Criken

He has a younger sister.

It was the name that he used when he was acting as the LARP narrator when he was in kindergarten.

When Criken was around six years old, he would play with his friends as a narrator, dictating the type of game and roles that they would all be playing. These included visiting a haunted mansion and similar tropes. As they played out the scenarios, he would give them choices and based on the choices that they made, he would tell them how to proceed. His love for storytelling and adventuring grew with him and he carried it across to video games, when he started playing those.

In his mid-teens, he mainly played Halo 3 Game Battles with his friends.

Prior to streaming fulltime, he studied Game Development at the University of Southern California.

He was inspired to start streaming after he succeeded in ranking at #3 for Machinima’s Top Ten Halo 3 confirmed kill list after he submitted his video to them. After seeing all of the comments, he decided to create more content.

Criken uploaded his first video to his original YouTube channel on March 31, 2008 while e was still in middle school. He used it to upload his video gameplay storytelling and commentaries onto YouTube on a monthly basis. His channel soon grew to the point where many of his videos attracted over half a million views.

This channel is not appropriate for children.

Criken is estimated to have ~5,000 subscribers. This should generate him a monthly income of at least $12,500 USD per month. This mount excludes other income such as that earned through tiered subscriptions, tips, sponsorships, advertisements, merchandise sales, Twitch cheer bit and contributions.

While he doesn’t have a set schedule, he tends to stream several times for ~6 hours per session.