follow bots and bot raids are incredibly easy to deal with so take a breath because
i'm gonna be showing you guys today how to protect yourself from them prevent them
and how to remove follow bots afterwards but i'm also gonna give you my number one
tip to make sure that you never get follow botted again let's go
hey i'm Eljay with streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_
there are links to both those in the description if you have any questions or want to find any
more resources on becoming a twitch streamer or content creator in general so what actually are
follow bots and what actually are bot raids for example let's cover that really fast a follow bot
is usually when an individual decides to send a dozen or a few hundred or sometimes a few thousand
bot accounts to go and follow the streamer tying up their alerts and filling up their
follow list with a bunch of bot accounts a bot raid is kind of a next tier up from a
follow bot attack and essentially what it is is they'll send dozens if not hundreds
and sometimes thousands of bots into your chat to spam slurs and hateful messages
or sometimes they'll get really specific and say things like you're too old to be playing minecraft
and you're clearly balding lj but i'm pretty sure that was a bot even if it was just one account
a quick note here is there are other smaller bots that you should be aware of for example like the
hoss magnolia judge duty slayer bots these have been recently following twitch accounts instantly
unfollowing them which causes streamers to be curious give them a click and check out their page
some of them have a malicious third-party extension that can grab your ip address apparently
those names i just gave you will sometimes have a string of numbers or underscores underneath it if
you get any of these please don't click their channel page just block ban and report them so
these all sound like a really big deal right and they're quite detrimental to your channel
well no the truth is is that all of these different types of bot attacks are fairly
pointless and at the end of the day they'll only affect you as much as you choose to let them
affect you you have all the tools to prevent them and to deal with them at your disposal currently
at the end of the day the types of people who use these bots to try and attack streamers are kind of
like the same kids you saw at school the travis's and the biancas used to try steal your lunch money
or disrupt class they're just a bit sad lonely and looking for a reaction and some attention
that said it can still be daunting especially the first time it happens to you so let's cover
exactly how to protect yourself and how to deal with it afterwards first let's talk about the
twitch integrated tools that you can turn on or adjust right now in order to protect yourself
while you're live i recommend that every single streamer has their stream dashboard open in some
form whether it's on another monitor or just in the background so you can alt tab to it quickly
this allows you to have your quick action widgets or quick action buttons available
to press in an instant when needed i'm going to cover a few of these quick action buttons now
let's imagine you're hit with a bot raid and we go over to our stream dashboard your alerts are going
off and your chat is being spammed the first thing you're going to do is turn on follower only mode
meaning only users who follow can chat this is literally the only time where you'll hear me say
use follow only mode by the way just turn it on and make sure you set it to at least 10 minutes
that way you have 10 minutes of time before anyone who's just followed you can spam in your chat it
will say if you use the quick action by default it will turn it on for zero seconds so it's not
overly helpful so you'll have to go down to your chat click on the cog wheel and i believe you
can turn on follow only 10 minutes and go from there next you'll want to click on the clear
chat history widget in the stream dashboard as well this will clear away any messages in your
chat that could be from bots or hate raiders or just generally trolls i'll also show you in a
second how you can use your community to rally a really good positive response in this situation
in a second now if you've been follow boarded all your alerts are probably going off so your
next step is to mute or skip your alerts now depending on what broadcasting software you'll
be using it'll be done in different ways if we look at the screen now you'll see streamlabs
has a pause and a skip and a mute button here which is very easy we have to do is give these
a click and you can go from there or if you're using stream elements i have it on screen now
where you can go to to pause and or skip the alerts next this one's just for you affiliates
out there if you're being bot rated or follow bothered run ads there's nothing more powerful
than taking away the ability for these idiots to see your reaction just run your ads from the
dashboard because then they're not going to be subscribed to you so they're going to have to
watch ads for a whole two minutes plus when you get bot rated your view count spikes up because
it's technically a bunch of accounts i don't know if you earn money for the ad revenue there but
the final step is to add a marker using the quick action button as well because when you go back to
the stream later i want you to be able to find the time this happened easily so you can report the
accounts later you don't have to do it straight away you can report them after your stream
