Streaming star Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel claimed that the apparent view botting done by one Twitch streamer is “harmful” as he couldn’t quite believe it.
Over the last few years, Twitch has dealt with a few waves of viewbotting. The act of adding fake viewers to a channel can be done maliciously – with trolls trying to get someone banned as it goes against Twitch’s rules – or because a streamer sees it as a chance to become an overnight success.
On March 19, streamer QueenGloriaRP caused plenty of confusion when they were seen to tab over to a viewbotting program while on-stream.
The on-screen display seemingly allowed the streamer to add fake viewers and fake comments to her channel. She quickly restarted the stream after showing the program off and has since been banned by the Amazon-owned platform.
xQc can’t believe Twitch viewbotting
The clip of her now-viral moment got onto xQc’s radar, and he couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing.
“Err, yo? The f*ck?” the Canadian streamer said after seeing the on-screen program. “Guys, to say ‘Oh guys, it’s a skit’ even if it was a skit, it doesn’t matter. It’s harmful enough to show that. If this is a real thing, to show that is harmful enough that you should be banned anyway.
“You can do a skit with some screen that says like ‘enable viewbot’ or whatever, I did one of those way back on paint.”
The Twitch and KICK streamer claimed it would be “just as bad” if it was a staged incident, comparing it to someone raging in a game like Counter-Strike, given that you can buy it.
“Oh guys, here is a skit on-stream, I’m going to show you a real program you can buy, a real thing and I’m going to rage bot in CS:GO! Bro, that’s just as bad,” he added.
As time has gone on, Twitch has gotten harsher on viewbotters. At the start of March, they added a new way to report channels that viewers may suspect of using fake profiles to boost their view count.
Some users have feared that it could be used maliciously, but if these programs become widespread, then it’s clearly something Twitch needs.
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