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Tfue Age 2026: How Old Is the Fortnite Star Today?

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff 25 min read
Tfue Age 2026: How Old Is the Fortnite Star Today?

Tfue is 28 years old in 2026. Turner Ellis Tenney — the streamer the world knows as Tfue — was born on 2 January 1998 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, which means he turned 28 on 2 January 2026 and turns 29 on 2 January 2027. He is 10,536 days old as of 7 November 2026, with 56 days left until his next birthday.

That number lands differently once you know the story behind it. Tfue was a millionaire Fortnite pro before he could legally drink in the United States, sued the biggest esports organisation on the planet at 21, walked away from streaming at 25, and came back months later on his own terms. Now, at 28, he has swapped the daily grind for a slower Florida life built around fishing, a second YouTube channel, and — since January 2026 — a waterfront restaurant he bought for $2.4 million. This page answers the age question in full: the birth date and the proof behind it, how old he was at every turning point, what he is worth at 28, and which of the ages still floating around the internet are simply out of date.

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff | Last updated: 7 November 2026

Stylized illustrated portrait of Tfue, Turner Tenney, in a navy hoodie with gold trim holding a game controller
Turner “Tfue” Tenney, 28, in 2026 — the former FaZe Clan Fortnite star turned Florida restaurateur and fishing creator.
Full Name Turner Ellis Tenney
Known As Tfue (formerly FaZe Tfue)
Date of Birth 2 January 1998
Age (November 2026) 28 years old (turns 29 on 2 January 2027)
Birthplace Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, United States
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Height 6 feet 1 inch (185–186 cm) — most-reported figure; listings vary
Estimated Net Worth $6 million to $9 million (third-party estimates; no official figure)
Peak / Primary Income Sources Twitch streaming, YouTube ad revenue, tournament prize money, sponsorships, Kick deal
Key Ventures / Works FaZe Clan (2018–2019), Fortnite pro career, SeaFueFishing channel (2025), Woody’s Waterfront restaurant purchase (2026)
Family Older brother Jack Tenney (JOOGSQUAD PPJT), brother Pierce, sister Alexandra; father Richard Tenney

How Old Is Tfue in 2026?

Tfue is 28 years old. He was born on 2 January 1998, so the arithmetic is plain: 2026 minus 1998 is 28, and his birthday in January 2026 already passed long before this article was written in November. He will turn 29 on 2 January 2027.

The date is one of the best-documented facts in streaming. Wikipedia lists his birth as 2 January 1998 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, citing his own birthday post — on 1 January 2019 he tweeted “it’s My 21st Birthday!!!” ahead of turning 21 the next day — and the same date appears across Esports Earnings, Bored Panda, TVOverMind and TheCityCeleb, whose biography was updated in November 2026 and prints “28 years old” next to the 2 January 1998 birth date. When that many independent listings agree, and the earliest one traces back to Tfue himself, the answer is settled.

People still ask because the internet keeps old numbers alive. Pages written in 2023 say 25, pages written in 2020 say 22, and a few careless ones print 1997 as his birth year. All of them were right once, or never right at all, and none of them is right now. The “Stale Figures” section near the end of this article names the worst offenders so you can spot them.

Age matters more for Tfue than for most streamers because his career ran on a compressed clock. He was 20 when he won $255,000 in a single Fortnite tournament night, 21 when he took on FaZe Clan in court, and 25 when he retired — an age when most creators are still trying to break through. At 28 he is a veteran of an industry that barely existed when he started, and his recent moves look like someone planning the next twenty years rather than the next stream.

Tfue’s Birthday, Birthplace and Zodiac Sign

Tfue’s birthday is 2 January 1998. He was born in Indian Rocks Beach, a small beach town on Florida’s Gulf Coast in Pinellas County, and he grew up there before his career pulled him to New Jersey for a spell and then back to Florida. The town sits between the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway, and the water shaped his childhood: surfing, skimboarding and downhill skateboarding filled the years before gaming took over, according to Bored Panda and TVOverMind.

