Who is SimpleFlips?
Born on September 14, 1995 in California, USA, Eddie Cruz is a YouTube personality as well as a Twitch streamer, best known for his YouTube channel SimpleFlips. He became famous for playing various platform games, often involving the Super Mario Bros. franchise. He is also known for his speedrun attempts at these types of games.
The wealth of SimpleFlips
As of mid 2020, SimpleFlips net worth is estimated to be over $1 million earned through a successful online career. He has significant ad revenue from his YouTube channel, thanks to his many subscribers, as well as from donations and ad revenue while streaming on Twitch.
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Beginning of early life and gaming
While SimpleFlips has not revealed much about his past, video games are known to have been a big part of his life. He often makes up complicated stories about his past to his followers to confuse them about what is real or not, but he has mentioned a few things that stand out as truth. He first got into gaming via the Nintendo 64 console – which launched in the mid-1990s and competed with both the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. It is considered by many to be one of the greatest consoles of all time, responsible for helping deliver countless Nintendo exclusives to a wider audience.
It was at that time that he made much of the video game ‘Super Mario Bros.’ started playing. It is a platform game initially released for the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System, which he had played during his childhood and was very fond of. The game has contributed to the popularity of Mario and the wider universe in which he lives. It is considered one of the best video games of all time, praised for its precise controls and its ability to assist revive the then oversaturated video game world.
YouTube career
As the years passed, SimpleFlips went largely under the radar, but continued to be played as a hobby.
Eventually he discovered the world of walk fast – the goal of speedrunners in a game is to finish it as fast as possible, using techniques, glitches and other possible exploits to ensure they have the best free time. Speedrunning has become a niche within the community, which has slowly gained a lot of attention for the ingenious ways of completing games and the world records that have made them famous. Almost every game has speed runners who try things out before completing the game as quickly as possible.
One of the first games that speedrunners played a lot was platformers, as these games were often designed with no time limit, meaning you can move through a level quickly, provided they are agile enough to overcome the many obstacles within each level.
As YouTube became more famous, he started considering a career on the platform as it was a way to earn money while doing something he loved. So he then created his SimpleFlips channel.
Become famous
SimpleFlips started his channel playing various games, often related to the Mario universe. He recorded some of his speedrun attempts and started posting them online. He had a small devoted following in the beginning, which slowly grew as his achievements became more impactful. Since YouTube wasn’t very ideal for him in the beginning, he needed another source of income, and at that time streaming had become a way for many content creators to earn money on a regular basis.
He started stream regularly, showcasing some of his attempts and communicating with fans. In the end, he was able to beat records, including taking the record for “Super Mario Star Road” in 2016, which earned him some attention within the gaming community. He gained more fame by discovering an exploit in “Last Impact”, which increased his popularity considerably. As he streamed regularly, both his channels on Twitch and YouTube grew, and it wasn’t long before he was earning money from his ad revenue, while also bringing in donations on a regular basis.
controversies
While SimpleFlips has not shown any animosity towards others in his videos or streams, he is known to joke with his followers from time to time.
He is not a well-liked person within the speedrunning community, with much hatred directed at him, but no one seems to know the reason why. Many people suspect that some speedrunners don’t like his casual attitude when it comes to some of his running efforts, while others don’t like that he jokingly downplays the achievements of others. Other people don’t like his voice and his style, and beat him based on his looks, his jokes and his content in general.
Some traced the hatred back to his early speedrunning days, when he used the phrase “speedrunners hate him” every time he performed a complicated maneuver, or discovered something that would save time.
This may have prompted many others who did not like him in the first place to speak out against him. He mainly uses the catchphrase as one meme, listening to widespread Internet advertisements about various food products that scientists or trainers supposedly hate. Others say they hate him for saying that because it’s an overused meme.
Private life
SimpleFlips was in a relationship with former streamer Leah, also known as Loohhoo. She was known as one of the streamers who moved to the Mixer platform, but she eventually stopped streaming to pursue other endeavors.
The two had apparently been together for a while, but broke up after SimpleFlips moved to a different area. Flips is rumored to be gay, but it’s mostly because he jokes, which leads to some confusion.
A few months after they broke up, he pursued Leah again, wanting to fix things so they could get back together. It was successful, and while Leah is no longer streaming, she works as part of Flips’ team, handling editing and other behind-the-scenes work. The two announced on social media some time later that they had become each other concerned in 2020.
