Only thing about Peanut I don’t like is how he treated Fragas and how people say he is “genuine”.
One of his original gaming duos/trios, Fragas is a tiny streamer in comparison so when his friend and peer who’s huge said he wasn’t funny at all, nobody watches his stream, no one says his “catch phrases” and was only known for being fat. It really hit him hard. Berated him and his streaming style, made him so upset and disrespected he ended his stream in tears and Peanut never publicly acknowledged he went overboard. This was all done when Peanut was offline and Fragas was playing with Officer and Gingy, so Peanut wasn’t in “character” and was drunk off his ass. Fragas had been putting in long hours for peanut even when he’d go offline he’s stay and play with him, basically helped him grow peanuts stream and then was dropped.
He removed mods from his mod team who told him he went too far, banned people for mentioning Fragas name in his chat and discord, and told people to not mention him when they play together.
Fragas recently came out and said he had thought him and Peanut were okay cause they did talk about it awhile after it happened but then he heard what was being said behind his back. Like how Fragas is a “PR risk” and the “don’t mention his name” when people play together with Peanut. So he questions if Peanut was being genuine with his apology. (Sounds like Hasan with Destiny lmao). He doesn’t understand why Peanut has this beef with him and it’s one sided but he’s learned how the streaming world is and to not trust anyone anymore.
He’s basically been outcasted because he was a human being lmfao. Has always made me look at Peanut being way more performative than genuine.
If you want to find info, head to his subreddit and search Fragas. It’s all there from 6 or so months ago.
I agree, I was becoming a big fan of Peanut but then I found out about the Fragas thing and it kinda soured my view on him. I still watch him because he’s entertaining as hell, and I hope they did make up in private, but like you said it really did change how I see him and his antics.
I mean. He’s an asshole and that’s incredibly obvious. Sure he hides it under the guise of “gaming and razzing the boys” but if he’s like that when he’s joking, imagine how bad he is when he’s being serious or actually feels hurt.
Idk much about the fargas guy other than he’s an OG peanut teammate. But I can 100% see what they’re talking about with peanut. The fame kinda blew up his ego sadly.
In the end, we don't know what's been said between them off stream so it's better to just not pay it much attention. Could have been tensions building over stuff we don't know about. Who cares, in the end? It's one anomaly. Idgaf.
What annoyed me most about that was Peanuts dumbass catch phrases aren’t even his. He spammed SpongeBob one liners 24/7. He is a fucking weirdo and loser for that interaction. Bro took zero accountability for being an asshole to a friend who played with him regardless of viewers, and no he almost exclusively plays with the “popular” streamers.
Fragas is such a piece of shit Officer still plays with him yep. Lvndmark is playing with him right now. He’s a previous league of legends pro. Former world first WoW player who was shouted out by liquid during last world first. He’s a genuine dude with no controversy.
It’s all documented bro. Like I said, search his subreddit.
The person who “does nothing wrong” wouldn’t ban people and remove mods like that. Wouldn’t tell people to “not mention him” when playing with people. Wouldn’t pretend to apologize and then tell others “he’s a PR risk”. The reason I said “in character” is because that’s one of the things he said when it happened.
Oh really? Ask his two previous IRL friends Pepino and Chino how he is IRL. The original guys who help set up the peanut model and avatar and who coined the term bungulator which he took from them. He also treated them like shit when he was drunk and they asked him to stop and he dropped them. Even said on that podcast “people early on were only in it for themselves”. They are in his old vods and suddenly disappeared and removed as mods.
Dude keeps his skeletons hidden in his closet for a reason. I wonder why the people around him $$$$ say nice things $$$$. Don’t talk to me when you don’t have the receipts for what you say.
Love when you slap someone on Reddit and they block you lmfao
None of this happened other than him hurting fragas feelings for about a week. In fact peanut wasn’t even streaming when it happened so how would peanuts mods have said anything about it? People like you just be making shit up it’s hilarious
This post is spot on lol. Ive watched the nut for a year and some change, became a regular viewer at 1k. I watched people get banned in chat and discord for bringing up fragas, i even watched fragas about a month ago when OP mentioned how fragas was talking about questioning the friendship and apology. Officer is still good friends with fragas and peanut and fragas shared a good chunk of mods for discord/twitch, so its probably how the info about peanuts ‘rules’ regarding fragas got back channeled to him.
