Twitch cleared out the viewbots and made advertisers happy. But if you’re a DJ with a stuck viewership, that purge didn’t fix your reach.
Fake accounts inflated numbers, but they never brought real people to your music. Clearing them out cleaned up the top of the browse directory, but changed nothing for underground streams. If you’re buried on page four, you’re invisible. Nobody scrolls that far down to find a fresh set.
Today, short clips on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts do the heavy lifting to bring new listeners to your stream.