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Trainwrecks claims that many streamers artificially inflate their viewership by up to 20% or more, and the biggest offenders are on Twitch.
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Kick has a bot problem, but Trainwrecks thinks Twitch is the biggest offender
Trainwrecks claims that many streamers artificially inflate their viewership by up to 20% or more, and the biggest offenders are on Twitch.
The act of view-botting is when you inflate a channel with fake viewers and it’s an issue that streaming sites such as Twitch, Kick, and YouTube all have to face, with advertisers always worried about how many real people are actually watching.
Sometimes the problem is caused by a streamer knowingly adding bots to their own channel but other times it can be a site-wide problem of rogue bots, that have been organised by someone else.
Kick had to remove a large number of bots from its site late last year, but its co-founder and streamer Trainwrecks has claimed that the number one view-botted streamer is on Twitch, and that multiple streamers inflate their channels with 10,000-20,000 bots.
For a popular streamer that could mean that over 20% of viewers are just bots, although it’s hard to prove exactly.
During a recent stream with Agent00 and Stable Ronaldo, Trainwrecks was asked who the number one view-botter was, to which he replied:
‘The number one botter is on Twitch. Unless you count these stupid streams that get botted to like 2 million viewers.
Trainwrecks was then pressed on who these streamers were and how many bots they use, to which he replied:
‘It’s multiple people actually, who are botting massively and making a lot of money from it.
‘I’d say minimum between 10,000 and 20,000 bots,’ he claimed.
Trainwrecks didn’t name names, though, which resulted in fans on social media theorising about who he might be alluding to.
Popular streamers like HasanAbi, Adin Ross, and Jynxzi were all mentioned on Twitter, but no proof has been offered for any of them.
Fan accusations that Jynxzi, who often gets over 100,000 viewers when he streams, was view-botting found its way to xQc, who didn’t believe it for one second, saying:
‘Jynxzi had drops for the longest time and it made his stats either inflated or weird, but who cares? It’s not like he’s doing it deliberately, it’s not something he’s coordinating,’ he said.
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Just about every popular streamer under the sun has been accused of view-botting at some point. But even if someone has bots on their channel, it’s difficult for platforms to know if the bot is added by that streamer or someone else.
That’s why it’s so rare to see streamers get banned for view-botting, even though bots are commonplace. Given how much advertisers hate them though, it’s important for Twitch and Kick to remove them whenever possible.
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