SHNEAKO - Kick CEO Ed Craven EXPOSES biggest VIEWBOTTERS in streaming!

00:00:00.000 We talked about bots before, I think just a big shout out to Sneeko. I think Sneeko is one of the

00:00:04.780 few people out there that doesn't touch any bots at all. I said this to you the other day, right,

00:00:08.780 Sneeko? I was like, you know, one, like, there is actually very few people. I was saying like,

00:00:13.120 hey, look, yo, guys, fuck with the people that don't use bots. I'll say this now. I won't ever 1.00

00:00:17.440 say someone is using Vuebots, but I will say when someone isn't using Vuebots, like, Sneeko is not,

00:00:22.420 you know, he's legit. Like, you haven't fallen to the temptation of, you know, increasing your

00:00:27.720 metrics, and I respect that, man. I really do.

00:00:29.660 Hey, Sneeko. Sneeko, what are you doing here?

00:00:31.980 Dude, do you sleep? Do you sleep at all?

00:00:34.820 Oh, can you hear me?

00:00:36.120 Yeah. Do you sleep?

00:00:37.640 Get some sleep, man. Man, ever since

00:00:39.540 the kit clipping program dropped,

00:00:41.740 I can't sleep. I'm so happy about it.

00:00:45.480 Wait, what? You got dropped from the kit clipping program?

00:00:47.740 No, no, no. Ever since it dropped. I didn't

00:00:49.600 get dropped, but hopefully

00:00:50.620 I don't. 0.99

00:00:53.840 Holy shit, what happened to your hair? 0.99

00:00:55.600 It looks great, man. Amber Rose 0.99

00:00:57.320 bleached it on my on my kick stream yesterday she wanted to to bleach it gee yeah that actually 0.99

00:01:04.540 looks pretty good man thanks I actually I have some more you think so thank you did you ask for

00:01:12.660 the neon were you like hey man I need the neon no no no I uh I actually I asked for the marlin and

00:01:18.300 then they said it was cringe so but no I used to do this back in the day back in the day I used to

00:01:25.120 always dye my hair blonde i have some more the brass toner because a little too little too asian 1.00

00:01:29.800 slim shady i'll fix it up a little too brash it looks good man you like it eddie i do i i actually

00:01:38.500 i think it actually really works yeah it's uh it works it works definitely yeah come from kept

00:01:44.880 calling me old so i had to shave my beard and you know i'm trying to look younger i'm on gauge

00:01:48.720 i'm catching up to you guys so you gotta do what i call you 27 it's good to talk to you guys last

00:01:54.820 time i think we spoke i was 26 or 25 or something that was the it was the end of 2024 i was doing

00:01:59.740 my twitter vlogs yeah you had project x that just came out right that was pretty heavy what

00:02:05.440 happened to that well i got unbanned on youtube in october last year so project x the goal was

00:02:10.600 to get you know make something so dope that i got in band and it kind of worked so mission

00:02:14.920 accomplished and you know now i started uh started streaming on kick you know this this month was

00:02:22.100 kind of the reason I know you're in a rush, the reason I wanted to talk is like, this is the most

00:02:25.740 amount of hours I've ever streamed in a month. And I think the system you have going on with

00:02:29.560 kick right now works really well because I have a, I have a big clipping team and, you know,

00:02:35.480 it gets super expensive and I really like seeing that grow. And, you know, the KPP, even I was

00:02:42.060 kind of apprehensive because Clavicula, he keeps telling me to gamble. Everyone's telling me to

00:02:46.000 gamble but i have been you know i've been doing well on on kick regardless so yeah i think i did

00:02:52.480 something like 250 hours this month so it was by far my most stream month ever in four years

00:02:57.560 okay you've always you've always been a little bit you never wanted to go full-time streaming

00:03:03.400 right you kind of obviously more video on demand bod sort of base right youtube whatnot it was

00:03:08.260 kind of your primary yeah yeah that's that's my main thing but just shifting over there's been

00:03:13.080 like two major reasons is because you know i've been jumping around i've been kicked out of 109

