Trainwrecks has once again brought up the issue of view-botting on Kick and Twitch , claiming it’s so bad that almost everyone is doing it. It’s not long ago that Kick co-founder and streamer Trainwrecks accused rival platform Twitch of having the number one view-botter in the industry, and saying that multiple creators add 10,000 to 20,000 bots to their viewership figures. View-botting is when someone artificially inflates their viewership with fake viewers, which is an issue that all streaming platforms face.
Now Trainwrecks is back on the attack, claiming that view-botting is so rampant that 99% of streamers do it, while Kick agrees that it’s a problem. During a recent stream Trainwrecks said, ‘I’m going to be honest with you, bro. Me and maybe like five others might be the only ones in the entire f****** industry not botting.
‘Maybe in the top 100 [streamers], everyone’s bulls*******. I would say of the new wave, the new generation, I would say 99% are bulls*******,’ he said . The conversation moved over to Twitter, where Kick had posted about its Kick Creator Incentive Program – a project streamers can apply to join, which pays the creator per stream.
Trainwrecks replied saying he’s worried that the programme rewards view-botters too, and that it should be a priority to tackle the issue of botters. extra money is good, but we need to do a better job with the people who are skipping the line of discoverability by viewbotting to the top of each category.
