Asmongold calls out Twitch streamers using trick to inflate views: \u201csame as view botting\u201d YouTube: AsmongoldTVPopular World of Warcraft content creator Asmongold is accusing streamers embedding their stream of \u201cview botting\u201d. Zack \u201cAsmongold\u201c, much like any big-name Twitch streamer, made his career by providing fun content, stories, and injecting his own personality and hard work into his content. This might be why the topic of view botting, taking shortcuts, or exploiting certain flaws with Twitch or the live streaming model gets such a reaction from the content creator. Asmongold uploaded a video on January 22 in which he reacted to Vex explaining how Final Fantasy XIV streamers are \u201cview botting\u201d via embedding their videos on popular websites. Zack himself called this practice \u201cdesperate and scummy.\u201d Asmongold accuses streamers using embeds of \u201cview botting\u201d According to the Twitch star\u2019s explanation, embedding is a practice where someone displays their stream on a website. This website then, when accessed, will autoplay the stream giving the broadcast on Twitch a view, while oftentimes the user is unaware any stream is even playing. \u201cEmbedding and view botting are functionally the exact same thing\u201d the streamer commented. \u201cI do not think embedding is different than view botting in any way.\u201d Asmongold went on to explain to the members of his chat that this practice affects the entire platform in a negative way in his opinion. \u201cI think it\u2019s also worse for viewers. If people are view botting, and they are disproportionally boosting their channel up, they are providing a way for them to not have to earn that spot. And the way that people earn spots in the directory is by providing quality content. \u201cIf you have somebody who\u2019s cheating their way to top directory spots, which is going to give them more visibility to a browse viewer. And then that browse viewer thinks \u2018wow this must be an interesting stream because there\u2019s a lot of people here\u2019, and then they tune in and its view botted. \u201cThat person just had their time wasted,\u201d concluded Zack The streamer also explained that he doesn\u2019t blame people using this method, he simply wishes Twitch would not count that as active viewership or do something else about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold calls out Twitch streamers using trick to inflate views: \u201csame as view botting\u201d YouTube: AsmongoldTVPopular World of Warcraft content creator Asmongold is accusing streamers embedding their stream of \u201cview botting\u201d. Zack \u201cAsmongold\u201c, much like any big-name Twitch streamer, made his career by providing fun content, stories, and injecting his own personality and hard work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}