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On twitch this a daily occurrence... and not just elon, it's mrbeast, kaicenat, and ishowspeed as well.

(That is, on top of all the other "free drops/skins" impersonation that twitch can't seem to shut down)

They shut them down pretty much right away, but they pop back up right away too. And they usually viewbot to the top of the front page.

Seems like a fairly simple thing to solve though, limit ages of accounts needed to be featured etc

I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the viewbots are using the same pool of IP addresses. Blocking VPNs, VPSes, tor, and ranges with large amounts of bans would probably help.

On the other hand, twitch keeps firing employees, so they probably just ban the stream account every 20 minutes because they don't have the manpower.

There are a ton of sketchy browser plugins that form VPN relay networks.

I would be very surprised if they are not using a new, clean residential IP on a US ISP for each and every account.

does twitch auto-generate subtitles? just mine what is being transcribed for signs of being likely to be a scam.

kids starving in Africa doesn't mean families struggling to put food on the table for their kids in America have an ideal situation. Grim is relative to local conditions, not global ones. Grim is an expression of an environments impact on the psyche and will to live.

I can hardly dodge the propaganda that makes some names a compelling social basic knowledge expectation, like Mr Musk and the likes. It’s the very first time I read about mrbeast, kaicenat, and ishowspeed however.

Note that the admiration/detestation opinion might not be as socially mandatory. But probably it’s as optional as an agnostic position is tenable in a society full of theists looking for some heretics to burn on the one hand, and fanatical atheists eager to decapitate any devout on the other hand.

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