A TIKTOKER earns £30k a month doing boring tasks in front of the camera while people watching – he makes so much money that he quits his job.
Jake Boehm was a self-employed web developer until four months ago when he decided to turn a social media idea into a revenue stream.
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The 28-year-old AustralianAlso referred to as a “Sleepfluencer”, earns £30k a month by giving users complete control over his bedroom while he sleeps.
“There’s a live interactive sleep stream, which means you, the viewer, can control everything, you can turn on the lights, you can turn on the sound, keep me up all night, don’t let me sleep live,” he told me. 9 News Australia.
Jake is livestreaming from his bedroom from 11pm and 6am and claims up to 8,000 people can watch.
Any “gift” they pay for results in a siren going off or some other function in his room.
“On the back wall hangs a list of various gifts, TikTok has a few hundred different little animated gifts that you can forward,” said the savvy entrepreneur.
“And each gift costs different monetary values, so it’s basically like a menu that people can go to, ‘Ah if I send this gift, anything that’s next to it will play,’ or if they send this gift, the lights go on. video, bubble machines, a bouncy castle, a little bit of everything.”
Viewers have more than 20 gifts to choose from, according to Jake, and pay for them every 10 to 20 seconds.
“It’s kind of like they don’t wake me up, it’s more — they don’t let me sleep,” he said.
He said the gifts range in price from 30p to £340.
“We normally have two to three people a week that will do the big $600. I had one the other day, someone came in and dropped three in a row, the same person,” he said.
“I don’t know who they are, but they came in and threw it down.”
TikTok takes a 50 percent commission on every gift, but that doesn’t stop Jake from raking in the money.
In a clip that has been viewed more than 6.9 million times and had more than 438,000 likes, the Aussie is abruptly awakened at 12:30 a.m. to bubbles, an inflatable doll and the Barney The Dinosaur theme song blasting loudly.
Another video shows him waking up at 2am to speakers screeching dubstep tunes.
“It started as a single gift and one sound,” Jake told NeedToKnow.online.
“We now have lights, bubble machines, inflatables, laser lights and over 20 sound effects.
“Every night is the same. Every 10-15 seconds a sound or light is activated. It’s constant all night.”
Jake plans to continue doing live streams every night and adding new features.
“As long as people are watching and giving gifts, I’m live,” he said.
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