Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has revealed that viewbotting is on the company’s radar, but says that big streamers are generally innocent.
On July 30, 2025, Dan Clancy appeared on a podcast to discuss Twitch’s newest innovations. When the host brought up the issue of viewbotting, the CEO admitted that he wasn’t sure how big the problem was, but that it is on the list of issues for Twitch to tackle. In addition, Clancy blamed small and medium streamers for the issue, saying that big streamers are generally innocent. This had divided the Twitch community, with some saying that Clancy is intentionally protecting big streamers from their own rule infractions.
“Yes, that’s a constant battle. Because there are third parties that do it, and especially when you get to ads. They try to viewbot for ads, they viewbot for all sorts of things… Most of the viewbotting, and most of the fraud is not on a big streamer. It’s on a small streamer, but thousands of them. Because if they can create 1,000 bogus accounts, and then they create viewbots, then they can create bogus revenue,” said Clancy.
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Is viewbotting a big problem on Twitch?
The CEO of Twitch has called viewbotting a major problem, but he isn’t sure how big of an issue it actually is.
When asked about the website’s activities, Dan Clancy admitted that he has “no idea” how many viewbots the company has managed to catch. He then turned the conversation back to Amazon’s AI initiatives. The lack of a concrete answer has some streaming fans worried, claiming that the CEO should know the numbers when it comes to the issue. Others defended it, saying that he wouldn’t be directly involved with anti-viewbot enforcement.
Regardless, his statement correlate with official Twitch statements. On July 28, 2025, the company released a memo through its official social media channels recognizing concerns about viewbotting and how it will take steps to prevent it. The company confirmed that it made changes to fight the issue, though it did not specify what those changed were.
Even with enforcement changes and a callout from the CEO, the viewbotting problem on Twitch may take quite some time to resolve.