“Why is it happening?”: JakenBakeLIVE stunned after seeing his channel being raided by bots before appearing on Twitch’s front page
JakenBakeLIVE has returned to doing what he’s known best for. On March 3, 2022, the IRL streamer started his first international livestream after landing in Singapore. Jake was seen thanking his viewers and fans for supporting him during the tumultuous time when he was unable to complete his signature IRL streams.
A week later, Jake is still continuing his month-long Asian trip, where he plans on roaming around in Singapore and Thailand. During a recent stream of his, he noticed a very weird thing happening on his channel. Jake was being raided by multiple channels, which in turn inflated his viewer count.
Raiding is an act on Twitch where streamer A hosts another streamer B’s channel, and all of the viewers of streamer A end up in chat with streamer B. This helps close-knit streamers help each other grow on the platform.
However, in Jake’s case, this seems to be happening because of the various bots present on the platform. Exclaiming his shock, JakenBake said:
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JakenBakeLIVE had planned on visiting the Singapore Zoo on his seventh day in the city. After streaming for around an hour, the streamer noticed an influx of streamer raids on his channel, and his viewer count increased quite a bit.
Puzzled by the whole situation, Jake asked his viewers about his channel and pondered if Twitch would artificially manipulate the viewer count once a said channel hits the website's front page. Speaking about the situation, Jake mentioned:
Taking a few seconds to think about the situation, Jake continued by saying:
He then mentioned how he was raided by five different people in the span of a few minutes:
Speaking about the impeccable timing of the incident, the streamer concluded by talking about this topic:
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