Kayla Sims

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Kayla Sims
Personal information
Born
Kayla Marie Sims

(1999-08-14) August 14, 1999 (age 25)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education University of Central Florida
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • Twitch streamer
Spouse
Dan Grenander
​
(m. 2021)​
Website lilsimsieshop.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genre Gaming
Subscribers2 million [1]
Total views864 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2018
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2020
Last updated: May 15, 2024
lilsimsie
Twitch information
Channel
Presented byKayla Sims
Years active2015–present
GenreGaming
GameThe Sims 4
Followers848.9 thousand
(May 2024)
Website twitch.tv/lilsimsie

Kayla Marie Sims (born August 14, 1999), also known by her YouTube handle lilsimsie, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. Sims is best known for playing The Sims 4 , her collaborations with EA on projects such as The Sims 4: Snowy Escape and The Sims 4: Growing Together , and her charity work for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Career

YouTube

Sims started making YouTube videos about The Sims in 2015. [2] Sims' most popular YouTube video, "Building in The Sims but Each Room is a Different Budget" has over 4 million views. [3] As of May 2024, Sims has two million subscribers. [4]

Sims is the creator of the Wolf Pack Challenge, which uses The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs expansion pack, [5] and the Not So Berry Challenge, created with her friend Zoë (alwaysimming). [6] In 2019, for her "Simsie Save", in which Sims renovates the game's worlds and characters, Sims made all toilets in her save gender-neutral. [7] [8] One of Sims' longest running YouTube series was the "100 Baby Challenge" series, in which she completed the 100 Baby Challenge in The Sims 4 over the course of five years. [9]

In a July 2020 patch to The Sims 4, all cowplants in the game were given the default name "Little Simzee" as a nod to Sims' campaign for the ability to name cowplants in game. [10] Part of this campaign included getting the #justiceforcowplants trending on the Sims gallery via a "shell" building challenge. [11] In August 2020, Sims joined other Sims YouTubers in speaking out against the lack of diversity in skin tones in The Sims 4. [12]

Sims was a judge on YouTube's gaming creator competition show, uTure. [13] [14] The show ended August 13, 2022. [15]

Twitch

Sims has a Twitch channel with 823,000 followers, and usually streamed six days per week. [16] [17] In 2018, Sims was nominated for Streamer of the Year at Summer in the City for her streaming on Twitch. [18] In January 2021, an illustration of her cat was made the PogChamp emote on Twitch for a day. [19]

Sims, as part of the team Sandy's Candies with streamers brandiganBTW, Fuzzireno, and TheHaboo, won the first Stardew Valley Cup in September 2021. [20]

In May 2022, Sims revisited the subject of her most popular video, leaving her Sims 4 game unpaused all night, but this time on her Twitch stream instead of in a YouTube video. [21]

Charity streams

In May 2021, Sims participated for a second time, this time streaming every day for the entire month of May, and raised $369,000 for St. Jude Children's Hospital, bringing her total amount raised for that charity to over $500,000. [22] In June 2021, Sims raised $15,000 for the Transgender Law Center during a charity stream. [16] As a gamer herself, Sims is an avid supporter of AbleGamers, a charity dedicated to making games accessible to disabled children, and has raised money for them on multiple campaigns since 2020. In August 2021, Sims raised over $100,000 for AbleGamers to help Steven Spohn reach his birthday fundraising goal of $1,000,000. [23]

As of 2024, Sims has raised over $2 million for St. Jude Children’s Hospital through her annual month-long charity Twitch streams. [24] On January 22, 2024, Sims raised money for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund through her Twitch account. She raised $52,000 in one day. [25]

Other work

In October 2020, Sims announced her collaboration with The Sims 4: Snowy Escape expansion pack, creating three lots for the game: 6–4–1 Hanamigawa, 5–6–1 Shinrinyoku, and 2–5–1 Wakabamori. [26] [27] In January 2023, Sims announced her collaboration with The Sims 4: Growing Together expansion pack, creating three lots for the game: Celebration Center, Sequoia Cottage, and 13 Acacia Avenue. [28]

Sims also created content for TikTok. In January 2022, a TikTok she made explaining first-person mode in the Sims 4 and featuring a sim making a grilled cheese was removed for "nudity and sexual activity." The TikTok was subsequently restored and has over 500,000 views. [29]

Personal life

Sims lived in Chicago until her family moved to Florida when she was 4. [30] She began playing The Sims when she was 12 [3] and became particularly interested in the game after her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was 14. [31] Sims has attributed the game with helping her cope with her father's diagnosis, using it as an “escape”. [3] Sims graduated from the University of Central Florida in May 2020 with a bachelor's degree in history. [32] [33]

Sims married fellow streamer Dan Grenander on August 25, 2021. [34] Previously, Grenander had moved to the United States to live with her in July 2021 on a K-1 fiancé visa, after living in the United Kingdom. They applied for the visa in February 2020. [35] Grenander streams on Twitch under the name “duckdan” and uploads to his associated YouTube channel under the same name. Grenander often plays games such as Dead by Daylight , Fall Guys and Minecraft . [36] They often play games together, such as Mario Kart , Among Us and Fall Guys . They live in Oviedo, Florida. [37]

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