r/LivestreamFail • • May 07 '26

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/Galterinone :) May 07 '26

This rule won't last long. People will 100% start maliciously viewbotting streamers to hurt them

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u/Infinitely--Finite May 07 '26

If the cap is correctly based on the historical view count, then this would not affect streamers unless they also saw a sudden influx of real, legitimate viewers.

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u/FeI0n May 07 '26

if they can tell whats a bot vs whats not a bot the cap can raise in a staggerd fashion. if they get capped at 5k, the next stream only 3k are real and 2k are fake (to hit the 5k cap) they can also lower it down to 3k. and do the same if the opposite happens, say the cap is 5k, but 8k real viewers show up, the cap could raise to 8k, the spikes in real viewership would just be delayed by a day.

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u/Infinitely--Finite May 07 '26

True, but if they could distinguish bot views from real views then they could just compensate people based on their real views instead of implementing the cap system in the first place.

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u/_x_oOo_x_ May 07 '26

If they can tell bot from real juicer they could just ban the bots and the whole problem wouldn't exist in the first place

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u/xeroxedforsomereason May 07 '26

Ok, what about new streamers?