Katura Simmons, better known by his online alias XkarutaClanX or simply Karuta is an American YouTuber and popular social media personality. He made his first appearance on Youtube at age 11 with his younger brother. They performed skits with their teenage uncle under the banner of Astro Zero films. Karuta left the platform early, but returned just in time to achieve massive success in 2023, when he decided to stop running away from his fear of horror games and face it head-on.
Between August 2023 and July 2024, XkarutaClanX went from having no real social media presence to massive organic growth. Within 12 months Karuta gained close to 1 million TikTok followers and viral fame. That momentum was organically generated by his fan base a.k.a. ‘The Clan.’ Their support also pushed his Youtube channel past 100,000 subscribers with over 300 million views across all platforms. In October 2024 he hit 30 million organic views on Instagram in 4 days with 1 video titled ‘Never look back during a chase scene.’ This helped to position him as the #1 Scream Streamer.
Scream Stream is defined as live-online gameplay that surprises or shocks the player and the people who react with real-time comments. Some examples of popular games they playthrough are Outlast, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Poppy Playtime.
Karuta does not identify as a gamer or content creator. Those terms are generic and nonspecific. Gaming can be anything from Tetris and card games on tabletops to playing ‘Hopscotch.’ in the schoolyard. Content creation is everything from movies to commercials and everything on T.V. Karuta is best described as the Chris Tucker meets Stephen King of Scream Stream, pioneering a new genre of horror one jumpscare at a time. Scary has never been so funny.