On 1 April 2021, Simons created a new YouTube channel under his own name, uploading the first video onto it two months later. As of September 2021, the video has amassed over 31 million views. In August 2020, Simons uploaded a video of himself and a group of fellow Minecraft YouTubers visiting Brighton.
On 4 July 2020, Simons joined the Dream SMP, a roleplay-focused Minecraft server run by eponymous YouTuber Dream. While consistently uploading SkyBlock-related content, his TommyInnit channel rapidly increased its subscriber count from 4,800 to 66,000. On 6 August 2019, Simons uploaded his first video relating to the Hypixel minigame ( Minecraft game) SkyBlock. Simons typically uploads videos consisting of him playing Minecraft. He uploaded his first video on his TommyInnit channel on 9 September 2018. Simons created his first YouTube channel, Channelnutpig, on 15 February 2013 and his TommyInnit channel on 24 December 2015. "But then after about a week of trying to get into his games and always failing and never meeting him and always just dying off the bat, after Shroud was unbanned on the 9th of August 2018, I got my moment.Simons was born in Nottingham, England, on 9 April 2004. So, he tried to get into Shroud's game for a week, using an old Alienware laptop while streaming Shroud on his phone. "I had to stay up till like 11 o'clock which, for a 14-year-old, I think that was very late," he said.
TommyInnit goes on to explain that, two years back, he saw some people stream sniping and thought he wanted to do it too. "Holy crap, I spoke to Shroud!" he yells after showing footage of one of his stream sniping sessions. so brilliant."ĭuring this stream, he shows himself to be quite a Shroud fanboy, showing off a Shroud keychain he made himself and explaining how excited he was when he, playing on his old and not very effective Alienware laptop, was finally able to get into one of Shroud's games on PUBG. He later added, "And the other thing I absolutely love is Shroud. However, s***-tons of you do know I'm really, really into PUBG," TommyInnit said in the video. "I think no one from my Twitch and YouTube community knows I used to be a stream sniper. TommyInnit claims to have been one of those. In Shroud's case, though, his infamous gang of stream snipers were loyal to him, helping him out by giving him items like weapons or armor or trying to save his life when the opportunity arose - or even singing to him. This is the game TommyInnit says he was stream sniping in. As with many other games, stream sniping is banned in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - yet PUBG was especially bad in attracting stream snipers during its period of peak popularity in 2017. Up-and-coming British streaming star TommyInnit, who has 3.1 million followers on Twitch and whose popularity increased a lot in 2020 as a result of his Minecraft streams, recently made a claim that may surprise his fans. He used to be a stream sniper for Shroud.Īt the beginning of his most recent video, TommyInnit explains that "a stream sniper is basically someone who watches someone stream and tries to join their game to f*** with them." In fact, people may have several different goals when stream sniping - to get an unfair advantage, for example, or to troll and harass a famous gamer.