Anyone streaming on Twitch automatically has a chat where viewers can write using their accounts. Streamers and viewers interact this way. But what happens if the viewer who is most present in the chat is not a person but a bot instead? This happened to streamer Maik Zarbex
.
Which fan is not real? In one of his past Twitch streams, one of his moderators pointed out to the Twitch streamer Zarbex that his top chatter wahlju
from the last 2 years does not actually exist: he is just a bot.
Zarbex looked at the messages that the bot had sent right after the hint: most of them consisted of just a hahahahaha
with an added XD
.
The bot was only revealed because it had been banned by the moderators and then submitted a ban appeal. In a ban appeal, viewers who have been excluded from the chat due to a violation of rules have a way to request whether they can be unbanned.
Bot wahlju apparently also wanted to participate in the chat again. However, the message in the ban appeal clearly indicated him as a non-human, as the bot promoted his own company, from which he originated. Thus, he can probably forget about getting unbanned.
Loyal chatter of Zarbex does not exist
How does Zarbex react? Zarbex initially commented on the whole situation with a sarcastic I am broken
(Source: Twitch from minute 00:57:10). He further explained that he had recognized the name in the chat repeatedly.
This really hurts my heart because that was such a loyal chatter. I even knew him by name. It’s like having been in a relationship with a woman for 10 years and in the end finding out it was just an AI robot.
– Zarbex on Twitch from 01:02:28
Later, Zarbex looked at the bot account: apparently, it had been following him since March 2025, so a whole year. For 2025, the account was even one of the most active accounts in the chat.
Looking at Zarbex’s Twitch recap from 2025 on YouTube, one can discover the bot account wahlju in the category Your biggest fans
. At that time, Zarbex also mentioned, just like now, that he would know him from the chat.
On Twitch, Zarbex was the newcomer of the year 2024. Meanwhile, he plays among the top German streamers. Although he is so well-known, the Twitch streamer still insists on his privacy, even in public: Twitch streamer has 14,000 viewers, does not want to be photographed secretly: “Not the property of the public”
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