Jared D. Gorbachev (born: August 31, 1996), better known online as Tomato Gaming (formerly known as TomatoandToph), is an American Twitch streamer and YouTube creator who uploads gaming content. Though he originated as a YouTuber, since late 2018 he has centered almost exclusively on his Twitch streams.
On Twitch, Tomato is affiliated with Criken2, Strippin, Gmart, KingBendrick, JoeFudge, LaynaLazar, and Dave5005. In his past YouTube career, he was affiliated with ShayneHawke, BedBananas, Belowtheshoe, TheMadMax000, MessYourself, VaatiVidya, and MattShea.
About[]
His first upload dates back to October 22, 2013. From late 2013 to about August 2014, he would begin to shift his channel from frequent, short Garry's Mod videos with friends to long, heavily-edited single player videos with a storyline of sorts. With a smaller base of roughly 7,000 subscribers at the time, he briefly began livestreaming on Twitch before stopping to work on his channel.[Note 1]
On March 31, 2015, after deliberating what he would do after high school and considering going to college for video editing and business, Tomato announced he would take a gap year to focus on YouTube full-time. He has not mentioned the status of his education since.[Note 2]
Around 2016, Tomato befriended BedBananas. At this point on his channel, he would rarely go back to play multiplayer games with Bed and his other friends, and over time older friends moved on from the platform or out of the friend group, leading Tomato to gear more towards single-player content. Eventually, he would become friends with Criken2 who, along with Bed and Tomato, would create the Rooster Teeth-affiliated group "Sideshow" in May 2018. Since Sideshow's creation, Tomato became a mainstay on Criken's Twitch channel. Sideshow, along with close affiliate and friend Shayne Hawke, held their first official panel as a group at RTX 2018, where Tomato admitted before showing a draft of an upcoming video that he felt as though his channel was "cursed" due to numerous issues delaying him from editing and uploading videos.
In late 2018, Tomato and Criken faced off against each other in Magic: The Gathering Arena blindfolded, as response to an earlier stream where Tomato coached a blindfolded Criken. To prove he was blindfolded, Tomato created a Twitch channel and streamed for the first time in years. Though he intended it to be a throwaway event, since late 2018 Tomato has abandoned his original YouTube account due to stresses relating to content and monetization, and has streamed on his Twitch channel ever since, where he maintains a fanbase of over 160,000 followers as of 2024. In early 2024, Tomato returned to YouTube with a new channel, Tomato, which uploads edited highlights of his streams, but is maintained by a paid editor. He has expressed no wishes to return to regular YouTube uploads on his Tomato Gaming channel, which has not uploaded since October 5, 2018.
On Twitch, Tomato is known for his deprecating banter humor, variety streams, and hour-long chatting stream intros. He also takes part in several Dungeons & Dragons campaigns organized by JoeFudge on Twitch, such as Godforged.
Lost Media[]
- "Serial vs Civilian"[1] Outtakes and Bloopers[2]: A "behind the scenes" highlight of videos from the popular "Serial vs Civilian" series, which was fully purged in 2019 or 2020.
- YouTube Livestreams: From 2013 to 2014, Tomato did various Garry's Mod livestreams with TheMadMax000, EntoanThePack, SleepinGamer, and other friends with a few of the streams being condensed into short highlight videos. The streams were ultimately purged and deleted in 2018 when "Tomato's Trash" rebranded itself as Tomato's Twitch VOD archive.
Trivia[]
- Tomato's most viewed (and most hated) Twitch clip is "tamto struggles to break a flimsy little disk", better known as "the disk clip", taken from a December 19, 2018 stream, and shows Tomato struggling to bend a CD; the context of the clip is unclear, and it is unknown if he succeeded in snapping it in twain.
- Tomato's assistant and head Twitch moderator CursedKatey, also the butt of many jokes in chat, assembled a list of The Allegations facing Tomato as of April 2024. His premade apology that Katey wrote for him, seen at the bottom of the list, is "Lol. Lmao."
- Tomato's Twitch channel has a series of running jokes, including:
- Backseating (giving the streamer advice or pointing them on what to do, such as what the correct choices are or finding things he missed or misplaced). Despite being clearly prohibited in his channel rules, almost every stream has users, both new and old, who attempt to backseat anyway, only to instantly get timed out by his moderators.
