Trainwreckstv says there are only 2 "consistent" ways to prove a Twitch streamer is viewbotting

Twitch and Kick star Tyler "Trainwreckstv" has joined the conversation about viewbotting, which has been making headlines since xQc called out Kai Cenat's friends, RaKai and Reggie "Lil Rodney Son," earlier this month for allegedly using bots to artificially inflate their viewership numbers.

While Trainwreckstv did not mention anyone by name, he claimed, in a post on X dated April 15, 2025, that there are only two consistent methods to prove a streamer is using viewbots.

According to him, the two ways to catch viewbotters in 2025 are to either have access to backend information from sponsorships or to obtain statistics from the streaming platform itself:

"There are only 2 *consistent* ways to catch a botter in 2025 and that’s by either the backend analytics of sponsorship opportunities or if you have backend access to the platform they stream on. These are the 2 main metrics that are the hardest to dupe."

The content creator further claimed that streaming organizations and agencies can also be responsible for viewbotting, so backend statistics would need to come from sponsors for proof:

"ALTHOUGH, SOME agencies are the ones responsible for botting their streamers so you’d have to get the data from the sponsor itself not the agency unless you find the right agencies, which only a few exist who aren’t a part of the bullshitting."

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Dr DisRespect responds to Trainwreckstv's views on streamers viewbotting on major platforms

X user's post that elicited Trainwreckstv's response on viewbotting (Image via @xqcreviews/X)

Trainwreckstv's post was in response to X user @xqcreviews, who claimed that using polls in the Twitch chat could prove which creators had bots in their audience. @xqcreviews also noted that Twitch had added a "viewership tampering" report button for users to report broadcasts they suspect are being viewbotted.

However, Trainwreckstv argued that chat speed and polls are not accurate measurements:

"polls, & chat speed are more often than not, NOT a good way to determine botting. Polls average ~10% of viewership in most categories and ~20% of viewership in high interaction categories, the same way viewership averages 1% of following, any higher than that is just evidence of a higher non-lurking community or the streamer operating at their peak point in their career."

He added:

"Chat speed is also a terrible test as it is context based, you would have to compare same category same content and even then, community variance, and demographic variance muddies the waters."

The streamer stated that, in the past, creators who started trends online were less likely to use viewbots. He then claimed that this is no longer the case and accused agencies of creating false hype to justify fake viewership:

"Before there was another way, you could base it off who created trends, but now even that’s being manipulated by orgs and streamers creating false hype to legitimize false viewership through collabs and events."

Dr. DisRespect replied to Trainwreckstv's post in the same thread on X, seemingly agreeing with him. The Doc criticized creators for using viewbots, claiming they have no impact on the industry and calling them boring:

"Let’s see merchandise sales of these idiots too. Hahaha… they’re all fake Train. No real community. No real industry effect. Boring too."

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Viewbotting has plagued major streaming platforms like Twitch and Kick for a long time, with many streamers being accused of using their services to pad their viewership.

Recently, Destiny and Dan Saltman claimed that OTK-affiliated streamer Mizkif's Twitch channel is viewbotted.