00:03:17.400 platforms i was on party for a year and then you know i was on rumble for two years i got banned

00:03:22.440 i've been i've been on every single streaming website so now that i'm on kick it's like you

00:03:25.540 gotta make sure people know what's up and i think what helps is that you know the kick clipping

00:03:29.700 program lets people know exactly where you are it's a pretty big watermark i'm not gonna lie

00:03:34.760 but it does definitely let people know it's a little bit obnoxious i remember it used to be

00:03:40.900 this like really faded like kick logo and i kind of sat down with with with the team i'm like guys

00:03:46.520 we need to we need to make this a little bit bigger and i think they went a little bit too

00:03:51.940 big but uh and i ain't complaining you know it's uh you can't you can't miss it you can't miss it

00:03:56.420 yeah hey you know it's been on so many platforms man like what are you what's your honest

00:04:01.020 assessment of kick like now that you've given it a good go you've you put in a lot of hours

00:04:06.160 you're obviously ingraining yourself in the community like like what are your thoughts man

00:04:09.720 i like it it's so different because you guys know i i stream sometimes on youtube as well i do the

00:04:15.180 cross stream and cut it over the youtube chat is so wholesome they're like really nice people

00:04:20.560 they're like oh this is great like if you don't tip somebody or and then you tip them 20 afterwards

00:04:25.540 they make sure to let you know and then they're super happy kick is like like like if they want

00:04:31.060 you to fall off a bridge like i'm not trying to like they they have like a dark sense of humor

00:04:34.720 you know like if something bad happens like if you get in a car accident or like the car shut

00:04:38.820 they'll start laughing you know like somebody doxes you or like if you get swatted kit kit

00:04:44.300 chat will start moving really fast youtube chat will be like oh no should we call the police are

00:04:49.140 you okay kick chats like get in a fight you're like which i like it but it's really cool how

00:04:55.440 different the worlds are i like it you know it is my sense of humor i i can relate to that that's

00:05:00.160 the type of streams i watch i mean for years you guys have known i've always been watching kick

00:05:03.680 street i can't really enjoy other content you know this atmosphere this community is for me

00:05:09.280 oh listen i guess yeah we've cultivated our own community over here our culture it's it's it's

00:05:19.440 i'll i'll be the first to admit as well even like like sneaker you'd be hanging out in my chat you

00:05:24.680 see some crazy people in there well not crazy people but some some loud and and and and unique

00:05:30.020 sort of yeah characters i think that's just that's the kick that's the kick community it's it's just

00:05:34.820 um i think people i think people just enjoy seeing crazy crazy crazy stuff go down right i think the

00:05:39.620 internet is full of like a whole bunch of of of of you know stuff that's kind of rinse and repeat and

00:05:45.620 and nowadays like the world is changing a little bit i think you know especially like if you kind

00:05:50.340 of look at content creation like five years ago it was heavily based around this this idea of like

00:05:55.700 Like, you know, you have to be really wholesome and PG-13 plus or whatever the fuck it was.

00:06:00.360 But now it's kind of done a bit of a 180. 0.92

00:06:02.140 Like, don't get me wrong.

00:06:02.980 Like, we've got to be careful with, like, drawing lines.

00:06:05.180 And we speak about this all the time.

00:06:06.340 But people want to see, like, new things.

00:06:09.100 They want to see, like, you used the example of, like, falling off a bridge or something.

00:06:12.800 I don't think people actually want to see them fall off a bridge.

00:06:14.700 But they want to see something.

00:06:15.760 Like, they want to see something different.

00:06:17.080 Like, I think we've been on the internet that people have been making videos and streams now for years and years and years.

00:06:22.440 People want difference.

