Ice Poseidon

Ice Poseidon
Denino in 2019
Born
Paul Denino

(1994-09-29) September 29, 1994 (age 29)
OccupationBroadcaster
OrganizationKick
Height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[1]
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2015–2017
Followers296 thousand[2]
Kick information
Channel
Years active2023–present
Followers149 thousand[3]
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015–2023
Subscribers703 thousand[4]
Total views100.4 million[4]
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: May 30, 2024

Paul Michael Joseph Denino (born September 29, 1994),[5] better known as Ice Poseidon, is an American Internet personality, live streamer, and self-admitted fraudster.[6] He is primarily known for streaming the video game Old School RuneScape and his IRL streams. Denino gained peak prominence in 2017 when his IRL streams became popular. He is best known for his IRL streams, which he describes as "life streaming." Rolling Stone recognized Denino as a "pioneer 'life streamer.'"[7]

Initially a streamer on Twitch, Denino was publicly banned from the platform for being swatted off an airplane at Phoenix airport after a viewer called in a bomb threat under Denino's name.[8] Following several years of streaming on YouTube, Denino moved to Mixer,[9] until the streaming platform shut down in July 2020.[10] On May 6, 2023, Denino started streaming on Kick.[11][12]

Denino admitted to taking over $500,000 in funds from the liquidity pool of CXCOIN, a cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme, profiting him over $300,000. Denino stated his intention to reimburse $150,000 to the investors he had defrauded; however, reports indicate that only $40,000 have been verified as returned to the token holders.[13]

On June 28, 2023, Denino was arrested in Bangkok after he live-streamed himself giving his girlfriend a lap dance, and charged for violating Thailand's anti-pornography laws. Denino published an apology video on his Twitter promptly after being arrested.[14] On August 18, 2023, Denino revealed that criminal charges against him had been dropped and that he had left Thailand.[15]

  1. ^ "BoxRec". boxrec.com. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  2. ^ "TwitchTracker". twitchtracker.com. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Kick Channel". Kick.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b "About Ice Poseidon". YouTube.
  5. ^ Denino, Paul [@REALIcePoseidon] (2019-09-29). "Just landed in prague. We'll have a birthday stream today when i drop off stuff at hotel. Im 25 now so im starting to get up there i better start to settle down and pull out my non existent 401k lol. And what i want for my bday? To go to mars homie" (Tweet). Retrieved 2020-02-09 – via Twitter.
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  7. ^ "On Air With LA's Most Wanted Man, 'Life Streamer' Ice Poseidon". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  8. ^ "For Twitch Streamer Who Got Swatted On A Plane, Notoriety Is A Double-Edged Sword". Kotaku. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  9. ^ Denino, Paul [@REALIcePoseidon] (2020-01-21). "SCUFFED BROTHER LIVE FIRST MIXER EVENT for 5 days straight" (Tweet). Retrieved 2020-05-01 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Microsoft to shut down streaming service Mixer, will shift to Facebook Gaming". USA Today. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  11. ^ "iceposeidon - Channel Streams on Kick". Streams Charts. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  12. ^ Iyer, Ravi (5 July 2023). "Ice Poseidon's Thailand restaurant video becomes his tenth most popular on Kick". Streams Charts. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  13. ^ Alford, Aaron (31 January 2022). "Ice Poseidon admits to scamming $500k from fans in pump and dump crypto scheme". invenglobal. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  14. ^ Denino, Paul [@REALIcePoseidon] (2023-06-29). "A public message from Paul Denino" (Tweet). Retrieved 2023-07-08 – via Twitter.
  15. ^ Shrivastava, Aarnesh (2023-08-18). ""F**k the haters wanting injustice" - Ice Poseidon reveals he's out of jail and has left Thailand, claims he got "very lucky" with a nice judge". Sportskeeda.