He was born on a Friday, and his zodiac sign is Capricorn — the sign covering 22 December to 19 January. Capricorn birthdays in early January are easy to misremember as belonging to the previous year, which may explain part of why a few biography sites print 1997. The year is 1998, confirmed by his own 21st-birthday post in January 2019 and by every major reference since.

His next birthday falls on Saturday, 2 January 2027, when he turns 29. There is no public record of big birthday celebrations — Tfue has always kept that side of his life quieter than his gameplay — but fans mark the date every year, and his 21st birthday post remains the single most useful piece of evidence for the whole question this article answers.

The short answer, one more time: born 2 January 1998, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. Age 28 in November 2026. Turns 29 on 2 January 2027. Zodiac sign Capricorn.

Tfue’s Age at Every Big Moment

Reading Tfue’s career as a list of ages shows how fast it all happened. He was a child when he started, a teenager when he went public, and barely out of his teens when he was one of the most-watched gamers alive. Here is the timeline, year by year.

Year Age What Happened
2010 12 First appears on YouTube in his older brother Jack’s videos
2014 16 Begins posting gameplay to YouTube (Kotaku: posting since at least May 2014)
2015 17 Starts his own YouTube channel, inspired by his brother’s channel
2017 19 Fortnite Battle Royale launches; Tfue switches to it as it takes off
April 2018 20 Signs with FaZe Clan
October 2018 20 Wins the Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series Week 6 Grand Finals — $255,000
May 2019 21 Sues FaZe Clan over his contract
August 2020 22 FaZe lawsuit settled on confidential terms
July 2022 24 Lists his Florida waterfront home for $3.1 million
June 2023 25 Announces his retirement from livestreaming in a YouTube video
November 2023 25 Returns to streaming on Kick
October 2025 27 Launches second channel SeaFueFishing
January 2026 28 Buys Woody’s Waterfront restaurant on St. Pete Beach for $2.4 million
May 2026 28 Reported to join Totem, an esports betting and prediction platform

Two ages in that table do most of the work. Twenty is when the money arrived: the Fall Skirmish win in October 2018, worth $255,000 for one night’s play, came six months after he signed with FaZe Clan. Twenty-five is when he stopped: eight years as a Twitch partner, streaming six to eight hours a day, ended with a 40-minute video in which he said he felt trapped by the grind and needed to go and live his life. Everything since — the Kick return five months later, the fishing channel, the restaurant — reads as a 28-year-old rebuilding a career at a pace he can live with.

Early Life: Growing Up in Indian Rocks Beach

Turner Ellis Tenney grew up in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, a low-key Gulf Coast town where the beach was the backyard. Before he was a gamer he was a beach kid: surfing, skimboarding and downhill skateboarding, the action sports that defined his early teens. Bored Panda and TVOverMind both describe that upbringing, and it explains a lot about the adult Tfue — the fishing channel, the Florida property, the restaurant on the water all trace back to a childhood spent on that coast.

Gaming entered the picture early. He started playing Halo with his brother when he was around 12, and his first appearances on camera came through his older brother Jack’s YouTube videos in October 2010, when Turner was 12. Jack, known online as JOOGSQUAD PPJT, was already building an audience, and his little brother learned the shape of the job by watching it happen at home. Several biography listings describe Turner as homeschooled, which would fit a childhood split between the beach, the skateboard and the screen, though no major outlet has published a detailed account of his schooling.

By his own account, he has been making content since he was eight years old. That line comes from his retirement video in June 2023, where he looked back over a life spent on camera: “I’ve been doing this since I was eight years old, content creating.” The public record starts later — YouTube uploads from at least May 2014, when he was 16 — but the point stands either way. Tfue did not stumble into streaming as an adult. He grew up inside it.

The early games were Call of Duty, Destiny and H1Z1, streamed on Twitch and posted to YouTube. None of them made him famous. What they did was build the reflexes and the audience habits — long hours, fast aim, a chat that expected him to be live every day — that Fortnite would later turn into a fortune. When Fortnite Battle Royale arrived in 2017, Tfue was 19, already a seasoned streamer, and ready in a way most of his rivals were not.