right now there's more important things like entertaining your audience if 10 minute follower
only doesn't make you feel confident enough then i recommend turning on subscriber only or emote
only because then people have to subscribe to be able to talk in your chat if you own a stream deck
all of this can be done in the click of a button literally all you have to do is install the twitch
plugin for your stream deck add a multi-action tool and then just add all of these widgets i just
told you in that order pressing it will activate everything it's kind of like a lock down button
there are other tools like streamer dot bot and lior on board as well if needed everything i've
shown is also entirely able to be done by your moderators as well so make sure guys if you have
mods please send them through this video so they can understand exactly what they can do in these
situations to help you out plus also they're able to ban and report people and just thank you mods
mods are great so i want to show you guys how to set up auto moderation on twitch and with an
external bot i also want to show you how to remove followers if they get pushed onto you and i want
to show you guys how you can remove every single bot account before it even hits you but first
this next tip is so important this is my number one tip this is the most important part of the
video if you can take away anything from today please let it be this when you get follow botted
when you get hate rated or bot rated or when you have trolls in your chat
never give them a reaction because that is all they want from you don't engage with them don't
argue with them don't give them any reason to see that you're upset because at the end
of the day that is literally all they want from you they just want that reaction need some iron
i think i'm being botted uh we should probably turn on sub mode
look at that i just got botted that's the first time i've ever been bothered
can you make your house look like a duck
i'm sorry otka i'm not that good there is a direct correlation between streamers who
have a massive reaction get angry and try argue with the follow bots and the raids
and then who get them again that same stream or the next day it is seriously all they want but if
you give them nothing they get bored and they move on because most of the time these people
aren't targeting you personally they're just out there trying to troll randoms on the internet
they're just like those bullies i mentioned earlier in the video travis and bianca except
they have even less power than them because in this situation you can literally just clear your
chat set it to follow only and ban them and they can't do anything else or if you set up the tools
i'm about to show you then sometimes when they try and bot rage you or when they try and troll you
nobody in your chat will even know it happened well i use a combination of twitch auto mod and
streamlabs cloudbot moderation which means that usually if anyone tries to do anything bad in
my chat it just gets caught and removed easy as that so let me show you all of my settings and
how to set all of that up right now but also i will throw it out there if this video helps
you out at all please consider subscribing it means a lot to me and the channel is so close
to a hundred thousand it is insane anyway sorry let's go head to your twitch dashboard and select
moderation at the very top we have the auto mod rule set see mine are quite loose right now
because i have actual moderators in my chat and i have cloud bot auto mod but if you're worried you
can change the settings you use here and adjust the value you see fit what happens is twitch
will catch a message before they get sent in your chat and say hey mods this term looks like it's
breaking x auto mod rule set do you want to allow or disallow it this means if you have your race
ethnicity or religion moderation settings high and a bot rate decides to hit you with slurs none of
those messages will make it into your chat only your moderators and you will be able to see it
the bots are getting smarter at getting through filters but every time they change up how
they spell the words so does the auto mode get updated and you can also add your own variation
if you go back out of the moderation and click the blocked terms and phrases i'm not going to open
this because it is a literally a list of hateful slurs and things i don't want shown on my chat
but you'll open it and write yours in below that is your permitted terms you don't really need
this but essentially if auto mod keeps picking up words you can edit it here for example sometimes
it gets the word pig caught a lot for me and that doesn't make sense no one's calling me a pig we're
just talking about minecraft but below that we have two very powerful tool so let's take a look i
recommend having block hyperlinks on to avoid bad links being spammed or sent at all in your chat
you'll see mods admins and vips can still post links who should all be trusted viewers
meaning if someone wants to share a clip from your channel for example they can ask someone else to
post it or you can ask them to post the clip in your discord you have another tool called the
non-mod chat delay as well so you can add a delay to your chat for anyone who isn't a moderator this
gives mods a few extra seconds to catch and remove messages and you might be thinking well my mods
aren't robots they're real people how are they supposed to catch it in those first few seconds
because remember we're gonna have auto mod cloud bot set up in a second as well meaning that he'll
