Preston

Arsement has been making his presence felt on YouTube since the year 2010 when he first created his channel and his once newfound hobby of gaming has now propelled him into stardom. However, before Preston became a full-time YouTuber, he was going to college to become a surgeon. During the summer after graduating, he started second-guessing about becoming a surgeon.

He revealed that he got into some “bad stuff” and started lying to his parents. It was around this time that he decided that college wasn’t for him. He finally decided to return to his YouTube channel, TBNRfrags, which at the time had around 200 subscribers. As his YouTube channel grew, he started uploading and live streaming more and more until eventually Machinima reached out and partnered with his channel.

Preston’s first-ever video on his main channel dates back to January 16, 2013.

Preston’s parents realized that YouTube could become a career for him that he made money from, but more importantly, it could be a career that he loved and from that point on, Preston became a full-time YouTuber. Unlike other full-time gamers on social media, Preston didn’t always dream of choosing a career path as an e-gamer, but as technology took over, he found himself engrossed in gaming almost every waking hour, and that paved the way for making this a full-time job.

Preston’s first channel ‘TBNRFrags’, mostly revealed Preston’s incredible ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Black Ops’ skills to his followers on the internet. His talents didn’t go unnoticed and in less than a few years, Preston gained over 1.5 million subscribers. In 2012, this young man shifted gears from COD to other games like ‘Castle Crashers’ and ‘Far Cry’ and even started a new dedicated channel called ‘PrestonPlayz’.

Though it was originally meant for those new games, Preston eventually drifted towards ‘Minecraft’ and now this channel has been in the spotlight for his classic commentaries and prowess at the game. Preston now has over 7 channels, including his main channel, at the moment, TBNRFrags, PrestonGamez, PrestonPlayz, PrestonCosmic, PrestonShorts, PrestonCartoonz, and PrestonReacts. These channels have propelled him to be the sixth-highest-earning YouTube personality in 2020. Preston also owns a Minecraft server called CosmicPvP, along with another YouTuber, MrWoofless. The server opened in 2014 and with many game modes, including Factions, HCF, and KitPvP. He has played on this server many times on his channel, especially in his factions series.

Arsement was ranked by Forbes as the sixth highest-earning YouTuber in 2019 with $14 million in estimated earnings, driven primarily through the Minecraft servers he runs. Preston still is one of the highest-paid YouTube stars on the planet. In 2020, once again he was the sixth-highest earning YouTube personality with $19 million in income, and as of 2024, that number has increased to $25 million, as stated by Celebrity Net Worth.

Arsement primarily earns from his Minecraft servers and his YouTube videos. The figures of earnings from his Minecraft servers are currently unknown, but we can estimate his earnings from YouTube. Sponsored content that Preston does also contributes to his net worth through brand collaborations and promotions. Get detailed information about Preston's net worth.

Preston’s dominance on social media is very evident with over 10.5 million TikTok followers, while on Instagram he has 1.7 million followers, and on Twitter, he has 1.8 million followers.

Preston Blaine Arsement was born on May 5, 1994, in Dallas, Texas to his mother and father, whose identities haven’t been revealed. His parents divorced and his mother remarried when Preston was three months old. Preston reveals that he has no desire to meet his biological father. He studied at the Travis Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from high school a few days after his 17th birthday. He also previously worked as a lifeguard before becoming a full-time YouTuber. He has four brothers and one sister, namely David, Daka, Keeley, Caleb, and Joshua.

Keeley, Caleb, Joshua, and his father all have their own channels: KeeleyPlayz, TbnrCJ, TBNRJosh, PapaFrags, and Brianna, respectively. One of his cousins, Landon, also runs a YouTube channel called Landon, originally a Minecraft-based, but as of January 2018, he announced his channel was changing to strictly Fortnite and vlogs. All in all, he has a very good relationship with his family.

Preston currently lives in Dallas, Texas, presumably near the rest of his family. He is Christian, as he refers to Jesus Christ in almost every one of his social media descriptions. In 2016, he started dating an LA-based YouTuber called Paige. She also has a channel called “turnthepaige”.

This was confirmed on April 18, 2016, though in February 2017, Preston and Paige broke up for an unknown reason, though they are still very good friends. Preston later got engaged to Brianna Barnhart in October 2017 and they were married in May of 2018.

Preston now has 8 channels, other than his main channel, at the moment. Some of them include TBNRFrags and PrestonGamez. TBNRFrags is the Call of Duty channel, though as of recently the channel has mostly been featuring Fortnite gameplay. This channel was originally his main channel, as he created it about a year and a half before the Preston channel, but as of recently, his “Preston” channel is now considered his main Channel.

PrestonGamez (formerly PrestonRoblox) is the Roblox channel and at the moment, he only posts Roblox content on the channel but he might start posting other games, as he changed the channel's name from PrestonRoblox to PrestonGamez.

PrestonPlayz, formerly known as PrestonMinecraft, is his Minecraft channel. He originally posted Minecraft Pocket Edition videos on this channel, which often featured his friend Logdotzip, but he now posts Java Edition videos as well. Currently, he only posts Minecraft content on the channel, but he might start posting other games, as he changed the channel's name from PrestonMinecraft to PrestonPlayz. PrestonCosmic is his Cosmic channel. He has posted several Minecraft Cosmic videos on this channel, which include Cosmic Sky and CosmicPvP.

PrestonGamez was originally supposed to be his channel for non-Minecraft-related games, though it continues to have no uploads to this day. PrestonShorts is the Short channel, where he posts short videos of challenges and pranks. PrestonCartoonz is the Animation channel.

He posts cartoon animation videos with his wife, Brianna, and the videos are posted every Friday with the new episodes coming out soon. However, this channel is inactive and hasn't been uploaded with a new video in over 2 years. PrestonReacts is the Reaction channel. He also posts reaction videos of miscellaneous content. Here are some of Preston’s most-watched videos.

Preston’s most popular video on his main channel is a prank video with over 63 million views.

An experiment video by Preston with over 49 million views.

Another experiment video featuring his wife Brianna with over 46 million views.

Another experiment video by Preston with over 45 million views.

A Minecraft, crafting video by Preston with over 32 million views.

1. Preston has played sports like football, basketball, and several others most of his life, but his dream sport that he wanted to play was the professional paintballer.
2. Preston cares about charity, as he was seen in one of his videos truly donating $1,000 to the Australian Wildfire Charity.
3. Preston guest-starred as a character named "SimonSlayz" in episode 1123 on Nickelodeon's All That, where he played the Troll Quest national championships with Tammy TMI.