It remains to be seen whether this first major ban wave has actually flushed out a large portion of the bots or if these accounts will simply be recreated and return.
Are you still looking for a streamer that you can regularly follow? Here we show you the biggest German streamers by viewer numbers:
Twitch: The 5 currently largest German streamers by active viewers
At that time, Twitch was still celebrating their great viewer numbers and talked about almost 36 million unique viewers. xQc was already sure that there were 100% bots involved and that there were not really that many viewers.
The news from Twitch that they have now banned 7.5 million bots only confirms these statements. There is a very large bot problem on the streaming platform, but now Twitch seems to finally be taking action against it.
It remains to be seen whether this first major ban wave has actually flushed out a large portion of the bots or if these accounts will simply be recreated and return.
Are you still looking for a streamer that you can regularly follow? Here we show you the biggest German streamers by viewer numbers:
Twitch: The 5 currently largest German streamers by active viewers
Many streamers have lost millions of followers on Twitch. The streaming platform has cleaned up and removed a lot of bots. Two well-known streamers, including xQc, were particularly hard hit.
This is what happened: Twitch reported via Twitter that they have removed a total of 7.5 million bot accounts. This also affects real streamers, as the bots that were their followers are now gone.
Streamers xQc and sodapoppin were particularly hard hit. They lost several million followers, all of whom were likely not real people.
Millions of Bots were Followers of xQc
This is the decline: xQc and sodapoppin were thrown out of the top 10 streamers with the most followers due to Twitch’s cleanup (via sullygnome).
- xQc lost over 2.6 million followers and is now in 12th place – he was previously in 5th place
- sodapoppin lost even over 3.1 million followers and lands in 29th place – he was previously in 9th place
No other streamer has been hit as hard as sodapoppin and xQc. shroud lost “only” 250,000 followers and Ninja had to give up 194,000 followers.
The biggest female streamer on Twitch, pokimane, even gained followers in the last 7 days. However, she also recently published her statistics, in which she banned over 10 million bots. So she seems to be doing well against the bots.
What do bots do on Twitch? These accounts follow streamers and even watch their streams. This often artificially inflates viewer numbers. xQc himself confirms that he is affected by real waves of bots. For example, he spoke of a wave that gave him over 3 million followers.
In January, the streamer said: “This is all fake. All these seemingly great moments are ruined by bot Randys. It’s so hollow.”
At that time, Twitch was still celebrating their great viewer numbers and talked about almost 36 million unique viewers. xQc was already sure that there were 100% bots involved and that there were not really that many viewers.
The news from Twitch that they have now banned 7.5 million bots only confirms these statements. There is a very large bot problem on the streaming platform, but now Twitch seems to finally be taking action against it.
It remains to be seen whether this first major ban wave has actually flushed out a large portion of the bots or if these accounts will simply be recreated and return.
Are you still looking for a streamer that you can regularly follow? Here we show you the biggest German streamers by viewer numbers:
Twitch: The 5 currently largest German streamers by active viewers
