Influencer guadagna 16mila dollari dormendo

Influencer earns $16K sleeping

guadagnare dormendo? a quanto pare è possibile: ci è riuscito certamente Asian Andy, un ventiseienne di Los Angeles, che in una sola notte ha guadagnato la notevole cifra di 16mila dollari. come? Dormendo in diretta sul suo canale Twitch, la piattaforma di live streaming di Amazon.

Asian Andy, infatti, è un famoso “sleep streamer”, uno “streamer del sonno”: in poche parole, si riprende mentre dorme. E i soldi da dove arrivano? Donazioni degli spettatori, che pagando possono disturbarlo con effetti sonori, rumori, canzoni e messaggi vocali. 

Un format decisamente bizzarro, che tuttavia sta guadagnando sempre più popolarità tra gli utenti di Twitch. Una versione appena più sonnolenta del popolarissimo Mukbang, cioè l’abbuffarsi in diretta. 

E voi che ne pensate?

Keywords

guadagnare: earn – 赚取

a quanto pare: apparently – 显然

ventiseienne: 26-year-old – 26岁的

mila: thousand – 千

il canale: channel – 频道

la piattaforma: platform – 平台

streamer: streamer – 主播

riprendere: to film, shoot – 拍摄

gli spettatori: viewers – 观众

disturbare: disturb – 扰乱

il rumore: noise – 噪音

bizzarro/a: bizarre – 奇怪的

sonnolento/a: drowsy – 昏昏欲睡的

Grammar

Il suffisso “-enne”
The suffix “-enne”

“Asian Andy, un ventiseienne di Los Angeles”
(Asian Andy, a twenty-six-year-old from Los Angeles)

The suffix “-enne” is added to a number to indicate someone’s age, and it is derived from the Italian word “anno,” which means year.
So “ventiseienne” is literally translated as “twentysix-year-old”. It is generally used from the number 11:

  • undicenne = 11 years old
  • dodicenne = 12 years old
  • tredicenne = 13 years old

 

Another use of “-enne” in Italian is similar to the English suffix “-s”, which is added to a number to indicate a person’s age in a particular decade. For example, “a person in their forties” or “a person in their thirties”:

  • un ventenne = a guy in his twenties
  • una trentenne = a woman in her thirties
  • i cinquantenni = people in their fifties

Translation

Earning money while sleeping? Apparently it’s possible: Asian Andy, a twenty-six-year-old from Los Angeles, certainly managed to do so, earning a remarkable $16,000 in just one night. How? By sleeping live on his Twitch channel, Amazon’s live streaming platform.

Asian Andy is a famous “sleep streamer,” in other words, a streamer who broadcasts himself while sleeping. And where do the money come from? Donations from viewers, who can pay to disturb him with sound effects, noises, songs, and voice messages.

A decidedly bizarre format, which, however, is gaining increasing popularity among Twitch users. A slightly sleepier version of the hugely popular Mukbang, in which people eat voraciously on camera.

What do you think about it?