Lirik Cancels $500,000 NFT Project for Twitch Backlash - Video

Twitch streaming stars Lirik and Mizkif are both facing backlash after talking about potential NFT deals, with Lirik cancelling his entire NFT project after outrage from viewers.

Lirik is one of the biggest names on Twitch, and this weekend he announced that he was going to use that platform to create and sell 10,000 unique NFTs to his community at $50 each. And while other streamers defended this as a fun, creative way to get his community involved in NFT’s, a lot of viewers saw it as a half million dollar cash grab aimed at exploiting his community, causing so much outrage and backlash Lirik actually cancelled the entire project a day later.

Mizkif also faced backlash when he admitted that he had turned down a $300,000 NFT deal on his Twitch stream, and even joked around, calling Maya live on stream after she won $16,000 on Twitch Rivals to ask her to join him in an NFT project. But smaller streamers ripped him for saying it was a wasted opportunity, claiming that he was flexing by admitting he turned down a deal worth more than most streamers make in their entire career.

xQc also chimed in, revealing that some streamers who had taken NFT deals had roasted NFT deals in private by revealing the DM’s he had gotten from Destiny. So from Mizkif to Lirik, more and more streamers are facing backlash from NFT involvement, so we will wait and see if this crypto craze is dead on Twitch, or it will be back bigger than ever.


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