Yeah, I was wrong about that. Moderators don't get paid by Twitch (but some do get paid by the channel[1]). But Twitch Admins do get paid by Twitch[2].

Interesting that Twitch is sort of flipped from what remote_phone is proposing. Mods are not paid, but content creators are paid.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2qh5ov/do_twitch_mo...

[2] https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-chat-badges-guide?la...