Family: Jack Tenney, Siblings and Parents

Tfue is the younger brother of a YouTuber. That fact shaped his career more than any single tournament win. His older brother Jack Tenney, known online as JOOGSQUAD PPJT, was already a known creator — surfer, skimboarder and prankster — when Turner was still a kid, and Turner first appeared on camera in Jack’s videos in October 2010. Jack’s channel was the door in: an audience, a camera, and proof that a kid from Indian Rocks Beach could make a living on YouTube.

The family is bigger than the two brothers. Tfue has a younger brother named Pierce and a sister named Alexandra, making four Tenney siblings in all. His father is Richard Tenney. Public listings disagree on his mother’s name — TheCityCeleb’s November 2026 biography names Cassandra Tenney, while an older listing names Kelly Tenney — so this article does not present either as settled. What is consistent across the listings is the shape of the family: a Florida household where the older brother’s YouTube career pulled the younger one in behind him.

Jack’s influence was practical as well as inspirational. Streamsentials reports that Jack once gave Turner $5,000 to help him buy a new car, and the brothers have appeared in each other’s videos for years. The dynamic reads as genuine rather than staged: Jack was the established creator, Turner was the younger brother who turned out to be better at the game, and both of them knew it.

Little else about the family is public, and that is by choice. Tfue has never built content around his parents or his younger siblings, and the reporting reflects that silence. The family details that do circulate come from biography listings rather than from Tfue himself, which is why this article flags the one point — his mother’s name — where those listings conflict instead of picking a side.

Career Rise: From Halo to Fortnite Stardom

Tfue’s rise was not overnight, even if it looked that way from the outside. He spent his mid-teens grinding through Call of Duty, Destiny and H1Z1, building a Twitch channel game by game. The audience grew slowly, then all at once. Fortnite Battle Royale launched in 2017, and Tfue, 19 at the time, moved to it early — early enough that his building speed and aim, honed over years of shooters, made him stand out in a game most players were still learning.

By 2018 he was one of the best Fortnite players in the world and one of its most-watched streamers. His YouTube channel, posting clips and full games under the name Tfue, passed millions of subscribers while his Twitch channel climbed past 10 million followers — it now sits at around 11.5 million followers, with his YouTube channel at about 11.7 to 11.8 million subscribers and roughly 1.7 billion lifetime views, according to figures reported by Wikipedia in 2025 and 2026. Those numbers put him in the top tier of gaming creators, shoulder to shoulder with Ninja, the player he was most often compared with.

The tournament record backs up the streaming numbers. Esports Earnings, the database that tracks competitive prize money, credits Tfue with $702,825.01 from 91 tournaments. The biggest single payday came on 28 October 2018, when he won the Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series Week 6 Grand Finals for $255,000 at the age of 20. The Skirmish Series as a whole paid him $462,300 across 15 tournaments — close to two-thirds of his entire career prize money, according to ShaneTheGamer’s 2026 research. He also won the duo event at the Fortnite Korea Open 2018 alongside KittyPlays, a result that travelled well beyond the Fortnite community and fixed his name in the wider esports press.

Illustration of a gaming desk with dual monitors showing a battle-royale game, a trophy and a headset
The Fortnite years: dual monitors, a trophy on the desk, and the grind that turned a 20-year-old into one of the most-watched players alive.

What made Tfue different from other pros was the combination. Plenty of players could shoot; few could shoot while holding an audience of tens of thousands for eight hours a day. His streams were loud, fast and often confrontational — he collected bans and controversies the way other streamers collected subscribers — but the skill was never in doubt. At his peak he was, by common consent, the best mechanical Fortnite player on Twitch, and the audience numbers said so too.

He was 20 years old for almost all of it. The Fall Skirmish win, the FaZe signing, the first millions of followers — all of it landed before his 21st birthday. That is the detail that makes his later burnout easy to understand: by the time most streamers get their first big break, Tfue had already spent years at the top and was starting to count the cost.

FaZe Clan, the Lawsuit and the Split

In April 2018, at 20, Tfue signed with FaZe Clan, the professional esports organisation that was then the biggest name in gaming culture. The deal put him at the centre of the Fortnite boom: FaZe’s brand, its sponsors and its audience amplified everything he did, and his Fall Skirmish win six months later made the partnership look like a perfect match.

