With the growth of Kick, I highly recommend streamers to keep an eye out on who they surround themselves around.
During times of hype, you will see people take advantage of “small streamers” and make discords to use their streams and push the idea that they will get you more views.
Community follow / raid groups are not a solid way to build your own community. They give you a immediate rush of dopamine that typically fades away into inactive users. Which usually results in making you feel even worse when you have followers but no one watches.
Create content and have a conversation with people around shit you are into on Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and so on. Then bring those individuals to your stream with conversations that you are genuinely into. That will always be the best way to build a community 🙌