I've been a moderator on a few channels and I've always noticed a lot of bot accounts during many broadcasts, and I understand why some verified channels have an average of 100 viewers and in some cases there are 2 people chatting during the entire broadcast.

Even checking the Twitch FrontPage or those that are on Lurk and many accounts don't follow the channel, they've never sent a message but are always there in the chat.

I use the 'Twitch enhancer' extension to check how many accounts are connected and there are a huge number of streamers going through this situation above, I wonder if they're increasing their ad income?

If so, I have a suggestion:

It would be possible to only verify accounts with phone numbers and 2FA to count the AD for the content creator. And every 3 months all accounts without chat interaction, and that live on Lurk and logged into any application will need to be verified again.

Ads will be available to everyone, but bots used by systems and groups will become useless, and they will have to invest in a very high number of phone numbers to continue with this service that is killing the true growth of channels.

If there are ways to break the botviewer system to increase AD revenue, we will see a huge reduction in bots on live streams that take advantage of this and take away the opportunity for smaller channels to be seen.