have a few extra seconds to catch it and he is a robot below that we have the channel privileges
now i really recommend turning on email verified accounts this will stop the lower end bots that
haven't been verified with emails however anyone who has put effort in can verify bot
emails incredibly easily just while we're here i will say chat rules should be set up as well
and then unbanned requests with a cooldown of one or two minutes because usually trolls couldn't be
bothered waiting a minute or two to ask for an unban i do recommend turning on moderator tools
in chat as well it is a huge help for mods who want to track bands timeouts and reasons for
bands and timeouts that is the on twitch tools briefly covered now let's get off of twitch head
over to streamlabs cloudbot and get ourselves set up there so we have a robot in chat ready to fight
for us and i'll also show you how you can use this tool to take it from a moment where you're
nervous or worried about being bot rated and make it a really positive example for your chat
let's head over to streamlabs.com and let's head over to cloudbot as well you'll need to have your
twitch account linked with your streamlabs obs account so make sure you go and do that but once
that is done you're going to head over to your dashboard and click on cloudbot and just hit this
little switch here to turn it on when you click on the button to turn on the cloud bot sometimes
it'll get stuck just hold ctrl and then f5 it'll clear your cache try again and you should be sweet
now i will just throw it out there you can be an obs user and still use streamlabs cloudbot but
there are other bots out there i'm just going with this one because i'm most familiar with it and
i've had zero problems using it if it works for me i'm gonna recommend it to you guys that's all it's
not as playing favorites next step head over to your twitch channel and type slash mod
stream labs this will set the bot as a moderator congratulations the bot is now active in your chat
so now you have it set up let's click on the mod tools and turn on some auto moderation
now i won't be going through every single step and if you've already watched my video about setting
up streamlabs cloudbot you're about to probably hear a few things that you've already heard before
but just bear with me the main moderation tools i use are link protection simple protection
word protection paragraph protection and emote protection simple word paragraph and a mode are
all set up to avoid spam like ascii art or large copy and pastes but link protection is just set so
that my mods and myself can write exclamation mark permit at someone's username in the chat and that
gives the user 60 seconds of permission to post a link i will throw it out there if you use the
block hyperlinks that i showed you earlier in this video then this exclamation mark permit will not
work unless you're permitting a vip or a mod in this situation the major one you'll want to use is
word protection this mod tool will remove offensive or derogatory words you can set
up the settings if you click preferences auto permit will allow you to allow people who are
subscribers regulars or both to post without being caught but i would leave it set to none because at
the end of the day it doesn't matter if someone's a vip if they're gonna post something disgusting
they should get caught by the bot and i know what you're thinking but they're a vip well
people will surprise you sometimes now you can turn on the default blacklist this will catch the
majority of offensive words but you can also write your own if you need be i also recommend turn on
the punishment message and you can customize it as you see fit but here is the part where you
can get quite custom i won't click it here but if you click the blacklist you can add words or
phrases to the list and set custom punishments for certain words i have bands set up for racial slurs
and such but if they just use an incredibly harsh swear word or a word that i don't like being used
in certain contexts it'll be purged and timed out by the auto mod instead the different punishments
are purge timeout and ban a purge will just wipe all of their messages aka one second timeout the
timeout when selected you can change the length or of course the straight band now inside each one
of these auto mods such as word protection link protection etc there are different preferences
and different settings you'll edit them the exact same way you were shown here so i really recommend
going through each one and having a play until you feel comfortable with them now remember when i
said you can use this to actually set up a really fun positive moment with you and your community
here we go what i want you to do is head over to your command section i want you to click add
a new command i want you to make a command called exclamation mark vibes or whatever you want for a
positive moment now i want you to add a bunch of emotes and really positive things whatever
you need put it in there now go over to the delay and make sure global is set to zero and user is
set to five or six seconds hit save and make sure your community knows about this command the moment
something bad happens the moment someone hate raids the moment someone bought raise whatever it
is you take all your actions you do everything and then you say your community hey can i just have
a wall of vibes and they will wipe away any ass hattery from your chat with their vibes remember
all the way back at the start of this video when i said to add a marker using the quick action button
