Mellstroy | |
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| Born | Andrey Burym 15 December 1998 |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Instagram information | |
| Page | |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Followers | 3 million |
| Kick information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2023–present |
| Followers | 760 thousand |
| TikTok information | |
| Page | |
| Years active | 2020–present |
| Followers | 3.8 million |
| Last updated: 25 October 2025 | |
| Website | mellstroy |
Andrey Burym [a] (born December 15, 1998), commonly known by his online alias Mellstroy, is a Belarusian trash streamer and blogger. He primarily streams on Kick. In March 2024, he set a new record in the Post-Soviet space for the highest number of concurrent viewers on a live stream, reaching over 720,000 viewers.
He first gained widespread recognition in 2020 during his live broadcasts from the Moscow-City complex. He experienced a second wave of popularity in 2024 by organizing large-scale contests on social media, in which he offered rewards for videos about him, subscriptions, and video greetings from media celebrities and presidents. Since 2024, he has been actively engaged in charitable activities. In October 2025, he launched his own project.
Andrey Burym was born on December 15, 1998, in Gomel, Belarus, into a working-class family. His father worked at a factory, and his mother was a kiosk saleswoman. [1] [2] He has an older brother named Sergey. [3] During his childhood, the family faced financial difficulties, which forced him to wear hand-me-down clothes from his brother. [4] He is of Belarusian descent. [5]
In August 2024, he gave a three-hour interview to the project Vpiska , in which he stated that he had been interested in making money online since childhood. According to him, at around the age of 12, he created Minecraft game servers and tried his hand at trading. The blogger noted that, at first, his hobby was not supported by his family — his father was skeptical about these activities. However, after Andrey earned his first 100 US dollars online, his relatives’ attitude toward his work changed. [1]
After some time, he stopped his activities related to Minecraft and began playing Dota 2, where he engaged in trading in-game items. Later, he temporarily suspended his online presence. [4] After completing nine [2] or ten grades of school, Andrey entered a college to study electromechanics. [3] During his time there, he occasionally experienced bullying. According to his recollections, he never provoked conflicts himself. [6]
Shortly after enrolling in a vocational school, he dropped out and began creating gaming content on YouTube. [2] [5] Mellstroy started his online activity by publishing Let's Play videos on Minecraft, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. These videos did not bring him widespread recognition, and he later changed the format of his content, focusing on live streaming and interactive communication with viewers. [5]
To attract an audience and increase his number of subscribers, Mellstroy often incorporated provocative elements into his live broadcasts. During his streams, he and the participants performed actions that potentially posed a risk to their health. [2] He hosted online sessions on Skype and Chatroulette, during which he interacted with female participants and encouraged them to perform various actions on camera while broadcasting the footage on YouTube. In exchange, he promised them promotion on social media and publicity for their accounts. [5]
After some time, he focused on creating prank content in which he would meet girls while pretending to be someone else. The format proved successful, and the blogger began receiving advertising offers, including from online casinos, prize giveaways, and other promotions. In 2020, he moved to Moscow, where he began conducting live streams. [7]
In 2020, he rented an apartment in the Moscow-City complex, which allowed him to expand the scale and improve the quality of his so-called “trash streams.” Following the rise in popularity of Mellstroy’s trash streams, he began receiving collaboration offers from online casinos. Mellstroy actively promoted their advertisements, which drew criticism from other bloggers. During his broadcasts, he repeatedly admitted that the main sources of his multimillion-dollar income were advertising and affiliate programs of online casinos. [8]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, IRL streamers gained widespread popularity on the platform Twitch. Instead of playing video games, they broadcast their daily lives and interacted with audiences, creating a sense of presence during lockdowns. [9] Mellstroy became known for his trash streams, which brought him his greatest popularity. He hosted multi-hour broadcasts from his apartment in the Moscow-City complex, inviting internet personalities such as Edward Bill, Ruki-Bazuki, Polnoe TV, and VJLink, as well as numerous guests, organizing challenges with cash rewards. [7] By mid-2020, Mellstroy had attracted an audience of 500,000 viewers. The atmosphere at Mellstroy’s parties was often compared to that of The Great Gatsby. [5]
In October 2020, while in Moscow, Mellstroy struck a woman named Alyona Yefremova twice by hitting her head against a table during one of his trash streams. [10] [11] The incident drew attention from several popular bloggers with multimillion audiences, who criticized Mellstroy for his actions. Among them were Nikolay Sobolev, Ruslan Usachev , and Dmitry Larin . Mellstroy himself stated: [5]