It lasted barely a year. In May 2019, at 21, Tfue sued FaZe Clan in California, alleging that his contract was oppressive and one-sided and that it violated state law and the Talent Agency Act, according to Forbes. The complaint alleged that FaZe’s deal could take up to 80 percent of his branded-content earnings, that he was barred from making his own brand deals and could only accept sponsorships arranged by FaZe, and that FaZe had not handed over his 20 percent share of payment for the brand deals it did arrange, as reported by TechCrunch and Tubefilter. FaZe countersued in August 2019, and the fight became the most-watched contract dispute in esports history.

The case was never decided in court. In August 2020, when Tfue was 22, both sides settled on confidential terms, and the key legal questions were left unanswered, according to Open Class Actions. But the damage to the old way of doing things was done. FaZe’s own Banks later admitted the terms of Tfue’s contract were “horrible” for him, and the lawsuit is now cited as the moment creator contracts in esports started to change. Tfue walked away from the organisation that had made him a star, and kept the audience.

One claim from the period is worth handling with care. Famous People Today reports that FaZe Clan revealed Turner had made about $20 million in profits since his signing in 2018. That is a profits figure tied to the FaZe relationship, not a salary and not his take-home pay — and it dates from reporting around the lawsuit, not from an audited account. It is useful as a sign of the scale of money moving around him at 21, and useless as a net-worth figure. This article does not use it that way.

After the split, Tfue kept streaming as an independent creator. He moved to New Jersey for a time with his duo partner Cloakzy, according to biography listings, then returned to Florida. The lawsuit had cost him a year of goodwill and a legal fight, but it had also proved something his later career depends on: his audience belonged to him, not to an organisation.

Retirement at 25 and the Kick Comeback

On 20 June 2023, after almost two months away from the internet, Tfue uploaded a 40-minute video to YouTube and announced his retirement from livestreaming. He was 25. Kotaku’s report on the video captures the tone: he had been creating content since he was eight, he had spent eight years as a Twitch partner, and streaming six to eight hours a day had grown tiring. “I just need to go live my life,” he said in the video. “I feel like earlier in my gaming career I used gaming to escape from reality, and I feel like now I use reality to escape from fucking work.”

The announcement landed hard because it was so rare. Streamers almost never quit at the top; they fade, or they burn out in public. Tfue did neither. He made a considered video, chronicled his rise through Fortnite and PUBG, admitted he had never much liked Fortnite when it first came out — he thought it was “corny” and “a kid’s game” — and then stepped away. At 25, with more than 11 million Twitch followers and a fortune already banked, he chose time over audience.

The retirement lasted five months. On 19 November 2023 he uploaded a video announcing his return to streaming, this time on Kick, the rival platform that had been signing big names with looser rules and bigger guarantees. The move made sense for a 25-year-old who wanted the income without the Twitch grind: a fresh platform, a fresh deal, and a schedule he controlled. TheCityCeleb’s November 2026 biography records the sequence plainly — retired June 2023, back on Kick November 2023 — and nothing since suggests he regrets either decision.

Since the return, the pace has been visibly different. The daily marathon streams are gone. In their place: the Kick streams, the fishing channel, and a life that looks, from the outside, like the one he said he wanted in the retirement video. At 28, Tfue streams because he wants to, not because the algorithm demands it. That is a luxury very few creators his age can afford, and it is one he paid for with the years he put in before he turned 21.

The Money: Income Streams Behind the Fortune

Tfue’s money came from five places, and the mix changed as he got older. Understanding the mix is the only honest way to talk about his wealth, because no single number — not the prize money, not the subscriber count — tells the story on its own.

Twitch streaming was the engine. At his peak he was one of the most-subscribed and most-watched channels on the platform, earning from subscriptions, donations, bits and advertising across six-to-eight-hour daily streams. A 2022 estimate from StreamMentor put his Twitch income at around $60,000 a month, with about $6,000 more from premium subscriptions — a dated figure, but a useful snapshot of the peak years. The eight years he spent as a Twitch partner, which he mentioned in his retirement video, were the foundation of everything that followed.