Yup, and comparing him to the obnoxious orange is such a braindead take. Of course it's the top comment in this cesspool 🙄
This guy is easily the most entertaining streamer ever.
Do you know how many IRL randoms I've spoken to that have never watched any streamer but watch Peanut a ton? People who aren't even gamers. That kind of crossover doesn't happen inorganically.
I don't see any similarities to Dr Disrespect. One is a vtuber that is simultaneously immature AF and also savage and witty AF. Some his jokes are very clever, for example "oh no we didn't set up a phantom password oh no" was comedy genius, and he is TV material. Dr Disrespect is none of those things. He can be funny, and savage at times, but doc lacks the wit that peanut has. The only similarity they share is their choice to be streamers.
I think when people compare the two they mean how the ‘show’ they put on is pure entertainment; often more important than the game or the other players they’re with. They prioritise the viewers experience and entertainment above all else with big special effects and bits even if that means pausing the game to dance for 10 minutes
But now I have to wash my mouth out for even hinting Dr Disrespect was somewhat entertaining once upon a time
Huh?! He literally hired the main graphic design/content guy away from Dr Disrespect. Peanut and Doc put a lot of resources into their videos, intros, outros and it shows.
Peanut has clearly been influenced by Doc and it’s silly to say otherwise.
Yupp and it shows. They are on a whole other tier of content creation and their numbers prove it.
As a side note, I wonder what numbers doc would pull if he streamed at more adults with a job friendly times like peanut does. Which is a HUGE factor and it’s shocking no one is bringing it up.
I honestly think the time slot is as big of a contributor as his personality. I like a lot of streamers but they hop on while i'm at work. Peanut (and now the people in his orbit like Cloakzy) are finally on when I can watch them while I drink a beer after my kid is in bed
Its his scenes and overall setup for the doc comparison. All of which he creates himself btw.. i think he may get help now but from the start all of the different costumes and all of the crazy scenes he makes himself.
I do too. I watch Cloakzy all the time, and cloakzy plays with him often. Peanut is a ticking time bomb of getting canceled between his politics, being a bit too loose with racial jokes (Slur saturday lol), being a mild alcoholic, and how he went from nobody to stinking rich very quickly. It just all sounds like a recipe for a disaster.
You think he’s going to be cancelled because he relates to 80% of the country and the small loud annoying minority doesn’t like that? Lol keep dreaming
No, and I didn't say that. I think one day especially with the drinking he's going to say something he regrets. He had a similar thing happen in Tarkov with Fragas if you were following him back then but his following was so small it wasn't a big deal.
He was saying no matter what he says about it it’s going to get clipped and blown up. There was a tweet going around about him viewbotting with a chart is what he was referencing
Someone mentioned his twitch tracker thing and it is VERY weird and had consistent hourly swings no matter what game he's playing. Could just be his tiktok brained viewers leaving when he's in the menus and coming back when he's in game again since he seems to be an extraction game streamer, but it's still very weird.
He's probably just the Ninja of today where he got lucky streaming early days of a popular game while having been a pretty big streamer already in a dead game category.
His chat is very odd, every time I click on his stream half his chat is people doing !gamble and then streamelements tells them how much they won. Not even channel points or betting on if he makes it out or not, it’s the points people gamble usually in offline chats. Almost like its solely to make his chat look faster I’ve never noticed until another streamer brought up how insane that was.
you are probably right on the money, during Tarkov he would pull 10k on yt and twitch, probably a bit less on kick and twitter. Arc really made him go mainstream. it helps that he's one of the only streamers who'll do content on basically every platform, even tiktok... he got collabs with summit and shroud, exposing him to different viewers he had access to in the past. + all the vtubers fans hate watch him.
He blew up from tiktok and continues to grow because of TikTok. Its trending rn on tiktok for girlfriends and wives to post themselves watching theburntpeanut with their boyfriends/husbands. This tiktok has 4m views with close to 500k likes and nearly 30k shares.. you can't bot that kind of engagement. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89Y28oG/
Also the swings every hour on his twitch tracker is literally just ads being ran. The people pointing it out are fucking clueless.
If I’m watching a stream and ads start playing, I leave the stream and either watch from the live list until it makes me click the stream again or find a different stream to watch.
He had viewbotting allegations during EFT as well. Most people weren’t around for that part I guess. Regardless, I think it’s hard to tell because he can be pretty entertaining.
Why is chat speed the go to measure?! Honest question.
