“Bots”: Internet reacts as Colombian Streamer WestCol Sets New Kick Record with 1.6 Million Viewers

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Popular Colombian Kick streamer WestCol has broken Kick’s record for the most live viewers in a stream. On October 18, 2025, the content creator reached a peak of 1.6 million viewers on the platform during his latest boxing livestream.

WestCol also held the previous record with over 1.4 million concurrent viewers during his 2024 Fighters 3 event.

@FearedBuck on X, formerly Twitter, shared the news with the caption:

“Colombian streamer Westcol just broke the record for the most live viewers on Kick with 1.6 million, beating his previous record of 1.4 million during his boxing event.

The post quickly garnered several reactions as netizens took to the comments section to express their opinions on WestCol’s recent milestone.

@addictivSlaya commented:

“Bots.”

Similar comments echoed the sentiment as netizens believed his streaming numbers were primarily boosted by bots.

@TropahPalm commented:

“He's 99.9% botted. Only has around 10k real viewers in there.”

@RespawnPlays wrote:

“Yea nice viewbots.”

@bellaa_voss added:

“Cant be real viewers.”

While most netizens felt WestCol's viewers were bottled, his fans believed the streaming numbers were genuine and congratulated him for it.”

@eth_2017 tweeted:

“1.6 million on Kick is insane, dude’s unstoppable.”

@srfactous stated:

“W in the f*cking house, our boy is the biggest.”

@eth_2017 added:

“Westcol just keeps breaking his own records, that’s wild.”

More details on WestCol’s record and botting accusations

WestCol has ultimately been crowned the king of Kick. The Colombian livestreamer has broken records and earned his spot as one of the most viewed live streamers of all time. However, this latest achievement has sparked severe backlash among his fans and netizens, as many accused him of using bots to boost his streaming numbers.

Streamers like xQc and Asmongold have condemned users who use bots to boost their streaming numbers. A few days ago, Asmongold called out N3on for using bots to boost his numbers.

“And so if you look at some of these streams right here, some of these are just instantaneous, bro, like, are you kidding me? Like, what are you doing, man? What are you doing? You are gonna hit 40,000 viewers in 10 minutes, man. Like, look at this. This is like a machine, well, I guess it is. What do you hit in ten minutes? I don't know, maybe a little bit over 10,000 viewers, something like that, right?”

He added:

“This is not just bots; yeah, people all over the world are watching us in their different time zones. What I'm saying is that nobody has a graph like this. Nobody goes from 0 to 38,000 viewers in five minutes, and then within one hour, it is at the same amount. It's just not it. It's obviously viewbotting.”

Read more: “Nobody Goes from 0 to 38k viewers in 5 Mins”: Asmongold slams Twitch over N3on’s sudden viewership spike while small streamers are capped

Edited by Sezal Srivastava