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It's weirdly compelling - partly because the chat participants are so enthusiastic, but mainly because once I started watching it I didn't want to risk missing the tiny chance that it might actually deliver a good joke!

The animation style is pretty delightful.

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When Bob Ross was new on Twitch, I had the same experience with the chat. An entire culture emerged in a weekend and it was so wholesome and fun.

gg, RIP Devil.

My favourite twitch memory.

RUINED/SAVED

Same with Twitch Plays Pokemon.

It's also really reminiscent of SeeBotsChat[1], another short-lived AI-powered Twitch phenomenon.

[1]: https://thenewstack.io/google-homes-api-spawned-seebotschat-...

I thought they were bots?

The chat is other Twitch users. Which at this point in time should still be mostly humans.

On streams with high view counts I firmly believe they've never been majority human. They're not even AI, just dumb bots that spam whatever the other bots are spamming

If you have even the slightest actionable proof I am confident advertisers would pay large sums to know the actual reach of their ads. Until then your firm beliefs come across as conspiratorial.

Are ad buys based upon chat activity? I would assume more traditional metrics would be involved.

To what end? Most big streamers have a low tolerance for total spam.

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