Affiliated using a link "Stake" is always required to have an account in "Stake. Any account is being used play, new account, or old account required KYC.

Unless, it's paid promotion-based content, video or article. Depends on the deals payment, they can pay you to the vault or direct payment to promotor address but is always depends on the deals. Usually, like streamer they getting paid by (Vault-Stake).

Which is, they still can needed (KYC) as well cause is required account. BTW, payment via vault stake you can search it on google. One of the streamer BossManjack a long time ago getting paid weekly 14,000$ every weeks from stake via vault.