no one had any issues with how viewer counts worked before, this isn't view botting, its just twitch making arbitrary rules that in the end harms lurkers. Lurking is anyone's god given right and twitch was like "how about no, if you want to count you have to talk in chat...
I have several friends that this will scare away. Lurkers is what kept the lights on at twitch. Every decision they have made lately hurts not only themselves but the people that used to enjoy their platform. I was planning to dualcast to twitch and youtube, now IDK if I even want to stay on twitch.