At the end of a recent Twitch stream, Shroud attempted to raid a few smaller content creators. However, Twitch stopped him from doing so, stating he had too many current viewers.
Shroud is among the most successful Twitch streamers with over 8.7 million followers, currently sitting at the third-most followed channel on the platform. His YouTube channel is also quite successful with over 6.66 million subscribers. Shroud followed in the footsteps of another popular Twitch streamer, Ninja, as both content creators previously decided to leave Twitch and move to Mixer. However, following the shutdown of Mixer and partnership with Facebook Gaming, Shroud and Ninja would move back to Twitch and continue streaming successfully.
This may be the first time where Shroud's viewership has become an issue. In a recent Just Chatting session on Twitch, Shroud planned to end it by raiding a smaller creator. After perusing and deciding to host RaidedEpicz, Shroud was greeted with a message telling him he had "more viewers than the maximum currently supported by raids right now."
Even Shroud was surprised that a cap on how many viewers he could raid a Twitch stream with existed. Instead, he requested that his viewers go watch one of the three smaller content creators that were being requested in the chat. "I guess I'm just too famous," he joked. "Suffering from success, you know, story of my life." Though Twitch doesn't state anything about a viewer cap on raids on the How To page, it's quite possible that a cap does, in fact, exist, but most streamers haven't encountered it yet. Shroud was pulling 89,000 viewers concurrently at the time, numbers typically only seen with the most successful of Twitch streamers.
Raiding is a great way to help out small Twitch streamers. Oftentimes, bigger or average-sized Twitch streamers will raid another streamer's session at the end of their own by automatically sending over the entirety of their current viewership. It's on the viewer to opt-out of watching, which can help both the smaller creator grow their community and help the raiding channel as well.
Sometimes, however, raiding can get chaotic. Sometimes, Twitch streamers or other online personalities will send their followers to a live session to mess with or joke around with the creator. Luckily, toxic raids rarely end up happening, and Shroud is known for often using his large following to help small streamers or streamers struggling in some way.
Source: Twitch