TheMounTing

**Samuel** (born September 1995), known professionally as **TheMounTing** or **Ting**, is a British Twitch streamer, gaming YouTuber and voice actor. He streams variety content regularly on Twitch. On YouTube, he creates game reviews as part of his SuggesTing series and Star Wars lore videos on his secondary channel Qui-Gon Ting.

## Beginnings

The name "TheMounTing" is a play on the nickname "Ting" (derived from TheMounTing's surname) and The Mountain from the TV show *Game of Thrones* (ironically, due to TheMounTing's shorter stature of 5'10). The pun was made by a coworker of TheMounTing and later adopted as his brand name.

After uploading to multiple YouTube channels in his youth, TheMounTing begin streaming on Twitch in 2016. He was largely influenced by the streamer DuckSauce, whom he cites as his main inspiration.

## Career

TheMounTing's streams focus primarily on variety content (including shooters, rpgs, and action/adventure games) with "Just Chatting" segments at the start of each stream. He has so far amassed over 7.5k followers. In 2017, TheMounTing created his YouTube; this channel initially included Twitch highlights, playthroughs and the brief series Ting Tries. The same year, TheMounTing had a short-lived podcast known as Raiding With The Vikings. He became a speedrunner of *Super Mario 3D World*, and currently ranks 67th in the world for WiiU Any%.

In 2019, TheMounTing was invited to Sega's "Judgment Day" event as part of the release of their game *Judgement*; he interviewed lead voice actor Greg Chun in a video on his YouTube, in a one-time segment called Tea Time With Ting. In 2020, he created a game review series entitled SuggesTing, which has since become the highest viewed content on his YouTube. Later that year, TheMounTing started a *Star Wars*-themed secondary channel called Qui-Gon Ting (a play on his nickname and favorite *Star Wars* character Qui-Gon Jinn). He began producing TikTok content in 2021, focusing on *Call of Duty* clips.

## Trivia

* TheMounTing owns a sprocker spaniel named Toby, who regularly appears on stream.
* He has a chest tattoo of the Sheikah eye symbol from *Breath of the Wild*.
* TheMounTing regularly attends the gym and takes mandarin lessons.
* In 2020, after an autocorrect incident, it became a popular meme within the community to refer to Ting as "Hog Daddy".
* TheMounTing has a gift sub alert on Twitch of a clip from his favorite Christmas movie *Jingle All the Way*. However, to this day he has neglected to remove it after the holidays. Many community members thus ridicule him, describing it as the Twitch equivalent of keeping your decorations up.
* TheMounTing has become enemies with many different video game characters over his career; including: Princess Daisy (Mario franchise), Penelo (FFXII) and Lady Yunalesca (FFX).
* Ting has also found many waifus during his gaming career, including: Merrin (Jedi Fallen Order), Hostess Majima (Yakuza Kiwami) and Prince Sidon (Breath of the Wild).
* Known to be immensely afraid of horror games, TheMounTing refused to finish games like *Alien: Isolation*. However, in recent years he has been able to beat horror games such as *The Forest* and *Phasmophobia* while playing with others.

## Quotes

* "Can I get a HOOOOOYAAAAAH!?!"
* "My Loo00oOOoord!! I bring urgent news regarding Lord Sun Ce!"
* "I would go gay for Jack Black."
* "Getting platinum relics is better than sex, I said it! That release!"