Updated on: August 26, 2025 02:09 pm IST
Twitch shocked his community by taking out fake audiences, which surprised many people how real the fame of streamer was.
Over the years, Twitch streamers have faced doubts over fake audiences raising their live numbers. This month, the company launched a new crack on the so -called scene and the impact has been immediate and dramatic. At every level, streamers are watching their audiences hitting the number.
A platform-wide shake-up
Viewbotting is the use of automatic bot to promote the number of live audience and is more popular than a stream is actually popular. It does not only distort reality for casual audiences, it also reduces the possibilities for advertising and the discovery of the channel. Twitch has tried to address the first bot-powered fake engagement, but the latest measures rolled out from the end of July are now making a visible dent.
According to several reports, Twitch’s system update detected artificial audiences and inhuman engagement on the site. The results speak for themselves with the number of overall audiences as 24 percent between August 21 and August 24. Some of the biggest names, including Assamongold and Excels, have experienced 20 to 30 percent drops on their recent streams. Even the gamekom opening night live numbers such as high-profile events, which looked less than expected, suggesting that the effect is platform-wide.
Who was affected?
Crackdown is not just killing streamers with huge followers. Twitch CEO Dan Clansy has openly stated that most of the fake viewership comes from many small streams, sometimes thousands of people at once try to promote their visibility through all inflated numbers. Artificial bump can lead to better placement on large advertising deals and internal ranking of Twitch, but when advertisers realize that the audience is not real, the trust quickly evaporates.
Twitch’s updated systems now aim to spot these bots faster and more accurately. In particular, the company said that punishing the creators is not the goal, especially since some streamers are the creator of the third party without their knowledge. Moderation teams are focusing on identifying unqualified ideas, instead of giving green signal to all, whose number suddenly falls.
The move has caused surprise and some concern between the streaming community, as the real viewers can sometimes get stuck in the crossfire when the detection intensifies. At the same time, many people see the shake-up as a long time to bring honesty in Twich’s ecosystem, making the matrix more reliable for all from advertisers to channels from advertisers to coming channels. The Vyubot Cat and Mouse Game is not over, but for now, Twitch’s latest intervention resembles “success” on the world’s largest game streaming platform.
