Valkyrae and TimTheTatman Join Top Streamers in Celebrating Much-Needed YouTube Gaming Move

Published 05/11/2022, 9:30 AM EDT

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The streaming industry has come a long way, showing exponential growth over the past few years. Twitch enjoyed a monopoly, dominating this industry when they had some of the most prominent streaming personalities. From Valkyrae to Dr. Disrespect, every top streamer began their streaming career on Twitch until the dawn of YouTube Gaming. The only platform giving cutthroat competition to Twitch.

After attracting many high-profile streamers to its platform, YouTube Gaming has recently added “Memberships Gifting”. A feature long available on Twitch is now accessible on YouTube as well. It’ll allow channel members to buy monthly channel memberships for other members. In fact, from TimTheTatman to Valkyrae, many popular streamers have expressed their joy in YouTube’s recent addition.

YouTube Gaming- membership gifting feature and TimTheTatman, Valkyrae, DrLupo, and others’ reactions to it

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On May 11th, 2022, TeamYouTube officially introduced this feature. By buying “Memberships Gifting”, the members not only gift the channel’s monthly membership to other members but also financially support the content creators as well. However, it’s still in the beta phase, being limited to only a few content creators. And YouTube will follow up on expansion in the coming days.

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Undoubtedly, it’s wonderful news for these streamers, resulting in many already delighted by it. Let’s have a look at how streamers reacted to it.

Our beloved Call of Duty streamer, who’s also widely popular for fall damages, TimTheTatman seems way too excited for this recently implemented feature.

One of the world’s biggest content creators, Valkyrae, announced the “Memberships Gifting” release date. Moreover, the streamer also praised the platform for taking efforts to improve its streaming (gaming) division.

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Last year, in Aug 2021, DrLugo switched from Twitch to YouTube Gaming. The streamer also noted YouTube’s latest feature and stated it as “Huge”.

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The famous streamer and 100 thieves co-owner, Jack Dunlop, a.k.a CouRageJD joyfully announced the feature will release on his channel. It seems like he had a hard time believing the fact that it finally got introduced. Know everything about YouTube’s “Memberships Gifting” here.

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Comment down and let us know for which streamer will you purchase “Memberships Gifting”. Also, what do you think about this feature?

 

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Swetabh Shekhar

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Swetabh Shekhar is an eSports author at EssentiallySports and holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication. He has been playing video games since his childhood days and has witnessed the evolution of the gaming industry. GTA, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, and The Walking Dead are some of his all-time favorites.
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Paras Pande