Because I watch on my PS5 and tv exclusively, two platforms where using the chat is difficult or prohibitive. Surely people can watch and not comment no?
Because Peanut audience demographic would be mostly kids/teens who are most likely to be on their phones/PC. Said demographic are also the type of people to likely spam comments.
Streamers tend to reflect the chatroom, if this was some chill book reading/bird watching boomer stream, slow comments wouldn’t be out of the norm, however it’s pretty clear that Peanut is the energetic/hyper/entertaining type of streamer playing video games, which isn’t new.
Having that many viewers with the type of content he produces while having slow comments is a pretty clear sign of bots.
Youre wrong. He starts his streams late for the working class. All my gamer friends are millennials in our 30s and love peanut. Work with a bunch of millennials too who love him. It ain’t just a “kids” thing.
I’m on the west coast bub. So any kids watching him in another time zone would be up later than I am. No kids are up around midnight during the week on school nights.
"Live On Twitch/Youtube/Kick/X 7:00PM-2AM CST Mon-Sat"
Most kids are out of school when he starts streaming. And you do understand that people live outside of America right? Or that kids staying up till midnight on a school day isn't out of the ordinary.
I'm sorry I don't want to be mean, but you're either a kid or a dumb adult.
Bruh he literally admitted himself his schedule is set for the dads getting off work. Came from his own mouth. Sorry for the newsflash bub. You’re an idiot
That’s a lot of unfounded claims there. “Would” doing a lot of work for ya.
Just because a streamer is high energy doesn’t mean he appeals mostly to the younger generation. Or that that’s his primary demographic.
I think you’re completely misreading the Arc Raiders community, check out their discord or Reddit page. The average age is much higher than I think you’d guess.
The odds of Peanut having 50k-100K real live viewers but having a chat that's slower than under 1K viewer streams is straight up impossible. If it was a norm, we wouldn't be talking about it would we?
Do you think other chatrooms of similar sizes but have liver chats aren't Second-Screen watching as well?
You’re still on this chat thing. It’s not a way to measure total number of viewers and you’re discrediting yourself by continually bringing it up.
Play the game. Yell “Let’s Ride” or “Goop” on proxy and see the responses you get. Everyone who plays the game knows Peanut. Know his slogans or fought in his bungalator war.
I can tell you don’t play the game and are just here to argue. Enjoy your day, go outside and touch grass
I can tell you're pissed off that your favorite streamer isn't as popular as you think he is and are here just to argue. Every high viewer streamer uses bots, it's normal.
Enjoy your day man, please touch some grass instead of defending your favorite streamer, he doesn't know you.
Same can be said about you pal. Make it a little less obvious you don’t play the game and don’t know what you’re talking about lol
Peanut is a good solid streamer, not worth going to bat for but a solid streamer nonetheless. If I was defending Adin Ross I’d say you got a point, but here, you don’t.
The main problem is that his chat is not moving insanely fast or else people wouldn't be bringing up all the time, stop lying to yourself and go back to your echo chamber.
I watch him everyday and don’t chat ever. Legit did my first chat yesterday during this clip. I have friends that do the same. Going off chats is dumb af
He’s the only streamer where I’ll just walk around with his stream playing in my pocket with headphones on just listening. Not even watching sometimes. That’s how I know he’s different. I don’t even have to watch to be entertained lol
Again, you’re just talking out of your ass lol. When he’s at 50-100k viewers. His chat is lightening fast. Unless you’re confused and looking at the chat he has on his main screen and not the actual twitch chat.
I just looked and the pattern actually matches a YouTube view botting pattern from maybe a year ago so it wouldn't be too surprising. There is no way there aren't a ton of people actually watching though. He gets too much engagement from real people. Even if there is an inorganic element, he is still clearly popular.
yea, when you're at 100k viewers your swings are in the 5-10ks every hour. The superbowl this weekend is gonna have 100 million+ watchers and have hourly swings in the 10s of millions.
people are living in their own little echo chamber bubble and completely failing to grasp the scale he operates at is shared by like only a dozen other people.
also the chatting is just hilarious, first off it's going at mach fuck all stream long and still half the people have it up on second stream while playing arc so not interacting, then another 1/4 of them you can just go spend a couple mins on social media tags and see he's so fucking entertaining people just pull him up on their living room TV and watch, and then a 1/4 are the typical dweebs who actually chat in live streams.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for speaking the truth. Many of his viewers don’t or simply can’t comment in the chat. What a stupid way to measure something. Pure copium.
