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Etika Early Life revision
Desmond Daniel Amofah was born on May 12, 1990, in Brooklyn, New York, to Owuraku Amofah, a Ghanaian politician and lawyer from Kibi, and Sabrina Amofah. His father was based in Ghana in the 1990s as a member of the Parliament of Ghana from 1992 to 1996, and he stated that he was distant from his father because of his political occupation. He had an older brother, Randy Amofah, who died in 2010 from an asthma attack after a sandstorm in Accra, Ghana. He also had a half-brother, Cardinal Valery, who ventured into online video-creation following his death.

Based in New York, Amofah resided in Brooklyn throughout his life. Prior to his career as a gaming YouTuber, Amofah was active in modeling and rapping, having uploaded rap videos from 2007 to 2009 under the name "Iceman". During that time, he released an independently-produced mixtape titled Written in Ice in 2007. Amofah started modeling in his early twenties and continued until 2015, stating that he stopped because his passion had diminished. He owned an account on the modeling and social media website Model Mayhem, where he stated he was "quite tall" and that his last measurement of height was "six feet, six inches". Amofah also dealt with homelessness, temporarily living in a shelter after quitting his job at Uniqlo to become a full-time YouTuber.

Amofah stated in a tweet that the pseudonym "Etika" came from the 2003 video game Sonic Battle. In the game, players could input a cheat code titled "EkiTa"; he decided to switch the T and the K to create his username as he "liked that result better". He was inspired to grow a hi-top fade from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which featured the hairstyle in the game.