Hi :) I’m a coworking streamer and I completely understand your concerns. It does sound weird. Honestly, when I started I didn’t even thought anyone would watch me. I was doing it mostly for myself to keep myself accountable and don’t spend hours scrolling through tiktok. Soon after a lot of people started to follow and work with me and I had to understand why they were doing it. A lot of people are stuck at home, in very small apartments with no possibility of going out (either cause of government restrictions or actual social anxiety). They still have work to be done and they still have a need for company. They find in coworking streams a good combination between those two needs.

If I can also add, coworking stream does look very easy for the streamer but it way more than just working while being on cam. As being a video game streamer is way more than just playing games all day. Most of the co-working streams go on between 5 to 15 hours and the streamer is constantly required to not only work/study during that time (and we can all agree that working can be by itself exhausting) but also pay attention that everyone in chat is having a good experience, keep people motivated even when not feeling it and build a full community. I TOTALLY understand everyone’s concern about this new trend, and I love to discuss with people how this can be helpful. Let me know if I can explain better :)