The Burnt Peanut is having the kind of month most streamers daydream about. He just tacked on 387,000 Twitch followers in November alone, hit a 93,043 viewer peak during an ARC Raiders stream on November 23 (per TwitchTracker), and is suddenly on every awards ballot that matters. And yes, he is a literal peanut. With human eyes. Let me explain.
The setup that makes people stop scrolling
His whole look is a custom 3D peanut he built himself in Blender, then rigged through a Snapchat lens using Lens Studio. You can still see his real eyes and mouth mapped onto the model, which is exactly as strange as it sounds and weirdly effective. It does not feel like a bit. It feels like a guy who happens to be a sentient legume blasting through FPS matches.
His community calls themselves the Bungulators, and their chat leans more like couch co-op chaos than your standard Twitch scroll. Honestly, it works.
How we got here: from facecam to full legume
On the Around The Bar podcast in September, he said he started streaming three or four years ago basically as a human VTuber — which is him jokingly saying he just used a normal facecam. He posted tutorial videos, Escape from Tarkov gear breakdowns, trend-chasing stuff. None of it stuck. He burned out and walked away for close to a year.
Then a friend, Mr. Chino, pulled him back in for a Tarkov session. After that stream, it clicked.
"My name is Peanut. What if I take this human VTuber model off and I just be myself, the Peanut?"
He dropped the facecam persona and came back as the peanut. That’s the pivot that changed everything.
How the numbers climbed
- Pre-Tarkov drops: ~2,000 average viewers, still grinding and not catching.
- During Tarkov drops: hit ~5,000 peak; tried a 24-hour stream and made it 17 hours.
- After drops ended: viewership held around 5,000 — which is the unusual part; most channels dip hard once the free loot goes away.
- Battlefield 6 beta (Aug 2025): 42,000 peak — first big 'oh wow' moment.
- ARC Raiders launch (late Oct): 20,000+ nightly and he cracked Twitch’s Top 10 by hours watched.
- Nov 23: 93,043 concurrent viewers during ARC Raiders (per TwitchTracker).
DIY to the core
About 80% of the stream’s production is his own handiwork. He taught himself Blender from scratch, grabbed a $5 peanut model off Sketchfab, and customized it. Scenes, transitions — he built the whole package. Only recently did he add help. His brother now edits the YouTube videos because earlier paid edits were technically fine but a little soulless.
Where the numbers sit right now
As of this moment, he’s at 714,000 subscribers on YouTube and 886,000 followers on Twitch. In November alone, he added 387,000 Twitch followers. Those are 'rocket in mid-flight' numbers.
Awards are paying attention
He’s up for Content Creator of the Year at The Game Awards 2025. The Streamer Awards on December 6 put him in three heavyweight categories: Best FPS Streamer, Best VTuber, and Gamer of the Year. Not bad for a guy who literally quit once.
Please do not call him a VTuber
Ask him about the VTuber label and you will get an eye-roll. He’s not anti-VTuber; he just doesn’t think what he does fits that lane. Traditional VTubers are usually anime-flavored, physics-heavy characters. He’s a peanut playing shooters. Different vibe.
Shroud knows it tilts him and pokes the bear accordingly. Every time they play together, Shroud tells chat to vote 'Peanut for VTuber of the Year.' That running bit got funnier (and probably more annoying for Peanut) when The Streamer Awards actually nominated him for Best VTuber.
The privacy wall
He didn’t always hide his identity, but about eight months ago he went into lockdown mode. He hired pros to scrub personal information and set up fail-safes in his streaming software to prevent accidental face or data leaks. He’s realistic about it — nothing is bulletproof and a determined person can dig — and says someone on Reddit has already tried. His plan is to make sure any exposure doesn’t happen by mistake.
The part that sticks
Beyond the novelty of a talking nut with human eyes, the throughline is simple: he made the thing himself, he streams like he’s actually in the room with you, and people didn’t bounce when the free loot did. That’s rare on Twitch, and it’s why this run doesn’t feel like a blip.
Have you watched The Burnt Peanut yet? Does his whole 'not a VTuber' stance make sense to you, or is a virtual face a virtual face? Drop your take below.