00:06:23.560 like they want to see exciting stuff and and you know i think that's what kicks for people come to

00:06:28.940 kick because they're they they want excitement they want to see something different um so

00:06:33.960 it's the content i watch it's my that's why i think it's worked so easily it's only been one

00:06:38.880 month you know one month that i started on a kick and i think i've grown something like 20k followers

00:06:43.380 this month my my average view count i was started this month like january alone i was averaging like

00:06:48.720 1 000 viewers and i think i'm not sure what it is now but i think it's 5k and that's pretty

00:06:53.880 pretty quickly because you know i understand the kid community the kid culture it's my sense of

00:06:58.500 humor i know and also it's just it's just a fun website to stream on and that's like a really

00:07:03.740 refreshing takeaway i have at the last day of the month is just how like i want to go live all the

00:07:08.140 time you ask me if i sleep i only slept like one hour last night and i was just thinking about you

00:07:13.060 know today i'm going to do a gym stream with low pump we're going to go he's going to learn how to

00:07:17.000 box a little bit, then we're going to go to the studio. That's something like if I'm streaming

00:07:20.240 on YouTube or Twitch or a different Rumble, for example, Rumble chat is not going to love me and

00:07:26.080 Lil Pump in the studio. They're going to say like, oh, he paints his nails. This is gay. I hate rap 1.00

00:07:30.800 kick. There's like, there's more of a diversity of everything. Like I can talk and do my desktop

00:07:35.120 and then it's more transferable. And then, you know, they want me to go IRL. It's just a more

00:07:38.960 versatile, fun platform. That's epic. Oh, I'll tell you what, coming from someone who's banned

00:07:46.880 from 109 platforms or or been through 109 if if if you're telling me that kick's in a great spot

00:07:53.520 and and and you know you're you know on the back of screaming 250 hours in in january then

00:07:59.680 then i'll tell you what that's that's that's a pretty good signal that we're doing something

00:08:03.980 right and i guess you know the clipping combined with the the growth combined with the the freedom

00:08:10.760 to to be able to be yourself and do whatever you want and enjoy it and have a community back to

00:08:14.660 on that it sounds like it's a perfect recipe for i don't know hopefully seeing where you can take

00:08:19.460 things and sneaker just before i i finish stream and and um say goodbye um i just want to we're

00:08:25.080 talking about bots before i think just a big shout out to sneak i think sneaker is one of the few

00:08:29.700 people out there doesn't doesn't touch any bots at all i said this the other day right sneak i was

00:08:33.960 like you know one like there is actually very few people i was saying like hey look yo guys

00:08:38.780 fuck with the people that don't use bots um you know i'll say this now i won't ever say someone 0.91

00:08:44.260 is using view bots but i will say when someone isn't using view bots like sneaker is not um 0.99

00:08:48.560 you know he's he's he's legit like you you haven't fallen to the temptation of

00:08:52.900 you know increasing your metrics and i respect that man i really do thanks a lot wait so i'm

00:08:57.760 so surprised i'm happy you said that because i get accused of that all the time you know i know

00:09:02.580 you got to go but so you know you you are aware of everybody who is and isn't botting i did want

00:09:07.980 to talk about that maybe we could speak on this more in the future um no obviously yeah kick kick

00:09:14.200 kick like has the ability like that's how kpp works right kpp pays out on legitimate viewership

00:09:19.320 right obviously the platform kind of knows but again we don't know who's botting q right like

00:09:23.780 at the end of the day like you know somebody else could be botting someone else like there is a lot

00:09:27.320 of that going on right but um you know it's a tough one but yeah we definitely know when people

00:09:32.400 aren't botting that's for sure i appreciate you saying that yeah i know you got to go soon just

00:09:36.180 wanted to stop in and show some love it's been great coming on here santa maria uh thanks for

00:09:40.160 helping me get on boarded on the website eddie it's always great to talk to you awesome man

00:09:44.500 you have an awesome weekend good luck today yeah hey uh good seeing you that's that's good good

00:09:49.320 seeing him man good you brought that up because look you know you can't fake his content you get

00:09:54.440 what i'm saying right like he he knows how to edit he knows how to go out and get a story he

00:09:58.980 knows how to get clipped he knows how to collab like um you know it just makes sense that he has

00:10:04.660 an authentic uh community because he's actually he's just put in the work and the work shows uh

00:10:11.500 no matter if you like his content or not this his technical abilities um are off the chart right

