Stableronaldo has revealed shocking details about how his former management team wanted the Twitch star to use viewbots to land him a deal with Kick.
Viewbotting consists of artificially raising a streamer’s total viewers through automated programs, giving the illusion that a creator is more popular than they actually are.
Twitch has been cracking down on viewbotting after years of creators calling out the Amazon-owned platform for not doing enough to deal with the problem.
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According to Kick co-founder Trainwreck, some streamers are paying as much as $20,000 a week for advanced bots. Meanwhile, Devin Nash has warned that the majority of Twitch’s top 500 streamers are viewbotting.
Amid an ongoing discussion about talent agencies and orgs purposely botting (sparked by xQc), Stableronaldo revealed that he was encouraged to bot.
I’ve been thinking, WHY orgs would bot heavily? Then the answer seemed almost obvious. Talent agencies receive a % from ad streams their talent does. By inflating their streamers they can sell massive ad packages in bulk and take in much higher sums. To put simply, fraud.
— xQc (@xQc) August 23, 2025
Stableronaldo says former management plotted to viewbot his numbers
During an August 2025 Twitch stream, the FaZe star explained how his former management wanted to use bots to boost his numbers and secure a deal at Kick, which they’d get a cut of.
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“Old management that people don’t even know about were like, ‘If you go to Kick right now, we will bot your numbers on Twitch so you can get a Stake deal so when you go to Kick, we will also bot your numbers so we get a percent,’” he claimed. “That’s what I was told.”
The streamer further alleged that this was around the time Kick started in 2023, and this offer was proposed to him by someone he used to work with who then came back to him.
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“‘We’re gonna bot your numbers so you have a little more viewership… I’ll do this for you if I get a percent,’” Ronaldo recalled his former management saying.
Kick doesn’t offer streamers big deals anymore and instead looks to bring creators over naturally by encouraging multistreaming.
This claim comes as Twitch’s viewership took a significant hit after the Amazon-owned platform started cracking down on viewbots.
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