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  • Twitch's new anti-bot system caused viewer counts to nosedive across hundreds of channels, with some losing over half their displayed audience.
  • Channels running 24/7 reruns saw the biggest drops, with Mira falling from 2,000+ to under 200 viewers overnight.
  • The cleanup affects sponsorship deals and ad rates since brands have been paying premium prices for audiences that were partially fake.
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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not gonna bother figuring it out, but real curious how many views FromPirateSoftware is losing, if he was hitting to try and stay afloat after all his drama

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Making accusations in this way is kinda dirty

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He was previously caught live on stream artificially boosting his "hype train" or whatever it was Twitch called it. So it's not like this guy doesn't have a history.

[–] blackfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Was he the one doing it? I thought it was someone else doing it for him,

[–] sus@programming.dev 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He paid a close associate ~~a few thousand dollars~~ (I don't remember how much it actually was), and the associate then donated that same amount of money for the hype train. It's basically just a method to conceal it

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but being in kahoots with one of his mods to boost the stream isn't really making all that much difference imo.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Making accusations in this way is kinda dirty

Dude was caught paying to break the hype train record, view botting would be very plausible.