FWhip

**fWhip** is an American Minecraft YouTuber and former Twitch streamer based in Seattle, Washington, USA. As of mid-2023, his channel has over 1.5 million subscribers.

## Personal life

fWhip swam competetively (distance freestyle) for 8 or 9 years, then switched to water polo for 3 or 4 years. He almost got a college scholarship off of it until he got a back injury. He went on to achieve a degree in computer science, then he went into database management. He worked for Xbox managing the *Call of Duty* leaderboards, then moved on to work for various tech startups in the Seattle area. After that, he pursued becoming a content creator for YouTube. During his *Building with fWhip* series (2017–2020), his channel grew past the 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 subscriber milestones.

fWhip is a middle child, having an older and a younger brother. He lives with his wife Syd, whom he married in September 2022, as well as their two dogs, Koda (a Siberian husky named for a character in *Brother Bear*) and Nova (a husky-Malamute rescue named for the star on their forehead). Syd is not much of a gamer and will probably not appear in fWhip's content anytime soon.

## Singleplayer series

While fWhip has been known to play other games in his free time, his YouTube channel is dedicated solely to Minecraft.

* Building with fWhip
* Hardcore Season 1
* Survival 1.16
* Hardcore Season 2
* Better Minecraft
* Hardcore Season 3 (*current*)
* Hardcore Skyblock (*current*)

## Multiplayer series

Multiplayer series fWhip has been involved in:

* Dukonia Survival
* Decidedly Vanilla Season 4
* Decidedly Vanilla Season 5
* SourceBlock SMP
* Legacy SMP
* X Life SMP
* Empires SMP 1
* Afterlife SMP
* Empires SMP 2
* 30 Days Hardcore
* New Life SMP

## Building tips

### Published videos

* (7 Feb 2018) "9 SURVIVAL BUILDING TIPS To make you a PRO builder by fWhip"
* (2 Apr 2019) "50+ MINECRAFT 1.14 BUILD IDEAS : Tricks and Tips"
* (26 Aug 2019) "8 SIMPLE Minecraft 1.14 Landscaping Tips and Tricks"
* (5 Jan 2020 – 11 May 2020) *Minecraft 1.15 Vanilla Survival Tutorials* (21 videos)
* (15 Feb 2020) "How to Stay Motivated to Play Minecraft Survival"
* (21 Nov 2020) "How To Build in Minecraft 1.16 : Pro Building Tips and Tricks"
* (28 Dec 2021) "100 BUILD IDEAS for your MINECRAFT 1.18 Survival World!"
* (27 Jul 2023) "HOW TO BUILD BETTER in MINECRAFT 1.20 - HARDCORE Survival Let's Play" (stream)
* (21 Dec 2023) "Tips for HOW to BUILD BETTER in Minecraft Hardcore Survival"

### Tidbits

* Stream, 4 Nov 2022 (0:21:14) – fWhip gives some basic starter tips.
* Stream, 17 Feb 2023 (0:25:07) – fWhip gives advice for building with color blindness.
* Stream, 24 Mar 2023 (~ 0:43:00) – fWhip gives a tidbit on terraforming.
* Stream, 7 Apr 2023 (~ 0:28:45) – fWhip gives a tidbit on roofs.
* *Fishing with fWhip*, ep. 5 (16:43) – fWhip talks about using texture to create shape.
* Stream, 28 Jun 2023 (0:35:53) – fWhip talks tree scaping.
* *Hardcore S3*, ep. 45 (21:19) – fWhip talks tackling complicated builds that are outside of his comfort zone.

## Trivia

* fWhip's recording software is OBS.
* fWhip has been known to play *World of Warcraft* and even take inspiration from the game.

## Gallery

fWhip's old YouTube profile, replaced in 2023fWhip's current YouTube profile
## References

1. ↑ 28 July 2023 stream, "DESTROYING MY HARDCORE WORLD in MINECRAFT 1.20 - HARDCORE Survival Let's Play" (01:46:00)
2. ↑ 3 March 2023 stream, "Empires: MEGA SERVER SPAWN BUILD!!" (~935 mbrs)
3. ↑ fWhip : Bryce [@Failwhip] (21 Nov 2020). "Very exciting news to share! We need a new name for gfWhip.. Because we're engaged!! Love her to death and so thankful to have Syd in my Life. She's so insanely supportive and I wouldn't the same without her ❤️" (Tweet) – via X.
4. ↑ fWhip : Bryce [@Failwhip] (7 Sep 2022). "Mr. and Mrs. fWhip ❤️" (Tweet) – via X.
5. ↑ 3 March 2023 stream, "Empires: MEGA SERVER SPAWN BUILD!!" (~936 mbrs, minecart tunnel)
6. ↑ *Fishing with fWhip* ep. 3 (20:05)