The Twitch streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is considered a tough businesswoman. Even while sleeping, the 29-year-old still earns money.
What are these streams? “Sleep streaming” is a trend that established itself a few years ago. Initially, it was about actually watching people sleep, but it soon developed into something else.
Viewers receive the chance to pay money to actively keep a streamer from sleeping. For donations, they can turn on a bright light, play loud or disturbing noises, or even activate a device that pours a bucket of water over the sleeping person (via Der Standard).
The streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is known for her business acumen and seldom misses an opportunity to create a new source of income:
- Amouranth offers extravagant streams where she bathes or licks her microphone
- Moreover, she smartly invests her money, for example in gas stations, stores, or companies
- Especially lucrative is the paid platform OnlyFans, through which she is said to earn over 1.5 million euros each month
- Recently, she is also said to have a lucrative deal with Twitch rival Kick
It’s hardly surprising that Amouranth also tried her hand at the trend of sleep streams. In the podcast “The Iced Coffee Hour”, she shocked her hosts with how much money she earned while sleeping.
Amouranth’s latest stunt is an AI chatbot that is supposed to respond to fans in her favor:
This is how Amouranth earns money while sleeping
How did Amouranth get into sleep streams? In the podcast, Amouranth talked about her various business ventures and how she got into streaming. The 29-year-old explains that she eventually realized that longer streams were more profitable and began streaming for up to 18 hours in a row.
When she offered sleep streams, she claimed to have been on air even longer, according to Amouranth.
How much money did she earn while sleeping? The 29-year-old explains that while she cannot quantify exactly how much money she has earned from sleep streams, it was probably a few thousand dollars on Twitch alone.
However, the real money flowed elsewhere: “If you count the potential conversions to OnlyFans, it might be around $10,000 to $15,000.” Per night, of course. In 2021 and 2022, the streamer spent around 100 hours sleeping on Twitch each year (via sullygnome).
Amouranth says she slept more when the stream was on
What is the appeal of sleep streams? Amouranth explains that male sleep streamers usually earn money because viewers want to give them a hard time. With women, however, it is different, more voyeuristic.
Unlike her male colleagues, the nighttime streaming even had a positive effect on her recovery: She had sub-goals to extend the sleep streams. This way, she could justify not being productive during that time and sometimes slept more than without the stream.
When asked by the astonished moderators why Amouranth doesn’t just offer sleep streams every night, the 29-year-old has an answer ready. Actually, it should be exactly her thing since you have to sleep anyway, so why not make money while doing it?
However, the streamer explains that it wouldn’t always fit into her full schedule, for example, if she had a photo shoot the next morning. Also, the novelty wears off after a while. But fortunately, the streamer has other business ideas:
