diff --git a/newsfragments/4249.bugfix.rst b/newsfragments/4249.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..555feb1e6a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/4249.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ensure `find_distributions` always returns a `Generator` as per its docstring by making `find_nothing` yield nothing rather than returning an empty `tuple` -- by :user:`Avasam`
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 10c6a9cd060..a88a687becb 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import time
 import re
 import types
-from typing import Protocol
+from typing import Generator, Protocol
 import zipfile
 import zipimport
 import warnings
@@ -2089,8 +2089,11 @@ def find_eggs_in_zip(importer, path_item, only=False):
 register_finder(zipimport.zipimporter, find_eggs_in_zip)
 
 
-def find_nothing(importer, path_item, only=False):
-    return ()
+def find_nothing(
+    importer, path_item, only=False
+) -> Generator["Distribution", None, None]:
+    return
+    yield
 
 
 register_finder(object, find_nothing)