>>779266well, before Dec. 3 the number validation process took considerably less.
they prob. have to do some retarded workaround to check if someone with a VPN is a viewer or a bot.
I know for a fact that a shit ton of Chinese users still use VPN's to watch Hololive, I still lurk on their NGA forums and Bilibili and the giga schizos are getting outed
Also, seems like they implemented a feature that only counts viewers if they are focused on that tab/window, it's easy to spot because, for example this past Gura stream, the numbers went down each time she ended a song and picked up once she started, meaning that people had an audible signal to focus on the video and maybe chat