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[Arsic]

What's the story with fextralife?

Long story but two key things:
-Viewbotted for years via embedding on his own website to fool people into thinking he has 20k viewers when it was more like 20-100 at best. This caused him to get sponsorships from companies stealing their money, as well as pushing real people with real views down in directories.
-He will launch "guides" on his website for games that are totally incomplete or incorrect that others create for him to keep forcing the algorithm to funnel people to his website to once again feed into those fake views.

Basically a glorified swindler that most of the streaming community hate. For him to still be at an event like this means most publishers didn't get the memo lol.

 

[Ar¢tos]

You mean whatever he has against the story of Fextralife or Fextralife himself?

Against Fextralife

 

[Ar¢tos]

Long story but two key things:
-Viewbotted for years via embedding on his own website to fool people into thinking he has 20k viewers when it was more like 20-100 at best. This caused him to get sponsorships from companies stealing their money, as well as pushing real people with real views down in directories.
-He will launch "guides" on his website for games that are totally incomplete or incorrect that others create for him to keep forcing the algorithm to funnel people to his website to once again feed into those fake views.

Basically a glorified swindler that most of the streaming community hate. For him to still be at an event like this means most publishers didn't get the memo lol.

There is no "he". Fextralife is owned by a woman and it's managed by a group of people and it relies on community contributions.
Wikis that are incomplete are because there aren't enough people contributing content to them.
The main focus was "souls" and it's clones, but as the website grew publishers started chasing them for coverage. It was when the site started branching out of souls that I left them.
But I know that they were approached by publishers most of time, it wasn't them approaching publishers asking for freebies or codes, at the time I was part of it I remember we turning down devs asking for Wikis because we didn't have enough people to contribute for them.

Publishers want influencers, there is no memo for them to get. They don't give a fuck on how followers are obtained, they only care about the numbers.

 

[Arsic]

There is no "he". Fextralife is owned by a woman and it's managed by a group of people and it relies on community contributions.
Wikis that are incomplete are because there aren't enough people contributing content to them.
The main focus was "souls" and it's clones, but as the website grew publishers started chasing them for coverage. It was when the site started branching out of souls that I left them.
But I know that they were approached by publishers most of time, it wasn't them approaching publishers asking for freebies or codes, at the time I was part of it I remember we turning down devs asking for Wikis because we didn't have enough people to contribute for them.

Publishers want influencers, there is no memo for them to get. They don't give a fuck on how followers are obtained, they only care about the numbers.

Huh? This is fextralife:

 

[vpance]

Long story but two key things:
-Viewbotted for years via embedding on his own website to fool people into thinking he has 20k viewers when it was more like 20-100 at best. This caused him to get sponsorships from companies stealing their money, as well as pushing real people with real views down in directories.
-He will launch "guides" on his website for games that are totally incomplete or incorrect that others create for him to keep forcing the algorithm to funnel people to his website to once again feed into those fake views.

Basically a glorified swindler that most of the streaming community hate. For him to still be at an event like this means most publishers didn't get the memo lol.

Ah got it. I had heard Asmon saying something like fextralife was a joke but didn't know why.

These days most streamers are view botting to some degree. There's a lot of easy money out there in the streaming world if you're willing to put yourself out there.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Huh? This is fextralife:

That's the face of Fextralife, that's definitely not Fextra, it's probably Cas, since he was the one that did most of the streams and voice overs for YT.
You can find older videos in their channel voiced by Fextra.

 

[Black_Stride]

A bit more than a pound, actually.

Bre?