Markiplier

Mark Edward Fischbach[1] (born June 28, 1989),[2] known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, gamer-commentator, actor, and comedian. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii,[3] he began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Markiplier
Fischbach at PAX West in 2018
Personal information
BornMark Edward Fischbach
(1989-06-28) June 28, 1989
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
OriginCincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
ResidenceLos Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationYouTuber
Websitemarkiplier.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genre
Subscribers26.4 million
Total views13.6 billion
NetworkPolaris
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2013
1,000,000 subscribers 2013
10,000,000 subscribers 2015
Updated August 11, 2020

As of June 2020, his channel has over 13.3 billion total video views and over 26 million subscribers.[4][5][6] Fischbach specializes in Let's Play videos, commonly of survival horror video games.[7]

YouTube career
Fischbach with fellow Youtuber Jacksepticeye at PAX in 2016

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 its sequel, Garry's Mod, Happy Wheels, Surgeon Simulator, SCP – Containment Breach and Slender: The Eight Pages, among others.

Fischbach has collaborated on sketch comedy and gaming videos with a number of fellow YouTubers, including Crankgameplays, Jacksepticeye, LordMinion777, Muyskerm, PewDiePie, Matthias, Game Grumps, Cyndago, Yamimash, Jacksfilms, CaptainSparklez, Egoraptor and LixianTV, who currently works as his editor. He has also collaborated with celebrities such as Jack Black[8] and Jimmy Kimmel. He has had acting appearances in TomSka's asdfmovie series, Smosh: The Movie,[9] Disney XD's Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything,[10] YouTube Rewinds 2015 and 2016 and Five Nights at Freddy's: The Musical.

A recurring staple of Fischbach's channel are charity livestreams, during which he plays games while campaigning and collecting donations for various charities, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Best Friends Animal Society.[11] According to Fischbach, he and his viewers have raised a total of over $3,000,000 as of April 2018.[5]

History

Early years and switch to MarkiplierGAME (2012–2013)

Fischbach first joined YouTube on March 6, 2012, creating a channel under the username "Markiplier", and uploaded his first video on April 4, 2012 (which is no longer on YouTube).[12] Fischbach's original intent for the channel was sketch comedy where he would be portraying all of the characters in the sketches.[13] This led to the creation of the name "Markiplier", a portmanteau of Mark and multiplier.[13] 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, and he created a new channel on May 26, 2012, MarkiplierGAME.[14]

Fischbach in 2014

Channel growth and move to Los Angeles (2014)

In 2014, the MarkiplierGAME channel was listed on NewMediaRockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at number 61.[15] That year, Fischbach announced he was planning to move to Los Angeles, California to be closer to other resources for his channel, such as the YouTube Space and other content creators.[16] Fischbach and fellow YouTuber Jenna Mae appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September 2015 following backlash Kimmel received regarding jokes he 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.[17]

Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers (2015)

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 Kids w/ Problems later joined Cyndago after they moved to Los Angeles. Their work was noted for having unexpected endings and dark, often disturbing, humor.[18][19] Cyndago disbanded following the death of Daniel Kyre.[20] At the time of their disbandment, the group made forty sketches and fourteen original songs, many of them featuring Fischbach.[18] After the death of Daniel Kyre and disbandment of Cyndago, Fischbach temporarily went on hiatus from September 17, 2015 to October 5, 2015.[21] He returned and reached 10 million subscribers on October 15, 2015.[22]

Fischbach at PAX in 2016

2015–present

Fischbach co-hosted the 2015 South by Southwest Gaming Awards with The Legend of Korra voice actor Janet Varney,[23] and was featured in YouTube's year-end special YouTube Rewind.[24]

In January 2016, Fischbach signed to Revelmode, a subnetwork to Maker Studios, along with other YouTubers such as Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie. Revelmode was disbanded in early 2017 as a result of PewDiePie being cut from Maker Studios. He subsequently signed to another Maker Studios sub-network, Polaris.

Throughout 2016, Fischbach moved some of his focus to comedy sketches, showing his aspiration of improvisational theatre. In 2017, Fischbach posted an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure-style video titled "A Date With Markiplier", which was well received by fans.[25]

In October 2019, Fischbach announced a new Choose Your Own Adventure story similar to 2017's A Date With Markiplier, a YouTube Originals production titled A Heist With Markiplier. Produced by Fischbach and Rooster Teeth, this series contains 31 possible endings and stars other YouTubers such as Rosanna Pansino, Matthew Patrick, and Game Grumps.[26]

On November 15, 2019, Fischbach launched a new channel with fellow YouTuber Ethan Nestor called Unus Annus (Latin for "one year"), a channel that plans to post a single video every day for one year before being deleted along with all of the videos on the channel, with no reuploads of the channel from two of them.[27] The channel shot to early success, gaining 1 million subscribers in its first 5 days and over 11.5 million video views in its first week.[28][29]

Other ventures

Fischbach joined the board of comic book publisher Red Giant Entertainment in November 2014.[30] In June of that year at the San Diego Comic-Con, he co-hosted a panel with figures from the company including CEO Benny R. Powell, and writers David Campiti, Mort Castle, David Lawrence, and Brian Augustyn.[31] In 2016, it was announced that he would appear in his own line of comics.[32]

Fischbach signed with William Morris Endeavor in late 2016, having expressed interest in branching out from YouTube content.[33]

In 2014, he provided guest vocals in the song "Smash!" by Starbomb, which parodies Super Smash Bros., from their second album Player Select. Since 2017 he has voiced the character 5.0.5 in the Cartoon Network series Villainous.[34]

