Some inside information on LOCALS: the HTML on the chat page used to show the names of everyone in the chat (great INFOSEC!) publicly. It no longer does. I had planned to use that feature to collect some metrics, but it seems they locked that down. It is unclear if they still have access to the user list on the backend. I say yes, because they pull 3 PFPs to show by the active chat participant numbers.
Speaking of active chat participant numbers, LOCALS counts all the people who watch the chat in the active chat participant number--regardless if they are paid supporters or not. They also added a feature to let you chat and pay per chat:
The RUMBLE model of 'view counts' apparently...
I have said before, I have a pretty good cover for my identity, but I also have some contingencies in case anyone ever cared to try to rat me out. At one point, the secret LOCALS DISCORD seemed hell bent on doing so, but they were too lazy to do anything. They should have created a script to ferret me out and forced me to get creative with how I logged the chat. I thought up 7 different ways to find my identity and had countermeasures for each planned. I did not need to use any.