Look at your Kick achievements dashboard. Whether you are aiming for Verification (100 unique chatters) or Partner (250 unique chatters), Kick places a massive premium on chat engagement. They don't just want passive lurkers; they want an active community.
The Lurker Reality
Here is the industry secret: only about 10% to 15% of your audience will ever type in chat. The rest are lurkers watching on their TVs, playing games on another monitor, or just eating food. If you need 100 unique people to type, you realistically need hundreds of unique viewers to pass through your stream.
Forcing the Engagement
You cannot force lurkers to type. Instead, you have to increase the top of your funnel—the total number of people clicking your thumbnail. Many creators who hit these chat milestones fast do so by manipulating their initial ranking. By making the choice to boost their raw stream visibility, they appear higher on the browse page. More traffic equals a higher mathematical chance of new, highly talkative viewers joining the room.
Stop doing gimmicks to make 5 people talk. Focus entirely on ranking your stream higher, and the unique chatters will flood in automatically.