YouTube was the second pillar. His channel carries around 11.7 to 11.8 million subscribers and roughly 1.7 billion lifetime views. Famous People Today, working from the view count, modelled about $4.7 million in YouTube revenue before taxes from his 1.58 billion views at the time of its calculation — a modelled figure, not a disclosed one, and worth treating as a rough guide rather than a bank statement. YouTube paid less per hour than Twitch at his peak, but it paid forever: old clips kept earning long after the streams ended.

Tournament prize money is the only fully documented income stream. Esports Earnings records $702,825.01 from 91 tournaments, led by the $255,000 Fall Skirmish win in October 2018 and $462,300 from the Skirmish Series overall. That is real, checkable money — but it is also the smallest of his big income streams, which is the point. Tfue got rich from the audience, not the prize pool.

Sponsorships and brand deals were the stream the FaZe lawsuit was fought over. The complaint alleged FaZe could take up to 80 percent of his branded-content earnings, which tells you how large those earnings were believed to be. After the settlement he kept that income for himself. In May 2026, Win.gg reported that he had joined Totem, an esports betting and prediction-markets platform, as part of its expansion — the kind of deal that pays a creator for his name and his audience rather than his hours.

The Kick deal is the newest stream. Kick signed him for his November 2023 return, and while the terms were not disclosed, the platform’s model — a far larger revenue share for creators than Twitch — is public knowledge. At 28, Tfue earns from a platform that pays him more per viewer than the one he left, for fewer hours.

Why the prize money matters most: of all the figures in this article, only the $702,825.01 in tournament winnings is documented to the cent. Every other income stream is modelled or estimated. That gap is normal for creators — Twitch and YouTube do not publish what they pay — and it is why honest net-worth reporting uses ranges, not single numbers.

Net Worth Breakdown: What the Estimates Say

There is no official figure for Tfue’s net worth. He has never published his finances, and neither Twitch nor YouTube discloses what they pay creators. What exists is a spread of third-party estimates, and they disagree by a lot. The honest way to report them is to show the spread, name the sources, and say which cluster the evidence supports.

Source Estimate Date / Note
Streamerfacts About $8 million Cited in 2026 research round-up
GigWise About $9 million Cited in 2026 research round-up
TheCityCeleb $6 million to $8 million Biography updated November 2026
Famous People Today $7 million Updated January 2026
YouTuberFacts $8 million 2023 figure, republished November 2026
Waploaded / forum bios About $5 million Older biography listings
StreamMentor About $4 million 2022 article
WealthyPipo $14 million 2023 article, updated December 2023
CelebsMoney $100,000 to $1 million Stale listing, last updated January 2024

The full published range runs from $100,000 to $14 million, which is wide enough to be useless on its own. ShaneTheGamer’s 2026 research, which gathered the estimates in one place, put it well: estimates cluster around $8 million to $9 million, while the full range spans about $3 million to $12 million. This article anchors on $6 million to $9 million — the band where the freshest and most careful sources agree. TheCityCeleb’s November 2026 figure of $6 million to $8 million sits inside it, Streamerfacts’ $8 million sits inside it, GigWise’s $9 million caps it, and Famous People Today’s $7 million sits in the middle.

The outliers are easy to explain. WealthyPipo’s $14 million, from a 2023 article, looks like a peak-era figure that counts gross earnings as wealth and never deducts tax, spending or the years since. CelebsMoney’s $100,000 to $1 million is a stale automated listing that also prints the wrong birth date — 25 December 1997 — and should not be trusted on any point. The older $3 million to $5 million figures date from before the Kick deal, the fishing channel and the restaurant purchase, and they understate what eight more years of earning looks like. None of these is a lie; all of them are out of date or built on a different method.

What would push the real number up or down? On the up side: eight years of peak Twitch income, a YouTube channel with 1.7 billion views, the Kick deal, and property bought early. On the down side: the FaZe years, when a large share of brand income went to the organisation; the cost of the Largo house and its upkeep; and the simple fact that streamers pay tax, managers and editors like everyone else. A range of $6 million to $9 million respects both sides. Anyone who prints a single number for Tfue’s wealth is guessing with more confidence than the evidence allows.

