Ali “Myth” Kabbani had a strange start to a recent Twitch broadcast. Seconds after going live, his viewer count rocketed to roughly 32,000, a number well above what his channel has been pulling in lately.
The catch? The chatter count sat at around 1,277. Myth noticed the gap quickly. Around the nine-minute mark of the stream, he addressed the spike on air and told viewers he thought someone was botting his channel.
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The mismatch between viewers and chatters was what set off alarm bells. A high lurker rate is normal on Twitch, but jumping from a much smaller baseline straight into five-figure territory the moment the stream goes live isn’t.
Twitch’s botting headache returns
Anyone can viewbot anyone. Inflated numbers don’t automatically mean a streamer paid for them, and the sheer obviousness of jumping straight to 32k makes a self-bot scenario look unlikely. If Myth wanted fake numbers, he’d probably pick a less suspicious figure.
Myth, the former Fortnite poster boy who returned to Twitch after a stint on YouTube, has been averaging far smaller audiences in his recent run, which made the spike stand out even more on the front page.
