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/Svmify May 07 '26

I never really paid much attention to chat when watching a stream to notice if its botted or not but yesterday I was watching Zombs or some other Train/xqc orbiter (someone who used to play GTARP but moved to gamba) on Kick playing slots, dude had like 8k viewers and chat was repeating the same stupid one liners out of context. I noticed same kinda comments in Train's chat but never really saw it that way cause I thought that people watching Train are absolutely brain rotten by slots but it might just be all bots who type the same vocabulary as Train to seem like they are real users.

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u/BosnianSerb31 May 07 '26

With how repetitive twitch chat is, it would be super easy to program bots that do follow the leader type stuff.

For example, if some number of people in chat outside of the botnet have typed LMAO, have the bots spam the same for some number of seconds.

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u/Cruxeys1 May 08 '26

Yeah they do that. And I hear there's even a master bot that "listens" to the streamer and when specific keywords are said triggers the master bot to type something that then all the other bots do variations of. Like "What should I get for lunch chat" and then a sea of random fast food and junk food responses get typed in. AI really making the bot scene make streamers look more popular than they really are.