The Twitch streamer and YouTuber Tommyinnit is currently dominating the streaming platform Twitch with Minecraft. A few years ago, however, the 16-year-old was still a huge fanboy of shooter legend shroud and pursued the stream sniper in PUBG, as he now recounts.
This is Tommyinnit: Currently, hardly any streamer is convincing on Twitch as much as 16-year-old Thomas “Tommyinnit” Simons:
- Currently, his channel is growing on Twitch faster than any other
- Tommyinnit had peaked at 650,000 viewers in the last 7 days – as much as no other channel (via sullygnome)
- The special thing is that he only streams “briefly”: His Minecraft streams last only between one or two hours. Many of the big streamers are on air for 10 to 12 hours straight. However, Tommyinnit has an extremely high number of viewers in the short time he streams and is therefore currently one of the top 5 most-watched streamers in the world.
The British streamer has committed some youthful sins that he is now confessing. In 2018, he was a fanboy of streamer shroud. In a new video on YouTube, Tommyinnit explains his story with shroud.
Tommyinnit was a fanboy of shroud – played the protector
This is what Tommyinnit said: In a video from January 19, Tommyinnit tells the story of him and shroud. Because back then, Tommyinnit did everything to get into the same PUBG matches as shroud. This behavior is called “Stream Sniping” – it is actually frowned upon. Because streamers want to play “authentically” and not be bothered by fans vying for their attention during their streams.
His career as a stream sniper began on August 9, 2018. That was when sommyinnit was killed by shroud for the first time. But more importantly: shroud mentioned the name of the boy.
Tommyinnit now tells in the video that it was a fantastic feeling and that they became “best friends” because shroud apparently knew him.
After that, the story continued, and Tommyinnit regularly tried to get into shroud’s PUBG rounds and talk to him.
- So they met on a map, and Tommyinnit ran to an opponent who was just attacking shroud – he wanted to save his idol from elimination
- In a later round, the two streamers met again. There, they even talked longer, and Tommyinnit introduced shroud to his buddy, who was staying over at his place
In general, Tommyinnit reports that there were many great moments when he met shroud. He regularly made it his mission to get into games where shroud was playing.
However, Tommyinnit also talks about the difficulties of stream sniping. He says: “I had to stay awake until 11:00 PM, which is really quite late for a 14-year-old!”
This is how the viewers reacted: Many of Tommyinnit’s viewers, who are still teenagers themselves, identify with his statements. The feeling of being the best friend of the streamer just because he reads the name seems to be known. In the comments, there are many ironic statements, but understanding for Tommyinnit’s actions is given.
Wolfy C1-37 writes in the comments: “Oh shit, they are really best friends, shroud knows who he [Tommyinnit] is!”
Particularly well received is apparently that Tommyinnit can laugh about his behavior today and often alludes to how incredibly embarrassing it all was, how terrible he sounds in the videos and how crazy excited he was to just be near shroud.
His honest and authentic way of dealing with his behavior, which is generally frowned upon, makes the streamer likable.
This is interesting: Stream sniping is generally frowned upon, and Twitch does not like it either. Nevertheless, Tommyinnit’s statements come across so sympathetically that there is hardly any criticism. The video has already received 296,000 thumbs up and only 1,900 thumbs down (as of January 25 at 12:30 PM).
The viewers understand the action, as Tommyinnit was not toxic to shroud but even wanted to help him. He used PUBG to be close to his streamer idol.
This is the current status of shroud and Tommyinnit: A few days ago, the two streamers met again. This time in Minecraft, the game through which Tommyinnit became truly successful.
The two met again on the OfflineTV server. However, shroud did not seem very pleased with the reunion. Tommyinnit then mentions that shroud left the server shortly after. Nevertheless, even three years after their first meeting, Tommyinnit does not want to stop stream sniping. His next attempt will be on the OfflineTV Rust server. shroud is also regularly seen there.
Amid all the stream sniping, Tommyinnit emphasizes that he only wants to help shroud and does not want to eliminate him at all. Other streamers have already acted quite differently. For example, xQc was temporarily banned for eliminating a colleague through stream sniping:
Big streamers demand Twitch ban for xQc for cheating live in the tournament
