Career
TheBurntPeanut created his Twitch account in late 2019. [3] Before switching his persona to a peanut, he was a human VTuber and had a more serious tone to his streams, which were mainly of the game Escape from Tarkov . He originally started out making tutorials and guides for the game, but was unable to find much success due to the game's already veteran fanbase. Failing to gain popularity, he stopped streaming for about a year until one of his friends, Mr. Chino, encouraged him to start again. Peanut realized that he could possibly gain more popularity if he changed his VTuber to a virtual peanut. [2] In addition to his new look, he also began to change up his content style in 2024, switching to more humorous content utilizing the game's VoIP system. In December of that year, Tarkov released its 0.16 update, which came with a wipe to all player gear; Peanut had his first streaming breakthrough following this update. [4] As he gained popularity, Peanut began to scrub his personal identity entirely online, paying professionals to wipe anything private about him and setting up fail-safes in his software to make sure any accidents did not happen. [2]
By 2025, Peanut had expanded his streams to playing games such as Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders . In November, while playing the latter, Peanut led a "gang war", called The Battle for Speranza, between two opposing factions of streamers in the game. Fighting against streamer HutchMF's coalition and involving streamers such as TimTheTatman, Nadeshot, Nickmercs, Myth, summit1g, Ninja, Shroud, and xQc, [1] Peanut's faction emerged victorious due to the amount of fans they had on their side fighting with them. [5] [6] [7] After winning the Best VTuber category at the 2025 Streamer Awards, Peanut went under fire from the VTuber community as he was not actually a VTuber; he even described himself as a "PTuber", saying that anime avatars are not his "flow". [8] [9] The VTuber Ironmouse, whose three-year winning streak in the category was broken by Peanut, said that she does not understand the hate behind him. [3]
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