Nicholas Armstrong (born March 1, 2001), known online as Sapnap, is an American

YouTuber A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influent ...

and

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known for his ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before being ...

'' content. Along with

Dream A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...

and

GeorgeNotFound George Davidson (born 1 November 1996), better known online as GeorgeNotFound, is an English internet personality, YouTuber, and Twitch streamer. He gained substantial popularity in 2020 and 2021 through uploading ''Minecraft'' content. Alongsid ...

, he is part of the Dream Team and a founding member of the

Dream SMP The Dream SMP (sometimes abbreviated as the DSMP and originally known as the Dream Team SMP) is an invite-only survival multiplayer (SMP) ''Minecraft'' server. Created by YouTubers Dream and GeorgeNotFound, they roleplay alongside many fellow ...

''Minecraft'' server. He has co-owned

NRG Esports NRG Esports is an American esports organization based in Los Angeles, California. It has rosters in ''Apex Legends'', ''Clash Royale'', ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'', ''Fortnite'', ''Gears of War'', ''Hearthstone'', ''Overwatch'', ''Rocket League'', ...

since 2022.

Career

Sapnap uploaded his first YouTube video on October 20, 2019. He became known for his collaborations with fellow ''Minecraft'' personalities

and

, known collectively as the "Dream Team" since 2019. His videos with the group often featured ''Minecraft''

speedrunning Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and can exploit glit ...

challenges. He began streaming on

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, and in early 2020 he was the fourth person to join the roleplay-based

''Minecraft'' server, after Dream, GeorgeNotFound, and Callahan. Sapnap has often participated in

MC Championship MC Championship (MCC) is a monthly ''Minecraft'' tournament organised by Scott Major (known online as Smajor1995) and Noxcrew (a community that creates ''Minecraft''-related events and Level (video game), maps). Ten teams of four compete in a se ...

events and consistently ranked as one of the tournament's strongest players. He has also competed in Squid Craft Games, an event organized by Spanish-speaking ''Minecraft'' creators, and won the second edition in March 2023. He is known especially for his

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(PvP) skills. In addition to ''Minecraft'', his livestreams have included games such as ''

Valorant ''Valorant'' is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Windows. Teased under the codename ''Project A'' in October 2019, the game began a closed beta period with limited access on April 7 ...

'', ''

Fortnite ''Fortnite'' is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', a free-to-p ...

'' and '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''. He has taken part in Twitch

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

tournaments such as

PogChamps PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com. Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers. PogChamps takes place over the course of two weeks. The first and second PogChamps ...

. He has appeared in several YouTube videos by

MrBeast Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTube personality, credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. His MrBeast YouTube channel had 112.2 million subscribers as ...

, including one in which he won a ten-person game of tag. Sapnap started hosting the ''Banter'' podcast with YouTuber

Karl Jacobs Karl Jacobs (born July 19, 1998), formerly known as GamerBoyKarl, is an American Twitch streamer and YouTuber. He rose to prominence as a member of MrBeast's on-screen cast. He would later develop his own videos, primarily ''Minecraft'' content ...

in September 2021. Upon the release of the first episode, which featured MrBeast, the show briefly overtook ''

The Joe Rogan Experience ''The Joe Rogan Experience'' is a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan. It launched on December 24, 2009, on YouTube by Rogan and comedian Brian Redban, who was its sole co-host and producer until ...

'' as

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's top podcast. GeorgeNotFound joined as co-host in August 2022. In October 2022, Sapnap signed with and became a co-owner of

. He announced that he would begin livestreaming on the site

Kick A kick is a physical Strike (attack), strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee (strike), ...

in August 2023.

Personal life

Sapnap was born in Texas on March 1, 2001.
He moved to

Orlando, Florida Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...

, in 2021 to live with Dream, and the next year they were joined in the "Dream Team House" by GeorgeNotFound.

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Career

Personal life

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