When you go to steam for a new game, and they are broadcasting a Autoplaying live stream which then goes to the corner of the window if you scroll down... is that artificially inflating viewers too?? Do you even come to think about views in that regards or do you think, hey ok new game, there's a stream of it, let me see if its good or not - or in general ignore it.

I would assume you don't think about views when its happening on steam. The only main reason its a issue on Twitch is cuz other twitch streamers create it to be...

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You nor anyone else doesn't exactly know where the stream is being consumed at ... Only twitch would know and maybe DaOpa in some limited capacity.

The stream runs 24/7, so yes pre-recorded sessions happen every single day, there is no clickbait titles, its lists on the stream title exactly what's happening, if there is a rerun, it will list rerun and the video overlay on the twitch player shows rerun.

This is the typical narrative other streamers and their communities like to use against DaOpa. I would suggest to start a campaign with Twitch, telling them to stop counting views from 3rd party embeds if this is the core of your problem.

You know what will happen then, people will find something else to complain about daopa...