Aimsey

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Aimee in 2022
Personal information
Born
Aimee

(2001-12-11) 11 December 2001 (age 22)
Swansea, Wales
Occupations
PartnerGuqqie (2023–present)
Organization Misfits Gaming
Website aimsey.blog
Twitch information
Also known as
  • aimseytv
  • toadallyaimee
Channel
Location Brighton, England
Followers1 million [a]
Associated acts
Website shopaimsey.com
YouTube information
Channel
Genres
  • Gaming
  • Vlogging
Subscribers667 thousand [a] [1]
Total views159 million [a] [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers

Last updated: 3 November 2024

Aimee (born 11 December 2001), known professionally as aimsey, [b] is a Welsh [2] Twitch streamer, TikToker and YouTuber best known for their gaming commentary and various collaborations with other content creators. [3] Aimee has also been involved in the Dream SMP and MC Championship. [4] They are currently a member of Misfits Gaming. [5]

Contents

As of November 2024, Aimee's accounts have over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube, 1 million followers on Twitch and over 3 million followers on TikTok. [a]

Career

2019–2020: Beginnings

AImee's YouTube channel was created in 2017. They began streaming on Twitch in 2019 originally labelled under 'toadallyaimee'. The channel was rebranded to 'aimsey' in 2020 after they based it off of their real life nickname. [3] [6] [7]

They uploaded their first TikTok video in September 2020, when they were playing Among Us. [7]

2021–present: Continued growth and Twitch partnership

In 2021, Aimee became a Twitch partner. [7]

On 16 March 2022, they joined the Dream SMP and briefly participated until 13 November 2022. [4] On 25 April 2022, they won LGBTQ Streamer of the Year from the 2022 Gayming Awards. [8] [9]

Aimee has played in 6 MC Championship matches, and winning 2 of them, MC Championship 32 on the Red Rabbits team [10] and MCC Pride 24 on the Cyan Coyotes team. [10]

Aimee attended VidCon in 2024 as one of the featured creators. [11]

Other ventures

Philanthropy

In June 2022, Aimee participated in a Minecraft charity tournament held by MC Championship called MCC Pride with several other online creators. The event managed to raise over $145,000 for The Trevor Project. [12] [13]

Misfits Gaming

In February 2022, Aimee joined Misfits Gaming as part of its creator program, launching a podcast with a new funding. [14]

Personal life

Aimee was born on 11 December 2001 in Swansea, Wales. [15] [7] They were a child actor, playing roles in Torchwood: Children of Earth and Casualty. [3] [16] Aimsey goes by any pronouns and is a lesbian. [2] Aimsey has also confirmed that they have ADHD. [17]

On 1 January 2023, Aimsey announced they were dating streamer and artist Guqqie. [18]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2022 Gayming Awards LGBTQ Streamer of the YearWon [8]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Secondary or tertiary channels are not included in follower or viewer counts.
  2. Aimee has also used aimseytv and aimseylive. Some of Aimee's accounts capitalise the first letter.

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