Viewbotting has long been a hot topic in the streaming community. It typically started off with trolls hitting streamers with ...

There’s an open secret among users of Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming service used mostly for e-sports streaming: They can embed their streams onto third-party websites to inflate the number ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

After years of ignoring the problem, Twitch has finally launched a full-scale war on view bots—and the results are shocking. Streamers across the platform saw their viewer counts cut in half or more ...