One of the top CS:GO streamers on Twitch called out for allegedly view botting

Nikolarn, a Twitch streamer with over 500,000 followers who mostly creates Counter-Strike content, was called out by several prominent members of the CS community on Sept. 11 for allegedly making use of bots to boost his viewership on the Amazon-owned platform.

The discussion around Nikolarn’s numbers was sparked after Dima Wallhacks, a CS content creator, released a video about Nikolarn’s Twitch channel on Twitter. The video by Dima Wallhacks showed that even though Nikolarn has averaged around 10,000 viewers per CS stream over the past year, according to SullyGnome’s numbers, Nikolarn barely gains any followers per stream.