Does "Frames Due To Render Lag" cause a delay to viewers?

[PolybiusArcadia]

Simply put, if I am streaming something in OBS and I drop 60 frames, specifically due to rendering lag, does that cause the viewer watching on youtube/twitch 1 second of delay?
More detailed:
I'm trying to figure out if let's say, I accumulate 5000 of dropped frames over a period of a few hours of rendering lag due to Diablo 4 being poorly optimized, will my stream begin to buffer and gradually leave my viewers behind (if they don't refresh)? I know it's only about 1 min 23 seconds of dropped frames and it's negligible, but I want to know if this is how frames dropped due to rendering lag works theoretically.
Thanks!

 

[Phandasm]

Dropped frames is OBS trying to catch up.
It basically goes render operation takes too long -> OBS is now 3 frames behind -> skips rendering the next 3 frames to catch up.
Your viewers will see stutters/freezes rather than latency.
That said, performance issues often result in increased buffering which can contribute to stream delay but not necessarily proportional to the number of dropped frames

 

[koala]

If you stream for 4 hours (4 * 60 fps * 3600 seconds = 864000 frames) and accumulate 5000 dropped frames, that's 1 dropped frame every 172.8 frames or 0.58%. For 60 fps, this is one dropped frame every 172.8/60 = 2.88 seconds. This is very visible and not negligible. Every 3 seconds, there is a tiny visible jump in your video.