A Bot Farm Got Shut Down, HasanAbi's Numbers Dropped, and Asmongold Apparently Cried About It

On October 15, a clip submitted to r/LivestreamFail by user u/Lost-Meringue-7476 appeared to show Asmongold in tears after learning that HasanAbi's viewership had dropped significantly following the shutdown of what the post described as a bot farm. The post's title: "Asmongold was in tears finding out Hasan's viewership dropped significantly after a bot farm got shut down." The clip arrived less than 24 hours after Asmongold had first made the allegation publicly, placing the apparent emotional reaction within a single news cycle of the charge that prompted it.

The sequence is worth documenting in order, because the timeline is the story here.

The Allegation and the Numbers

On October 14, according to the known record, Asmongold raised a Russian bot allegation against HasanAbi in connection with a viewership decline the latter had been experiencing. The specific figures involved in that drop have not been independently confirmed by MAFKR. What is documented is that Asmongold made the claim on stream, that the claim entered circulation on October 14, and that within roughly one day a bot farm shutdown had apparently occurred that, according to the r/LivestreamFail framing, correlated with a meaningful dip in HasanAbi's numbers.

Asmongold's reaction, per the clip, was tears. Not frustration. Not satisfaction expressed verbally. Tears.

For the record: a correlation between a bot farm shutdown and a viewership drop does not, by itself, confirm that the bot farm was operating on behalf of any specific streamer or at that streamer's direction. The r/LivestreamFail post attributes the emotional moment to vindication. Asmongold has not, as of October 15, issued a formal statement beyond what appears in the clip.

HasanAbi has not publicly responded to the bot allegation as of the time of this writing.

The Week That Preceded the Tears

To understand why a viewership graph sent a grown man to tears on a Thursday afternoon, it helps to know what kind of week Asmongold had been having.

Between October 7 and October 14 alone, he uploaded five videos to YouTube, confirmed he had turned down over $20 million in gambling sponsorships (citing, per multiple outlets including Dexerto, NDTV Sports, and International Business Times UK, the fact that he is "already rich"), filed what he claimed were FBI and Secret Service reports against Macaiyla over a tweet about Donald Trump, clashed with HasanAbi over whether the Pentagon should livestream an execution, called NoArmWhatley's conduct toward a female streamer unacceptable, and was covered by NDTV Sports three times in four days.

On October 13, separately, Sportskeeda reported that Asmongold had weighed in on Kai Cenat's reading difficulties, saying "there's no shame" in Cenat hiring a tutor, while also describing Cenat as "a person who is ripe to take advantage of." That quote, attributed to Asmongold by Sportskeeda on October 13, has not been addressed by Cenat's camp as of publication.

The bot allegation, then, was not an isolated incident. It was the latest installment in a stretch of output that has drawn coverage from outlets ranging from Dexerto to two separate Indian news organizations. The tears, in context, read less as a sudden break and more as the pressure valve on an unusually busy two weeks finally finding an exit.

The Grok Moment Nobody Asked For

One day before the tears clip, on October 14, a separate r/LivestreamFail submission by user u/BlueLivingAbandon documented a different moment from Asmongold's stream. According to the post, he asked Grok, the AI assistant developed by xAI, for the population of Canada. He did not use a search engine. He waited approximately 30 seconds for the response.

Grok gave him the number. Canada's population, as of the most recent census data publicly available, is approximately 41 million. Google would have returned this in under two seconds. Asmongold apparently preferred to wait.

The clip circulated on r/LivestreamFail without a formal statement from the streamer about his search methodology. No explanation has been offered for why a search query became a language model query, or why the 30-second load time was preferable to an alternative. These questions remain open.

The juxtaposition, for what it is worth, is the following: a man who spent October alleging bot manipulation of streaming metrics, confirming seven-figure financial decisions, and filing federal law enforcement reports also spent part of October 14 waiting for an AI to tell him how many people live in Canada.

What Happens Next

Several threads remain unresolved as of October 15. HasanAbi has not publicly addressed the Russian bot allegation or the viewership drop data. The specific numbers cited in the viewership decline have not been independently verified. The nature and operator of the bot farm referenced in the r/LivestreamFail post have not been identified in public reporting. Asmongold has not issued a written statement elaborating on what appears in the tears clip. It is also not clear whether the FBI or Secret Service have taken any action in response to the reports Asmongold claimed to file against Macaiyla on October 8, a question that predates but now sits alongside this new development.