A bit of a fuss has been kicked up over on /r/poker in a thread titled "
Gripsed is a FRAUD on Twitch" wherein accusations are unleashed with regard to popular Twitch poker streamer "Gripsed" being accused of employing bots in order to be the number one streamer (this puts you at the top of the list on Twitch.tv). At first it appeared to be a mindless rant, but then some data was posted that seems to have some merit...
A normal stream looks like this:
Gripsed streams last week:
Note the seemingly unnatural rapid increase in viewership.
Other suspicious things of note included the "viewer to chatter ratio" which is abnormally high. i.e. there appears to a very large number of viewers, but very few actually speaking. It doesn't seem to follow the norm in other popular Twitch poker streams like that of JCarver or Tonka or Staples.
It was noted how few donations Gripsed gets on a daily basis verses that of other popular streamers with similar player counts and the ratios appeared to be far off.
I'm sure some of you will ask, who cares? Good point. Is it abnormal for Twitch stars to use bots, or is that just what it takes to get to the top and stay there? It appears that
even Jamie Staples used some sort of bot package to help his stream grow initially, according to another streamer BTCBlade.
Discuss?
EDIT: Original information came from another forum post: "
Gripsed is a FRAUD on Twitch"
EDIT #2: Evidently since the original post in Edit #1, his viewer count has been about 1,000 subs less than last week (and this is the busy weekend viewing times when viewer counts peak).
Last edited by kahntrutahn; 03-20-2016 at 06:37 PM.
Reason: Title Clarification