Twitch's SVP of global creators Constance Knight is leaving the company, a Twitch spokesperson has confirmed to Insider.
Knight joined Twitch in July 2021 from Instagram, where she formerly served as global head of content curation for short-form video. Before that, she was at YouTube for nine years, last serving as head of content programs and partnerships for creator communities.
Upon her hiring, Twitch said that Knight would help double down on its commitment to creators as it looked beyond gaming. She was tasked with improving the Twitch experience for creators globally.
Knight declined to comment on her departure through a Twitch spokesperson.
Her resignation arrives amid something of a firestorm for the Amazon-owned streaming platform, which announced a divisive change to its monetization model early Wednesday morning. Beginning next year, Twitch will sunset its "premium" deals with top streamers on the platform, who currently share 30% of their subscription revenues with the platform and keep the remaining 70%.
Next year, creators who operate under these deals – who make up roughly 10% of the platform's creator community, according to Twitch president Dan Clancy – will only get the 70% cut of their subscription revenues up to $100,000. After that, the revenue-share rate will decrease to the standard 50%-50% split that other creators get.
The move sparked backlash on Twitter among some top Twitch creators and former employees, with even former COO Sara Clemens seeming to disapprove of the changes.
Knight announced her resignation on Wednesday – the same day that the monetization changes were announced – in a letter to employees that said she is leaving for a "new adventure" that is "in the creator space," Bloomberg reported.
It's been an especially explosive week at Twitch, with Bloomberg also reporting on Wednesday that predators are systematically tracking children on the platform. And, following outcry from some popular Twitch streamers, Twitch announced on Tuesday that it will soon ban streams of slots and other gambling sites like Stake.com and Rollbit.com that aren't regulated in the US.
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