Markiplier

Markiplier

Markiplier in 2014
Personal information
Born Mark Edward Fischbach
(1989-06-28) June 28, 1989[1]
O'ahu, Hawaii
Origin Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality American
Residence Los Angeles, California
Occupation Internet personality
YouTube information
Pseudonym Markiplier
Channel name MarkiplierGAME
Years active 2012–present
Genre
Subscribers 12.6 million subscribers (May 2016)
Total views 4.6 billion views (May 2016)
Network Revelmode (Maker Studios)[2]
Associated acts
Subscriber and view counts updated as of 2 May 2016.

Mark Edward Fischbach (born June 28, 1989), known by his YouTube username Markiplier, is an American Youtuber and Internet personality. Originally from O'ahu, Hawaii, Fischbach began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.[3]

As of April 2016, his channel has over 12 million subscribers,[4][5] over 4 billion total video views, and is the 25th most subscribed channel on YouTube.[6] Fischbach specializes in Let's Play gameplay commentary videos and indie games, commonly of survival horror and action video games.[7]

Early life

Fischbach was born on an air force base stationed in O'ahu, Hawaii. His father served in the military where he met his mother of Korean origin.[3] His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.[3] Originally, Fischbach studied to become a biomedical engineer at the University of Cincinnati,[8] but dropped out of college to pursue his YouTube career. He has one brother, Thomas, who is an artist and author of the webcomic Twokinds.[3][9]

YouTube career

Channel format

Fischbach is primarily known for his playthroughs of indie and horror games, including the Five Nights at Freddy's series, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and it's sequel, Garry's Mod, Happy Wheels, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Minecraft, and Slender: The Eight Pages, among others. He also creates sketch comedy videos, including "Impossible Challenges" and collaboration videos with other sketch comedy channels.

Fischbach had collaborated with a number of fellow YouTubers, including Jacksepticeye, LordMinion777, Muyskerm, PewDiePie, Matthias, Game Grumps, Cyndago, Yamimash, Jacksfilms, CaptainSparklez, Egoraptor and LixianTV. He has also collaborated with celebrities such as Jack Black[10] and Jimmy Kimmel. He has had acting appearances in TomSka's asdfmovie series, Smosh: The Movie,[11] Disney XD's Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything,[12] and YouTube Rewind 2015.

A recurring staple of Fischbach's channel are charity livestreams, during which he plays games while campaigning for and collecting donations for various charities, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Best Friends Animal Society.[13][14] According to Fischbach, he and his viewers have raised a total of over $900,000 as of March 2016.[5]

History

Early years and switch to MarkiplierGAME

Fischbach first joined YouTube on May 26, 2012, creating a channel under the username "Markiplier". Fischbach's first series was a playthrough of the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. After playing several other game series, including Penumbra and Dead Space, YouTube banned Fischbach's AdSense account. Though he appealed to YouTube as a last effort, the appeal was ultimately lost.[15] Because of this, a new and current channel was created and dubbed MarkiplierGAME.

Growth and move to Los Angeles

In 2014, the MarkiplierGAME channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #61.[16] That year, Fischbach announced he was planning to move to Los Angeles, California, to be able to be closer to other resources for his channel, such as the YouTube Space and other content creators.[17] Fischbach and fellow Youtuber Jenna Mae appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September 2014 following backlash that Kimmel received regarding jokes he had made about YouTube and Let's Play videos.[7] In 2015, he was rated sixth in a list of the twenty most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States.[18]

Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers

Beginning in 2015, Fischbach lived with fellow YouTubers Daniel Kyre and Ryan Magee, who created and ran the YouTube sketch comedy and music channel Cyndago. Matt Watson from Maker Studios later joined Cyndago after they moved to Los Angeles. Their work was noted for having unexpected endings and dark, often disturbing, humor.[19][20] Kyre attempted suicide on September 16, 2015, and died in the hospital two days later. In the wake of Kyres death, Cyndago was disbanded.[21] At the time of their disbandment, the group had done forty sketches and fourteen original songs, many of them featuring Fischbach.[19] After the death of Daniel Kyre and disbandment of Cyndago, Fischbach temporarily halted uploads and went on hiatus from September 17 to October 5, 2015.[22] His return was shortly followed by the channel reaching 10 million subscribers on October 15.[23]

In late 2015, Fischbach announced in a video that he had chosen to abstain from alcohol because of a deficient enzyme important to the process of breaking down alcohol. The decision came after an incident where he had a minor heart attack and had to be taken to the hospital, and was advised by the doctors to do so. He said that, because of this, a popular series of his, Drunk Minecraft, would no longer be produced.[24]

Fischbach co-hosted the 2015 South By Southwest (SXSW) Gaming Awards with The Legend of Korra voice actor Janet Varney,[25] and was featured prominently in YouTubes year-end special Youtube Rewind.

