Pineaqples
Name Origins
His tag is pronounced ‘Pineapples’ and he came up with it during his CoD 4 days, when he and his friends decided to all choose fruits as their handles.
Gaming Origins
As he was growing up, Pineaqples played a variety of video games, including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Halo 3 and then League of Legends and World of Warcraft when he was in high school. After high school, he went on to study Computer Engineering at college.
However, during his third year of college in 2014, he went through a really difficult time in his life, which caused him to take a break from college. During that time, he became more involved with video games and got into H1Z1 when it pre-released in January 2015.
Professional Gaming
Pineaqples started uploading H1Z1 content to his YouTube channel in October 2015 and started streaming on Twitch on November 8, 2015, although Twitch was his main creative space. He was partnered with Twitch in October 2016.
He joined Echo Fox’s H1Z1 team in May 2018 and remained with them until the organization disbanded in November 2019. In October 2018, he decided to transition to other video games, after realizing that H1Z1 was no longer viable.
Relationships
He has an older brother. He grew up in a poor family and uses his stream earnings to help support his mom and brother. He also has four cats, Echo, Ella, Bella and Leo.
Streaming Hours
He streams part time, but tries to stream once or twice a day for four hours at either 04:00 or 18:00 UTC.