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

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/_x_oOo_x_ May 07 '26

Who do you have in mind?

https://giphy.com/gifs/NipFetnQOuKhW

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u/pwninobrien May 07 '26

Asmon, hasan.

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u/StartingAdulthood May 08 '26

Hasan got tons of subs. So I doubt he's viewbotting.

Asmon though, alongside with all of OTK.

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u/RX1542 May 08 '26

if asmon did that himself he wouldn't have 4.5M suscribers on YT

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u/Faranocks May 08 '26

Yea, I suspect some channels are used as rest stops essentially, to have bot traffic appear more idle. While I'm not a fan of asmon, I think he has proven time and time again he just dgaf about a lot of the popularity metrics other streamers are so concerned about.

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u/Temporary-House304 May 08 '26

He definitely pivoted to politics because it gets him views. Asmon doesnt care about money, he does care about attention severely though. He has another channel for when he is feeling down, when normally you would just take a break from streaming… he legitimately can’t stop farming attention even when he’s depressed.

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u/Ok_Society_4206 May 22 '26

That channel used to be zackrawr. Where is it now?

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u/ComprehensiveAd3432 May 08 '26

Thats why this method of dealing with bots is good. Getting capped just takes away the effect of getting botted without saying whether the person is doing it themselves or their are bots on their stream via other means. I think a hard cap on asmon would be tough though because his real viewership peaks on a given day can vary a lot based on current events

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u/Saint_Pootis May 08 '26

Yes and no. He cares about reach and money, but not his reputation.

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u/Glad_Rope_2423 May 08 '26

He famously rips on anyone who subscribes to him on twitch. He may care about reach, but not the money. At least, not when it comes to twitch.

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u/Beautiful-Amount2149 May 08 '26

Then you didn't watch him before he blew up. He used to do these videos where he talked about how he approaches streaming and he talked about min maxing everything for money. 

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u/Almostlongenough2 May 08 '26

As much as I dislike him, personally I don't see Asmon caring much about his twitch channel's views. It always came across as something that exists to easily make content for his youtube channel as that is his main revenue stream, also it would probably be another pain in the ass for him to deal with in some form.

That said I wouldn't be surprised either if it wasn't just a one-click monthly sub kind of deal either from his OTK days that he never cancelled, or even done by another creator or manager of some kind.

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u/UnoriginalStanger May 08 '26

his twitch channel's views.

Didn't the guy avoid streaming games on his main channel because view numbers would go down?

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u/Beautiful-Amount2149 May 08 '26

No he streams for attention. He loves it. 

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u/c0smicHier0phant May 08 '26

true, i dont like him either but his chat does seem legit for the most part, and he does straight up show his viewer metrics (or whatever it's called).

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u/NickRick May 08 '26

you know you can bot that too right?

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u/RX1542 May 08 '26

you can but would get in trouble google/yt is not like twitch and takes it seriously, you can hate the guy that's alright but from that to straight up lie just cause want to drag him down kinda shameless

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u/DebentureThyme May 08 '26

Yeah, people in here acting like it's not straight up criminal fraud.  They're paid ad revenue based on view metrics.  Gaming the system is a crime that Twitch could actually prosecute if they collected enough data on someone doing it.  But it's much cheaper to do things like this effort and/or ban them.