View-botting is an activity that achieves simulated engagement by artificially inflating views. To investigate whether view-bots are plaguing your channel, look out for the following: • Unnatural audience patterns. Something like a new follower every five minutes or so is a dead giveaway, especially when it's continuous over some time. • Nonsensical usernames. Bots typically tend to have randomly generated usernames that don’t provoke imagery. For example, most usernames somewhat resemble someone’s name or at least have personality, e.g., hardcoregamer1979. Check out the accounts of any users you suspect are fake. Bots will most likely not have a Twitch profile banner, or followers. There are third-party tools available to monitor how your community is built; Social Blade is a popular one. Seeing the natural decline and growth of your audience may help you spot unusual patterns typically caused by robots. Follow-Botting This is when a channel’s following includes fake accounts. Generally created in batches, fake accounts are deleted from time to time, and therefore, a sudden dip in lots of followers could be down to a group of follow-bots. If you believe your channel is being targeted by bots, you should file a report.