has produced no shortage of stars boasting a wide variety of talents over the fifteen seasons so far, and even a pandemic wasn't enough to stop the latest season . Now, the show is gearing up for Season 16 with some changes in place for how the contestants win their slots on the NBC hit, and  has shared her thoughts on the audition process changing to virtual performances.

Darci Lynne Farmer, who won Season 12 of  with the help of her puppet pals, has dropped by  since taking the top prize in 2017. Since she went through  for , she can see some potential advantages and disadvantages to taking the auditions virtual with 90-second videos. Speaking with CinemaBlend's Nick Venable, the16-year-old ventriloquist singer shared:

 usually starts seasons by putting the contestants in front of crowds that are wild to see the best, brightest, and occasionally most bizarre acts that the show has to offer. According to Darci Lynne Farmer, the moment of the audition on stage , but auditioning from home with a short video will probably result in a lot less nerves for some of those auditioning! And it's a good thing she didn't pass out during Season 12, or she might never have become the champion she was by the end.

Darci Lynne Farmer has an act that could have worked perfectly well via video, as long as she had the help of Petunia and Co., but other acts are hard to imagine pulling off their performances without the space and scale of the  stage. In fact, an aerialist earned a spot in the final five of Season 15  that couldn't exactly have happened via Zoom without a large space. Farmer responded to the question of whether the virtual auditions would lead to smaller acts giving  a shot:

The former  champion couldn't rule out some crazy acts giving the show a shot via Zoom, and  has proved over the years that some surprising things can be done as long as people are willing to try. And no, I'm not talking ! A lot of acts also start smaller and get bigger the farther they get in competition, so the talent could get crazier as the season gets into gear.

As for whether or not she thinks she would have done anything differently if she had auditioned virtually for Season 12, Darci Lynne Farmer said:

I don't know if I necessarily would have changed it. It just would have been...I don't know. Honestly, I feel like it would have been a little harder, because for me, from personal experience, I feed off of energy in the audience and just reacting to them. And so I feel like it'd be definitely different, but a challenge to attack. I've had to do some virtual shows this past year, and they've definitely been different. But it's something new, so I think that's the cool [part] of it, how they're not really like giving up. They're just using other options, and I think that's pretty cool. So I don't know if I would change mine, but there definitely would've been a difference.

Darci Lynne Farmer may not have experienced the  ride virtually, but she apparently has done some virtual shows over the year when a whole lot changed in the entertainment industry. Interestingly, she actually participated in the latest season of  when she brought her puppet Edna to the show to have a chat with new judge Sofia Vergara and her puppet, named Mr. Grumpy. The result was , but fans were surely happy to see Farmer again.