• 8-BitRyan is a British social media star with a YouTube gaming channel called 8-BitGaming
• He attended a local secondary school in the West Midlands and was in a secondary school band
• He has a personal YouTube channel with over 2.5 million subscribers and 870 million views
• 8-BitRyan is a philanthropist who has raised over $2,000 for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital
• As of October 2020, he is 26 years old with a net worth of over $1.8 million
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What is 8 Bitryan’s real name?
8-BitRyan – first name Ryan, last name still a secret – was born in the West Midlands, England, on June 24, 1994 – his zodiac sign is Cancer and he has British nationality. He is a social media star, who is probably best known as one half of the “8-BitGaming” YouTube gaming channel, while the other half is Bazamalam (his real name is Ryan). The channel was launched on August 24, 2013 and today is subscribed to more than 1.1 million people, while counting about 315 million views of all their videos combined.
Most of the videos are related to video games in some way, and the currently most popular video of the two, “The Mystery Behind ‘CAM15’ || Five Nights at Freddy’s 3”, has over 4.3 million views as of February 9, 2015 views.
Youth and education
8 BitRyan was raised as an only child in the West Midlands by his father, who was a lawyer, and his mother, who worked as an accountant for a local telecommunications company.
8 BitRyan was urged by his parents to enroll in college and get a degree, but he was more interested in playing video games, which his parents were not very happy about.
He attended a local high school where he played football for fun, but he was never good enough to play for the school’s team – he spent most of his spare time playing video games with his friends and attending live music parties. He was also interested in music, and was an avid drummer – 8 BitRyan was in a high school band, but it fell apart shortly after he signed up in 2012.
Although he initially wanted to please his parents and enroll in a university, 8 BitRyan decided to rather focus on his career on the Internet.
Before starting his career on the internet, 8-BitRyan worked as a drum instructor.
He has his personal YouTube channel which he launched on March 18, 2015, which today has more than 2.5 million subscribers subscribed to, while all of his videos combined have more than 870 million views. He has played over 100 games in his videos, including “Among the Sleep: Prologue”, “Alien: Isolation”, and “Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning”.
8 BitRyan mainly focuses on playing horror games and his two currently most popular videos are “CHICA IS INSANE!! + Chambers of Secrets.. WHAT!? || The Joy Of Creation: Reborn (CHICA UPDATE + EXTRAS)”, which has been released since 22 May 2016 more than 4.1 million views, and “UH.. WHY ARE WE IN AN ANIMATRONICS MOND. (+20/20 mode win!) || FNAF: Ultimate Custom Night” has reached nearly four million as of June 28, 2018 times viewed.
8 BitRyan is also a philanthropist, which created a video marathon for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospitaland helped raise over $2,000 to donate to it.
He is also active on other popular social media networks such as Instagram, where he is followed by nearly 90,000 people, and Twitter, as his account has nearly 170,000 followers. 8 BitRyan also has a Twitch channel, where he mainly livestreams while chatting with his fans or playing video games like “Pokemon Sword”, “Super Mario Galaxy” and “Among Us” – there are over 50,000 people who follow him on Twitch .
Angry BitRyan
8-BitRyan created the character Neo-BitRyan – also known as ‘Evil BitRyan’ – his brother who killed 8-BitRyan in a video with his hand gun.
Neo-BitRyan has since appeared in many of 8-BitRyan’s videos stalking him, most notably in his series “We Happy Few” and “‘Five Nights at Freddy’s – Ultimate Custom Night”.
Is he single or in a relationship?
8 BitRyan is very secretive when it comes to his love life, and has not spoken about any girls he may have dated since the launch of his career, but several of his fans have claimed to have seen 8 BitRyan walking hand in hand with his girlfriend on the streets of London, but there are also those who think Ryan is gay because he hasn’t spoken publicly about his sexual orientation.
It is widely believed that he was in a long-term relationship with his high school sweetheart, and that the two were together for over three years before the girl left him for another man – according to these rumors, 8 BitRyan was heartbroken and did not look for a whole year a new relationship.
As of October 2020, he is singleis not married and has no children.
Hobbies and other interests
8-BitRyan is a huge animal lover and until recently had a pet cat named Smithy, who he considered his best friend – Smithy died in September, and 8-BitRyan uploaded a photo of him to his Instagram account to say his final goodbye.
He is a fan of tattoos and has several – his most notable being a huge owl tattooed on his chest.
8-BitRyan is very active physically as he has several training sessions in the gym every week and follows a strict diet, hence his muscular body – he likes to share pictures of his chest with his Instagram fans.
Oh hello there pic.twitter.com/GcNOZXAcFr
— 8-BitRyan (@IAm8BitRyan) November 10, 2020
In his spare time, he watches movies starring some of his favorite actors and actresses Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum and Angelina Jolie, such as “Pulp Fiction”, “Dear John” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life”.
Age and ability
8 BitRyan is 26 years old. He has medium length brown hair that he dyes blond, and brown eyes. His height is 5ft 4ins (1.62m) and he weighs about 120lbs (55kgs).
As of October 2020, his net worth is estimated at over $1.8 million.
