KPassionate

About

YouTuber, TikToker, marine biologist, and animal behavior expert known for creating videos breaking down ocean news, viral animal stories, and marine biology topics involving sea otters, walruses, beluga whales, orcas, and other marine animals which she shares on YouTube with over 420,000 subscribers, Instagram with over 290,000 followers, and TikTok with over 60,000 followers.

Before fame

She graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in zoology in 2010. She worked across North America, including in Vancouver, British Columbia, Seward, Alaska, Mystic, Connecticut, and the Pacific Northwest. She began streaming on Twitch in October 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and began uploading content on YouTube in December 2020.

Trivia

She appeared as a marine biologist on the History Channel series History's Greatest Mysteries in the 2023 episode "The Loch Ness Monster." She was featured by Newsweek in 2022 after training Hardy the sea otter to open and close a door at the Vancouver Aquarium. She has been a guest on podcasts including Women with Cool Jobs in 2022 and Find Your Wild Podcast in 2025.

Family life

Her real name given to her by her parents is Kristyn Plancarte.

Associated with

She made a TikTok video and Instagram reel reacting to a video by Hank Green in April 2026. She and Mamadou Ndiaye both posted videos about the same 2016 humpback whale behavior study within less than an hour of each other in 2022.