In 2018, Markiplier announced the launch of a new fashion brand called Cloak, in a joint venture with Jacksepticeye.[35] In 2020, fellow YouTuber and streamer Pokimane joined Cloak as a partner and creative director.[36][37]

Personal life

Fischbach has an older brother, Jason Thomas "Tom" Fischbach, who is an artist known for his webcomic series, TwoKinds. He mostly stays away from allowing his face to be filmed for privacy.[38]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Ref(s)
2015 Smosh: The Movie Himself [9]

Television and web series
Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2013–2014 Table Flip Himself 3 episodes
2014 asdfmovie Man Afraid of Sheep/Man Looking at Babies/David 2 episodes
2015–present YouTube Rewind Himself 4 episodes
2015 Grumpcade Himself 20 episodes
2016 Scare PewDiePie Himself 1 episode
2016 Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything Himself 1 episode [10]
2017–present Villainous 5.0.5 Main role [39][40]
2018–present 3 Peens in a Pod Himself Podcast
2019 The Edge of Sleep Dave Podcast
Co-Producer
Main Role
2019 "A Heist with Markiplier" Various 61 episodes

Awards and nominations
Year Nominated Award Result Ref(s)
2016 Streamy Awards Gaming Nominated
Shorty Awards Tech and Innovation: Gaming Nominated
Make-A-Wish Foundation Award Ceremony Celebrity of the Year Won [41]
2017 Golden Joystick Awards Best Streamer/Broadcaster Won [42]
2018 Kids Choice Awards Favorite Funny YouTube Creator Nominated
gollark: Well, you can *manually* do it lots.
gollark: Diode cult members, please help. We're at least more similar than the capacitor and ceramic wobble people.
gollark: I have to say that an easily manipulated poll may not be the best way to decide which cult survives.
gollark: I will not submit to your tyrannous cult. At least a transistor means something. What even is a ceramic wobble? WHAT?!
gollark: Unless you make yourself immortal.

See also

References
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  2. "ANXIETY: Ib Playthrough #4". YouTube. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
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  6. "YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Channels List - Top by Subscribers". Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  7. Hernandez, Patricia. "Famous YouTubers Go On TV, Teach Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson". Kotaku.com. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  8. "Markiplier makes Jack Black play 'Five Nights at Freddy's 4'". Sun-Times National. Archived from the original on October 14, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  9. Spangler, Todd. "YouTube's Smosh Guys on Making Their First Movie: 'We Had to Learn How to Act'". Variety. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  10. UTC, Chelsea Stark2016-02-12 13:15:20. "Markiplier guest stars on next episode of Disney's 'Gamer's Guide'". Mashable. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  11. "Markiplier Raises $75,000 For Charity With 'Super Mario World' Stream On Twitch". Tubefilter. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  12. "Top 30 Markiplier Quotes to Make Your Day". Gracious Quotes. March 14, 2020.
  13. "Taron Egerton/Steve Kornacki/Mark Fischbach/Chris Johnson". Late Night with Seth Meyers. Season 7. Episode 37. November 12, 2019. NBC.
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  15. "The NMR Top 100 YouTube Channels: 75-51!". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
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  18. Wall, Cameron (September 20, 2015). "RIP Daniel Kyre". The Odyssey Newspaper. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
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  20. Magee, Ryan; Watson, Matt; Kyre, David. "Cyndago - Hello everyone. We have some very important and..." Facebook. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
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  25. Sheehan, Gavin (February 15, 2017). "Markiplier Just Put Together The Best Dating Adventure Possible". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
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  27. "Unus Annus". IMDb. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  28. "Markiplier And Ethan Nestor's New Self-Destructing Vlog Project Nets Nearly 1M Subscribers In 3 Days". Archived from the original on November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  29. "Unus Annus's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  30. "Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach Joins Red Giant Entertainment's Board of Directors". Marketwired. Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. November 12, 2014. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  31. "YouTube Star 'Markiplier' to Host Red Giant Entertainment Panel Presentation at San Diego Comic-Con 2014". Marketwired. July 7, 2014. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014.
  32. "Markiplier Gets YouTube Viewers To Revive Red Giant Entertainment - And Launch The Zwag Box". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  33. Spangler, Todd (November 16, 2016). "YouTube Star Markiplier Signs With WME (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  34. McDonald, Emily (June 30, 2017). "Did you love 'Invader Zim' growing up? Then you should check out 'Villainous'". Hypable. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  35. Khal (October 19, 2018). "Exclusive: Markiplier and jacksepticeye Announce CLOAK, a Clothing Brand for Gamers". Complex. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  36. Pokimane (June 18, 2020). "insanely happy to announce i've joined @cloakbrand as a partner + creative director". Twitter. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
  37. Hale, James (June 18, 2020). "Top Twitch Streamer Pokimane Joins Markiplier And Jacksepticeye's 'Cloak' Brand As Partner, Creative Director". Tubefilter. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  38. "Markiplier Net Worth, Elder Brother Thomas Jason Fischbach, And More To Know About Forbes' Number 7 YouTube Star". morningnewsusa.com. Archived from the original on May 4, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  39. Ituriel, Alan. "Meet the Villainous characters from bad to worse! Featuring the voice of @markiplier as 5.0.5". Twitter. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  40. "MARKIPLIER = 5.0.5.?! Reading Your Comments #19". YouTube.
  41. Markiplier (October 27, 2016). "I Don't Deserve This". YouTube. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  42. "Golden Joystick Awards on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
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