00:10:17.540 like he he i think this guy could make a netflix like documentary as fast as he could like just

00:10:24.000 make like um you know a rogue clip falling off a bridge does that make sense like uh i i think he's

00:10:30.580 i think he's very diverse diverse in that i think i think sneaker is just a very well-spoken person

00:10:36.760 he's very well articulated um obviously very quick at at coming up with what to do and say and i

00:10:45.420 think that that you know shows in his streaming i think yeah he finds himself in in subjects which

00:10:50.860 become quite polarizing and and naturally people who aren't afraid to speak their mind will end up

00:10:55.700 pissing off a lot of people. Um, but I guess on the back of that, you, you end up making a few

00:11:00.220 fans too, but that's also, I guess, you know, what, what content creation is all about. I feel

00:11:04.020 like, I feel like just, just ending on that note. Like I think, I think for a long time, streaming

00:11:08.940 was about pleasing everybody. Like people took this take that you have to like make everyone

00:11:16.580 happy. You have to appeal to everyone, but you know, I feel like when you try appealing to

00:11:22.340 everyone you almost appeal to nobody um you know you end up in a world where if you if you know

00:11:28.200 that saying if you try to please everyone you you you're gonna sort of fail you know i think if if

00:11:33.860 you're not somewhat polarizing you you're probably doing something a little bit wrong like i know for

00:11:41.160 a fact i do my best to be like super diplomatic during my streams um like i try my best not to

00:11:46.960 say anything that'll get me in trouble or whatnot but but naturally you know i i feel like i feel

00:11:54.200 like every now and again you you you unless you want to be somebody you're not you're going to

00:11:59.500 say something that not everyone's going to agree with um you know for example heck even just having 0.96

00:12:04.800 sneaker on the stream just then like fuck some people would say oh andy like you as a business 0.96

00:12:09.100 you can't have somebody like that guy come on because he got banned from youtube like you know 0.98

00:12:13.160 I think sometimes you just got to go with the flow and do stuff that is exciting.

00:12:19.740 And I think it comes back to that creative freedom component.

00:12:22.140 And you need to be a little bit polarizing sometimes.

00:12:24.220 You can't please everyone.

00:12:25.500 That's the world we live in.

00:12:26.920 We all have opinions.

00:12:29.200 It's important.

00:12:31.260 You're platforming, Eddie.

00:12:33.180 You're platforming.

00:12:35.180 Yeah, no, I think a funny quote or statement that I saw someone say the other day is like,

00:12:40.060 how did the generation of people who were raised on South Park get so soft you get what I'm saying

00:12:47.800 like like I remember coming up on South Park and you know before South Park you know the Simpsons

00:12:53.420 yeah you know and everything everything was up for grabs man so um listen man I know it's weird

00:13:01.400 because like I know like like I guess I I grew up on on online games like Call of Duty or or like

00:13:08.660 in my case an escape and everyone fucking everyone's bonkers right it was good times and 0.91

00:13:15.020 i don't know it was somewhere in like 2015 onwards that yeah the world kind of suddenly 0.55

00:13:20.780 spent like 10 years being really soft i reckon but i don't know i feel like it's sort of changing

00:13:25.220 maybe i don't know who knows who knows maybe i'm completely off the mark and maybe we have to kind

00:13:30.220 of go back to being like super restrictive in what we say and walking on eggshells um but but

00:13:35.780 you know i think it's it's it's fun i'm enjoying live streaming i think live streaming is in a

00:13:39.940 really healthy spot these last two months of live streaming i think has been really fun

00:13:43.280 like i've been watching some really great streamers on twitch i've been watching some

00:13:46.580 really great streamers on youtube i've been watching a lot of really great streamers on kick

00:13:49.940 um i think streaming's in a really good place and i think that's in the back of of the fact

00:13:55.720 that people are speaking their mind they're having fun they're being themselves

00:13:59.380 We'll be right back.

SHNEAKO - January 31, 2026

Kick CEO Ed Craven EXPOSES biggest VIEWBOTTERS in streaming!

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