, 2014 at 14:37

    Reply

    • oVg... what castle?

      July 4, 2014 at 14:43

      Money talks, bullshit walks.

      Reply

  3. Spaffy

    July 4, 2014 at 14:40

    I could use a few mysterious donations…

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 4, 2014 at 14:41

      Quick – rephrase!

      Reply

      • Spaffy

        July 4, 2014 at 14:48

        Got my own piece of tendrepreneurship going on lol

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    • oVg... what castle?

      July 4, 2014 at 14:43

      Why? do you work for the ANC 😛 ?

      Reply

  4. Milesh Bhana

    July 4, 2014 at 14:51

    what the heck is a Hearthstone steamer ???

    Reply

    • Spaffy

      July 4, 2014 at 14:51

      A pot that steams heartstones man. Where you been?

      Reply

  5. Lourens Jordaan

    July 4, 2014 at 15:02

    Sounds like a sweet way to launder money….

    Reply

  6. Rince&pop

    July 4, 2014 at 15:06

    Is twitch’s financial model similar to Lazygamer’s clothing line?

    Reply

    • Spaffy

      July 4, 2014 at 15:08

      What? Do they also rely on donations?

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      • Rince&pop

        July 4, 2014 at 15:09

        I was going for the ‘expect a little, get a large’ 😉

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        • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

          July 4, 2014 at 15:14

          Definitely not what she said

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  7. GooseZA

    July 4, 2014 at 16:25

    I used to watch Trump and Kripparian stream Hearthstone a LOT. Great channels and I learned a lot from them. Donated once or twice.

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  8. Fugly Gamer

    July 4, 2014 at 17:22

    i stream on twitch on weekends ect its a tough thing to get into because of all the usa and europe guys dominating Twitch

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    • hairyknees

      July 4, 2014 at 17:35

      Whats your line speed though? I just can’t realistically see myself streaming effectively with my 0.5mbps upload O_o

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      • Fugly Gamer

        July 4, 2014 at 18:14

        running at 80Mb/s Download and 8 MB/s upload

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        • hairyknees

          July 4, 2014 at 18:55

          O_O

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  9. MaSKeDMoNKeY

    July 7, 2014 at 12:10

    You will never have boobs and get wealthy oil sheik money by sucking at games.

    Reply

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