Kick Urged to Investigate Streamer for Inflating Viewership with Bots
On Thursday, June 18, 2026, at around 12:01 AM, I noticed an irregularity regarding the livestream of a streamer named "Eray Can Özkenar" on the Kick platform. While the stream's viewer count normally sits around 20,000 to 35,000, it suddenly spiked to 90,000 and dropped back down to approximately 26,000 shortly after. I believe this sudden and inconsistent jump in viewers was caused by inflating the view count using bots.
Boosting streams to the top of the directory with bots to unfairly generate higher revenue creates an injustice against other streamers and viewers. I demand that Kick thoroughly investigate this stream and the associated account, apply the necessary sanctions if bot usage is detected, and take measures to prevent such abuse in the future.