Real Estate and the Restaurant Buy

Tfue’s property moves tell the same story as his career: early money, Florida roots, and a slow shift from earning to owning. The first move came in 2019, when he was 21. He bought a 5,000-square-foot, five-bedroom home in Largo, Florida, for $1.25 million, according to St. Pete Rising. Three years later, in July 2022, he listed the waterfront home for $3.1 million — a asking price that, if achieved, would have been a handsome return on a house bought with Fortnite money at 21.

The second move is fresher, and it is the most interesting thing about Tfue at 28. In January 2026, St. Pete Rising reported that Turner Tenney, described as the 28-year-old Twitch streamer and Florida native, had bought Woody’s Waterfront, the restaurant and bar that served St. Pete Beach for 35 years before closing in 2024. The price was $2.4 million, for the property at 7308 Sunset Way and two adjacent lots overlooking Blind Pass, on a 0.49-acre site. The previous owners, whose parents had bought the parcels in 1989 for $526,100, had listed the property in January 2025, saying they had “spent many hours reviewing options and have decided it is time for someone else to build their vision.”

Illustration of a Florida beachfront restaurant and bar at golden hour with palm trees and boats on the water
St. Pete Beach, Florida — the waterfront where Tfue, 28, bought Woody’s Waterfront restaurant for $2.4 million in January 2026.

The purchase is a sharp change of direction. A streamer buying a restaurant is not a content play; it is a local business, tied to a place, with staff, licences and regulars. It fits with everything else about Tfue at 28: the fishing channel, the slower streaming schedule, the return to the Florida coast where he grew up. He is not collecting houses any more. He is buying a business in his home town.

What is not known matters too. There is no public record of whether the Largo house sold at or near its $3.1 million asking price, and no reporting yet on his plans for Woody’s — a reopening date, a concept, or a name. This article reports the purchase and the price, which are documented, and leaves the rest as an open question for the next update.

Personal Life and Relationships

Tfue keeps his private life quieter than most streamers of his size, and the reporting reflects that. As of November 2026 there is no public information confirming a current relationship, according to TheCityCeleb’s updated biography. He has no children, and no marriage has ever been reported.

The one relationship that was widely reported dates from 2019. TheNetline and other biography listings from the time say he was believed to be dating Corinna Kopf, the streamer and influencer, as of March 2019 — when he was 21. The relationship was never confirmed in detail by either of them in the way celebrity couples usually confirm things, and it has not been reported as ongoing since. It belongs in this article because readers ask about it, not because it defines anything about his life now.

His public life at 28 is easier to describe than his private one, and more revealing. He streams on Kick, posts fishing videos to SeaFueFishing — the second channel he launched on 1 October 2025, when he was 27 — and owns a restaurant on the beach where he grew up. The through-line is Florida: the coast, the water, the slower pace. The retirement video in 2023 said he wanted to go and live his life; three years later, the life he is living looks a lot like the one he described.

He also keeps a lower profile than his peak years demanded. The daily churn of clips, drama and call-outs that marked the FaZe era has faded, and his recent coverage is about business moves and fishing, not feuds. For a creator who spent his early twenties as one of the most argued-about names on Twitch, that quiet is probably the point.

How Tall Is Tfue?

Tfue is most often listed at 6 feet 1 inch tall, or 185 to 186 centimetres. TheCityCeleb’s November 2026 biography prints 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm), Famous People Today prints 6 feet 1 inch (186 cm), and a string of other biography listings agree on 6 feet 1 inch. That is the figure this article uses.

The listings do not all agree. Pioneer Time gives a range of 6 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 3 inches. TheFamousPersonalities prints 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm). HollyMovieReview prints 5 feet 10 inches. A few older listings print 5 feet 6 inches, which looks like a copy error that travelled from one site to another. The spread — 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet 3 inches — is a reminder that celebrity heights are rarely measured by anyone with a tape, and that biography sites copy each other freely.

