Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American live streamer and political commentator who pioneered full-time video game streaming and pivoted into round-the-clock political debate. From a former StarCraft II pro to a fixture of online political combat, he debates everyone from Marxists to alt-right YouTubers, often for ten or twelve hours at a stretch.
Felix Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, is a Swedish creator who spent a decade as YouTube's most-subscribed individual and then quietly walked away from the algorithm. He now lives in Japan with his wife Marzia and their son Bjorn, posting irregular videos about parenting, Linux, self-hosted AI, and life off the publishing treadmill.
Hasan Piker, known online as HasanAbi, is an American Twitch streamer and left-wing political commentator who built one of the largest political audiences on livestreaming. A former Young Turks producer turned full-time broadcaster, he hosts marathon news-and-gaming streams from West Hollywood and has become a flashpoint inside Democratic Party debates about how the left talks to young men online.
Mark Edward Fischbach, known worldwide as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor with over 38 million subscribers and 23 billion views. Starting with horror game Let's Plays in 2012, he has evolved into an independent filmmaker - his self-financed directorial debut Iron Lung (2026) grossed $51 million worldwide and earned a spot in the top 40 highest-grossing independent films of all time. He co-founded the Cloak clothing line, hosts the Distractible podcast, and has raised millions for charity, all while redefining what a content creator can be.
Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins is the world's most recognized gaming streamer, having transformed competitive gaming into mainstream entertainment. Starting as a Halo pro in 2009, he became the face of Fortnite's cultural takeover - playing live with Drake to a record 628,000 concurrent viewers in 2018 - and parlayed that moment into a media empire spanning Twitch, YouTube, brand deals with Red Bull and Adidas, a Chief Innovation Officer role at GameSquare Holdings, and a co-founded cashew milk brand. With 19+ million Twitch followers and 23+ million YouTube subscribers, he continues to define what a professional streamer can become.
Imane Anys, known globally as Pokimane, is a Moroccan-Canadian content creator who turned a $250 secondhand PC and a Platinum-rank League of Legends account into one of the largest streaming presences on the internet. With over 9.4 million Twitch followers, 6.6 million YouTube subscribers, and a growing portfolio spanning snack brands, talent management, and podcasting, she has spent more than a decade redefining what it means to be a professional gamer - on her own terms.
Rachell Marie Hofstetter, known as Valkyrae, is a Filipino-American streamer, co-owner of 100 Thieves, and founder of Hihi Studios. After a record-breaking YouTube exclusivity run powered by late-2020 Among Us, she returned to Twitch in January 2025 on her tenth streaming anniversary and is now building anime-inspired IP through her own studio.
Tips Out (known online as TipsOutBaby) is a gaming entrepreneur and Creator Scout at Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Games division, operating at the intersection of creator culture and venture capital. Best known as co-founder and COO/CEO of One True King (OTK) - the Austin-based creator collective he helped launch in October 2020 alongside Asmongold, Mizkif, Esfand, and Rich Campbell - he has quietly built one of gaming's most ambitious creator-led business empires. Beyond OTK, he co-founded Starforge Systems (a PC hardware company), Mythic Talent (a talent management agency), and Mad Mushroom (a creator-led game publishing label). In October 2023, a16z tapped him as a Games Creator Scout, formalizing his role as a bridge between gaming culture and the startup investment world.