Miniminter
# Miniminter

Simon Edward Minter (born 7 September 1992), better known as Miniminter, is an English YouTuber, streamer and Internet personality. He is also a co-founder and member of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen, as well as KSI, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123, and W2S. As of July 2023, his main YouTube channel has over 10.2 million subscribers and over 3.6 billion video views

## Early Life

Simon was born in Hemel Hempstead, a town in Hertfordshire. He has two older brothers called Nick Minter and Johnny Minter. Simon attended Berkhamsted School, a private school in his local area, alongside Olajide (JJ) Olatunji, or KSI. They met around age 12-13 and have both said that they initially disliked each other and had a physical fight in class. Both Simon and JJ claim their teachers stepped in and attempted to force them into a friendship. This ultimately worked and they have been best friends since, often collaborating with one another on their respective Social media pages. Simon is a long-time fan of Leeds United F.C as his mother's side of the family is from there.

## Career

Simon was helping JJ film a video in London in November 2012, where he met fellow youtuber, and later Sidemen member Tobi, or TBJZL. Tobi was long-term friends with Zerkaa and the four of them went out for a meal together at Nando's and got on very well. From his ongoing friendship with JJ, Simon was inspired to create a channel of his own. Simon posted his first FIFA video in December 2012 just before quitting university. Simon has stated that the "mini" part of "Miniminter" was in reference to his height when he was younger. It is also believed to be a reference to him being the youngest of the 3 children in his family. In his first few years of YouTube, Simon mainly made FIFA and real-life football videos, as well as vlogs, Q&A videos and PO Box package openings. He has stated that his YouTube career and style was inspired by Nigahiga.

Simon started his second channel MM7Games in late-2013 and he would mainly post Grand Theft Auto V videos, as well as numerous other "random" games with the Sidemen. Simon posted videos to his second channel a lot more frequently than his main channel. Simon posted his first group video in March 2014; a crossbar challenge with various other YouTubers on his main channel. After this, Simon's subscriber count blew up to around 150,000.

In early-2014, Simon moved into the original Sidemen House with three other members of the Sidemen (Vik, JJ and Josh). At this point, he had only known Vik for a couple of months. This allowed the group to be much more collaborative and post more regular group content. He moved into the second and final Sidemen House in mid-2016 until January 2019 when the group decided to move on.

He continued to post GTA V videos to his second channel almost every day in the mid-2010s. Throughout his gaming career, he would go under many nicknames, such as "Real Nimrod" and "Stimpy", the latter referencing his childhood nickname of the cartoon character due to their "similar appearances".

In the late-2010s, Simon's main channel branched out into Reddit videos, lifestyle videos, quizzes/game-shows, challenges and reactionary videos. A large proportion of his real-life videos were collaborative challenges with other members of the Sidemen, such as patience tests, quizzes, football challenges and more.

## Relationship

Miniminter is currently married to fellow English YouTuber and musician Natalia Haddock, or Talia Mar. They started dating in late 2017, however they both confirmed the relationship in 2018. She currently runs two YouTube accounts Talia Mar, and Talia Mar games but her main account is Talia Mar and it has over 1 million followers and it mostly contains videos of her singing while her second account contains videos of her playing games.

## Ownerships

As well as his Miniminter and MM7Games channel, he also runs his personal channels MiniminterClips and MiniminterExtra. He also partially runs the Group channels of Sidemen, MoreSidemen, SidemenReacts, SidemenShorts and What's Good Podcast, which he hosts with fellow Youtuber Randolph. In addition to the Sidemen channels, he partially owns all other Sidemen products/comapnies, including Side+, Sidemen Clothing, XIX Vodka, SideCards and Sides.

## Discography

List of singles with selected chart positions and year released :

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Title | Year | UK | UK R&B | UK Ind. | IRE | NZ Hot | SCO |
| "KSI's Little Brother" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Fiver" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "The Gift" (featuring S-X) | 2019 | 77 | 40 | 11 | — | 27 | 26 |
| "The Helium Song" (featuring Randolph) | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "Survive The Night" (featuring Randolph) | 2020 | — | — | 18 | — | — | — |
| "Animation" (featuring Randolph) | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "This or That" (featuring Randolph and Sidemen) | 2022 | — | — | 23 | — | 14 | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||

* 1 2 The Sidemen (18 October 2016). Sidemen: The Book. Coronet Books. pp. 27–31. ISBN 978-1473648166.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
* 1 2 "About Miniminter". YouTube.
* ↑ "UK Singles Chart". Official Charts Company. 26 December 2019. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
* ↑ "UK R&B Singles Chart". Official Charts Company. 26 December 2019.
* ↑ Peaks of Sidemen's singles on the UK Independent Singles Chart: "UK Independent Singles Chart (20 December 2019 – 26 December 2019)". Official Charts Company. 26 December 2019. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2022. "UK Independent Singles Chart (23 December 2022 – 29 December 2022)". Official Charts Company. 23 December 2022. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
* ↑ "Official Irish Singles Chart Top 50 (23 December 2022 – 29 December 2022)". Official Charts Company. 23 December 2022. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
* ↑ Peaks on the NZ Hot Singles Chart: "The Gift": "New Zealand Hot Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 23 December 2019. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020. "Christmas Drillings" and "This or That": "New Zealand Hot Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
* ↑ "Scottish Singles Chart". Official Charts Company. 26 December 2019.
* ↑ "The Gift – Single by Sidemen on Apple Music". Apple Music. 15 December 2019. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
