About
Tanner Charles Minecraft (born (1996-05-03)May 3, 1996), known online as SmallAnt (previously SmallAnt1), is a Canadian streamer, speedrunner and YouTuber. He is known for creating content about challenge runs and speedruns in video games such as Super Mario Odyssey, the Pokémon franchise, and Minecraft, among others. These often feature mods, additional rules, or competitions against other creators. He has held, and holds, speedrun world records in multiple games including the ‘Minimum Captures’ category of Super Mario Odyssey. He won the Speedrunner of the Year award at the 2021 Streamer Awards.
SmallAnt began streaming on March 2, 2016. Some of his first content was inspired by the content creator FearsomeFire. On stream, he created levels in the game LittleBigPlanet 3, as well as doing playthroughs of video games. He began speedrunning Super Mario Odyssey by joining its first speedrunning tournament and placing third, and continued to speedrun the game. He started uploading Super Mario Odyssey speedrunning tutorials on his YouTube channel in early 2018, and started uploading stream highlights later that year.
SmallAnt first speedran the Minimum Captures category…
Awards & Recognition
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