Payal Dhare (Payal Gaming)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Payal Dhare

• Payal Dhare was brilliant in her studies and was the topper of her class in the 10th and 12th standard examinations.

• She started playing games on her mobile phone while studying in the first year of college.

  

• To develop her skills as a gamer, she played in several online gaming tournaments.

• Later, her friends introduced her to streaming following which she started streaming in September 2020. Initially, she only streamed PUBG Mobile games. Her BGMI ID is 5120321397.

  

• She later became a content creator for Entity Gaming (TSM Entity).

• Her parents were not supportive of her when she started streaming but when she became popular, they also started supporting her.

  

• She used to attend a monthly boot camp in Mumbai in 2020. When her monthly trips from Chhindwara to Mumbai became hectic, she moved to Mumbai.

• In July 2021, she joined S8UL Esports as a content creator and game streamer.

  

• She later started streaming various other games such as GTA and Call of Duty (CoD) which made her popular.

• Payal Dhare later started making vlogs and reaction videos such as Omegle reactions and superchats.

  

• In August 2021, her YouTube channel ‘Payal Gaming’ crossed more than 1 million subscribers.

  

• Many people have said that most of her followers are attracted to her beauty and cute looks rather than her skills which initially made her nervous; however, she later developed a thick skin to such negative comments.

• Payal once played in a Call of Duty mobile tournament as a team leader for Higin ESports.

• On 25 May 2023, her YouTube channel ‘Payal Gaming’ crossed 3 million subscribers. She became the first Indian female game streamer to achieve this feat.

  

• In 2023, she gifted a new car, a Mahindra Thar SUV and a property to her parents.

  

• She made headlines in April 2024 when she became the first female streamer to meet the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with other gamers such as Tirth Mehta, Animesh Agarwal, Anshu Bisht, Naman Mathur, Mithilesh Patankar, and Ganesh Gangadhar.

• Her source of inspiration is the Latvian streamer DanucD and a few Indian streamers including Naman Mathur (popular as Mortal).

• Her gaming setup is installed in a separate room with neon lights which also has her awards, anime figures, and sneakers. As of November 2023, she uses an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphic card.

  

• Payal Dhare’s first gaming name was 4ZA Payal aka Forza Payal.

• She has a few crazy fans. Once, three of her fans found her address and came to her house dressed as pizza delivery men.

• The first thing she bought with her first paycheck was a monitor.

• Payal said in an interview that had she not become a gamer, she would have been a model.

• She once said that she wanted a Netflix film to be made on her journey as a streamer from a traditional household to one of the most popular Indian gaming streamers.