>>8935255>but Rushia's actual peak would've been much higher than that considering the numbers she usually getsNo it wouldn’t, not much higher. Her very next stream peaked at 10k and this accidental scheduled stream was live 4AM JST, way off her regular audience usual time.
What you are trying to explain as “bots” is just the size of the audience being notified of a new Hololive stream and checking it out. Whether they stay for the duration or leave is up to what the streamer does but the audience getting notified and checking what a stream is about is as huge as you observed.
Also: everybody loves a good trainwreck, that’s why Fubuki got as many people watching the “sleep stream” as she did back in 2020.
Right now that anon have a theory he’s desperately looking for evidence to confirm, to a point he’s making them up when he can’t find it.