>>16135593>TLDR: YT is NOT verifying viewers as the live is running, they are just making sure that the whitelisted viewers are actually watching (not muted, tabbed in, etc)If that theory had any merit it wouldn't have taken about 35 minutes to go from that low point after the intermission to the same point before the intermission.
If "verified viewers" were whitelisted there would have been a much steeper rise after the show started, like it happened with Marine when her live got the audio bugged and had to be restarted.
Instead it took 38 minutes to "onboard" 20k viewers after the intermission, a behaviour very similar to the "waiting room cull recovery".
I maintain the theory that once an user leaves and reenter the stream he is queued again for validation.
