TheBurntPeanut

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TheBurntPeanut
Years active	2019–present
Twitch information
Channel	TheBurntPeanut
Genre	Gaming
Games	Escape from Tarkov ARC Raiders Battlefield 6
Followers	1.83 million
YouTube information
Channel	TheBurntPeanut
Subscribers	1.51 million
Views	319 million
Last updated: February 8, 2026
Website	theburntpeanut.store

TheBurntPeanut is an American Twitch streamer. He is known for obscuring his true identity during his streams, instead presenting himself as a motion captured virtual peanut with a human mouth and eyes.^[1] The avatar was created using a $5 model he bought from Sketchfab. Peanut then edited it using Blender and rigged it using a Snapchat lens.^[2][3]

Career

TheBurntPeanut created his Twitch account in 2019.^[4] He originally worked as a phone salesman, making $600 every two weeks.^[3] Before switching his persona to a peanut, he had a relatively serious tone to his streams which were mainly of the game Escape from Tarkov. He initially created tutorials and guides for the game, but had trouble gaining traction because most of the established Tarkov audience was already following other well-known creators in the community. At first, after being unable to immediately gain popularity, he stopped streaming for about a year until one of his friends, Mr. Chino, encouraged him to start again. Peanut realized that he could likely gain more popularity if he became a virtual streamer. This led to the inception of his peanut avatar which he still uses today.^[2] In addition to his avatar, he also began to change up his content style in 2024, switching to more humorous content utilizing the game's VoIP system. In December of that year, Tarkov released its 0.16 update, which came with a wipe to all player gear; Peanut had his first streaming breakthrough following this update.^[5] As he gained popularity, Peanut began to scrub his personal identity entirely online, paying professionals to wipe anything private about him and setting up fail-safes in his software to make sure any accidents did not happen.^[2]

By 2025, Peanut had expanded his streams to playing games such as Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders. In November, while playing the latter, Peanut led a "gang war", called The Battle for Speranza, between two opposing factions of streamers in the game. Fighting against streamer HutchMF's coalition and involving streamers such as TimTheTatman, Nadeshot, Nickmercs, Myth, summit1g, Ninja, Shroud, and xQc,^[1] Peanut's faction emerged victorious due to the amount of fans they had on their side fighting with them.^[6][7][8] After winning the Best VTuber category at the 2025 Streamer Awards, Peanut went under fire from the existing VTuber community as he did not consider himself a VTuber, instead describing himself as "a P-Tuber" and saying that anime avatars are not his "flow".^[3][9][10] The VTuber Ironmouse, whose three-year winning streak in the category was broken by Peanut, said that she does not understand the hate behind him.^[4]

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