Yes, I am guilty. I must face an appropriate punishment strictly within the framework of the law. [b]
Immediately after the incident, Mellstroy’s YouTube channel was blocked. [12] He also stated that online casinos had refused to cooperate with him due to the criminal case opened against him; however, he continued to host gaming streams by creating temporary channels, which were soon taken down. [2]
In July 2021, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced blogger Andrey Burym (Mellstroy) to six months of correctional labor. The court also ordered him to pay 22,444 rubles to cover the victim’s medical expenses and 50,000 rubles as compensation for moral damages. [13] [11] [14] [15]
In September 2022, he transferred 17,000 US dollars to Yury Khovansky to help him purchase an apartment in Serbia. Khovansky thanked Mellstroy for his assistance and stated that he now had enough money to buy the apartment, [16] adding that he had “completely changed his opinion of Mellstroy.” Earlier, in 2021, Khovansky had proposed banning trash streams in Russia. [7]
During this period, Mellstroy frequently mentioned having multimillion debts, which he attempted to repay through gambling winnings. He rarely hosted house-party streams and announced his return in November 2022. [7]
In December 2022, Mellstroy held a comeback stream. He rented a house with a service staff for 4 million rubles and raffled off a Maybach car, which was won by a viewer who had donated about 2 million rubles (while the car itself was valued at 11 million). The stream also featured Alyona Yefremova, with whom he had apparently reconciled. She appeared in a revealing outfit and took part in a roulette of dares. The broadcast, conducted in his characteristic manner, was titled “The Return of Friends.” [7]
In January 2023, he left Russia [8] for the United Arab Emirates [7] and spent some time living in Dubai. Over the following months, the blogger stayed in Bali, Mauritius, and the Seychelles before returning to Dubai. [17] That same month, he moved to the platform Kick. [7] The streamer was permanently banned from Twitch and Trovo for promoting online casinos, following an appeal by Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Safe Internet League. Other streamers who were banned included Egor Kreed, Maddyson , Buster , PLOHOYPAREN, and Kudes. [18] [19] Mellstroy also stated that he had “pulled himself together,” stopped drinking alcohol, and repaid debts totaling 130 million rubles within a month and a half. [7]
In the summer of 2023, he once again drew public attention. Mellstroy sent large monetary donations to popular Russian Internet streamers, offering them to complete various challenges, including shaving their heads live on stream. The amounts ranged from several hundred thousand to several million Russian rubles. Over the course of several weeks, Mellstroy “had dozens of the biggest Runet streamers shave their heads.” [9] [17] He donated 500,000 rubles to Restorator , [17] 2 million to Kussia, 4 million to Strogo, and 5 million to JesusAVGN. He also attempted to persuade streamer Papich to return to playing Dota 2 by offering him 1 million rubles; Papich had not played the game since 2019. In total, Mellstroy donated nearly 10 million rubles over the span of five days. [20]
In February 2024, due to a criminal case in the United Arab Emirates, he left for Turkey. [17] [21] In addition, Mellstroy stopped hosting trash streams. [2]
In early 2024, he once again attracted attention on social media. During one of his streams, he invited viewers to earn money by creating content about him and posting it on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts: videos reaching one million views were rewarded with 200 US dollars, while those with 100,000 views received 20. Following this, users began to massively publish memes featuring him, which once again made Mellstroy a viral figure in the media space. [8] [22] As of March 2024, the blogger had paid out more than one million US dollars for videos featuring him. [22]
In late February 2024, Mellstroy announced the launch of a contest in which he promised large cash rewards — up to several tens of millions of rubles — for video greetings or subscriptions to his accounts from internationally known bloggers and athletes. According to the announced terms of the contest, Mellstroy offered monetary rewards for greetings and subscriptions from global celebrities. A video greeting from football players Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappé, or Erling Haaland was valued at around 30 million Russian rubles. A similar amount was offered for a subscription from bloggers Logan Paul, IShowSpeed, KSI, or Khaby Lame, [23] as well as for running across the field during the UEFA Champions League final with the Mellstroy logo painted on one’s body. [8] A photo featuring his nickname at the summit of Mount Everest was rewarded with 45 million rubles, while writing his nickname on the Moon was promised a payment of 1 billion rubles. [8]
The highest rewards — 37.5 million rubles for a video greeting and 150 million rubles for a subscription — were set for the bloger MrBeast. The total prize pool of the contest amounted to 322 million rubles. The monetary reward was granted to the participant who first managed to persuade a celebrity to send a greeting or subscribe and provided proof of their involvement. [8] [23] During the contest, Mellstroy’s Instagram account was followed by YouTuber MrBeast, rappers Drake and Tyga, while football player Kylian Mbappé, Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda, bloger Logan Paul, YouTuber MrBeast, and MMA fighter Conor McGregor sent video greetings to Mellstroy. [6] [15] [24]
