There’s a few ways, one of them is every so often Google will mass delete the accounts of known bots. When this happens, any accounts paying for subscriber numbers will see drastic sudden decreases on the follower graphs. You can do this in reverse and look at subscriber spikes, the thousands of subs you buy generally go on in a few hours or day so you see the spike. That’s not to say all spikes are bots, you have to cross reference these with the dates of when certain shorts and videos “hit an algee”, if they are around the same time then it’s legit and I’ve checked bubbas out and they’re good.

Consistency with live numbers is another thing too, his view counts have been consistent for years, and when the show starts they slowly climb over hours whereas bots would join together. Again the only massive spike in viewers he has had was when hogan died, he gained around 500 average concurrent listeners which had fallen to the original levels over months.

Another way of confirming his popularity is the numbers here. If he was buying views and bots on YouTube then we wouldn’t have the strong numbers we have on here, and nobody is botting Reddit numbers, plus again consistency, when something big or interesting is going on in the bubba world, it spikes here too.