Tubefilter: As Twitch tries to crack down on viewbots, they are becoming more common on Kick. “During Q2 2025, more than 16% of Kick channels with at least 50 average quarterly viewers were suspected viewbotters, Streams Charts found. While Kick’s overall traffic rose sharply during that period, the rate of increase for suspected viewbotters was far higher.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/30/tubefilter-as-twitch-tries-to-crack-down-on-viewbots-they-are-becoming-more-common-on-kick/

Tubefilter: Did Twitch undo its viewbot crackdown?. “Kick is supposedly handling viewbotters, and as for Twitch…Its plans for botters are now here, and having a significant impact on viewership–so significant that it might already have rolled changes back.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/29/tubefilter-did-twitch-undo-its-viewbot-crackdown/