The weight listings are no better: 70 kg in one place, 78 kg in another, 80 kg and 81 kg elsewhere. This article does not print a weight, because no two sources agree and none of them cites a measurement. Height at least has a clear centre of gravity: 6 feet 1 inch, reported by the freshest listings and the most of them. He is tall for a streamer, and tall enough that the 6-foot-1 figure surprises nobody who has seen him stand next to other creators.

Tfue vs. His Peers: Age and Fortune Compared

Age looks different in context. Tfue turned pro in the same Fortnite wave as Ninja, the player he was measured against for years — and the age gap between them explains a lot about why their careers took different shapes.

Creator Born Age (Nov 2026) Estimated Net Worth Where They Are Now
Tfue 2 January 1998 28 $6 million to $9 million Kick streams, SeaFueFishing, Florida restaurant owner
Ninja (Tyler Blevins) 5 June 1991 35 About $50 million (Celebrity Net Worth, via 2026 reporting) Still streaming; first child born July 2026

Ninja is seven years older than Tfue, and the gap shows in the money: a longer career, the Mixer deal, and a fortune in the tens of millions. But the comparison cuts both ways. Ninja was 27 when Fortnite made him a household name; Tfue was 20. Tfue had already retired once by the age Ninja was hitting his stride, and he did it with a fortune that most 25-year-olds could not imagine. Ninja is still streaming at 35 with a newborn daughter; Tfue, at 28, has already stepped back, come back on his own terms, and bought a restaurant. Same game, same era, two very different clocks.

The wider Fortnite generation sits between them: players who broke through as teenagers and are now, in their late twenties, deciding what comes after the game. Tfue’s answer — fish, stream less, own something real — is one of the more grounded ones. The age question is the starting point, but the interesting question is what a 28-year-old does with the money and the freedom that a career like his buys. So far, his answer has been to go home.

Stale Figures to Ignore: The Wrong Ages Still Online

Search “Tfue age” and you will find pages that disagree with each other by years. Most of them are not lying; they are old, or copied from someone who was old. Here are the ones to watch for.

“Tfue is 25 years old.” This was true for all of 2023, and it is the most common stale figure online. YouTuberFacts republished a page in November 2026 that still prints 25 next to a 2 January 1998 birth date, and Waploaded’s biography does the same. Both pages were written when 25 was right and never updated. The birth date on the same page disproves the age on the same page — always check the date, not the headline number.

“Tfue was born in 1997.” Internewscast’s biography prints 2 January 1997, a year early. It is the only major listing with that year, and it conflicts with Tfue’s own 21st-birthday post in January 2019, which only works with a 1998 birth. Treat any 1997 date as a typo that got published.

“Tfue was born on 25 December 1997.” CelebsMoney prints this date alongside a net-worth range of $100,000 to $1 million. Both the date and the money are wrong, and the page was last updated in January 2024. If a page gets the birthday wrong, do not trust its fortune either.

“Tfue is 22 / 24 years old.” These come from pages written in 2020 and 2022 that still rank. A 2020 page saying 22 was right in 2020; it is not a source for 2026. The test is simple: if the page does not show a 2026 update date, and the age does not match 2 January 1998, read it as history.

The rule that catches all of them: work from the birth date, not the age. 2 January 1998 is confirmed by Tfue himself, by Wikipedia, and by every listing updated in 2026. Any age that does not follow from that date is stale, copied, or both.

Frequently Asked Questions About Tfue’s Age

How old is Tfue?

Tfue is 28 years old. He was born on 2 January 1998 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, so he turned 28 on 2 January 2026 and will turn 29 on 2 January 2027.

When is Tfue’s birthday?

Tfue’s birthday is 2 January. His next birthday is Saturday, 2 January 2027, when he turns 29. His 21st birthday post in January 2019 is the key piece of evidence behind the date — he tweeted about turning 21 the day before it.

What is Tfue’s real name?

Tfue’s real name is Turner Ellis Tenney. He was born Turner Ellis Tenney on 2 January 1998 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, and streams and posts under the name Tfue.

