I grew up in rural York County, Pennsylvania, with a cornfield in my backyard and a 56k modem in my self-assembled desktop. This did not stop me from watching TechTV and Sci-Fi and playing games off the Sega Channel until all three dissolved into whatever-they-are-now. It also did not stop me from being a weird goth-y nerd kid.
College meant moving across Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, where I fell in with a group of unpretentious, puckish nerds. I was their RA in the tech school's student dorms for two years while working three jobs, taking full-time classes, and somehow still graduating.
After college was a wild ride of Otakon convention staffing, meaningless jobs, kitten adoption, important jobs, MMO stints, and then finally... YouTube. Following the loss of a particularly important day job in 2016, I turned toward strengthening my skills in video editing by creating a daily vlog every day for 90 days. It was exhausting, and rendering video on old laptops gives you a lot of downtime, which is how I discovered Twitch.
Later that year, I revamped a casual Google Hangout with friends into a fully captured cooking show, streamed to Twitch. This show would go on to be lauded by local chefs and praised by Twitch staff in the Creative category. You may have heard of Cooking With Heat.
Starting in December 2016, I decided to lean fully into livestreaming, creating new content pretty much every single day. Each month since then has been a Themed Month, ranging from JAMuary, where I play music games and DJ, all the way to DeSIMber, where I play a new simulation game every single day of the month.
Most PH16 things orbit through streams, video projects, community nights, and the Discord, which is still the fastest place to find me when something needs doing.