Zelina Vega released!!

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Meltzer noted that Vega was adamant in her position to continue with her Twitch account and the backstory is that she was among "a couple of women who were making more money through social media than their WWE contracts." Vega was supposedly "making a lot of money on Twitch" prior to WWE asking talents to cease activity on third party platforms.
Her contract must be fukked up if she's making more on Twitch than from her employer.
 

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All the tweets about how she got fired 10 minutes after the tweet about supporting unions :francis:. Whether you think that wrestlers being ICs, but being denied the ability to have Tiwtch/OF pages is bullsh1t or not. Imagine thinking that she tweeted that, somebody saw it and reported it to the right people, and those people then made the decision to fire her, all of that in 10 minutes.
 

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Her onlyfans is 30$ a month and she a minimum 1600 followers. That's $48k a month and that doesn't even include her currently sold photos and her "10 photo for $1k special"

She be making half a million and that's not even including her twitch and youtube money.
 

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Her contract must be fukked up if she's making more on Twitch than from her employer.

She must've had one of those low ball NXT contracts. They take advantage of those contracts by moving some of the talent up to the main roster while keeping the low ball NXT contracts. I bet Street Profits, Bianca, Aleister Black, Matt Riddle and whoever else are still on NXT contracts too.

That's why a lot of these bigger Indy stars don't sign with NXT, like James Storm. They're making more money elsewhere.
 

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She must've had one of those low ball NXT contracts. They take advantage of those contracts by moving some of the talent up to the main roster while keeping the low ball NXT contracts. I bet Street Profits, Bianca, Aleister Black, Matt Riddle and whoever else are still on NXT contracts too.

That's why a lot of these bigger Indy stars don't sign with NXT, like James Storm. They're making more money elsewhere.
Street Profits signed new 5 year deals last year. Don’t know about the others you mentioned.
 

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WWE keeps figuring out ways to take money out of these guys pockets, but the talent is supposed to be okay with that:unimpressed:

Like I said in the thread talking about their decision to stop people from using Twitch, they consider you independent contractors, they can fire you at any time for any reason and prevent you from working anywhere else for 3 months, even when under contract, they can add on time to your contract if you're hurt, they don't give you health insurance, don't pay for travel or lodging, block your ability to work anywhere else and now, say if you go home and stream yourself playing Street Fighter or film 20 second videos wishing fans a happy birthday, they want in on that, giving you a piece of the money and say it counts towards your backside:gucci:
 

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She must've had one of those low ball NXT contracts. They take advantage of those contracts by moving some of the talent up to the main roster while keeping the low ball NXT contracts. I bet Street Profits, Bianca, Aleister Black, Matt Riddle and whoever else are still on NXT contracts too.

That's why a lot of these bigger Indy stars don't sign with NXT, like James Storm. They're making more money elsewhere.

That and Twitch being ridiculously easy to make bank off of if you have a built in fanbase. Like, even if she had a deal similar to Paige's, she could probably make more off a couple months of twitch than she would the entire lifetime of her current contract.
 

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I still don't get how you make money on twitch.

Do people just donate money to you when you're streaming, or is it some Patreon type thing where you get exclusive content if you subscribe?
People can donate, sub, give bits etc

When you sub to someone on twitch you get ad free viewing and also have exclusive emotes/smileys for that channel for the next month

More viewers you have more subs you're likely to get, and there's also donos and bits. And you can also have sponsors

Friend of mine has a good amount of subs but also gets her bread from onlyfans
 
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I wish we knew exactly how much wrestlers were making because it'd make more sense when discussing this topic. Those lists that circulate around are all fake. People post them like they are real but they aren't real.

Rumor has it that a low end NXT contract is like $60K-$80K which if true would make a lot of sense why she would leave. Most of the "new deals" for midcard main roster talent are rumored to be at 5 years $500K/per

She likely wasn't on that deal.
 

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That and Twitch being ridiculously easy to make bank off of if you have a built in fanbase. Like, even if she had a deal similar to Paige's, she could probably make more off a couple months of twitch than she would the entire lifetime of her current contract.
Imagine making close to $50k a month, just off of Onlyfans, where you post the same cosplay shyt you post on instagram and the company that won't even call you an employee tells you to stop that while paying you $70-80k a year:mjtf:

Imagine making decent money playing video games at home and them telling you that any agreement with Twitch has to be made by them and they'll give you a piece of it which counts as part of your salary:gucci:

How could anybody be okay with that or say she quit because she rather stay at home playing dress.
 

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None of that makes any sense, chief.
it makes perfect sense, chief. When Dream got accused of shyt on his own independent social media, people connected it back to WWE. People in that other thread were saying stuff "WWE needs to address this shyt". Now that somebody else does something on their independent social media yall don't want to connect it to WWE. Its flip flopping.

And as i said earlier in the thread, i'm not mad she chose to leave, that should be the goal for every wrestler. She did about all she was ever going to do in WWE. Save your body.
 

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They try to get away with the character ownership like they are actors playing a character, but it's much more than that. If they truly own the character. Then, they should own the affiliated ring style, moves, and finisher. The clearest evidence is that they don't recast a character. If there was say agovt official that want to make an example out of WWE. They can really push their shyt in on their right to sole ownership of character is completely baseless and shouldn't apply to prowrestling.

Ryback is an example of that. The Dudley is another example of getting fukked by it.
Doink and Sin Cara have been recast.
 
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