How tall is Tfue?

Tfue is most often listed at 6 feet 1 inch tall (185–186 cm). Some listings print 6 feet 3 inches and a few older ones print 5 feet 6 inches, but 6 feet 1 inch is the figure the freshest biography pages agree on.

What is Tfue’s net worth in 2026?

Tfue’s net worth is estimated at $6 million to $9 million in 2026, based on the cluster of third-party estimates — Streamerfacts at about $8 million, GigWise at $9 million, TheCityCeleb at $6 million to $8 million and Famous People Today at $7 million. There is no official figure. The only fully documented income is his tournament prize money: $702,825.01 from 91 tournaments, according to Esports Earnings.

Is Tfue still streaming in 2026?

Yes. Tfue returned to streaming on Kick in November 2023, five months after announcing his retirement, and he still streams there in 2026. He also launched a second YouTube channel, SeaFueFishing, on 1 October 2025, built around fishing on the Florida coast.

Why did Tfue retire?

Tfue announced his retirement from livestreaming on 20 June 2023, at the age of 25, after eight years as a Twitch partner. In the 40-minute video he said streaming six to eight hours a day had grown tiring, that he felt trapped by the grind, and that he needed to go and live his life. He returned five months later on Kick, on a schedule he controls.

Where does Tfue live now?

Tfue lives in Florida, where he grew up. In January 2026 he bought Woody’s Waterfront restaurant on St. Pete Beach for $2.4 million. He previously bought a five-bedroom home in Largo, Florida, for $1.25 million in 2019 and listed it for $3.1 million in July 2022.

Final Thoughts: 28 and Starting a Second Act

Tfue is 28, and the number only looks ordinary until you count what fits inside it. A childhood on camera. A Fortnite career that made him a millionaire at 20. A lawsuit against the biggest organisation in esports at 21. A retirement at 25, a comeback at 25, and a restaurant at 28. Most streamers spend their twenties chasing the first of those milestones; Tfue has already collected all of them and moved on to something quieter.

The second act is the interesting part. The fishing channel, the Kick streams on his own schedule, the waterfront restaurant on the beach where he grew up — none of it looks like a man chasing the next spike. It looks like a 28-year-old who earned the right to slow down and is spending it on things that will still be there in ten years. The money, estimated at $6 million to $9 million, buys that choice. The age, 28, is young enough to make it count.

He turns 29 on 2 January 2027. Whatever he does next, the question this article set out to answer stays simple: born 2 January 1998, 28 years old in November 2026, and a long way from done.

Sources and Reporting

This article was researched from live sources in November 2026. The birth date — 2 January 1998, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida — is confirmed by Wikipedia, which cites Tfue’s own birthday post, and by Esports Earnings, Bored Panda and TVOverMind. Career prize money ($702,825.01, 91 tournaments) and the $255,000 Fall Skirmish win come from Esports Earnings, via ShaneTheGamer‘s 2026 research. The FaZe Clan lawsuit is reported from Forbes, TechCrunch and Tubefilter; the August 2020 settlement from Open Class Actions reporting. The retirement video and its quotes are covered by Kotaku (June 2023). Net-worth estimates are drawn from TheCityCeleb (updated November 2026), Famous People Today (January 2026), ShaneTheGamer (2026) and StreamMentor (2022). The Woody’s Waterfront purchase ($2.4 million, January 2026) and the Largo home ($1.25 million in 2019, listed at $3.1 million in 2022) come from St. Pete Rising (21 January 2026). The Totem move is reported by Win.gg (May 2026).

How we estimated: Tfue has never published his finances, and no streaming platform discloses creator pay. The net-worth figure in this article is an estimate range — $6 million to $9 million — built from named third-party sources, with the full spread of published estimates shown in the breakdown table so readers can see where the numbers agree and where they part. The only income figure documented to the cent is tournament prize money from Esports Earnings. Estimates may differ from private reality, and older estimates in the table are labelled with their dates so readers can weigh them. Where sources conflict — on his height, on his mother’s name, on the net worth — this article says so instead of picking a winner. Figures are as reported in November 2026.