Trainwreckstv alleges 90% of Twitch’s top-dogs engage in viewbotting to manipulate viewership stats

Trainwreckstv alleges 90% of Twitch’s top-dogs engage in viewbotting to manipulate viewership stats

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Tyler ‘Trainwreckstv’ Niknam has once again took charge to aim at the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch. The only difference this time is that he is alleging the streamers on the platform of using viewbots so that they can increase the viewership stats on their channel.

The content creator looked confident enough to claim that, “ in the top 100, at least 90 out of a 100 are not only blatantly viewbotting, but we’re talking massively viewbotting.” He continued to say further that he might get the stats wrong as he might be making these claims as a method of coping.

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However, he quickly turned the discussion for giving a kind of evidence that some of the streamers are indeed involved in viewbotting. Trainwreckstv claimed that he contemplated on this for a long period of time, “Why are there streamers either with my viewership average, or, you know, higher than me by 20-30 thousand? Why are they sitting here like so worried about me?.”

The owner of streaming platform Kick explained that he has heard several such aspects behind his back, that some of the streamers are worried about his viewership stats, when in reality, their average viewership is a lot more compared to him. A possible reason for this, he stated, can be the insecurity that some of these streamers face.

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Trainwreckstv names Summit1G as the only streamer after him who doesn’t use viewbots

Trainwreckstv alleges 90% of Twitch's top-dogs engage in viewbotting to manipulate viewership stats
Image Credits: Sportskeeda

The on-stream discussion of prominent streamers using viewbots on Twitch continued for a long time, as Tyler went on to describe that he is able to make these claims because was able to get access to some backend numbers, which are usually not allowed to view for a normal user. 

"There are some backend sites that are like super code-y; they are not like user-friendly, right?. God knows how I even was even able to, you know, get access to it and learn how to use it."

Continuing the discussion, he took the name of Jaryd ‘summit1G‘ Lazar, as the only streamer after him who maintained a 99% logged-in viewership average. This would mean that these two streamers had few or almost negligible viewerbots, whereas other accounts staying at the Top 100 had more than 55% logged out accounts viewing their stream.

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Redditors refutes his allegations

One of the users claimed that Trainwreckstv providing these kind of accusations only implies that he himself used viewerbots when he used to host gambling streams. Another wrote that the streamer was caught viewbotting during 2015 in a World of Warcraft stream.

Trainwreckstv has been in a constant tuff with Twitch, which led him to launch his own platform ‘Kick’, that is currently in its beta stage. However, the platform received backlash for his alleged connection with cryptocurrency website ‘Stake’.

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