A Twitch Streamer Inadvertently Blocks All of Their Followers: It’s not unusual to hear of stories about bots that invade live streams, but Twitch has experienced a tragic situation that has become very common.
The situation has become so problematic that some streamers have difficulty separating the bots from real followers.
Evan Gao has been active on Twitch for nearly a full year, beginning with an impressive number of followers.
He gained a lot of attention through the channel for his maid attire. Which is now a signature look for his online avatar. And often stream Minesweeper and other games.
He also participates in an online podcast hosted by his YouTube channel titled S3K. Which has 4410 subscribers as of writing.
However, he committed an unwise choice to eliminate spambots off his page. Since trying to remove spammers, he erased the entire followers of his channel.
A Twitch Streamer Inadvertently Blocks All of Their Followers
In one of his streams within Twitch’s Just Chatting category, when he looked at some random YouTube video clips. Gao noticed that the chat was inundated with bots.
Determined to remove these bots, Gao utilized the Twitch Tools website to remove all bots on his channel.
But, Gao didn’t add filters to filter out the bots correctly. And had all of his six thousand followers chosen instead.
Then, when he agreed to delete the accounts, his total followers count immediately decreased to zero.
It took a few days until Gao inform that his followers’ count was down, with his co-host noting that a lot of those trying to reach out about the issue made him realize the mistake he had made.
Not only that, to stop bots from appearing again, Gao set a Twitch block filter which meant that only a few could re-follow his channel until he had fixed the issue.
Although it’s heartbreaking to watch these unfortunate events happen to someone, at a minimum, Gao’s fans are taking it all in stride. The video of the incident post on Reddit’s LivestreamFail page, where it has received an impressive 103,181 viewers.
Gao believes that the event and the growing popularity of the video will provide him with plenty of funny content.
Gao is currently working to build his following, which is currently at 6,300,000 followers.
We hope the incident has warned those looking to remove the hate-spreading bots that lurk in Twitch chats to exercise extra caution when dealing with the issue.
