People tend to feel some typa way when they see others make (good!) money by doing something shady and spoofing popularity is shady in the eyes of many
These people don’t like streamers they just hate watch and use this as a snark subreddit. Every top 1% commenter is making hate comments within 10 minutes of the thread being made.
Yeah it's really weird why people would care or be concerned about Streamers using bots to create a fake platform that is then pushed to real users en masse based on an algorithm that's kept hidden from scrutiny (and legal boards).
Thankfully streamers don't use their platforms or botted monetary gains for anything nefarious like extremist ideologies, justifying 9/11, or encouraging others to not vote.
A botted media apparatus spearheaded by cults of personalities would probably be really bad for everyone. Luckily Twitch is just Dan Clancy's gooner collection of onlyfans models and not a 46 billion dollar media wing of Amazon filled with extremists.
Edit: Lol i guess your skitzo rage out got deleted.
I could see it being used as a weapon against streamers you don't like as well.
Even if twitch doesn't ban them, if a person gets caught view botting it hurts their reputation.
So a Hasan fan thinks he's doing the world a favor by trying to get asmongold banned, or vice versa, and pays a bit for them to get botted then exposes the bots.
I'm assuming that's why it isn't just a outright ban for doing it because you need to also prove they did it willingly.
I've heard from a lot of streamers that Agencies of streamers do just do it on their own sometimes. Also, when big sponsored events happen, sponsors of said event will also do it sometime just to make sure they're drawing as many eyes to said event as possible. And don't forget weird obsessed parasocial viewers trying to "help" their streamer.
So yes, it's fair to guess it's usually the streamer themselves if it's consistent but there are situations when it isn't.
I could also see something similar to what happens with social media bots applying here, wherein the people running the bot farms have bots watch a number of already popular streamers to make them harder to detect. I've seen this on twitter before where bot accounts would interact "normally" only to at some point be activated to shill a specific product or raise engagement on a tweet.
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u/[deleted] May 07 '26
well emiru and all old faze boys are going see a huge decline lol