Twitch Streamers Criticize Artesian Builds for Allegedly Not Honoring PC Giveaways
Artesian Builds makes custom-built PCs and livestreams daily on Twitch as they put together the rigs. During the livestreams, Artesian Builds offers discounts and PC upgrades to viewers, and gives away a free PC to Ambassadors every month. Ambassadors are affiliate content creators who refer Artesian Build PCs to their viewers and receive a percentage of every sale. To qualify as an Ambassador, applicants must meet at least one of a number of requirements, such as streaming 40 hours per month, having 50,000 TikTok followers, or 1,500 subscribers on YouTube.
Having met the minimum requirements to become an Ambassador, many people would assume that they also qualify for the monthly Ambassador giveaways. To the surprise of some recent winners, however, it seems there are arbitrary and undisclosed additional requirements to win the giveaway. This discrepancy was recently brought to light by a few small Twitch streamers who won a PC during an Artesian Builds giveaway, but then were told that they didn’t qualify because they didn’t have enough followers.
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On March 1, content creator kiapiaa won a completely built PC during an Artesian Builds Twitch livestream. However, rather than congratulating her, company CEO Noah Katz allegedly altered the giveaway requirements and disparaged her numbers. “2k followers is under my threshold,” he announced on stream while reading kiapiaa’s stats. “Let’s see if you have redeeming qualities… This person has three months of ambassadorship and not a single click. Not a single click. Not even once. Purged.” Kiapiaa made a Twitter thread sharing clips of the stream, commenting, “You hear this man’s voice? He’s belittling me. It's
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