- Colonoscopies, which Tomato has had to undergo several times (off-stream, obviously). Associated with the dreaded "Poop Day", apparently referring to the day before a colonoscopy in which the patient must cleanse their bowels by taking laxatives, which supposedly confines them to the toilet for the entire day.
- The "sewer burger". Originates from an intro conversation Tomato had with his chat about whether he would eat a hamburger in a sewer provided it was "perfectly wrapped", and Tomato said he would.
- The "Huge Man" (stylized as "!!!HUGE MAN!!!" or "!! HUGE MAN !!"). It originates from an I'm On Observation Duty scare involving a very large man who, despite Tomato reporting his anomaly, remained in the map for longer than he wanted.
- The elephant VTuber bit. It originated from a a conversation with Dave5005. Apparently, during the Twitch NSFW content policy loosening of December 14, 2023, Tomato had actually considered trying to make the bit real as a joke, but ultimately decided to not stream that day, delaying the apocalypse.
- Tomato Fortnite. This is a real YouTube channel that uploads Fortnite content, who a few people have apparently confused Tomato for.
- The Great Molasses Flood. This is a real event that came up in a conversation with Dave5005, which both of them found extremely funny for some reason.
- Balsamic vinegar. In either 2022 or 2023 Tomato purchased a bottle of balsamic vinegar that he apparently enjoyed so much it was supposedly near his desk at all times. If you believe chat, he has also drank some.
- The United States Internal Revenue Service. Originated from a tax problem he had with the IRS that took several years to resolve.
- Tomato has deuteranopia. Being a "deutan" was a massive part of his personality until August 18, 2022, when he took an online quiz during a stream intro and, after failing multiple times, inexplicably passed by spamming through the questions, which he took as him being "cured".[3]
- Unlike his friends and most other Twitch streamers, Tomato's Channel Points are completely worthless aside from the default functions (such as temporarily unlocking subscriber-only emotes), yet some chat members will get very mad over losing them in Predictions. In early 2024, after years of there being no point in hoarding Channel Points aside from watching the number go up and losing them all in Predictions, Tomato arbitrarily introduced a new reward: "PRESTIGE", which uses 1,000,000 Channel Points and allegedly makes Tomato care more about "prestiged" chat members, but whether this is true or not is unclear considering he hates chat.
- Since 2023, Tomato's Twitch moderators have managed a yearly running count of the Ls (losses) he takes in his streams.
- In high school, Tomato ran track. He was also apparently in band, and still owns several instruments from then, including a harmonica, a jarp, and a trombone with a dreaded "spit valve" that he probably doesn't clean out.
- Tomato can apparently speak German, or at least could in 2014.[4]
- Tomato cannot whistle.[5]
- Tomato apparently has no feeling in his left foot due to having liquid nitrogen poured on him as a kid.[6]
- Though they share some overlap in friends, content, and viewers, Tomato barely knows Jerma985 and Vinesauce, but he did go to an arcade with them once.[7]
- Tomato has a cat and a dog.
- Tomato’s uncle was in the military.
- On a stream on 12/1/2019 Tomato screamed at his audience during stream to add toilet lore to his wiki.
- The bathroom in Signal Simulator is fake. The toilet paper is made of plastic, the toilet lid cannot be opened and the only source of water within thousands of miles is his streamer bath water. This renders him incapable of wiping or washing his hands after going to the bathroom.
References[]
- ↑ This is most likely not the same channel as the main "Tomato" channel he would move to later, as his channel description there notes he used to stream "somewhere else".
- ↑ It can be presumed Tomato abandoned this pursuit and switched to Twitch and YouTube full-time, as he has implied that in several stories. For instance, he recounted his parents initially being worried and judgmental about his career, only to loosen up once they learned he was making good money off of YouTube.
- ↑ Serial vs Civilian example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51cqNcWAu24&ab_channel=TomatoGaming
- ↑ Serial vs Civilian: Outtakes and Bloopers original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hsqP02ceLg&t=0s
- ↑ https://www.twitch.tv/tomato/clip/SpineyManlyNightingalePMSTwin-1E7pLisI1ErWSfKX
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9NGOimDUExE?si=XvQcOcbOkvN-b1bj&t=72
- ↑ https://www.twitch.tv/tomato/clip/KawaiiOriginalPrariedogLitty
- ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/TriangularRelatedSangThisIsSparta
- ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/TriumphantCogentAsparagusRalpherZ