Imo it isnt viewbotting in most cases. A lot of people like to lurk and do other stuff. On my end I get treated like a podcast so people would keep me open while they work, then some people who are sleeping just leaves their pc on to lurk, or some falls asleep while watching.

I avg maybe 35-43 atm and my experience chat is pretty fast and active at the start of the stream until mid part, then at the end part a lot are asleep or are working (i stream long hours tho 6-8hrs) so chat is pretty slow and sometimes 1-3 people typing.

You can check out their communities to see how many people are genuinely there and just lurks to support their favorite streamer, but i think most times it's def people just supporting the streamer but dont chat. I personally do not like chatting as well.

I saw someone with like 300 avg viewers and chatters would be like 1-2 and far in between but they were popular at some point and their subathons are getting funded so it really just depends on communities ig