Jeremy ‘Disguised Toast’ Wang has returned to Twitch as his primary streaming platform after two years with Facebook Gaming.
Disguised Toast, a streamer who rose to fame in 2020 as a result of Among Us, was also one of the online personalities responsible for the game’s viral fame during the ongoing pandemic. He often plays with Twitch streamers like Pokimane, Scarra, and LilyPichu—as well as Valkyrae, who has an exclusivity deal with YouTube—but was almost exclusively available on Facebook Streaming until recently.
This is because Disguised Toast signed a contract with Facebook a few years ago in November 2019, and he recently revealed why he switched from Twitch to the platform now owned by Meta. This only came up because Toast returned to Twitch after his contract with Facebook expired, and he may have signed a lucrative contract with the Amazon-owned site.
Disguised Toast had previously given few details about why he left Twitch, other than the fact that he didn’t regret switching to Facebook. But, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter shortly after his departure, he explained that he “felt a little plateaued in terms of [his] growth on Twitch.” Now, DisguisedToast revealed how massive the Facebook contract was in comparison to other streaming platform Twitch’s, which was “insultingly low,” saying that it was about 30 times less.
Not only that, but when DisguisedToast’s agent said that they tried to negotiate a better deal, they were told that Twitch already had Faker, another Asian streamer, implying that there was no need for two Asian personalities on the platform with large, lucrative contracts. However, as the OfflineTV user pointed out, Faker is a professional League of Legends player who streams infrequently in comparison, adding insult to injury (though he has recently streamed much more frequently).
It’s unclear why Disguised Toast returned to Twitch after his successful contract with Facebook, but it’s possible that it’s because the Amazon-owned streaming site offered him a better deal that was more proportionate to his increased worth. Because he previously stated that he was satisfied with Facebook Gaming, it’s possible that he’s been offered a better contract with Twitch.
After the success of Among Us, it’s only natural that the company would see Toast as a hot commodity. It’s also possible that he had other personal reasons for wanting to leave Facebook, such as the site’s controversies, but it’s highly unlikely that money didn’t play a role in Disguised Toast’s most recent move.
On November 17, Toast announced his departure from Facebook Gaming, which was followed by a video tweet captioned “new platform,” featuring Toast eating a cake from a Twitch duffel bag. Around the same time, he went live, effectively attracting an audience to his gaming streams. He will appear on two Twitch channels in the future, one under his real name, Jeremy Wang, and one under his main channel, Disguised Toast, which has over 2 million followers.
