{"id":42283,"date":"2026-05-04T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-was-planning-my-exit-on-media-day-xqc-claims-overwatch-league-was-inflating-viewership-with-bots\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:55:17","slug":"i-was-planning-my-exit-on-media-day-xqc-claims-overwatch-league-was-inflating-viewership-with-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-was-planning-my-exit-on-media-day-xqc-claims-overwatch-league-was-inflating-viewership-with-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was planning my exit on media day\u201d: xQc claims Overwatch League was inflating viewership with bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular streamer Felix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel is claiming that the Overwatch League inflated its viewership numbers by viewbotting, and people are calling him out for \u201ccoping.\u201d The Overwatch League was hype. It was. The first few seasons were among the best esports I ever watched (outside the FGC&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/overwatch-league-xqc-viewbotting-claim\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular streamer Felix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel is claiming that the Overwatch League inflated its viewership numbers by viewbotting, and people are calling him out for \u201ccoping.\u201d The Overwatch League was hype. It was. The first few seasons were among the best esports I ever watched (outside the FGC&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}