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While the Portugalposting is hilarious as an anti-shitposting tool, I'd rather have an interesting discussion about this than 5 more hours of shit flinging.
So here we are, with what we know -
> Someone is botting the Powerpro VOD for the Esports Olympics event with a Portugese viewfarm.
Konami obviously has the most incentive to do this, and even if someone gets caught they can be sacrificed to the altar of justice. The company will survive.
Other than script kiddies, there's not that many people who would benefit from botting such an obscure stream, so Konami remains our prime suspect here. The no. of subs on the Olympics channel also has some significance. If you know, you know.
Now, the question is, would they bother doing this with Niji Koushien?
Konami obviously would be incentivized to have a tournament run using their game be successful, so there may be some incentive there.
But for Nijisanji the risk is just too great. They have a good system going, but their reputation hasn't been the best, and if they get caught botting their viewer numbers, they could lose pretty much all of their sponsorships.
They're basically coasting with their current business model and they're flush with cash so they don't really have much of an incentive to take such a big risk for minimal rewards.
If Konami was not taking Nijisanji's wishes into account, there might be some friction, but I can't see that being the case since doing that would open Konami up for lawsuits from Anycolor. Although that still doesn't mean the plausibility of this scenario is completely zero...
But well, in any case, as of right now there's no inflated VOD views, weird comments or any other signs of viewfarming in any of the Koushien VODs that we can see.
So right now, the only thing we can currently take away from this, is that Konami is willing to bot streams of their game in order to inflate it's importance.
HOWEVER..!