In March 2024, Mellstroy visited Russia, despite previously being wanted in both Russia and Belarus in connection with a case concerning evasion of military service in the Belarusian army. Later, he purchased sports equipment and clothing for 500 orphanages in Belarus, after which his name was removed from the wanted lists. During this period, the bloger stayed in Moscow, residing in a presidential suite costing about one million rubles per night. [25]
On March 20, 2024, Mellstroy hosted a joint stream with rapper Morgenshtern on the platform Kick. The stream was watched by 720,000 concurrent viewers, breaking the previous record held by streamer Nekoglai and becoming the most-viewed live broadcast in Russia. [26] The owners of various online casinos paid Mellstroy 300 million Russian rubles for this stream. Morgenshtern received 150,000 US dollars from Mellstroy for attracting a large audience. [17] Later, in an interview with the project Vpiska , Mellstroy stated that after the stream with Morgenshtern, he had lost his purpose in life because he had already achieved it — he had broken the viewership record — and since then he had “stopped enjoying any numbers.” [1]
In August 2024, he was living in Cyprus. [17] That same month, he gave an interview to the project Vpiska, [1] which gained 14 million views within five days. [10]
In July 2020, Mellstroy stated that he earned between 200 and 800 million Russian rubles per month. [17] His net worth is estimated at between 5 and 10 million US dollars, accumulated through streaming activities, advertising, and other media projects. [3] According to some journalistic estimates, Mellstroy could earn around 80 million rubles in two weeks from all his sources of income. [17]
After becoming wealthy, Mellstroy bought his mother an SUV and an apartment in Gomel worth about 10 million rubles. According to Mellstroy, he previously had disagreements with his older brother over money. He stated that he once gave his brother 100,000 US dollars as a New Year’s gift, as well as an affiliate program from an online casino, which his brother later exchanged with another bloger for an apartment in Moscow and a BMW M5 car. [1]
In November 2022, Mellstroy’s father passed away. [7]
In 2023, he gave his uncle 30,000 US dollars as a birthday gift. Mellstroy noted that his relative had “tasted life” and that he drove him around the island of Mauritius “surrounded by girls.” [1]
In March 2025, Mellstroy’s mother and brother were accused by police of laundering half a billion Russian rubles through the purchase of cars and real estate using cryptocurrency. [27] The Mellstroy family owns a number of luxury vehicles, including a Lamborghini STO (2024), BMW M5 (2024), Bentley Mulsanne (2017), Rolls-Royce Spectre, Rolls-Royce Phantom Long, and Ferrari. [6] [27]
In May 2025, he announced the launch of an online casino in partnership with the betting company 1Win. Mellstroy stated that the project would maintain a flexible policy toward players and that he planned to engage in charitable activities on behalf of the project in the future. [28]
In early October 2025, the website Mellstroy.game, associated with 1Win, appeared online. Mellstroy became the main ambassador of the brand, stating that he had no connection to the project’s owners. His involvement was limited to promoting the online casino and interacting with the audience. [29] Mellstroy also promised promo codes worth 1 million US dollars and cars with a total value of 3 million US dollars. [30]
On October 17, 2025, the blogger launched a large-scale challenge featuring a giveaway of 30 apartments and a prize fund of 1.5 million US dollars. Every day from October 17 to November 17, Mellstroy’s team selects one winner. He described the project as the most expensive and risky of his career, relying entirely on TikTok promotion without any advertising. [30]
In March 2024, the streamer purchased sports equipment and clothing for 500 orphanages in Belarus. [25] [31]
In March 2025, he donated 5 million rubles for the medical treatment of Pasha Technique, who had fallen into a coma due to a drug overdose in Thailand. [32] [31]
In May 2025, he transferred 50,000 US dollars to MMA fighter Goga Shamatava for the purchase of an apartment, as the athlete had previously become a victim of fraud — he had been promised an apartment that was never provided. [33] [31]
In September 2025, he gave 6 million Russian rubles to a schoolgirl from Krasnoyarsk as a gift for a viral video on TikTok. The video showed the girl’s father filming her every year on the first day of school for eleven years; it received over 36 million views. In the comments under the post, Mellstroy promised to buy the family an apartment if his comment received the highest number of likes. After the comment gained more than 800,000 likes, the blogger fulfilled his promise and transferred the money to the family for the purchase of housing. [34]
In October 2020, during one of his streams, Mellstroy grabbed a woman by the head and struck her twice against a table. [35] A criminal case was opened against the streamer under the article “Battery.” In July 2021, the court sentenced Mellstroy to six months of correctional labor and imposed a fine of 72,000 rubles. [36] Later, Mellstroy expressed remorse for his actions. In an interview with the YouTube channel Vpiska , he admitted that he had been wrong and made a mistake, adding that some time later he reconciled with the victim. She later appeared on one of his streams, during which Mellstroy gave her 80,000 (865,65€) Russian rubles. [6]