Kayla Sims

Kayla Marie Sims, also known by her YouTube handle lilsimsie, is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer. Sims is most well known for playing "The Sims 4" and collaborations with EA on projects such as "" and EA Game Changers.
Career.
YouTube.
Sims started making YouTube videos about "The Sims" in 2015. Sims' most popular YouTube video, "I left The Sims unpaused all night by accident and THIS is what happened..." has over 1.2 million views. As of October 2019, Sims has over 400,000 subscribers.
Sims is the creator the Wolf Pack Challenge, which uses "" expansion pack. In 2019, for her "Simsie Save", in which Sims renovates the game's worlds and characters, Sims made all toilets in her save gender-neutral. One of Sims' longest running YouTube series was the "100 Baby Challenge" series, in which she completed the 100 Baby Challenge in "The Sims 4" over the course of five years. 
In a July 2020 patch to "The Sims 4", all cowplants in the game were given the default name "Little Simzee" as a nod to Sims' campaign for the ability to name cowplants in game. Part of this campaign included getting the #justiceforcowplants trending on the Sims gallery via a "shell" building challenge. In August 2020, Sims joined other "Sims" YouTubers in speaking out against the lack of diversity in skin tones in "The Sims 4".
In October 2020, Sims announced her collaboration with "" expansion pack, creating three lots for the game: 6-4-1 Hanamigawa, 5-6-1 Shinrinyoku, and 2-5-1 Wakabamori.
Twitch.
Sims has a Twitch channel with over 390,000 followers, and streams six days per week. In 2018, Sims was nominated for Streamer of the Year at Summer in the City for her streaming on Twitch. In January 2021, an illustration of her cat was made the PogChamp emote on Twitch for a day.
Personal life.
Kayla Sims began playing "The Sims" when she was 12 and became particularly interested in the game after her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was 14. Sims has attributed the game with helping her cope with her father's diagnosis, using it as an “escape”.
Sims attended the University of Central Florida, originally majoring in digital media, however switched to a History major in 2018. In May of 2020 Sims graduated college with an undergraduate degree in history.
Sims lives in Orlando, Florida and has a younger brother and sister, Brett and Shanna. Her fiancé, Dan Grenander lives in England; however, he is in the process of attempting to move permanently to the United States. They applied for a K1 Visa in February of 2020. Grenander also streams on Twitch under the name ”duckdan” and uploads to his associated YouTube channel under the same name. Both Sims and Grenander often play games online together such as "Stardew Valley" and "Minecraft".