I appreciate the honesty and openness @SoulSaint, even if I disagree with some of your perspectives I appreciate that you shared them and opened up here. I love you too man and understand your perspective. There are a few people in my community that I would also label as toxic and I'm struggling with/working on trying to figure out how to fix that. When certain people get toxic I don't enjoy myself at all and have even had to cut cam off and sometimes even cut stream completely because I am not good at hiding the fact that I'm no longer enjoying myself.

As far as view numbers are concerned, I've always been transparent with my numbers and data analysis for any of us and I can assure you I am not botting in any way, nor have I ever done so. To me, it's equivalent to cheating. I myself have had a suspicion on a few occasions that someone was botting me only to later see that I was on raider.io or a similar website. When the data doesn't add up at first glance, I tend to get notice quickly. I only personally know of one person who viewbotted (Donawen, who Iszum pointed out was botting) and I took him off autohost and stopped supporting him outright. As far as numbers go, there is only one situation that I haven't been able to figure out completely and that was when I gained like 4k views playing Terraria on one night. The numbers for that day don't make sense to me if I look at that night objectively. I am not familiar with how viewbots work but something was definitely off that night. I haven't seen anything like that since though, thankfully. I actually reported that night to Twitch and asked if they could figure out what happened and Twitch Support was only able to tell me that they were unable to confirm whether or not there was "artificial view inflation" to use their term. I am confident that in time I will earn Partner, as I fully believe the three of us will, but it will happen on our own time and in a natural way and not in a forced or cheated way. Otherwise the prize at the end is worthless in my opinion.

As far as the drunk raid goes, anyone who has shown Iszum disrespect has not been invited back (case in point: scalpel). Iszum and I talked at length about certain situations and I've since been doing groups and loot myself which seemed to take the bs off of Iszum when we did that. Aside from that, I understand you guys doing your own thing. As far as focus goes, I have wanted to do a drunk raid because it had been several weeks since we did one. I fully understand that if you're not enjoying them you're not gonna go, I just needed to know what's going on ahead of time so I can plan for it effectively.

I respect your perspective and also hope you respect mine. It's natural that as we grow as streamers, we will grow apart into our own space as we expand. I respect you both personally and individually and to echo what I said before I wish you both the highest levels of success. Hopefully we can do something collaborative again in the future, I enjoy gaming with both of you, streaming or not streaming.