Fanum (streamer)

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Fanum
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Fanum in 2019
Personal information
Born
Roberto Escanio

(1997-08-22) August 22, 1997 (age 27)
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Occupations
Website fanumsupply.com
Twitch information
Channel
Genres
  • Gaming
  • Just Chatting
Followers1.9 million
Associated acts
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genre Comedy
Subscribers2.04 million [1]
Total views995 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: March 1, 2024

Roberto Escanio (born August 22, 1997), better known online as Fanum, is a Dominican-American streamer and content creator. Fanum emerged online around 2016. He is known for being the originator of the vernacular " Fanum tax ". [2] [3] He won "Breakout Streamer of the Year" at the 13th Streamy Awards and the "Best Role Play Streamer" of the year award at the 2023 Streamer Awards. [4]

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Early life

Fanum was born on August 22, 1997 in The Bronx, New York City to parents of Dominican descent. He has a younger brother who has appeared in his videos. [3] He speaks English and Spanish. [5] After graduating from high school in New York City, Fanum enrolled in college but left mid semester to focus on earning money for his YouTube equipment. [6]

Career

Fanum began streaming on Twitch in November 2016 and made his YouTube channel, JustFanum, in May 2017. He posted his first video in February 2019. He streamed NBA 2K and later expanded to IRL vlogs, which often drew upon his experiences in New York. [7] [8]

On August 27, 2023 Fanum won "Breakout Streamer of the Year" at the 13th Streamy Awards. [9] [10]

Fanum has been featured on the music video for Offset's September 2023 single "Fan" alongside Kai Cenat. [11] [12]

In June 2024, Fanum appeared as a contestant in the Sidemen reality competition series Inside . The series features 10 guests who compete in challenges to secure a prize fund totalled at £1 million, with everything they buy or do costing money from the prize fund. He was in the show for seven days and finished in 4th place. [13] [14]

AMP Group

Fanum is an original and prominent member of the American content collective known as Any Means Possible or AMP. He contributes to the group's collaborative challenge videos. Fanum invited popular streamer Kai Cenat to the AMP group. In August 2023, Kai Cenat was arrested following a meet-and-greet he hosted with Fanum in Union Square Park that resulted in at least 2,000 people crowding the park. The event resulted in property destruction and several injuries. While no charges were placed against Fanum, Cenat was charged with inciting a riot. [7] [15]

Fanum Tax

Fanum tax ( /fæn.əm.tæks/ ⓘ ) is an Internet slang term describing the theft of food between friends. [16] . The first usage of Fanum tax referred exclusively to Fanum, who jokingly "taxed" snacks by taking bites of food from fellow content creators during streams. [3] The term circulated among the YouTube collective AMP in late 2022 and was popularized especially during Fanum's Twitch streams with popular American YouTuber Kai Cenat, where Fanum would take Cenat’s cookies. [17] In an interview with Wired , Fanum defined the term as:

Let's say your friend having a meal, he's having a good meal, and you just want a piece of that meal. Like, you know what I'm saying? You need a share. That's your friend and the friend's share, right? Get you a little piece of the meal. It's the Fanum tax. You just go ahead and just like, lemme get a little bit of 5%, 10% of the meal, maybe 20%. [18]

On October 2, 2023, a TikTok account under the username @ovp.9 posted a short video of a character from the online video game Fortnite "singing" to a musical parody of the 2021 song "ecstacy" by Suicidal-Idol. [19] The parody, titled either "Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler" or "You're so skibidi, you’re so fanum tax", [20] features multiple internet culture terms including gyat , Skibidi Toilet , rizz and Sigma male . The song was used in many videos on TikTok, inspiring the mass creation of videos featuring Minecraft -inspired games on the platform. [7] The sound was used in over 195,000 videos and amassed over 321 million views on TikTok. [19]

According to Business Insider , many members of Generation Z claim "they were not aware of the meme at all." [21] The New York Times referred to the term as "the language of Gen Alpha." [22]

Filmography

Web roles
YearTitleRoleNetworkNotesRef.
2024 Inside Contestant YouTube Series 1; 4th place [23]

Awards

YearCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
2023 13th Streamy Awards Breakout StreamerWon [24]
The Streamer Awards Best Roleplay StreamerWon [25]
Feb 2024Won [26]
Dec 2024Pending [27]

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