>>104893102I've been keeping an eye on it mostly out of habit despite my retiring of the monthly numbers and from what i've noticed is while 3-views tend to get the fluctuation too it's not nearly to the wild degree the 4-views are having and most of the 300-800 ccv liggers are currently still in that active ballpark. Where we are seeing the biggest difference is in two areas: A) 1k+ streamers, and B) specific timeslots are more down than others. Most late night streamers have barely gotten hit in comparison to morning/daytime streamers. As to the specific reason, I suspect it's bot detection attempts causing some unintended things. There's enough proof to show it isn't fully just "if you lurk you aren't counted" because if that was true the 3 views would be gutted worse than they are.
This is just a pet theory and I have no actual proof of this, but I think what's not currently being counted is burner accounts and non-verified viewership. It makes more sense than the lurkers because twitch has been trying to force people to make more individual accounts with either emails or phone numbers attached for years since it's a better overall user metric for them to be able to track (having verified user modes is a requirement for things like front page and twitch rivals), and there's been a big uptick of VPN users saying they can't even comment in chats that require chat verification. Again, no proof, but this is my guess on the matter.
