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- Oct 18, 2017
Interesting thing I've noticed...if you use the twitch bot "detector" found here and put in "darksydephil", his streams consistently have about 20% of the viewers being bots. It doesn't matter if he has 300 total viewers or 700, it seems like 20% are not actually in chat. Don't know what that means, if anything, but it's really strange.
I don't know the technicalities behind that page but if it's just going by peps in chat vs viewers it's bound to be inaccurate IMHO. As much as we all suspect Phil of botting (or being botted) there's a few things to keep in mind:
1) banned accounts still watching the stream. I doubt those count towards chat then.
2) freedom chat (CyTube) - it just embeds the video but doesn't log you into chat / doesn't require a Twitch acc.
3) people watching from a smart TV / console or without an account.
Don't get me wrong, Phil's attendance looks inflated at times. Just bringing up some points to consider