REPORT
I logged Kick's front page for a month.
Every minute, Kick decides who shows on the homepage. Could be an algorithm. Could be an editor. Could be both. Doesn't matter who. The choice leaves a record. Nobody was keeping one. So I started.
One scrape per minute. Same endpoint your browser hits. I store the whole response, then count what's inside it. After a month: tens of thousands of scrapes, half a million slot fills, a couple hundred unique channels rotating through. Anything Kick puts on the carousel, I see it.
The front page isn't a flat surface.
In a single 24-hour window, the most-featured channel pulled close to half the slots. Not most. Half. The top five claimed about 14% combined. The top ten took 23%. Out of 249 unique channels passing through that day, ten of them quietly absorbed almost a quarter of the front page.
That isn't an algorithm being neutral. That's a thumb on the scale.
What owns the carousel.
IRL leads. Slots & Casino is second. Just Chatting is third. Around fourteen streams sit on the carousel at any one moment, and a meaningful chunk of those slots have been gambling content across the last 30 days. That's not what happens by accident on a general-purpose platform. Someone is choosing.
Why the page exists.
I built Kick Featured so you don't have to take my word for any of this. Three windows: 24h, 7d, 30d. A leaderboard ranked by time on the front page, a category breakdown showing slot occupancy, links to the full dossier on every channel that shows up. Read it however you want. The data is the data.
The page refreshes itself every fifteen minutes. Four times an hour, on its own. You don't have to come back and reload, and you don't have to wait on anything when you open it. It's fast because most of the time you're looking at a cached version, and the cache moves whether you're watching or not.