Markiplier is a German-Korean gaming YouTuber and actor who started his channel in 2012 under the name "Markiplier" as he portrayed different characters. He found early success with his Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent which gained 94,000 subscribers in its first year. Mark dropped out of university in 2014 to focus on his growing gaming career full-time, notably his Five Nights at Freddy's series which includes some of his most viewed videos. He now has over 36 million subscribers on YouTube and has expanded into creating interactive movies in addition to his gaming videos.
Markiplier is a German-Korean gaming YouTuber and actor who started his channel in 2012 under the name "Markiplier" as he portrayed different characters. He found early success with his Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent which gained 94,000 subscribers in its first year. Mark dropped out of university in 2014 to focus on his growing gaming career full-time, notably his Five Nights at Freddy's series which includes some of his most viewed videos. He now has over 36 million subscribers on YouTube and has expanded into creating interactive movies in addition to his gaming videos.
Markiplier is a German-Korean gaming YouTuber and actor who started his channel in 2012 under the name "Markiplier" as he portrayed different characters. He found early success with his Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent which gained 94,000 subscribers in its first year. Mark dropped out of university in 2014 to focus on his growing gaming career full-time, notably his Five Nights at Freddy's series which includes some of his most viewed videos. He now has over 36 million subscribers on YouTube and has expanded into creating interactive movies in addition to his gaming videos.
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• Mark Edward Fischbach is a German-Korean gaming Youtuber and actor. • He first started YouTube on March 6 2012. At first he intended to make comedy sketches, and decided on the name “Markiplier” as he would be portraying all of his characters. • He had a passion for video games so he decided to do gaming videos as during that time, those were the types of videos that were trending on YouTube. • 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. • In 2014 he dropped out of university to pursue his gaming career. He was 2 years from graduating. • In the same year, Mark did a Lets Play on Five Nights At Freddy’s, and to this day those are his most watched videos. • His first FNAF video had over 114 million views as of November 2023, making it his top 5 most viewed video. • In the past few years, Mark has gained on popularity, with currently 36.4 million subscribers. • • In the past few years, Mark has also made many fully interactive movies, where there were choices to make and each choice led to an ending. He made 3 interactive movies in total: A Date With Markiplier, A Heist With Markiplier and In Space With Markiplier (which was split into 2 parts). • His characters have become very iconic, with Wilford M. Warfstache and Darkiplier being his most iconic ones. • He is also in the middle of producing a movie that will be released in theatres between 2024-25. • The movie is based off of the 2022 video game called Iron Lung. • Mark is directing and playing the main role.