so you can go back and find exactly where the bot raid happened now we're up to the part where
we're going to show you how to remove follow bots and why that was so important before we do this i
want to preface it by saying that follow bots are one of the dumbest ways to try and hurt streamers
they're so easy to deal with and they don't matter at all for anything other than just when you want
to have clear metrics of growth follower numbers don't really matter at all you can have 20 000
followers and have five average viewers you can have 20 000 followers and two thousand average
viewers it entirely depends on your ccv or average viewers whether or not someone respects your
contact not a single sponsor or anyone i've ever met has actually given a damn about the follow
account the only time it really matters is if you hit a big moment and you just want to celebrate it
if you get a follow-up please don't think it's the end of the world because at the end of the day
it doesn't really matter but if you do want to deal with it how do we deal with it well
straight out of the gate if you just want to get a simple way i recommend reporting five to ten of
the follow bots and then within a month and a half usually twitch will have wiped them out they're
very quick these days at getting rid of follow bots as long as you've actually reported them
to them but say that you want to remove them yourself now and you can't wait a month and a half
i completely understand that is where your good old friend commander root comes from that's right
that guy who's been in your chat everyone's first viewer is actually a bot and he's actually kind of
a good bot at that commander root is actually a series of tools that can help streamers now
he's linked in the description but i will preface this is not a follow bot removal tool this is a
follower removal tool which means if you use this incorrectly if you don't read the guide on their
site if you aren't incredibly sure of yourself you can do what i've seen already hundreds of small
streamers do when they use this tool and they will remove every single follower from their list
not just the bots so please use it carefully that marker that we set up earlier will allow us to go
back and find where the bot attack happened so commander root doesn't remove every follow
just the ones in that section and it'll also help us when reporting commander root also has
an auto block bots tool essentially this tool has a giant list of bot accounts over on twitch
and by using the commander root tool you can have them all blocked it will take a couple
hours it takes up a decent amount of time in your computer but it'll get it done i haven't done this
it doesn't really bother me it seems like too much work personally but hey if you want to be
extra safe that is there as well i want to be really honest with you guys but first i will
also throw it out there link in the description is a video by devin nash who is a fantastic
expert in this industry he is literally the go-to guru for everything i have questions about here's
a video that covers bought raids and why it is such a complex issue that there isn't a fast fix
in this situation i think it's probably one of the fairest videos about bot raids lately so please go
educate yourself by watching that mainly i want to echo a sentiment from that video that really
struck me and that is the fact that as an online creator you're going to receive so much worse hate
than these bot rates you're going to receive so many personalized insults and comments
attacking you as a person that is just a fact about how awful the internet is
the bot raids and the follow bots are just one dude on a computer being sad i get bot rated once
a month or sometimes once every two months and that never bothers me but it is so hard to get
the comments from individuals who are picking you apart personally and keep going for example when
i make videos about streamlabs obs because at the end of the day i'm a guides channel trying to grow
by making guides i get told by people that i should kill myself because i'm not using obs even
though i do use obs now i'm just making guides about another program or if i repeat a tip that
i've already given eight nine months ago people tell me that i'm useless and i'm washed up and i'm
trash but i'm not even gonna mention the amount of comments i get daily insulting my appearance
my personality and just my voice it is brutal to be an online creator all of these examples
aren't just me these happen to literally every single person who goes on the internet to try
and create content but after 4.5 million views and thousands upon thousands of nice comments
from you guys it starts to get easy to ignore the trolls on the other end of the keyboard
so i know this video is about dealing with bots but here are my tips for dealing with just
ass hattery on the internet focus on the positive comments never engage or start arguments with
people who are clearly there to hurt you and then be prepared for it to happen again because
as awful as it sounds if you're going to step into this industry then you have to be prepared for
this you shouldn't have to deal with disgusting awful people on the internet but that's just a
fact of life that they are disgusting or people on the internet so here's my last piece of advice
and a favor that i'd like to have you guys please be kind to each other please support
each other and please lift each other up because there's enough hate out there already
oh and share this video to someone who needs help setting it up
let's also do that one that's a good favor to do see you guys next week bye