Viewbotting

Viewbotting is the artificial inflation of concurrent view count “using illegitimate scripts or tools,” according to Twitch. Streamers use these view fraud bots to boost their streams and get on the virtual leaderboard where they hope to attract legitimate followers and views.

On April Fools Day 2024, Discord was caught “accidentally” viewbotting a YouTube video to 1.4 billion views and counting, and in the process, seemingly also broke part of YouTube itself.