Mikkel Nielsen, one of the more successful sleep streamers, has an array of different options at different prices. For example, a viewer can pay $1 in order to type a message that a bot will read through a speaker in Nielsen’s room, loudly enough to wake him. Or for a cool $95, they can watch him be awakened by a shock bracelet on his wrist.
Fortunately for their own sake, these sleep streamers don’t do this every night. Nielsen does his streams every other Saturday between the hours of midnight and 4:20 a.m. (after which he said he actually sleeps until noon). He estimates that the longest he has ever gone without being woken during a stream is about six minutes. It’s worth it though — without disclosing specifics, Nielsen told Wired that he makes enough to cover all necessary expenses like rent and bills.
