Omnia Media, a YouTube MCN owned by Enthusiast Gaming, currently owes tens of thousands of dollars to multiple influencers who are, or previously have been, signed to the company, with previous payments arriving late. This has caused a lot of stress for stars who have been impacted.
Before getting further into this, I should disclose that in early 2021 I was hired by Enthusiast Gaming on a contract basis to work on an esports website they planned to launch, however was let go two weeks later after they decided to go “another way with staffing.” This had no impact on the reporting of this article.
“I was completely fucked,” said Spears. “I spent all of my savings on surgeries that I needed to get. So this happened for me at the absolute worst time that it could have. I had no money and I was scrambling to figure out how I was going to pay surgeons for follow-up appointments, to pay for insurance bills, to pay for my orthodontist to look at my teeth to make sure that I was healing properly. It was It was horrible and very stressful.
Despite fears from influencers involved that they may never see the money they are owed, Omnia Media has said that it intends to pay out all the contractually owed money. For George, one of the replies he has got pushed him to the point of going public about his issues with the company. When a response from the Omnia support email arrived informing him that his January payment would hopefully arrive by the end of June, he decided to speak out in the hopes of warning others and trying to put pressure on the company to pay out the creators it owes money to.