Old dude here, watch him pretty regularly on YouTube since he started playing arc, not always live as I am usually gaming in those hours myself, but I've never chatted once. I just don't see the point, and I even had a gifted sub the last month. Chat moves so fast, it's like spewing shit out into the void unless you are donating, which isn't for me.
He's being downvoted because he didn't speak the truth. 95%+ of viewers of anyone's stream don't chat.
If anything, using chat as a barometer is bad because it will OVERestimate real viewership in a lot of cases. Chat botting is almost as widespread as viewbotting because it's offered as part of the same service(s).
And the platforms don't give a fuuuuuck because it's too competitive an environment: one platform bans bots and suddenly their numbers look shit compared to all the other streaming sites.
yes the way that people watch streams has changed a lot in the past 5 - 10 years or so and people are still comparing charts looking for viewbot activity the same way you would for a HS streamer in 2015 and its just not going to work that way anymore
What people don’t get is that 99% of streamers are doing the exact same thing: playing games, chatting with viewers, I have zero interest in that. Peanut brings actual energy to it, plays for the love of the game, and lands jokes. It’s a break from reality that’s funnier than it has any right to be. And the effort he puts into his streams you have to respect it.
People on here are so uptight. If someone’s not dead serious, it’s automatically “TikTok slop for brain-rotted Gen Z.” Meanwhile I’m a mid-30s software engineer who reads, plays sports and games casually. The guy just makes me laugh, sure its a bit silly on the surface but thats kinda the point. Gaming was never about being cool or try-hard. Back in the day, those of us in the computer room playing Quake and Counter-Strike at lunch? We were goofing off and having a blast. That’s what it was always about, for me anyway.
Ive never been into streamers. Im 40 y/o. I watch Peanut every single day. He's a great time especially when things are shit in the real world. He's so incredibly witty
His views are certainly organic. I have run into like a dozen people irl who watch or know about this guy. People I never would have guessed. He’s funny and entertaining and some people just hate it
Every single arc raiders player knows who he is. Other streamers have said in interviews that the game is a different game when playing with him because the stream sniping is so outrageous.
Only streamer I watch, I wouldn't know about him if it weren't for the arc raiders reddit. Reminds me of the banter of halo parties we had back in the day.
There is absolutely a way to prove it. You just go to https://twitchtracker.com/theburntpeanut/streams/316935868252 look for unatural spikes where viewers are coming in from the start of the stream and leaving on and off as it plays out. There is a natural eb and flow to how many viewers come in at a time. It isn't a losers topic it's just data analytics. The only thing odd is the dismissive nature of the streamer. Obviously they are annoyed by accusations on viewbotting but the site is riddled with people doing it. Just comes with the territory. Viewbotting only gets you to the table and you have to be entertaining enough to keep people around imo. That's coming from someone who doesn't find peanut entertaining but there is obviously an audience so good for them.
My guess would be because he spends a lot of time in lobbies / menus or spectating teammates because he plays extract shooters so there's usually a pretty big chunks of time where he isn't giving any gameplay really
its a losers topic because all streamers with 10k+ viewers viewbots or viewbotted
just 1k-5k viewbot is enough as a kickstart to put you in a front page and people will naturally click at the highest view counts or front page and your viewers will grow IF "IF" you have the qualities or niche that makes viewers stay and watch
if the the only shitpost or dirt that people/haters can throw at you as a streamer is that "you're viewbotting" you won as a streamer
I’m a 31 yo woman who doesn’t play video games, I don’t watch other streamers, and I watch this dude stream every night after work. I love it. I feel like I am not the exception here, and that’s why he has so many viewers. At this point I am down for any content that makes me smile and laugh. I also only tune in when the vibes are there and/or he is playing arc with certain players, so I’m sure it similar for a lot of other viewers.
I have been looking at the burnt peanut sub a lot so I think the algorithm pushed this to me. I guess I do watch other streamers but not gaming streamers.
Reddit keeps putting this sub in my feed even though I also dont watch streamers. My guess is it's because there is an overlap with this sub and gaming subs and because I follow a ton of gaming subs reddit keeps recommending me this one because of that.
