SimCopter1

Simcopter1 and his wife have a son. They also have a cat and a dog.

When he was growing up, he only really played console games. But then he was introduced to SimCity 2000 on the PC by one of his friends. He fell in love with it, because it combined his passions for Geography with his love of gaming. There was a character in it called ‘Simcopter One’ and so, he decided to use that handle as a homage to it.

Prior to streaming, he completed his degree in Geography, Human Geography and Planning at California State University and worked as an environmental planner for a few years.

Simcopter1 started streaming on April 24, 2014 when he was looking for a new job. He had recently started playing Hearthstone and was teaching a friend how to play, when his friend recommended that he buy himself a webcam and microphone to start streaming educational Hearthstone content.

He decided to give it a shot and his channel almost immediately blew up, with people posting and upvoting his content on Reddit and similar platforms. He was partnered soon afterwards and decided to focus on streaming as a fulltime career, rather than continuing to search for another job. He is known His channel is clean.

After streaming Hearthstone for a while, he felt that he needed to branch out to other games and become a variety streamer.

Simcopter1 is estimated to have ~2,000 subscribers. This would minimally earn him around $5,500 USD per month, excluding additional revenue from merchandise sales, tiered subscriptions, sponsorships, advertisements, tips and Twitch cheer bits contributions

Although Simcopter1 doesn’t have an exact schedule, he typically starts streaming on most days somewhere between 04:00/06:00 UTC for 6 – 9 hours.