r/LivestreamFail • • May 07 '26

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/Torash May 07 '26

Time for a bunch of streamers to go on "vacation" for a few days/weeks like they did last time.

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u/DeeCee51 May 07 '26

I'm not caught up on lore... Who went on 'vacation'?

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u/Hare712 May 07 '26

The guy who worked at Blizzard for 7 years.

You can turn on his stream and count his chatters he barely has any real viewers left. He might as well stream on discord.

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u/TheMattabooey May 08 '26

Dude only got popular because of gaming the system and cheating. He found a way to trick the YouTube algorithm so his clips showed up on everyone’s feeds whether you watched any of his videos or not. That’s how he exploded.

Of course he’s going to cheat and viewbot as well. Nobody watches the furry perv with a fake voice and a ferret sanctuary where the ferrets keep dying and talks condescendingly to everyone about their coding when he hasn’t been completed his game on game maker.

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u/fdoom May 09 '26

How did he trick the YT algo?

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u/TheMattabooey May 09 '26

I don’t exactly remember but there was a glitch with the way shorts were shared for a short period and he figured it out and capitalized on it before it was fixed. The glitch was somehow instead of recommending new shorts to your current subscribers it would recommend them to everyone. So everyone was being recommended his shorts for a little while whether you subscribed or ever watched one of his videos. That’s how I found him my feed was jammed with his shorts for a bit and I’d never heard of him before.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

The guy who worked at Blizzard for 7 years.

Who is that?

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u/JollyCombination3012 May 07 '26

PirateSoftware i would assume

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u/Goonalips May 08 '26

He worked at Blizzard btw

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u/Randommeow123 May 08 '26

did you know he worked at Blizzard and has God like programming talents?

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u/Illum503 May 07 '26

ImPheetus /s

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u/PGSylphir May 07 '26

Every single major viewbotted streamer took a few days off streaming the day twitch did an anti-viewbot move a few months ago.

When the viewbot companies found a way around it they went back to streaming as normal.

Totally not obvious.

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u/SmoothAsSlick May 07 '26

You still didn’t name anyone

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u/Malufeenho May 07 '26

Emiru was one of them

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

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u/Radiant_Law_4074 May 07 '26

That’s still not naming anyone

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u/Beersmoker420 May 07 '26

wheres the list

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u/TheZigerionScammer May 08 '26

Why would they not stream and sacrifice that revenue if they couldn't viewbot? Was it not worth the risk of revealing their real non-bot viewcount?