YouTube Gaming's Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated by Scams and Cheats

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 6:20 a.m.

YouTube Gaming has been clawing its way into streaming platform Twitch\u2019s market share for months. But new data retrieved by WIRED suggests that YouTube Gaming also has a serious problem with scammers and cheat-makers\u2014and lots and lots of bots. In January, all seven of the most-watched YouTube Gaming channels weren\u2019t run by happy gamers livestreaming the game du jour.