In the absence of meaningful defenses provided by Twitch, one of Larsh’s chat moderators, who goes by the handle Modest Mishmash, began creating a suite of tools to combat bots a few months ago ...

“We at Twitch are well aware that view-bots follow-bots and chat-impersonation bots are a persistent frustration,” said Matthew DiPietro, Twitch’s senior vice president for marketing.

have spent the past few days imploring Twitch to counter so-called “hate raids,” in which groups of malicious users employ dummy accounts and bots to fill a streamer’s chat with targeted abuse.