SSSniperWolf
British-American YouTuber (born 1992)
Alia Marie "Lia" Shelesh (born (1992-10-22)October 22, 1992), also known as her pseudonym SSSniperWolf, is a British-born American YouTuber. She started uploading YouTube videos in 2011, as "sexysexysniper", and started the "SSSniperWolf" YouTube channel in 2013. Initially uploading Call of Duty Let's Play videos, she shifted to reaction videos in 2017; in that year, her channel had over 5 million subscribers. According to British Vogue in 2020, she is one of the most recognizable social media personalities associated with online video games.
In 2023, after receiving criticism for "freebooting" TikTok videos in her reaction content, she was involved in an internet scandal when she doxxed a critic, YouTuber jacksfilms, by livestreaming the front of his home, resulting in temporary demonetization.
Life and career
Early
Shelesh was born on October 22, 1992, in Liverpool. Her family moved to the United States when she was six, at which age she started playing video games.
Shelesh started uploading videos to her YouTube channel "sexysexysniper", consisting of Let's Plays of games such as Call of Duty. This channel was active in 2011 and 2012. She moved to the SSSniperWolf channel in 2013, on which her first video was a compilation of fails in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. She derived her handle from Sniper Wolf, a character from the Metal Gear video game series.
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