>>77144708Some (not saying Mirri is doing this) streamers will give themselves money to illicit (real) donos. The grift logic here is:
>Set top paypig rankings (having a "top 1-5 donors" list) where the donors names are listed, like it's a competition to give the most money>Gift yourself $1000 through a sock puppet account>This sockpuppet is instantly the top of the donor ranking>Actual paypig sees this and feel the need to compete with this fake donor>Donates 2000 real dollars>Now you gift yourself $3000>Paypig sees this and gifts $4000Rinse and repeat. I've seen too many donothons that have very suspicious looking large donors (and typically in cash not members/subs, which is the easiest way to give yourself money and make it look like a real donator, gifting memberships or subs is harder to sockpuppet), and with too many vtubers with extremely small viewerships (the less viewers you have the less likely you will have landed a paypiggy. Someone who barely breaks 100 should not realistically have any oilers yet) to think this is organic. I'm sure many donothons/subathons are purely actual paypigs, but I am 100% at least SOME of them use this fake dono strategy I outlined above to illicit real donos.
It's most obvious when it's almost all coming from one dude. A certain (now graduated) vtuber from another corpo did a donothon several months back where she made over 8k and quite literally 90% of it came from one dude (who mysteriously vanished as soon as her donothon ended) and then she went on an immediate hiatus after it still failed to reach the 10k goal. Most believed it was a real paypig, but I am of the opinion he was just a sockpuppet all along and his sudden vanishing after the donothon ended is my strongest reason for believing this.
Just assume, when you look at any donothon or subathon, at least some that is potentially fake. In Mirri's case, she probably actually has genuine oilers so I wouldn't think anything sus of it.
