"It was $5.5K for an hour": xQc reveals insane revenue from Twitch Bounty Board amid Sponsorship Experiment controversy

sportskeeda.com:

Felix "xQc" revealed his last Bounty Board income dating back to 2019 while discussing Twitch's new features under the so-called Sponsorship Experiment, which are slated to incorporate new features such as sponsored gift subscriptions, subscription discounts, and subscription codes. The decision to tie up sponsorships with subscriptions has caused a lot of backlash due to the 50/50 sub-split policy.

While talking about these new features, and reacting to a video, xQc revealed the last time he used the Bounty Board, he made about $5,500 in an hour. He revealed:

The reason for people to suddenly take an interest in bounties is that Twitch's recent announcements about upcoming sponsored content features have invited a lot of criticism from the public, including big streamers such as MoistCr1TiKaL.

Regardless, towards the beginning of his last stream, Felix was reacting to fellow streamer Pokelawls doing a bounty when he brought up his own Bounty Board to showcase his earnings from the feature. For those unaware, Twitch streamers can use 'bounties' that are basically types of objectives such as streaming certain things for certain periods of time or hitting sub-goals.

xQc briefly explained the system to his audience and wondered if Twitch would be building on the feature in their new sponsorship experiments:

As he watched the video of Pokelawls accepting something from the Bounty Board, his chat asked about his own bounties. Initially, the Canadian streamer exclaimed that he hasn't used the feature in a long time and mentioned that he probably used it when he was a "nobody":

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xQc then brought up his own dashboard to showcase the last three bounties that he had done back in 2019. The streamer also claimed that he