Strippin
Other Interests
Family
He and his wife, @dexbonus have a small daughter. He is close to his family, which includes his parents, two brothers and two sisters.
Name Origins
His initials are ‘S.T.’ When he was growing up, he often played Age of Empires online on MSN with his friends. When he first set up his account, he tried to claim the username ‘SThrone,’ but it was already taken. So, the system recommended a few other names to him. One of the suggestions was ‘ST_rippin’. He liked it and so applied it to his MSN account.
Later, one of his friends recommended World of Warcraft (WoW) to him. However, WoW wouldn’t accept underscores, and so ‘STrippin’ was born. Prior to streaming, he worked as a lifestyle model, which made people erroneously think that the name was based on his profession.
Gaming Origins
He grew up spending most of his spare time playing video games with his friends. He was fairly popular, but didn’t really enjoy school, so he only did the bare minimum to pass and dropped out of his A levels (high school college preparation courses).
Professional Gaming
After dropping out of school, Strippin spent a lot of time working odd-jobs and travelling. He eventually wound up volunteering as an administrator for the Yogscast, as he felt that the experience might help him enter the gaming industry. After a year, @YogscastLewis offered him a paid position on the staff. From there, he started producing his own content. He therefore attributed most of his success to luck. He doesn’t use clean language.
Income
Strippin has over 2,450 subscribers. This would minimally earn him $6,125 USD per month, excluding additional revenue from merchandise sales, sponsorships, advertising, tips and Twitch cheer bits.
Streaming Hours
He doesn’t have a set schedule, but he usually streams daily for between 6 – 11.5 hours.
Interesting Facts
Strippin has green and red colorblindness.
Quotes
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Don’t skip your homework to play PlayStation… because it caused me so many problems when I left school. [Due to my lack of qualifications,] I was working in bars and I was really unhappy. I was miserable. I was working in nightclubs every night, just cleaning up vomit. My mom suggested I go back to school, so I did community college for a year. I got accepted into Law at Birmingham University, because I didn’t enjoy it. I eventually took gamble after gamble after gamble after that and it paid off, but don’t use me as inspiration. Don’t gamble on your life because at any point I could have hit a wall and I would have been in serious trouble. I got really lucky.
