>>87691473>>87693262>>87696135>>87697113>>87702488>>87703199>>87707391If I may I can Shed some of my experience being on both platforms with youtube there is bots but generally speaking you don't get same bang for your buck on youtube. Since youtube has alot of metrics it counts towards actual engagement everything from Likes, Comments, and Subtribes no seriously that helps out alot but also with chat engagement so typing something in chat during a live stream will show the metric data that your viewers are engaged. The Biggest selling point though is not only from the Content creator can show the data and go to advertisers but also do others to get early copies for video games or sponsor deals, it also helps with Merch etc. But youtube will also have the same data and more to show and sell. So bots don't exactly help in any of these metrics at all as the data is false and would never help in the first place, however this can be gamed with more complex bots that will actually have either a programed acct or a hacked one and this could count as a legit viewer but if your caught you're perma banned for life and even your google acct is gone, so high risk for little reward.
On Twitch's side however things get abit more interesting as twitch algo is based on Embeds and guess what counts as a viewer, your little preview video for stream. so when streaming on twitch you will always have atleast one viewer watching you cause it counts that embed. And Embeds are a serious problem over on twitch as they inflate numbers significantly. Pretty much everyone on Twitch is view botting whether they think they're or not due to how embeds work. So much so that Twitch has gotten better at spying on each viewers acct to know and predict how real ones should behave. Its not 100% but you will get a little ping in your twitch notifications saying there is suspicious acct or individual placing them under monitored status or something similar. Now the reason this is soo bad on twitch is from a actual Numbers perspective as long as you stay isolated to yourself the data will look real as in your twitch review it will show chatters, returning chatters, new chatters, etc... But people don't stick to themselves as this is all a grift to them to get real numbers by leeching viewers from others. So they will Raid people Like MotherV3 and other Big Indies and will chat to build a repour with them in hopes of a collab or a raid from the ones they're grifting off of. Too many people have made complaints about the embeds but Twitch needs them to boost their numbers.
To make matters worse there are ways to seriously game the whole system by making a site with background embeds that can boost the channel to several hundreds if not thousands. There is this one channel which I forgot which but alot of twitch Flesh streamers were complaining about but the channel owners nor the talents ever admitted to it thus they're technically not doing anything wrong as it could be some third party buying the views or botting on their behalf to get them in trouble with twitch.
The way Twitch works is the video in the upper far Left gets all the viewers and they will also be promoted above everyone else so that one spot is coveted by pretty much everyone. So botting to get yourself into that spot means you're guaranteed real viewers as that is Twitch's way of promoting and its very nepotistic as you can have groups working together to keep those spot held down during specific timeslots. So there is no actual real growth on Twitch unless you get a really awesome Raid inbound but for the most part those days are more or less over as most twitch people will raid into their friends and no one else. From time to time you will get some that raid into the same category of game, like lets say I am playing DCS and some other streamer just finished their stream and don't know who to raid into then they will raid into the DCS category etc... On youtube its works completely differently as youtube takes the first few months purposely not promoting your content to let the algo get to know you better. After that it will begin to start to promote you out to others and see things into the suggested feeds.But more or less its up to luck of the algo hitting the right place at the right time and the right video then BOOM explosion once that happens youtube will begin to massively start promoting you. Its why having or using bots on youtbe will actually hinder you as the bots will trigger youtube to falsely promote you into the wrong category then go oh no one liked you so time to bury you again and from there you can be put into a de-ranked listing until you can do something big again. But Twitch on the other hand no such algo exists, so its all fair game but you won't exactly make any friends doing so.
Sorry for the Long Post FlaVR LOVE!
The TLDR is buy bots on youtube cost not worth the payout, Twitch is using bots to boost numbers but no idea what percent it is.
