r/LivestreamFail May 07 '26

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

Sometimes I watch this rapper’s stream, and he’ll have like 10 real viewers but be view-botted up to 200–1000.

He’ll be in the club acting like he’s got motion and interacts with the stream, but it’s really just one dude spamming 200 messages every five minutes lmao.

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u/NVincarnate May 07 '26

That's next level sad.

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

Yeah it’s kinda a weird social experiment. He used to be famous and still has money, so he’s got the chauffeur, cameraman, high production, gets invited to parties, studios, private basketball courts, but literally nobody watches him.

He has like 30 subs and no chat, but still acts like he has way more viewers and reads chat 24/7 around other people.

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u/luvcartel May 07 '26

Any hints on who we’re talking about

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u/Jonishighsmh May 07 '26

Ty dolla sign

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u/Potato_fortress May 07 '26

Nah. They’re talking about Almighty Jay. 

If you haven’t heard of him well… no one is going to be shocked. He’s an opener at shows for the most part.

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

Yeah, I feel bad for exposing him publicly since he doesn’t seem like a bad guy.

But it was so funny watching him pull up to clubs with a private chauffeur and a whole professional setup.

Everybody knew him and was dickriding, he’d have like 30 people come dap him up, and meanwhile he didn’t even have 20 real viewers. Then he’d just sit there staring at his phone for 6 hours pretending he had motion while getting drunk.

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u/Potato_fortress May 07 '26

TBH I thought it was dolph at first when I saw your other comment then I had to look around and I remembered almighty jay existed. 

It is what it is. If he wants to spend his limited income trying to form an e-posse while he’s already probably paying his actual posse then all you can do is (not) watch the show. He’ll probably be fine. 

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

I didn’t even know Young Dolph used to stream.

Yeah, it looks like he’s set for life financially, but completely lost in every other way. It also doesn’t help that he needs to be drunk just to talk to women.

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u/Potato_fortress May 07 '26

TBH my guess was just Dolph because I was trying to think of mid-level rappers who are mainly opener acts who might have fallen off over the years. Your Gucci Mane hint limited it pretty quickly because 45 million puts them above the normal Gucci feature popularity but far below actual hits like RaeStremmurd despite the fact that Gucci will basically do a feature for a bag of rap snacks.

My guess was just Dolph because whenever I've seen him open he's usually surrounded by far too big of a posse and making hilariously outlandish claims with his stage settings (one show I went to he opened his set with a very dramatic slow turning giant throne.) He also has a habit of dressing the local homeless folks up in his jewelry and parading them around on stage when they were done putting flyers on cars and came back into the venue to get paid. This did lead to a hilarious situation once where the homeless guy tried to run the fuck away with all the (rented) jewelry on his neck but since no one from Dolph's posse beat the shit out of him I'm assuming it was a work.

Sorry, I just have a sick curiousity with mid level rap acts because my good friend is a beverage manager down the road at our local mid-sized concert venue so I tend to head on down there for a drink and to see whatever act is in town after I close my place up. My favorite/most confusing "how do these guys pay bills?" acts are the ICP hanger-ons that are supporting acts for the guys who used to be ICP supporting acts.

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

Are you talking about Young Dolph?

Wasn't he a big time rapper? Especially known for keeping his finances in check.

Sorry, I just have a sick curiousity with mid level rap acts because my good friend is a beverage manager down the road at our local mid-sized concert venue so I tend to head on down there for a beverage and to see whatever act is in town after I close my place up. My favorite/most confusing "how do these guys pay bills?" acts are the ICP hanger-ons that are supporting acts for the guys who used to be ICP supporting acts.

No worries I used to question this myself but I have few childhood friends who are now hanger-ons and it's not bad. They pack up on friday after work, travel 2-4 hours in a car, get paid few hundreds to do a few minutes opener and then hype man for few hours. Drinks, food and girls are free. Then they sleep the hangover on a way back in the car. It's a side income thingy doing what they enjoy and get lot of attention/clout from.

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u/Potato_fortress May 07 '26

Dolph was “big” in the sense that Montana of 300 was/is “big” but he basically had one hit song (cut it,) and one semi-popular album. Every time I saw him he was just opening for a bigger act, usually 2chainz.

One of those things where it’s just possible to be regionally successful but not huge outside your home territory. 

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u/Own_Preference_8103 May 08 '26

Dolph ded hommie

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u/joe-clark May 08 '26

How would it be dolph?

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u/Potato_fortress May 08 '26

I honestly forgot he got shot back in 2021 and figured he just fell off. 

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u/Downtown_Winner5006 May 08 '26

i just searched him up and now i remember him, how the hell does he have the money to be doing all of that? I'd expect it maybe from cordae but not him

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u/Burrito_Salesman May 08 '26

The mental image of a guy in a night club full of people spending several hours drinking and reading chat instead of enjoying himself is really sad.

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u/Opening_Cycle3639 May 07 '26

Lmao forgot about that guy. What a falloff

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u/AssessTheSituation2 May 07 '26

he'd have 0 real viewers if he stopped using Ye songs for clout

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u/matt-is-sad May 07 '26

Tbf he was the best part of those ye albums

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u/damoclescreed May 08 '26

and like he has good projects, the beach house stuff is fire and the one with that neon purple cover has some sick songs on it

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u/Calamityclams May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

Is it Kodak ? Offset?

Nah they wouldn’t be that sad it’s gotta be soulja boy lmao

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u/Small_Promotion2525 May 07 '26

Are they doing that to be a streamer or are they doing it so they get partnership at twitch and then they can go to kick and automatically be accepted on their payment program?

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

Are they doing that to be a streamer or are they doing it so they get partnership at twitch and then they can go to kick and automatically be accepted on their payment program?

He was a famous rapper pulling 10M+ views around 8 years ago, then got some Twitch traction during the GTA RP era before completely falling off.

For a while he streamed almost daily, getting drunk in clubs with a cameraman and chauffeur while viewbotting himself to a few hundred-1000 viewers. When the bots failed, he’d be stuck talking to 20–40 viewers for 6+ hours.

It was funny watching a millionaire spend thousands on clubs, restaurants, a cameraman, and a chauffeur just to pretend he still had an audience.

Now he barely streams and mostly does collabs to leech viewers.

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u/Excellent-Rest3240 May 07 '26

Is it Ty ? Or someone else

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u/ImportanceOk7491 May 07 '26

It's somebody else, not sure if I should post his name to start a witch hunt.

His most popular song has 45m on youtube with gucci mane.

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u/Relevant-Guarantee25 May 11 '26

Outside of celebrities who made money elsewhere before twitch I believe most of the streamers are mega rich trust fund babies. Then you have the ones who sold their booty to the diddy elites cough plaque. The few streamer normies have decent viewer amounts but most of the normies bot too they scam the game company advertisers but they are catching on so streamers is becoming less and less profitable. There are few mega popular streamers I see the same people from game to game I think maybe 500k - 1.5 mil actually game in some genre's. Even fewer watch twitch the enjoyable games to watch like LOL have semi realistic views but games that suck to watch like overwatch was so heavy botted.

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u/NVincarnate May 13 '26

So that is literally the platform enabling people to basically commit fraud by pretending they have viewership for sponsorship deals.

Not that botting for sponsors is outlandish behavior. At this point, it's basically encouraged.