Popular video game commentator Adam Montoya aka SeaNanners hasn’t posted new content in a long time – here’s what happened to SeaNanners. Montoya’s YouTube career began after he posted his first video – featuring Call of Duty gameplay – in August 2009. Later that year, he partnered with now defunct gaming platform Machinima on its Machinima Respawn channel where he hosted shows with fellow YouTube gamers including Scott Robison (aka Mr. Sark), Shaun Hutchinson (aka Hutch) and ChilledChaos.
Alongside collaborating with other YouTubers like Max Gonzalez (aka GassyMexican), Markiplier and Tom Cassell, SeaNanners also found work outside of video game commentary. In early 2016 he landed a gig voicing the Taskmaster in TinyCo’s mobile game app Marvel Avengers Academy. That was a pretty productive year for Montoya and he later went on to create and star in the adult animation Paranormal Action Squad for YouTube Red with gamer pals Mr. Sark and Evan Fong (aka VanossGaming).
Since he first started out on YouTube in 2009, SeaNanners’ popularity grew immensely over time. At the last count, his channel had over 5.5 million subscribers and his videos had been watched over 2.5 billion times. Yet in 2018, Montoya’s content output slowed down considerably from his usual rate of a few videos per month. Over the course of the year, he released just six new videos and posted his last video – which featured him playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds – in mid-May 2018. Once a relatively prolific presence on Twitter, it seems Montoya has all but abandoned his account there too having last tweeted around the same time he posted his last YouTube video.
SeaNanners’ fans will be happy to hear he hasn’t completely disappeared off the face of the planet although he is taking a break from content creation, which explains his YouTube absence. In his last video SeaNanners explained he, his girlfriend and their cats had been traveling around a lot which meant he didn’t have regular access to a PC. He also mentioned he’d started dabbling in property renovation.
Since then SeaNanners has made guest appearances in some of his YouTuber pals’ videos. In a Twitch clip from November 2018, Shaun ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson asked him why he’d stopped making videos. SeaNanners explained he hadn’t officially retired from content creation, but took a step back after realizing he was working around the clock. Montoya also stated he was looking into real estate as a way to increase his income and went on to sell his West Los Angeles home for just over $2.5 million.
So, while Montoya hasn’t abandoned video game commentary entirely, he is taking a break from creating videos himself while he focuses on investing in real estate. SeaNanners: temporarily gone, but never forgotten.