Kick co-founder Ed Craven has responded to rumors about the platform signing the “Hawk Tuah” girl, Hailey Welch, to a $ 5 million contract.
Craven has dismissed the viral speculations claiming that Kick made deals with Welch and the controversial comedian Charleston White. On October 11, a Twitter user named TheKickJoker posted that the streaming service had allegedly offered White a $ 2 million contract, despite his recent arrests, including one in 2023 for animal cruelty and another on October 10 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The user expressed concern about the platform’s direction, saying, “We are in the arc of partnering with convicts and felons…. I hope sources got this wrong. First, the guy in the boat, now this?”
Craven quickly refuted this assertion, stating: “Kick hasn’t issued new deals in a while, as we’ve shifted to the KCIP model. This approach allows qualified individuals to apply, with larger audiences sometimes fast-tracked.”
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He added: “What you’ve heard beyond this is mainly just noise, clickbait, or third parties presenting their own ‘deals’ independently. I talked about this shift a while ago, and it’s been highly successful.
“Kick is performing better in almost every key performance indicator, but more importantly, we’re dedicated to building a healthier, stronger community of motivated individuals and rewarding them appropriately.”
Shortly after his response, another user claimed that Ed was signing the “Hawk Tuah” girl to a $ 5 million contract, stating she would bring “nothing” to the platform.
However, the Kick co-founder promptly refuted this, saying: “This is not true.”
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The rumor began on October 11, when the Twitter account KickStreamsLive, which has more than 128.5K followers, asserted that Hailey had signed a $ 5 million contract with the streaming platform. Despite the lack of a credible source, many individuals accepted this as truth.
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