GrandPooBear
David Hunt, known online as GrandPooBear, is a prominent video game streamer, speedrunner and creator of Kaizo Super Mario levels.Career
David Hunt, known online as GrandPooBear, grew up in Michigan and attended the University of Colorado Boulder. An avid snowboarder, a bad accident left him severely injured and in months of recovery, at which point he turned to another passion to focus on, saying: "I was bored on the couch, and I decided I wanted to become really good at one video game, Super Mario Bros. 3."
He learned Kaizo techniques from playing over 5,000 hours of Super Mario Maker, including levels created by PangaeaPanga, and created a series of video tutorials on Kaizo game mechanics with walkthroughs of his own levels. He became a prominent video game streamer of Super Mario Maker 2. As of 2020, he is a full-time game streamer.
Prominent kaizo creator BarbarousKing named his Grand Poo World series after GrandPooBear.
Hunt was invited to become an official Red Bull Esports Athlete on December 14, 2018.
