He was ranked sixth in a list of the twenty most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States. Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers (2015) Fischbach in 2015įischbach and Janet Varney co-hosted the 2015 South by Southwest Gaming Awards, and he was featured in YouTube Rewind. In early 2014, Fischbach moved to Los Angeles to be closer to potential business opportunities. He dropped out of university the same year to support his growing online career, only two semesters away from graduating. However, Fischbach had problems with his AdSense account which prevented him from monetizing his videos, and he was forced to move to his current channel in April, originally named "markiplierGAME". YouTubers with over one thousand subscribers were then eligible to earn money under YouTube's AdSense program. His first series was a Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010), and the channel reached over 94,000 subscribers within the year. However, Fischbach also had a lifelong interest in video games and decided to do gaming videos while the trend was growing. Fischbach later said it was a "really dumb name". He named the channel "Markiplier", a portmanteau of Mark and multiplier, as he would be portraying all the characters in the sketches. He originally intended to upload comedy sketches and action videos. After being hospitalized because of an adrenal tumor, he "decided that he wanted to do something else." YouTube career History Early years and growth (2012–2014) Fischbach in 2014įischbach registered his first YouTube channel on March 6, 2012. In 2012, Fischbach was beset by many different issues: he went through a breakup, was laid off of his job, moved to an apartment after his mother kicked him out of her house, had an emergency appendectomy and went into debt. Fischbach met Wade Barnes in sixth grade and roomed with Bob Muyskens in his freshman year-they would both become his long-term friends and collaborators. : 3:14 Fischbach graduated from Milford High School in 2007 and enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, where he took a biomedical engineering program. Īfter Fischbach was born, the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, but his parents divorced when he was young. Fischbach's maternal family history is explored in the 2022 documentary Markiplier from North Korea. : 0:15 His father Cliffton was a German American military officer who met his Korean mother Sunok Frank while stationed in South Korea. Mark Edward Fischbach was born on June 28, 1989, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was listed by Forbes as the third highest-paid content creator on the platform in 2022, and has won four Streamy Awards and a Golden Joystick Award for "Best Streamer/Broadcaster". In April 2023, Fischbach announced he was leading production of the horror film Iron Lung, which will be his theatrical film debut.įischbach is one of the most popular gaming YouTubers on the platform. In 2023, Fischbach moved to United Talent Agency. In the following years, he went on a live tour, started a clothing line named Cloak, wrote and directed the YouTube Original series A Heist with Markiplier (2019) and In Space with Markiplier (2022), and several podcasts-two of which reached No. Īfter expressing an interest in more traditional entertainment, Fischbach signed with talent agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016. As of June 2023, his channel has over 35 million subscribers. After joining YouTube in 2012, Fischbach became popular on the platform with Let's Plays of Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) and the Five Nights at Freddy's series. He mainly uploads Let's Plays and is known for his videos of indie horror games. Mark Edward Fischbach ( / ˈ f ɪ ʃ ˌ b ɑː k/ FISH-bahk born June 28, 1989), known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber and film director.
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