India, April 18 -- ExtraEmily, a streamer with popular online gaming collective OTK is at the center of a circle of online speculation about the validity of her viewership figure as a result of a brief mishap on-stream on April 17 that highlighted one of the most debated aspects of streaming artificial audience inflation.

The accident happened during the airing of the show when Emily turned on the screen sharing accidentally when her webpage was open. When the audience saw the majority of the tabs they seemed like regular ones as they are associated with the regular streaming applications and social media sites but one of the tabs made one keen-eyed observer notice. Some users reported that the tab was allegedly linked to a site where ma...