Other ventures

Fischbach joined the board of comic book publisher Red Giant Entertainment in November 2014.[26] In June of that year at the San Diego Comic-Con, he had cohosted a panel with figures from the company including CEO Benny R. Powell, and writers David Campiti, Mort Castle, David Lawrence, and Brian Augustyn.[27] In 2016, it was announced that he would appear in his own line of comics.[28]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2015 Smosh: The Movie Himself [11]

Television and web series

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2013 Table Flip Himself 1 episode
2014 Table Flip Himself 2 episodes
2014 Jimmy Kimmel Live! Himself 1 episode [7]
2015 Grumpcade Himself 20 episodes
2016 Scare PewDiePie Himself 1 episode
2016 Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything Himself 6 episodes [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ANXIETY: Ib Playthrough #4". YouTube. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Saba Hamedy (January 13, 2016). "PewDiePie, Maker Studios launch new network, Revelmode". Mashable. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Draw My Life - Markiplier". YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ "2,000,000". YouTube.
  5. 1 2 "Markiplier". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  6. ↑ "YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Channels List - Top by Subscribers". Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 Hernandez, Patricia. "Famous YouTubers Go On TV, Teach Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson". Kotaku.com. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "TALK NERDY TO ME BABY Poly Bridge". Markiplier. YouTube. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "About - Twokinds - 12 Years on the Net!". Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Markiplier makes Jack Black play 'Five Nights at Freddy's 4'". Sun-Times National. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  11. 1 2 Spangler, Todd. "YouTube’s Smosh Guys on Making Their First Movie: ‘We Had to Learn How to Act’". Variety. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  12. 1 2 UTC, Chelsea Stark2016-02-12 13:15:20. "Markiplier guest stars on next episode of Disney's 'Gamer's Guide'". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  13. ↑ "Markiplier Raises $75,000 For Charity With 'Super Mario World' Stream On Twitch". Tubefilter. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  14. ↑ "10 Things You Should Know About YouTube Star Markiplier - Morning Ledger". Morning Ledger. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  15. ↑ "Please Subscribe to my NEW Channel". YouTube.
  16. ↑ "The NMR Top 100 YouTube Channels: 75-51!". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  17. ↑ Markiplier (2014-01-20), Moving to LA!!, retrieved 2016-04-27
  18. ↑ Ault, Susanne (2015-07-23). "Digital Star Popularity Grows Versus Mainstream Celebrities". Variety. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  19. 1 2 Wall, Cameron (September 20, 2015). "RIP Daniel Kyre". The Odyssey Newspaper. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  20. ↑ Lipkin, Richard (February 24, 2014). "Youtube duo Cyndago pave their way to Youtube stardom". The Daily Gamecock. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  21. ↑ Magee, Ryan; Watson, Matt; Kyre, David. "Cyndago - Hello everyone. We have some very important and...". Facebook. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Markiplier's Hiatus 2". Markiplier. Facebook. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  23. ↑ Markiplier (2015-10-15), 10,000,000 Subscribers!!, retrieved 2016-04-27
  24. ↑ Markiplier (2015-11-17), MARK HAD A HEART ATTACK?! | Reading Your Comments #4, retrieved 2016-02-06
  25. ↑ "South By Southwest Gaming Preview". TWC News. Turner-Warner Cable News. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  26. ↑ "Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach Joins Red Giant Entertainment's Board of Directors: YouTube Superstar Brings Extraordinary New Media Expertise To Board". CNN Money.
  27. ↑ "YouTube Star 'Markiplier' to Host Red Giant Entertainment Panel Presentation at San Diego Comic-Con 2014". Marketwired. July 7, 2014.
  28. ↑ "Markiplier Gets YouTube Viewers To Revive Red Giant Entertainment - And Launch The Zwag Box". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2016-04-27.

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