Real name
Tyler Steinkamp. "loltyler1" is the Twitch handle; he is publicly known online as Tyler1.
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Quick-reference trivia about Tyler1 — birth, channel milestones, signature moments, and the numbers most people get wrong.
Date of birth
March 7, 1995. As of 2026, he is 31 years old.
Hometown
Missouri, United States. He grew up in the Midwest and references his Missouri roots in vlogs and IRL streams.
Nationality
American. His content is broadcast from the United States.
Primary platform
Twitch — channel handle loltyler1. For long stretches he has been the most-watched League of Legends streamer on the platform.
Secondary platforms
YouTube hosts the uploaded clip channels and stream highlights; X (formerly Twitter) drives most of the off-stream banter. The live home stays Twitch.
When he broke out
His original 2015–2016 League run made him notorious. The 2018 unban return-stream broke Twitch viewership records and locked in the second, larger career arc.
The 2016 Riot permaban
Riot Games issued an indefinite ID/IP ban in April 2016 over toxicity and account-related rule breaks. The ban lasted roughly two years.
The 2018 unban
Riot lifted the ban in January 2018. The first stream back peaked past 380,000 concurrent Twitch viewers — at the time one of the platform's highest live numbers ever.
Signature game
League of Legends. He is a long-time bottom-lane main with Draven as his identity champion — top-tier ADC across multiple seasons on the NA ladder.
Second game in the rotation
NBA 2K. The MyCareer and MyTeam runs are a recurring off-Rift block on the schedule, and the 2K rage clips travel almost as well as the League ones.
Signature shout
"BROOO!" — the drawn-out, full-volume reaction shout that doubles as a verbal punctuation mark across every Tyler1 stream.
Tyler1 Championship Series (T1CS)
His own annual League of Legends amateur tournament, run on-stream with a real bracket, casters, and prize pool. Now a fixture of the NA solo-queue community calendar.
T1 official streamer
Tyler1 is an official streamer partner of esports organization T1 — confirmed by Faker's org in 2024. Stream overlays carry the T1 partnership branding.
Powerlifting hobby
Serious bodybuilding and powerlifting hobbyist — known stream-floor lifts include a 425 lb bench press across his Power Meet event streams.
Wife — Macaiyla
Married to Twitch streamer Macaiyla. The couple stream together periodically and their long-running co-op and just-chatting clips are some of the channel's most-watched content.
Estimated net worth (2026)
Public estimates place him in the $10M–$15M range, driven by Twitch subscriptions, T1CS sponsorships, and brand deals. See our breakdown.
How the money is made
Twitch subscriptions are the largest line item, followed by T1CS-event sponsorships, YouTube AdSense on the clip channels, and the T1 organization partnership.
What you'll see on stream
League of Legends solo-queue grind on Draven, NBA 2K rage sessions, Macaiyla co-streams, gym vlogs, T1CS broadcasts, and the occasional Just Chatting marathon.
Fan-base loose name
"Alpha males" — used self-mockingly by Tyler1 and adopted by chat. It is community shorthand, not an official designation, but you will see it everywhere in clip comments.
All figures are public estimates and best-effort reconstructions. If you spot anything that's clearly wrong, please let us know.