FaZe Clan's EwOk has dropped Twitch for Mixer, marking yet another in a long line of popular streamers who have transferred to the newer service. From the world's most popular streamer Ninja to other game streamers like Shroud and King Goliathon, Microsoft's service has been gaining more and more activity recently, and although some players and viewers feel Mixer offers nothing new to the table many others have joined simply because they are tired of the way Twitch has been operating.
Although the esports group FaZe Clan has had their own share of controversies, specifically when earlier this year Fortnite player Tfue sued FaZe over contract disputes, they have also been hard at work acquiring new, talented players like Soleil "EwOk" Wheeler. EwOk, the first girl to ever join FaZe, is a thirteen-year-old deaf streamer who, before being picked up by the Clan earlier this summer, already had nearly 200,000 followers on Twitch.
Now, according to EwOk's own video announcement on Twitter, she will be the latest famous game streamer to pack up her hundreds of thousands of fans and bring them to Microsoft's Mixer. After EwOk posted the video, and amid multitudes of congratulatory messages, Mixer's own official account responded, saying "We are so hyped to have you part of the Mixer family, welcome!!" The official Mixer header photo on @WatchMixer's Twitter profile has even been altered to welcome EwOk, showing the young streamer holding up two peace signs and smiling happily.
According to a report by Polygon released in July 2019, EwOk's first ever video on Twitch was a Fortnite match in which she eliminated Thang "SpacePylon" Phan, one of FaZe Clan's Fortnite team founding members. EwOk has played with a number of famous streamers as well as celebrities, notably having won $20,000 for charity by playing (and winning) with Dancing With the Stars champion Jordan Fisher. She has even played alongside Ninja, who has famously said he doesn't stream with female gamers.
Twitch has lost a number of prominent streamers lately, and the departure of EwOk's entertaining, wholesome videos is surely to be another in a series of seemingly never-ending heavy blows to the company's ad revenue. After recent events which saw Twitch accidentally banning streamers, losing prominent players to both Mixer as well as YouTube Gaming, and a seemingly never-ending sexual content problem, it's no surprise both viewers and players alike are looking for somewhere else to spend their time online.