Citing only PewDiePie and former ballerina turned Smosh co-host Mari Takahashi as his immediate competition, Fischbach is definitely coming out on top of the world of professional content creators on YouTube in a big way. To date, Markiplier is host to approximately seven billion total video views and seventeen million subscribers, and has just been named a key influencer by one prominent publication in particular.Īs part of its series of top influencers within the gaming industry, Forbeshas celebrated Markiplier with the cultural pull to potentially attract the attention of the powers that be at Hollywood. After eight months in, Fischbach was making " tens of dollars," and by 2014 his gameplay videos were being seen by multi-millions of individual users.
In what began as a passion project to kill steam and stress while studying for a degree in medical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Markiplier steadily became an online phenomenon and property that could be easily monetized. With his most direct competition coming in the form of Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie - born Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg in Gothenburg, Sweden - Markiplier has managed to corner his own significant corner in the market of Let's Play video series, with a decided focus on horror and indie video game titles. Born Mark Edward Fischbach in Honolulu, Hawaii, the popular YouTuber goes by the name Markiplier online, and since 2012 has become one of the most prominent gaming influencers around the world.
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