thats the thing i will never understand about keffals. he seemingly gets tons of attention on twitter but almost none of it follows him to youtube or twitch. this just leads me to believe more and more that his whole twitter popularity is faked some how. or he simply just gets more hate attention than he does actual attention.
thats kinda common on twitch at least im not sure about twitter but on twitch you can get super big by just being a terrible person and farming it for all its worth. people like lowtiergod for example love taking advantage of how disliked they are.
See, it's not fair to compare the numbers on one platform to another. I won't rule out botting given his shady behaviour, but numbers seem easily explainable when you see how he presents himself. For example. his Youtube videos, which is condensed content that looks like it varies between snippets of his streams and a proper commentary video, average around 20k views and maybe 200 comments, which is a fair ratio, given that he uploads regularly and is relatively consistent with his topics. On Twitch, which demands a core audience of people's extended free time (and patience), for which you don't know what content you could be getting, it's a much bigger ask. Popular Youtubers rarely make good streamers because it's a different skill and level of control you have over the end product. On Twitch, engagement is treated as an equaliser. A stream where people are allowed to troll, insult and argue with a controversial personality who reacts and is naturally entertaining is going to do much better than a very curated chat watching the Magic Mirror from Snow White react to his Reddit feed.
Judging from the video previews on his Youtube channel (cause I ain't watching 'em) his original videos pull in much higher views that his stream highlights, likely because his audience behaviour informed the algorithm they're better content. This is also due to the fact that Youtube reduces your visibility for controversial topics, which is why it's a minefield for current events channels, and possibly also punishes you for re-uploading content from another platform, which I suspect it does by identifying scrolling Twitch chat. He's also alone - he collaborates with nobody else and links no other channels. Networking, like everywhere else, typically results in solid rewards when done properly.
On Twitter, Keffals is basically a completely different person in a very different environment. Frankly it sounds like he's imitating Shoe0nHead, who herself (I've discovered) imitates that irreverent, self-aware meme buzzword non-seriousness. But also, he shitposts, he retweets other popular leftists, and he comments on trends, and he was verified before Musk wrecked the joint. And of course identity and drama factor a lot more into return follows and subscriber growth on Twitter. What I suspect happens is they're all followed by a large base of similar people, they all appear in each others feeds, and everyone just scrolls down and likes every post they vaguely agree with. A lot of the people Keffals retweets have the same odd ratio of interaction, thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of views and likes, but sometimes as few as one comment. I don't think cross-promotion works as well on Twitter simply because of the minimal amount of attention content is given. This would likely explain why social media backlash can get media notice due to the views and likes, in spite of it being only a handful of people actually commenting with information that requires exerting grey matter.
I can't access Tik-Tok but I would imagine the same story there.
Edit:
Keffals revealed that they currently have 2 Twitch strikes.
That’s unexpected. What has he done to warrant 2 strikes, unless a Twitch mod recognized he was on stream higher than a hot air balloon?