German Twitch streamer Marcel Eris goes by the name “MontanaBlack”. In a TikTok video, he explains how he got the name. In addition, there have been some strange rumors about his age for years, which also deal with the question of his name.
Why does he call himself MontanaBlack? IIn a TikTok clip from Centauri Group, Eris solves the mystery of his name (via tiktok):
Back then, I created my YouTube account to comment on graffiti videos. So, and just called me MontanaBlack88. Well, and at that time I liked best – and still do – I like to use the MontanaBlack spray cans. And 88 is the year I was born. So, and then I just called myself MontanaBlack88.
MontanaBlack’s career and life in 2 minutes: what makes him special?
MontanaBlack has named itself after the product line of a spray can company from Heidelberg
What are those spray cans? MontanaBlack refers to aerosol cans from the company “Montana Cans”, which was founded in Heidelberg in 1995 as “L&G Vertriebs GmbH”. After its founding, the company began to sell the spray cans from “Montana Colors” from Barcelona in Germany. These were the first spray cans tailored for graffiti artists.
Montana Cans later became an important manufacturer of spray paint cans and other graffiti artist products.
MontanaBlack are the highest pressure aerosol cans
Montana Cans product lines include:
The “Montana Black” brand is characterized by a particularly high pressure. This allows you to apply the color faster. So somehow fits the high-pressure streamer MontanaBlack.
The name comes indirectly from a Spanish spray can company, via a company in Heidelberg directly on Twitch.
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How old is MontanaBlack? 25 or 34?
What’s the deal with age? That’s a bit of an odd story. Because the age of MontanaBlack, 34, is actually already evident from his name “MontanaBlack88”.
But in the meantime, MontanaBlack probably made a joke of it and said he was significantly younger: In 2020 he said he was only 25. The “88” in his name just stands for “the year my parents got married.”
Some of his fans actually believed that and commented angrily when MontanaBlack’s correct age was given somewhere: That’s not true, he’s only 25.
But now the statement came from MontanaBlack himself: Of course 1988 was his year of birth, he is 34 years old.
Statistically, MontanaBlack is no longer the largest Twitch streamer in Germany, but it should still be by far the most prominent:
Critics demand that MontanaBlack is never allowed to go to gamescom again after appearing with 35 security people – he says so himself