>>2225790there's a sharp and obvious inflection point in december when peak concurrent live viewers suddenly dropped off, while total viewers at the end of a stream remained the same. it coincides with a major decline in the reliability of chat message delivery and at one point the chat was so broken that holos couldn't use member stream chat at all and had to resort to just making member streams unlisted. people have conducted independent tests, setting up google chrome with no extensions installed, logging into accounts (even with youtube premium active) and run live streams while in continuous contact with trusted viewers while watching the viewer count. and viewers just blip in and out over the course of the stream.
this is a fact: youtube can no longer reliably count live viewers. it started in december. anyone telling you otherwise has not examined the evidence and is repeating information of much lower quality.
what significance that has, i don't know. i don't really care about that. i'm just sick of hearing people repeat rumors, when we KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. we have measured it. and the view count is fucking broken.
