Notorious Twitch streamer known for viewbotting finally banned UnsplashA Twitch channel, accused of using fake viewers to enhance his numbers, has finally been banned from the platform more than two months after its inception. Be it a viewbot or an in-game aimbot, there are plenty of shady lengths that users will go to in a bid to have their channel boosted up above the rest. Not even extremely popular streamers like Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek and Turner \u2018Tfue\u2019 Tenney can hold off the bots. However, it appears as if Twitch is beginning to crack down on the number of rogue users who attempt to gain some sort of success through these nefarious methods. GunsAndGlitch banned The GunsAndGlitch channel was started up back at the end of February, streaming the then-new release Apex Legends to an increasing number of viewers each day. After just over a week, the channel had just shy of 10,000 viewers per broadcast and amassed over 3,000 followers. However, as of April 29, the channel \u2013 which was even given a rebrand to Ooshky \u2013 has since been banned by Twitch and is no longer active on the livestreaming platform. Concerns raised about GunsAndGlitch Users of both the Apex Legends and Livestream Fails subreddits had initially raised concerns about the channel at the beginning of March, pointing out how the numbers didn\u2019t add up because there was a lack of messages in chat. When pulled up on the numbers, GunsAndGlitch accused someone else of trolling and viewbotting his channel in a bid to get him banned from Twitch and stated that he was working with the livestreaming platform to rectify the issues. GunsAndGlitch responds to claims A handful of members of the LivestreamFails subreddit uncovered an apparent link between GunsAndGlitch and a username \u2013 SnowmandRules \u2013 on multiple bot service websites that had jumped to his defense after being accused of viewbotting. After calls for his channel to be banned continued, the streamer took to Twitter and responded to multiple tweets with a \u2018Witch Hunt\u2019 gif and the same line of: \u201cWe currently have open tickets with Twitch, but unsubstantiated claims are more fun!\u201d We actually have open tickets with Twitch right now. But unsubstantiated claims are way more fun! pic.twitter.com\/XmJmIifD4s \u2014 GunsandGlitch (@GunsandGlitch) April 17, 2019 However, considering Twitch only bans users who have been accused of \u2018viewbotting\u2019 when they have proof, the claims are probably a little less unsubstantiated than GunsAndGlitch repeatedly claimed. The streamer has not yet responded to the action taken against his channel on either his Twitter profile or Reddit account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Notorious Twitch streamer known for viewbotting finally banned UnsplashA Twitch channel, accused of using fake viewers to enhance his numbers, has finally been banned from the platform more than two months after its inception. Be it a viewbot or an in-game aimbot, there are plenty of shady lengths that users will go to in a […]<\/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-56845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56845","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=56845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}