Nick Eh 30

About

Nick Eh 30, also known as NickEh30 or Nicholas Amyoony, is a Canadian Fortnite streamer on Twitch and YouTube who gained eminence in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Early on in his career, Nick Eh 30 branded himself as a family-friendly streamer, allowing him to grow an audience of mostly children. His streams often included Fortnite role-playing in which he organized groups of fans to recreate movie scenes, among other scenarios, for his videos. In mid-2023, Nick Eh 30 gained ironic adoration from meme creators on TikTok, Twitter and other platforms, who portrayed Nick Eh 30 as cringy in the memes and videos made about him. For instance, he earned negative attention for a video of him saying, "You're the king? I'm the king!" in a Transformers and Optimus Prime-related role-play.

Online History

Nick Eh 30's online presence started on December 21st, 2014, when he uploaded his first YouTube^[1] video, a "Bow Tips & Tactics" video for The Last Of Us remastered. The video gained roughly 158,100 views in eight years (shown below, left). He started uploading Fortnite content after the game's release and quickly earned popularity in 2017, posting his first Fortnite-related YouTube^[2] video on December 19th, 2017. Around the same time, he started streaming Fortnite on Twitch, uploading his first YouTube^[3] video using Twitch stream recordings on February 16th, 2018, gaining roughly 1.2 million views in five years (shown below, right).

Nick Eh 30's YouTube videos quickly gained more engagement in 2018. For instance, on June 18th, 2018, he uploaded what became his most-viewed YouTube^[4] video of his first five years of uploading, gaining roughly 44 million views in five years (shown below). A few days later, on June 23rd, Nick Eh 30 reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube.^[5] Multi-million-view videos persisted on his channel going into the early 2020s.

Thereafter, Nick Eh 30 branded himself as a family-friendly streamer due to the younger demographic of his audience.^[6] This included no cursing or lewd comedy. Ultimately, the choice to be family-friendly set him apart from his contemporaries like Ninja and others.^[6]

Nick Eh 30 vs. Trolls

In the 2020s, various videos surfaced on YouTube and TikTok of Nick Eh 30 dealing with trolls that made his stream less family-friendly or griefed his role-plays. For instance, on January 13th, 2022, YouTuber^[7] FlickHen posted a compilation of children swearing on his stream, gaining roughly 145,100 views in one year (shown below, left). In November 2022, a clip of Nick Eh 30 dealing with non-family-friendly gamers in a Modern Warfare II lobby surfaced online (shown below, right). The clip gained coverage from news outlets like Dexerto^[8] and Game Rant.^[6]

"Wait You're The King? I'm The King!" Clip

On June 21st, 2023, TikToker^[9] @mota_edits posted a video of Nick Eh 30 getting angered by griefers during a Transformers-related roleplay on stream, in which Nick Eh 30 said, "Wait, you're the king? I'm the king." The video gained roughly 11.4 million plays and 1.3 million likes in five days (shown below, left). The video was perceived as cringe by many on the app and satirized in subsequent memes. For instance, on June 24th, 2023, TikToker^[10] @mrjacksonkirkland recreated the role-play in real-life, gaining roughly 956,400 plays and 155,500 likes in two days (shown below, right).

The humorous backlash also led to a tweet^[11] from Nick Eh 30 on June 26th, 2023, that read, "I’m the king!!" gaining roughly 2,500 likes in one hour.

Following

By June 26th, 2023, Nick Eh 30 had amassed roughly 6.7 million subscribers on YouTube,^[12] roughly 4.5 million followers on Twitch^[13] and roughly 1.1 million followers on Twitter.^[14]

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