TheBurntPeanut

About

TheBurntPeanut is an American live streamer who appears as a motion-captured peanut instead of showing his face, and he built his audience on extraction shooters, mainly Escape from Tarkov and ARC Raiders.^[1][2] He spent his first years posting Tarkov guides and tutorials under a human avatar, without much of an audience.^[3][2]

The peanut persona

He stopped streaming for about a year, then returned with the peanut model, rigged through a Snapchat lens, and switched to comedy built on talking to strangers over the game's voice chat.^[2] The Tarkov 0.16 wipe in December 2024 was the turning point: his concurrent viewers went from a few hundred to several thousand.^[3][2] He calls his viewers the Bungulators.^[4][1] He has kept the face behind the avatar private: on a stream in May 2026 MrBeast asked whether he would reveal his face for a million dollars and he refused.^[5][6]

The ARC Raiders war

In November 2025 he led that community into a mock faction war in ARC Raiders against the streamer HutchMF. Ninja, shroud, summit1g, Myth and cloakzy fought for the Bungulators; NICKMERCS, Nadeshot, Symfuhny and TimTheTatman backed HutchMF.^[7] GamesBeat credited the outcome to the size of his fanbase, and after the final battle, the two sides met in a Discord call where he said, "I declare sweeping victory for the Bungulators on this fine day."^[4][7]

Awards and Fortnite

At the 2025 Streamer Awards he won Best FPS Streamer and Best VTuber. He rejects the VTuber label and calls himself a "PTuber".^[8][1] Fortnite later featured him as a Sprite.^[1]