Gifted memberships are YouTube’s take on Twitch’s subscriptions. They’ll be available for select channels beginning Wednesday.
The memberships gifting beta will be available to a’small group of creators’ to start and will be expanded to more’over the next several months’. Gifting will only be available for viewers using a desktop browser window to start.
Gifted memberships will appear in the chat, and you’ll have to click a link and then a toggle to allow gifts. Gifted memberships could be a way to prevent harassment, like the changes YouTube made to its version of raids.