Hello, I'm kickhats or Ciaran, whichever. I use Wikipedia. This is mine I guess.

Gaming

kickhats
— Wikipedian —
Name	kickhats
Born	Ciaran; April 13, 1998 (age 26); Aberdeen, Scotland
Pronouns	He/Him
Alignment	Chaotic Neutral
Family and friends
Spouse	humancanid (m. 2023)
	Twitch information
Channel	kickhats;
Years active	2020–Present
Followers	849; (January 2024)

Of course as a Twitch streamer, kickhats has a passion for his gaming hobby. His earliest recollection of playing a video game is from c. 2002, playing Total Annihilation on his father's PC. Early childhood favourites on the PC also included Rome: Total War, Halo: Combat Evolved and Call of Duty.

The streamer was introduced to console gaming in c. 2005; while visiting family in Ottawa, his older cousin Cat showed him Animal Crossing on the GameCube. While his earlier consoles mainly included the GameCube and PlayStation 2, it wasn't until he received an Xbox 360 on Christmas 2007 that he would truly delve into the gaming hobby. Ciaran played many of his favourite games initially on the Xbox 360, including Halo 3, Call of Duty: World at War, Fallout: New Vegas, Just Cause 2 and more.

Twitch

kickhats does stream sometimes.

2013-2020

The "kickhats" channel was first created on 26 October 2013. The first years of the accounts' life, it was barely used, with viewer counts peaking at 30 due to kickhats being the only English-speaking Euro Truck Simulator 2 streamer that was live at that time.

kickhats began streaming more regularly during the dark times, while studying BSc Cyber Security & Networks. The majority of surviving clips and VODs of 2020 kickhats are speedrun attempts playing Where's Waldo for the NES.

2021

kickhats began connecting with Dead by Daylight (DBD) streamers in March 2021 by following channels such as Staggiez and Slate. Through these livestreams, he found a wonderful, unnamed, community of DBD streamers and chatters. Later in the year, after streaming DBD himself very often, kickhats accepted a (pity) invitation to join Limmy's Twitch stream team "Chitchatters"; the team was disbanded weeks later.

Music

Music has always been very influential throughout Ciaran's life, with some early favourite artists including Metallica, McFly and Miike Snow. By his teenage years, his musical fascination for electronic music had grown significantly; artists such as deadmau5, Skrillex and Feed Me were early and longstanding favourites.

As a young adult, kickhats discovered the midwest emo genre, and became a fan of the likes of Mom Jeans and Remo Drive; however this was a short-lived interest as the next musical obsession started to take form in 2020. A long-time friend of kickhats introduced him to 100 gecs by jokingly quoting their single "Money Machine", which kickstarted Ciaran's complete love for the hyperpop and glitchcore genres.

The top 10 artists listened to by kickhats on Spotify are listed below:

100 gecs
Daft Punk
Cake Pop
underscores
food house
8485
Charli XCX
Alice Gas
fromtheheart
Sophie

In addition to listening to music, kickhats has been producing music with Ableton Live since 2013.

Personal life

Born on 13 April 1998 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Ciaran grew up in Conwy and Aberdeenshire until 2016. He now resides in the Scottish Highlands with his wife and pets.