>>69706548In regards to the botting
Yes/no
First things first let's cover the way these bot farms work.
Usually, a server will be loaded up with various 'instances' of youtube user logins through their preferred program.
A program will then run to automatically assign a number of these instances to the task of watching a stream, i.e. navigating to the url they are assigned.
YouTube does actually make a cursory attempt of filtering bots, so these ghost viewers will show up after a randomly designated amount of time (The reason why the viewership rise isn't just a flat cliff). The bots will also randomly 'drop out' of the stream and are replaced by another bot that arrives at some other time. The total number of bots ticks up and down randomly, creating artificial dips and peaks; but generally will hang around the target amount (this instance being 2k).
The reason why the bots don't talk in chat is because it would be too easy for youtube to detect them and filter them. So it's better to have these ghost viewers behave like silent watchers, as youtube can't explicitly identify them as bots.
Now, something to note, is that the most popular form of botting, as well the one least likely to get you caught, is 'match-botting'. Essentially the botting program will take into consideration your natural ccv. So if you have 1000 natural ccv, but want 2000 ccv; the program will incorporate the number of real viewers into it's own total. Matching leaving real-viewers, and leaving when real-viewers arrive, with a delay of course.
Essentially, if you see a 'flat part' of any ccv chart for any chuuba, it's botting
