why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Insight
Morenstein: 300 live stream viewers are worth more than 300,000 YouTube views
“300 viewers that will watch you when you go live. Every time that 300 viewers is literally worth more than 300,000 views on YouTube. 100,000 percent. Because these 300 people are like, they're all ambassadors. They're sitting here for hours, dude. They didn't …”
Insight
YouTube Uniquely Bridges High Discovery and Deep Audience Intimacy
“I think YouTube is the platform that has the best marriage between building real depth with your audience and discovery. So if we think about those two things, they're quite often inversely correlated platforms that have very high discovery, let's say TikTok, …”
Opinion
Josephs: Twitch is too branded as a gaming site to capture shopping
“Twitch is just, it's branded too much as a video game site.”
Insight
Isenberg: Modern LAN startups should focus on IRL venues over Twitch streams
“I think the idea of a LAN party is something that is extremely special, but I wouldn't go about it from a Twitch angle. Because there's the secondary trend around IRL happening right now.”
Assertion Supported
Kim: Top VTubers make millions annually from subscriptions and merchandise
“They have, like, Millions of followers. They're making millions of dollars a year from subscriptions, from selling merch, et cetera.”
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: AI Seinfeld Parody Became a Top-Viewed Twitch Stream
“And there were thousands of people commenting, thousands of people tweeting about it at any given time. And it was one of the most viewed Twitch channels.”
Disclosure
Morenstein: Facebook Gaming offered an exclusive 3-year deal dwarfing Twitch income
“They offered me a contract that per month dwarfed The biggest, best month I ever had on Twitch, because it's like Facebook money, and so they gave me this deal to stream exclusively on Facebook for three years and I did that. I streamed on Facebook for three y…”