IShowSpeed confirms record-breaking Dominican Republic stream was botted (opens in new tab)

IShowSpeed has confirmed that his stream kicking off his tour of the Dominican Republic was viewbotted, meaning that his mammoth numbers were not created by organic viewers. Speed claims that he's spoken with YouTube, and found out that somebody had been botting his stream, which originally peaked at 300,000 viewers. During the stream, viewership rose to well over a million concurrent viewers on YouTube, making the stream a record-breaker. However, as was noticed by other streamers including ...