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Zack Hoyt was born in 1990 in Florida. Not long after he was born he moved to Austin, Texas. He grew up with an interest in video games, particularly role-playing games (RPGs), and was introduced to World of Warcraft by a friend in 2006. He quickly became captivated by the game and began playing it extensively. Hoyt later attended college, but dropped out to focus on his streaming career.

With the release of World of Warcraft Classic in 2019, Hoyt's popularity surged; he became one of the platform's most prominent streamers in that year. He remained one of Twitch's most popular World of Warcraft streamers during the Shadowlands launch in 2020. On July 3, 2021, he played Final Fantasy XIV for the first time before hundreds of thousands of viewers. Hoyt's favor towards World of Warcraft soured in July 2021, when a lawsuit was filed against the game's developer Activision Blizzard for discrimination against and sexual harassment of female employees. Hoyt subsequently began regularly criticizing Activision Blizzard and providing regular updates on the lawsuit on his streams. By August 2021, Hoyt had become one of the largest streamers on Twitch, with over 2 million followers. In October of the same year, leaked data from Twitch showed that Hoyt had earned the 14th-highest amount of money on the platform since August 2019, totalling at over $2.5 million.

In 2022, he contacted Republican senator Ted Cruz to discuss regulating loot boxes in video games. Cruz was non-committal.

In early 2024, Hoyt, alongside other prominent YouTubers, aided in spreading "anti-woke" conspiracism about Sweet Baby Inc.'s work in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In a Twitch stream on October 14, 2024, Hoyt called Palestinians "terrible people" from "an inferior culture" that "kills people for their identity" and "is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for". He also said that they "have genocide built into Sharia law right now, so, no, I'm not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that's baked into their laws are getting genocided". This statement was later called a "racist tirade". His zackrawrr account on Twitch was banned for 14 days due to violating the platform's hateful conduct policy. Hoyt initially made a brief apology on Twitter which was criticized by PC Gamer, stating "that quite a few people don't consider 'my bad' a sufficient expression of contrition and reconsideration for espousing grossly racist attitudes". Hoyt later released a more extensive apology stating he had been "slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited, rude, nasty, callous, psychopathic version of [him]self" and he would take a break from streaming. He also stepped down from his leadership positions in OTK and Starforge Systems.

After Elon Musk was accused in January 2025 of paying third parties to boost his Path of Exile 2 account, Hoyt challenged Musk to prove that he himself had leveled a character to 97 in hardcore mode, after which Musk unfollowed Hoyt on X, removed his verification check, and posted a screenshot of their private messages. A community note under the post stated that leaking private messages without permission generally violated X's guidelines. Musk later deleted his tweets, and the two have subsequently interacted with each other on X about other topics.

In November 2025, Hoyt was named in a lawsuit filed by the streamer Mizkif as a defendant alongside fellow streamer Emiru, OTK Media Inc., Mythic Talent Management Inc., and King Gaming Labs Inc. for reputational harm, lost earnings, and emotional distress. The lawsuit came after Emiru accused Mizkif of "psychological and domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, sexual assault, and threats of blackmail", which was then amplified by Hoyt during his livestreams.

In August 2026, he received a 14-day ban for suggesting that migrants, including children, attempting to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta should be shot; he refused to apologize for these remarks.