| “ | HEY, what's goin' on guys my name's Anthony, or Bigbst4tz, and... | ” |
―Anthony's old intro | ||
Anthony Viviano (born: February 28, 1990), better known online as BigB (formerly known as Bigbst4tz2), is an American YouTuber who is well known for his Minecraft videos. However, he has recently focused on Roblox. His content focuses on the Roblox game "Rainbow Friends" (formerly, the Roblox game "Piggy" as well as "Welcome to Bloxburg"). He also used to play games such as Fortnite with his friends.
Biography[]
He was born in North Carolina on February 28, 1990, and was raised in the same state. His parents divorced when Viviano was 2 years old and his father was struggling financially. During his school years, he was somewhat bullied and had a passion for arts and creativity.
One day, he got to see what his father was video-editing and that's when Viviano found his true passion. When he had only 10 subscribers, he tried doing some video-editing but had a poor setup and had to do it in a more complicated method. He created a second channel when he reached 50,000 subscribers, but lost that channel one day.
He continued working on his YouTube channel even while doing two jobs, despite his struggles. One day, he stumbled upon Minecraft. He loved the game and decided to create a video of him playing the game.
When it became 2012, Minecraft was released on Xbox, and that is what Viviano was excited about because he could do good videos about this game. He played the game every day, uploaded every day and gained subscribers every day. At that time, he was working at a pharmaceutical company full-time for 40 to 50 hours, but that job didn't stop him from continuing his YouTube career.
One day, he met his wife Sara and moved to her home country, Germany, where she got a job, Viviano quit his full-time job and started pursuing his YouTube career full-time, instead. However, they later divorced years later. Ever since then, he gained more subscribers and he gets to do what he loves today, which is doing YouTube videos.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: March 17, 2017
- 2 million subscribers: March 2, 2019
- 3 million subscribers: June 15, 2023
Trivia[]
- In Pixel Gun 3D, the developers have created his own set of weapons called the "Cookie King" set and even an entire map dedicated to him called "Candy Land". The weapons and the map are cookie-themed.
- He likes cookies. In his "About" section, he said to the reader to remember to have a cookie.
- He has a net worth of $357,000 dollars as of February 2020.
- He has two older sisters, one older brother, and one younger brother.
- On March 4th, he and his girlfriend welcomed their first child.
- He voiced his own character in Minecraft: Story Mode, along with other YouTubers such as DanTDM, CaptainSparklez, LDShadowLady, Stampylonghead, and Stacyplays.
- He was once featured in Stampy's Lovely World, one of the few guest that Stampy allowed to come in and record his famous Minecraft world.