🐷 The Killstream General Discussion Thread - Discuss Ethan Ralph's stagnant Killstream and his appearances on other shows.

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

Here is your answer:

I've always been confident the number of viplikes bots was wrong 250+ since he's never really crossed the 500+ viewer threshold outside of when he buys 1500 bots for megastreams. However, I've never been able to out a thumb on the number of natural Rumblebots since we have no way to know how the algorithm determines bot dispersement.

I know you can't base numbers off chatters alone, since not everyone who watches will chat, but you also kinda feel that people who willingly watch da KILLSTREAM are alot more likely to engage with da chat. It's not like Ralph's tiny audience watches Ralph for his deep insight. They watch it to engage with him because that's the only plausible reason to watch him. IMO, you'd expect around 80%+ of the people who watch da KILLSTREAM to engage in chat, and that's a conservative percentage. You could probably guestimate total number of humans by just adding 20% to the total number of chatters throughout a full KILLSTREAM and be pretty damn accurate.

For reference once more with two thoughts:
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1. God, I hope he's not buying the smaller packages (25, 50, or 100) now. Buying bots on Rumble is already pathetic, but being too poor to buy Rumble bots while still buying Rumble bots is just something else.

2. While I'm sure the 'BEST SELLING' tag is some arbitrary label, I'd find it hilarious if that label is on their solely due to Ralph. What's worse is that's not all that improbable because who the fuck else is buying bots on Rumble? I'm not saying Ralph is the only one, but he might actually be the only one.

The old rule of thumb for livestreams is engagement is logarithmic. So with say 250 live viewers, one would expect 25 chatters and 2.5 donators. The rule of thumb falls apart when the numbers get this low... But I don't know if Ralph's chat has had 25 unique chatters in a while.

 

[sufferhorse]

last year when i was pocketwatching him, it became clear pretty early on that rumble was giving him 170 bots per stream. youd see them disengage 1 bot per second inmediately after he ended the stream. that, added to his unique real chatters, was the full amount he displayed. why 170? why that number?... because rumble multiplies your real number of viewers by 10, when you are a small channel.

so 17 real viewers was the number we came up with last year. maybe he gained a bit more this year but the trend shows he is going back down to those numbers.