The Phamily

Peter Anderson (born: ), better known online as The Phamily (also known as Phineapoo), is an American gaming YouTuber. Born and raised in Oregon, he started his channel as a fun way to pass time after serving a full-time service mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. His pseudonym was created initially as a reference to the TV show, Phineas and Ferb.
His channel started with mostly late night streams playing the game Town of Salem (which was chosen as a joke since he lived in Salem, Oregon at the time). This quickly transitioned into Minecraft with some of his friends, and eventually Roblox as well.
Peter is currently known for his Minecraft content, as well as his weekly Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Mii Fighter Tournaments, where he takes current viewers, makes Mii characters out of them, and adds them to a fighters tournament.
==History==
Peter initially joined YouTube in January of 2013, with his first upload not happening until February 3rd, 2016. He uploaded a video where he and a friend were performing piano as a test video, and later that week started regular uploads.
In June 2017, he moved from Salem, Oregon to Denver, Colorado for his wife to attend college. Shortly after moving, Peter took a break from uploading content for their honeymoon; a three and a half week trip around the United States.
In August 2018, Peter attended Minefaire Denver, marking the first convention he attended as a YouTuber.
In November 2018, Peter and a small YouTuber named TobyMinceraft together opened their own Minecraft server Rising Dawn Network, home to Phin's minigame Phamily Karts (an unofficial community recreation of Mario Kart); the server has been going strong, but didn't gain popularity until Phin finished the minigame the Phamily Maze, the second rendition of his community-built maze from ExplodingTNT's server MC-Origins (unfortunately, the MC-Origins server closed in 2019, during production of the new maze).
In July 2019, LAG was created, a streaming channel that Peter currently broadcasts his Roblox content on, alongside YouTubers Nightfoxx, Woozlo, KVRayne, Trevaless' Tales, Effect2o, and The Blox Fam. As of 2020, the LAG channel has more or less disbanded, at least with Phin leaving the team for reasons non-disclosed to the public.
In May 2020 (amidst the COVID-19 pandemic) Phin moved back to his home state of Oregon to the town of Tualatin to be closer to family; in March, as he started getting fewer and fewer hours working at a Chick-fil-A in Denver at the pandemic's peak, Phin's wife set up a Go-Fund-Me page to help support their travel from Denver to Tualatin. Since that time, they have moved 2 more times, once to Aurora, Oregon, and once more to Portland, Oregon, where they currently live (as of May 2021).
In February 2021, Phineapoo made several changes to his channel, the biggest of which was the rebranding of the name to "The Phamily". After this rebrand, Phineapoo brought on a few additional creators (Dontask, Toby and Racingfan) to make content alongside him.
In August 2021, Rails For Hope Charity Live Stream started with the goal of beating a Guinness World Record for Longest railway track in Minecraft with a total length of 200,000. Helping beat this record was Dontaskmehname55, RocketJumper5 and Graphicly. The record ended short at 152,906 rails when the rest where placed off by one block. Meanwhile Phineapoo raised over $1.3k that was matched to near $3.5k after the Rails For Hope live stream for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
On June 12, 2023, Phineapoo set out for redemption to get The Longest Redstone Trail in Minecraft needing 123,457 too beat the record at the time. In the end he placed 126,969 Redstone Dust beating the known record. Unfortunately for Phineapoo someone else's attempt at the record with 200,000 was approved while waiting for his approval.
==Trivia==
* Peter started out recording on his father's computer, which happened to be right next to the kitchen.
* A couple of the original games Peter started video recording and streaming include Minecraft, Town of Salem, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, and the Jackbox Party Pack(s)
* He started recording late at nights to better control his limited lighting, decrease noise, and to minimize disturbing his family. This carried over to his work schedule later on, and it has since stuck with him.
* The Insomniacs Stream, as his streams are named, reflects the initial late night upload time, as well as the little sleep he gives himself.
* His wife, known as Phineagirl online, occasionally hosts streams of her own on his channel.
* Peter has made a tradition of consuming hot sauce and other super spicy foods on the channel, as a way to give thanks to his viewers for various things (such as donating, or subscribing to the channel)
* As a reference to when he first started streaming and uploading videos, Phin's all-time running slogan is "Bringing laughs, LOLs, and le internet since 2016"
* Before going live, Phin generally posts updated to his Discord server
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013
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