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Stupid, stupid damage.

―Northernlion, multiple times during his The Binding of Isaac Let's Play

Ryan Letourneau (born: November 28, 1988 (1988-11-28) [age 35]), better known online as Northernlion, is a Canadian YouTuber. Rising to prominence via Let's Plays of indie games, his videos generally consist of gameplay while providing live commentary. Once identifying as a "Machinima Director and Let's Player Extraordinaire",[1] Northernlion is a charismatic individual known for his distinctive voice and sharp wit, as well as his usage of a variety of puns, idioms, and references to pop culture.

Aside from his Let's Plays, Northernlion has also made various video series, consisting of "Let's Look at, "Let's Hate", "Don't Play This", "Only in Korea", "Indie Game of the Week", and "Poison Mushroom" series on Machinima, and hosts the Northernlion Live Super Show on Twitch.

Personal Life[]

Northernlion is from in Kingston, Ontario. He went to Queens University.

He started his YouTube account in 2006 for a school project.[2]

For about a year, Northernlion worked in Daegu in South Korea as an English as a second/foreign language teacher for children.[3] He returned home to Canada on December 1, 2011.[4]

He was unemployed after returning home,[5] but now makes money through YouTube, which he calls "a dream job", and he once jokingly described himself as "funemployed".[6]

On March 23, 2020, Northernlion and his wife, Kate LovelyMomo, announced that they were expecting their first child – a girl, Luna.[7] Luna was born on September 28, 2020.[8]

YouTube and Twitch[]

Northernlion hosts a tri-weekly live stream event on Twitch called the "Northernlion Live Super Show". Each show is three hours long and is scheduled on Mondays 3pm—6pm PST and Wednesdays / Thursdays 2pm—5pm PST.

Initially, Northernlion usually spent the first hour discussing recent gaming-related news and reading fan mail, and the other two hours of the stream playing other games. Common games were Spelunky, The Binding of Isaac, and Family Feud 2010. There was also a trivia section two hours through the stream in which Northernlion asked five questions and fans tweeted him answers in hopes of winning a free game. As the show has continued, it has largely simply become Northernlion and his co-hosts solely playing games and interacting with each other, while fans participate in chat. RockLeeSmileJSmithOTI, and CobaltStreak co-host the livestream with Northernlion through Skype and later Discord, and in the past other YouTubers such as michaelalfox, Hafu, TotalBiscuit, Brex, FlackBlag, Ohmwrecker and Alpacapatrol have also joined.

Each show, taken from Twitch's VOD system, is uploaded to Northernlion's YouTube account the following day, usually split into two parts.

Originally, each show was hosted on YouTube, rather than Twitch, and the Northernlion Live Super Show suffered from a few technical difficulties, such as screen flickering and slowdown. Furthermore, because YouTube's comment system was not adapted well for live-streaming, viewers could not converse with each other or with Northernlion effectively; Northernlion asked viewers to instead contact him by tweeting him "@NorthernlionLP". These issues were soon fixed, and the show was later streamed via Twitch instead of YouTube.

In 2013, Northernlion became dedicated to Twitch, no longer simultaneously streaming on YouTube. Since switching he has become very interactive with the chat section. He also plays with his subscribers on his weekly Northernlion Super Subscriber Stream on Sundays, where paying Twitch subscribers have an opportunity to play with him in games such as Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He also hosts the Northernlion Super Tuesday Stream where he plays games that he wants to play.

Trivia[]

  • Northernlion created a thread on r/LetsPlay designed to help potential YouTubers grow;[9] Markiplier would later credit Northernlion as the YouTuber who helped him get where he is today in a later post on the same subreddit.[10]
  • Northernlion's birthday is on 28 November 1988.[11][12][13]
  • Northernlion is 5'9" (175cm) tall.[14]
  • Northernlion has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and an Associate's Degree in Software Development.[15]
  • As of May 14 2017, Northernlion is a certified Unity Developer.[16]
  • As of May 2013, owns a white Ragdoll cat named Ryuka.[17]
  • Goes by the name ItsOppositeDayHere on Reddit.
  • First mentioned in an episode of his Let's Play of Cave Story,[18] he is afraid of deep-sea creatures, specifically tentacled creatures such as jellyfish.
  • His wife has her own YouTube channel, Kate LovelyMomo.
  • Northernlion suffers from a really bad case of YouTuber Sickness.[19]
  • Northernlion and his wife Kate LovelyMomo appear as commentators in the Iron Cook Speedway update for Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?![20]
  • Northernlion was the first YouTuber or Twitch streamer to be given their own curated show in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout in November 2020.[21]
  • Searching up "NL" on YouTube brings up Northernlion's channel.

Subscriber Milestones[]

Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.


  • 1 million subscribers: April 4, 2022

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