afk farming
Hello, I have been a Twitch user for the past 5ish years. I am genuinely curious how some streamers are allowed to go AFK just about every single day for hours on end and just farm their chat. I didn't come to specifically report any single person but Amouranth is the most popular person I know getting away with this. She starts streaming then eventually makes up an excuse to get off camera and doesn't return for literal hours. Doing this she still brings in easily over 6,000 viewers each time. I am genuinely curious how people like her are allowed to do this and milk Twitch for all the streamer benefits without even being present.
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itgameritgamer commented
It's probably because even though they're afk, they can't use the computer while they farm as they need the game to keep running. Some games like The Tower or Minecraft (in single-player) will automatically pause if a user switches tabs. Since they have to leave it alone and some people like watching Timelapse's, they stream the time they are afk so people can have something calm to look at.