I can't remember what exactly caused them to sperg the fuck out - only that it was something to do with someone causing one of the programs they use to host bots to stop working.
There's also been occasional discord leaks that have shown some bot hosters showing their autism. We already know that one of the old bot hosters (the one who ran the "Twilight Sparkle" bots that you used to see around a year or two ago) unsurprisingly turned out to be a brony who considered himself to be married to a cartoon horse. Though, it's probable that one of the reasons for why they choose to host these bots is because a large amount of them are lolcows themselves.
It's so simple and easy that literally any script-kiddie could host a few bots if they wanted. Bots are cheap as shit to run due to requiring very little processing power to work if you run the game in compatibility mode on Linux, extremely easy to set up if you have even average computer knowledge since you can easily get your hands on the programs required, and Valve rarely actually VAC bans the accounts - and if they do, you can just create a new one. The only payoff is that it's an extremely easy, zero-risk way to grief people on a massive scale. Aside from those, the only payoff I can see from the bots that just infest, aimbot, spam, and don't do much else probably just fall into the motivations of the above. Aside from that I haven't seen much else from the few times I have been joining pubs these past years, but there might be others which could promote cheats, products, etc.
I know there are some nets which in the past promoted paid bot "protection" in chat as one example where some tried to get money out of it.
There is a large subset of people who care a lot (or too much) about the game and who often publicly complain about it/contribute to community drama, and from that I can only guess that the bots target those sorts of people so that the bot controllers satisfy some anti-socialness or amusement by stirring up the people on reddit and twitter.Īdditionally, I also think there are people who might do it also for the technical challenge, as in they think it would be interesting to deploy their own networks of uniquely configured bots and see how they perform or how far they can get to mitigate bans/ban waves. I think the majority of them are motivated to continue doing it because it pisses off the largely aspergic base.
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