re: Riley Reid drops $4.8 million on a Pasadena estate..

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Yeah the people getting ridiculously wealthy on really stupid internet things will make you both sad and depressed. As you work your arse off for decent living there are kids making millions recording themselves playing video games, brushing their hair, eating, and typing while naked. Our society is pretty much lost.

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How Streamers Make Money Sleeping on Twitch

The two primary ways that Twitch streamers make money sleeping on stream is by enabling text to speech donations, or allowing their users to participate with media share donations. Enabling text to speech donations is a relatively simple way to allow users to interact with you while you are sleeping, and audiences often enjoy posting annoying messages or entering strings of letters that make the text to speech voice create funny sounds, such as the classiC “tststststs”, which sounds like a sprinkler when read out loud. The more extreme option is a media share, where viewers can donate to post links to a video that will then play on stream.

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At the end of the day, making money off of sleeping streams on Twitch generally centers around how much the viewers can annoy the streamer, and while it may seem counterintuitive, keeping an audience entertained even when the content creator is asleep.

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