Ben “DrLupo” Lupo is one of Twitch’s biggest stars at 4.5 million followers, and he’s leaving the platform altogether after signing an exclusive streaming deal with YouTube Gaming. In an interview with The Washington Post, Lupo states that this move was best for his personal life after years of streaming upwards of 60 hours per week.
“Family time is crazy important, [as is] reducing the amount of pressure, because mental health is crazy important,” Lupo said via The Washington Post. “Everybody’s just trying to secure the bag, right? There’s no shame in that. That’s literally why everybody gets up and goes to work, right? So of course, the financial situation that YouTube presented me without a doubt is like, you know, I’m secure for life. Everybody’s trying to get to that point. Why would I say no to that?”
Lupo made the announcement official with a fancy trailer on Twitter which you can check for yourself below.
— DrLupo (@DrLupo) August 30, 2021
Lupo also mentioned that YouTube will allow him to try out new kinds of content.
“Obviously, I’ll still be playing video games on YouTube,” states Lupo in the same interview. “But we have a chance now to do some new stuff. We’ve got some trips coming up, so there’ll be behind-the-scenes stuff. I can record some vlog-style content, and a lot of people who are at my level that are dads don’t really put out that kind of stuff.”
Lupo, along with others like DrDisrespect, is one of several former Twitch content creators making the move to YouTube.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.