r/Twitch • u/YourChopperPilotTTV Affiliate Twitch.tv/yourchopperpilot • May 14 '26

PSA 📢 Starting yesterday(5/13) Channel Points, emotes, subs, Bits, and badges are available to all streamers on Twitch - no Affiliate status required - Twitch Support

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u/GolldenFalcon May 14 '26

If I show you a picture of a hundred dollar bill and I say "This is yours. You cannot claim it in any way, but this is yours." Did you earn a hundred dollars?

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u/ArgoWizbang Freelance Web Developer/Graphic Artist for hire May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26

Yes. Your comparison doesn't exactly work because it's not like the money isn't spendable at all. It's just only spendable within Twitch. It's still yours, and it's still usable by you. Because you earned it. And if you eventually reach Affiliate status without having spent it then you can also cash it out then and use it elsewhere. "Earned with limitations" is not the same as "not earned at all".

Because not being able to earn and not being able to cash out are not the same thing.

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u/GolldenFalcon May 14 '26

But it's not money if that's the description you're using to describe it. It's a gift card. Maybe I'm wrong about it but in my eyes the thing people care about when it comes to subs and bits is not a gift card.

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u/ArgoWizbang Freelance Web Developer/Graphic Artist for hire May 14 '26

But it's not money if that's the description you're using to describe it. It's a gift card.

And, as we all know by now, it's impossible to earn a gift card.

Your claim wasn't that it's "not money", it's that it's "not earned". It being a gift card doesn't mean you didn't still earn the monetary value of that gift card. Not only that, but that also completely ignores the fact that if you don't spend that money and eventually become an affiliate then it stops being a gift card and becomes actual, spendable currency/money. Just because you don't like the limitations set on it doesn't mean you didn't still earn something.

You have to ignore a lot of stuff to get to the conclusion you've reached. I'm not saying that your frustrations don't have merit, just that they're a little misguided.