LIST OF POTENTIALLY VIEWBOTTED/VIEWFARMED STREAMS
SUSPECTED VIEWBOTTED STREAMS
> 2021-12-22 : Ike Eveland : d-fL-VOmIFA : (1,861 --> 2,724)> 2021-12-24 : Ike Eveland : R8HNXhEAK8A : (1,258 --> 3,862)> 2022-01-10 : Amelia Watson : E8VqyJYCTtc : (1,195 --> 3,488) (Confirmed >>16165322)> 2022-01-11 : Kureiji Ollie : -awpZU5jFWs : (3,307 --> 5,440) (Confirmed >>16235196)> 2022-04-21 : Millie Parfait : kvET5ChSBJM : (1,011 --> 13,012) (Confirmed >>22831703)> 2022-04-25 : Vox Akuma : sKmzW84BVr8 : (19,478 --> 23,322)SUSPECTED VIEWFARMED STREAMS
> 2022-04-07 : Koron ch. (Indie) : 68-zH1IVH9g : (10,116 CCV --> 1,671 VOD)> 2022-05-05 : Sara Nagare (Prism) : SU6P3fSEY5Q : (43,710 CCV --> 10,134 VOD)"Confirmed" is for when there is some evidence of the botting being planned, either /here/ or on some other Social media site.
Notable points -
> First recorded "bot" graph for a VTuber that is tracked by one of the numberfag sites is Ike Eveland (Luxiem) on 22nd December (if there are any that are earlier, let me know).> Ike's streams were botted two times with a two day gap between the streams. Both streams started at the same time.> A similar pattern followed for Amelia and Ollie's stream, but with a one day gap. These two streams also started at the same time.> Despite apparently being "numberfags depressed about CCVID", neither Ollie's nor Amelia's botters posted in /#/ but instead on /hlgg/.> Millie's stream was "confirmed" to have been botted with only for 5k views. The 13k spike came from elsewhere, and conveniently overshadowed the erratic flow of Millie's graph leading up to it (which had a pattern similar to the infamous Chinese worm).> Both Koron and Sara are channels which are not tracked by the majority of the common numberfag sites, and thus do not have a graph.> A lot of Vox's streams have suspicious graphs, but the birthday stream is the only one with an obviously botted spike so far.It's quite an obvious connection that with a Chinese audience also comes the Chinese mentality of "no rules, no morals, just win at any cost".
For Chinese fujos, this will involve viewfarms, viewbots, and views across multiple accounts and devices to get their favorite streamer higher numbers.
It's also quite obvious that they are /here/ monitoring the only thread that talks about numbers so that they can avoid being found out.
They seem to have their own social sites to organize this stuff which are mostly opaque to us. If any anon here knows where they hang out, we could use an insider (try to be subtle).
Expect a lot more botted spikes, and viewfarms to get disguised as "natural incline" for certain popular livers in the coming months.
