Video taking off 22x its usual first day

DarkViperAU's anti-impersonation bot bans the original

A missing moderator permission explains why the streamer was instantly barred from his own secondary Twitch chat.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 45,038 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (2,068).

I Got Banned For Nothing

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The bot was supposed to keep people from passing themselves off as DarkViperAU. It was rather too thorough: when the real streamer typed in his secondary channel's chat, it banned him too.

In "I Got Banned For Nothing", posted on DarkViperAU Clips, he explains the small setup mistake behind the very personal rejection. His automated moderation removes accounts with usernames incorporating his name, a precaution against impersonation and confusion. On DarkViperAU247, his own account triggered that rule.

"It didn't recognize me as me, and so it was just like, poof, dead," he says.

The livestream excerpt has already drawn around 34,000 views before its first day is over. A usual Short on the clips channel gets about 2,000 in a full first day. This time, the mishap is in the chat settings rather than the GTA gameplay featured in many of the channel's most-watched uploads.

Viewers are discussing what the rule would mean for someone who put his name in their username as a tribute. Others imagine the awkwardness of making him change his name and submit an appeal.

He did not actually need one: a human moderator immediately unbanned him. DarkViperAU supplies the explanation himself: "I remembered to make all my other mods mods, but I didn't make myself a mod."

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What viewers say

Would've been hilarious if his mod asked him to change his name and submit an appeal 😂😂
@Shmungus_1See it on YouTube
What if somebody had darkviper in their name because they were just a big fan and then they immediately get banned lol
@BP_Games_1See it on YouTube
Wait is the 24/7 stream not actually run by matt himself
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