Wolv21
Other Interests
Family
He has twin nieces.
Name Origins
The first part of his gamertag was taken from the X-Men character, ‘Wolverine,’ while the ‘21’ is his birthday.
Gaming Origins
Wolv21’s introduction to videos games was on his parent’s Atari 2600 when he was in kindergarten. However, the first games that he remembers playing were Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda on the NES. His parents still play video games.
He started playing music during childhood and continued playing throughout high school until he and his friends formed a band.
He first discovered MineCraft through watching SeaNanner’s videos. He continued watching many MineCraft videos from various content creators before he decided to buy it himself in 2010 while it was still in beta. When he started playing it, he found that it exceeded his expectations, in terms of the creative freedom and exploration that it allows players.
Prior to streaming fulltime, he completed his 5 ½ month diploma at the Chub Institute and then worked in IT for a few years. He was also part of a rock band on the side and recorded his music himself.
Professional Gaming
After watching so many YouTube videos, he thought that it looked like a lot of fun and so he started uploading YouTube in October 2010 and streaming on Twitch in December 2010. He slowly grew his YouTube and Twitch channels, until he received Twitch partnership on May 18, 2013, which is also when he transitioned to broadcasting fulltime.
He was banned from Twitch in June 2020, and so has been focusing on uploading content to his YouTube channel instead.
Streaming Hours
He streams daily for between 5.5 – 15 hours per session.
Quotes
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[The best advice that I can give you for attracting viewers] is basically to be yourself. Not, necessarily the quality of the video, although it does help, but your personality. Your personality’s going t show off more, much more than anybody else… Talk to people, make some friends, if somebody bites, then they’re going to help you out, then they’ll give you a little bit of push… At the start it might be a little bit rough.
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{In terms of having the courage to create content,] it’s just the determination to do it, of what you want to do personally. If you have any doubt in yourself, then you’re not going to want to go forward with what you want to do. So, we have to put all your negativity [aside.]… I think that positive reinforcement goes a long way, although constructive criticism also helps to. It’s just depending how you deal with it.
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Be relevant on what news is out there.
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Gaming Setup
Streaming Setup
