>>23707545Imagine two types of VTuber fans that try to spread the word, 90% of them being loud, obnoxious and absolute pests wherever they go, shilling their oshi with a boombox to every single person who will listen and pissing off most people they encounter.
Consider the rest of the 10% who facepalm at these retards, and do more subtle word-of-mouth style shilling, recommending oshis based on the person's tastes and interests so that more people are brought into the holobox.
There's no reason to believe this division doesn't exist among fujos as well, except with viewbotting/viewfarming (which is the "normal" fujo way to spread their word).
The Vtuber bot issues only started in late December with Ike, after Luxiem was introduced. Two continuous days, his graph had blatant bots.
CCVID came right on the back of that, which makes me think someone at Youtube was actually monitoring these activities and had been forewarned of this.
Supposedly numberfags were so dejected by the low numbers that they resorted to botting Ame and Ollie's streams...
...except, non-schizo numberfag regulars only post about numbers /here/ and not outside.
And both these "bot attempts" were seen initially in /hlgg/ (biggest thread here).
People were depressed by numbers, but I don't buy the narrative of numberfags being desperate enough to bot streams, and then not posting about it /here/ where they would get far more attention. The initial guy who said he would bot Ame didn't get a single (You) but it was conveniently pointed out in the next thread, as if going "hey, this retarded holofag is botting Amelia's stream". Ollie's post had the same wording.
The Millie incident made it pretty clear that people here WERE willing to go that far, but the waters were muddied because that anon only bought 5k bots as a minor experiment, but her stream went up to 13k.
If you consider that the smarter fujos are lurking this thread, the advantages to the double-time botting are very obvious - now everyone thinks /#/ botted a Niji stream (because we were seething about Luxiem, of course) and the initial worm-like way that her stream increased (which would have proven that Vox's Niji worm is actual bots) was overshadowed by the 13k spike.
The worm is still suspicious as heck though, which is why they've now started botting random big Niji streams (notice it's never the streams that /we/ don't talk about). Now the discussion has been diluted and the theory moved to some niji-specific Youtube bullshit.
It's quite smart, and idk if we have enough smart numbers people /here/ to counteract that level of information warfare.
