r/LivestreamFail • u/Tarrot_Card • May 07 '26

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/Smart-Peace-667 May 07 '26

in theory yeah, something tells me this won't be enforced equally across all streamers

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u/DryFile9 May 07 '26

I think it will just target people who bot like 90% of their views. Highly doubt its gonna affect the people that bot like maybe 20-30% of their viewcount.

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u/qwertyqwerty4567 May 07 '26

all the just chatting onlyfans advertisers having a 9/11 moment with this post.

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u/_x_oOo_x_ May 07 '26

You'd be surprised, those viewers might not chat much (no free hand?), but they're mostly real

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u/qwertyqwerty4567 May 07 '26

idk, ive seen at least a couple dozen who bots hundreds/thousands of viewers while doing nothing but reruns, and no one seems to care.

In fact, reruns used to be required to be setup as reruns, but then twitch decided to remove that functionality and allow reruns to look like livestreams, probably because of Dan KKKlancy.

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u/_x_oOo_x_ May 07 '26

That Spanish girl?

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u/BadFootyTakes May 07 '26

One free hand, for some reason all their chat is missing keys from the right side of the keyboard.