Twitch streamer made $16,000 filming himself sleeping and letting viewers disturb him with alarm clocks and fake dog barks

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There are various ways to generate income even in lockdown. How about sleeping and making money? Sounds weird and hard to believe, right?

Many Social media influencers are embracing the new rising trend: the “sleep stream.”

Among the best-known sleep streamers is one who goes by the name Asian Andy.

The 26-year-old from Los Angeles made $16,000 in just one night on his Twitch livestream — though he didn’t get much sleep in the process.

Like many other influencers, Andy set up text-to-speech recognition for his livestream, meaning that music played with every donation and the messages were read aloud.

A lot of viewers used their messages to get Alexa to play loud music, imitate a dog barking, or make his alarm clock go off.

One recurring theme in an August livestream was viewers telling Andy someone was at the window, leading to over-the-top reactions.

Andy himself was shocked at his viewers’ generosity.

“Thank you so much,” he said at the end of his Twitch livestream, which he later posted to YouTube. “I used to drive Uber for $16 an hour.”

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Twitch largely started as a gaming platform, with some users making as much as $200,000 a year.

It now has a Twitch Affiliate Program for those who are serious about making a career out of gaming, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has even used Twitch to try to increase voter participation and fundraise for charities.

Andy, who’s known for his antics including tearing off his shirt in Starbucks and whenever someone says “Ascend,” has more than 40,000 subscribers on Twitter and Instagram and 1 million on YouTube.

Andy is not the only influencer making money with his eyes closed, however.