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

YouTuber A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006 ...

and

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known for his ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus Persson, Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java (programming language), Java programming language, the ...

'' content. Along with

Dream A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensation (psychology), 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 ...

and

GeorgeNotFound George Davidson (born 1 November 1996), better known online as GeorgeNotFound (abbreviated as GNF; also known as Gogy), is an English internet personality, YouTuber, and Twitch streamer. He gained substantial popularity in 2020 and 2021 thro ...

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

Dream SMP The Dream SMP (sometimes referred to as DSMP; formerly as the Dream Team SMP) was an invite-only survival multiplayer (SMP) ''Minecraft'' Minecraft server, server. YouTubers Dream (YouTuber), Dream and GeorgeNotFound created a roleplay with ''Mi ...

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

NRG Esports NRG Esports (or simply NRG) is an American esports organization based in Los Angeles, California. It has rosters in ''League of Legends'', ''Overwatch (video game), Overwatch'', ''Rocket League'', ''Valorant'', ''Counter-Strike 2'', ''Apex Legen ...

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 exploit glitches ...

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 ''Minecraft'' tournament organised by YouTuber Scott Major (known online as Smajor1995 or Dangthatsalongname) and ''Minecraft'' collective Noxcrew. Ten teams of four compete in a series of ''Minecraft'' minigames. The ...

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

player versus player Player versus player (PvP) is a type of multiplayer interactive conflict within a game between human players. This is often compared to player versus environment (PvE), in which the game itself controls its players' opponents and is usually of ...

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

Valorant ''Valorant'' is a 2020 First-person shooter, first-person tactical shooter, tactical hero shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. A free-to-play game, ''Valorant'' takes inspiration from the ''Counter-Strike'' series, borrow ...

'', ''

Fortnite ''Fortnite'' is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in seven distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: '' Fortnite Battle Roy ...

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

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

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. The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, whi ...

. He has appeared in several YouTube videos by

MrBeast James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), commonly known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, and businessman. His YouTube videos, where he often hosts elaborate challenges and philanthropic effor ...

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

Karl Jacobs Karl Thomas Jacobs (born July 19, 1998), formerly known as GamerBoyKarl, is an American YouTuber, author, writer, and producer. He rose to prominence as a member of MrBeast's on-screen cast and then developed his own videos, primarily ''Minecraft ...

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 was initiated on December 24, 2009, on YouTube by Rogan and comedian Brian Redban, who was its sole co-host and produce ...

'' as

Spotify Spotify (; ) is a List of companies of Sweden, Swedish Music streaming service, audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. , it is one of the largest providers of music streaming services ...

'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 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). This type of ...

in August 2023.

Personal life

Nicholas Armstrong was born in

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

on March 1, 2001.
He moved to

Orlando, Florida Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville ...

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

Boxing record

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Career

Personal life

Boxing record

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