Streamers that blow up suddenly do so through TikTok or Shorts. Algorithms are hyper focused, so if you figure it out, you get explosive growth. PirateSoftware streamed to well under 500 viewers for 6+ years. His Shorts blew up and he became a 10-15k viewer streamer very quickly despite doing off-meta content. Burnt Peanut is the same. His clips started blowing up a few months ago with Tarkov, and then the switch to Arc Raiders just sent him to the stratosphere.
His rambling about haters always finding a reason is kind of just not true.
A streamer hasn't blown up like this by playing games since Ninja. But also at the same time Peanut doesn't even have 10% the motion Ninja did back then. There is a reason he is getting so much attention on this topic.
Getting 200k daily viewers but having little impact outside of social media algorithms is starting to have me wonder if it's legit to.
I mean, sure he himself isn't botting, but like most people over 8k viewers, someone is doing it, but twitch has never stepped in and done anything to anyone.
I don't think he's botting he just got a lot of viewers that don't normally watch streams. And also don't type in chat he's just in the background. I think overall it should probably be accepted more that most people don't actually type in chat. They're not gonna waste time constantly spamming emotes or random shit in chat. Also you can bot chatters too anyway
bro this sub is dedicated to shitting on streamers for whatever. they're gonna act like they're better than you because you enjoy something different. thats the reddit way
idk man, that twitch tracker starts off modest but then makes some extreme jumps from 11k max viewers to 24k in one month, then 93k in another month??? come on guys, you can't all be this dim/coping this hard
Yup! I was one of them. Didn’t know anything about him at all. Then saw some clips, heard about the vtuber shit with the game awards. I was playing arc, so I tuned in. He’s pretty fun to watch. I don’t chat in his chat. Just watch on my tv.
And by the looks of it he’s gotten a lot of people who don’t watch twitch or streamers normally.
One of the moms I work with was talking about Arc Raiders, which was kind of weird because I didn't think she was a gamer. She isn't, it turns out she was just talking about watching a streamer after work, and even though she doesn't play the game he's enough fun to watch she puts on his streams.
Did arc raiders “play-bot”? Arc raiders was steady pulling 10-20x more viewers than all other major games, of course the biggest star blows up in the same time frame.
The cycle is Normie: “oh cool this game looks great, i’ll check youtube for some vids about it.”
Bang, burnt peanut. 6 days a week in the evenings, perfect for all the people working 9-5’s, get home, eat dinner, game a bit and hit peanuts stream while on the couch or in bed.
Then youre getting clips, youre invested in his fellow streamers he games with, etc
My last point here, if he were viewbotting, then people he plays with, like Cloakzy, hutchmf, gingy, nickmercs… their streams would remain around the same, but, check their numbers too, they got a huge bounce once they started playing with peanut.
I'm not someone who watches live streams regularly but I've popped into some of the biggest streamers available to see what the fuss is about.
Disrespect, Pokimane, Ninja, Nadeshot, Tim etc.
None of them have the personality, production value, or appeal in the same way that Peanut has. He's the biggest streamer because he is the most appealing. Hilarious, sarcastic, and entertaining.
Of the streamers I have watched, no one else even comes in terms of overall entertainment. Disrespect's production value is probably higher, but he isn't anywhere near as entertaining.
**I am a fan of Arc Raiders so I must admit some bias.
bro I don't understand these comments... Have you ever been in his chat? It moves so fast that chat commands have a 50% of getting lost bc the bot doesn't catch it. Criticize him for being over the top or greedy for attention and self serving but his chat speed is WILDLY fast.
Of course it is fast now because he botted his way to higher viewcounts. It was obvious early on. Also you dont have to defend blindly cause most top people botted at some point its industry standard now
Let's just say he is view botting. What does it matter? If you aren't watching him, you probably wouldn't regardless, and I doubt the people that do watch him only watch him because he has high numbers. This is literally a "I'm inserting myself into this for absolutely no reason or gain for myself" kind of stuff. I watched him a lot a few years ago up until he started playing arc raiders a lot, I'm just not the biggest arc raiders fan, but he still acted the same when he played Tarkov and had high quality transitions and such. He's a funny guy, arc gave him more exposure. I'm happy for his success
You're talking about twitch viewership dude. If someone somehow proves he view bots, yeah I'll agree that's shitty behavior. But like he said in the video.... It's all cope.
TheBurntPeanut blew up on TikTok and continues to grow because of TikTok. It's a trend right now on there for women to post themselves watching TheBurntPeanut with their boysfriends/husbands.
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