1. El Rubius has the most subscribers in Spain and is among the top 50 most subscribed-to channels of the platform in the world.
33 Facts About El Rubius
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El Rubius was part of an anime series based on the comics.
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El Rubius is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, with the third-most-followed Twitch channel in the world.
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El Rubius is the son of a Norwegian mother named Bente and a Spanish father, with a younger sister called Liv on his mother's side and two brothers on his father's side.
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When he was three years old, his parents divorced; he and his mother moved to Bergen, where she became a partner with another Spanish person named Hector, to whom Rubius often refers as "The Godfather" in his videos.
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El Rubius moved back to Madrid because of this, where he went through primary and secondary school.
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El Rubius's first console was an SNES, to which he admitted that it was essential to develop his love for video games and geek culture and that if it hadn't been for that he would never have reached where he was.
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El Rubius relocated to Norway again and finished his studies and returned to Spain with his godfather.
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El Rubius worked as an intern and in a supermarket there.
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El Rubius later entered to study 3D modelling and animation in Arteneo School in Madrid.
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El Rubius claimed this channel to be a play on words, referring to his name and the fact that he had blonde hair when he was little.
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El Rubius's video was a montage of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV in English.
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On 19 December 2011, El Rubius created another channel under the name of "elrubiusOMG".
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El Rubius was one of the pioneers in making this type of videos known in the Spanish-speaking community.
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El Rubius revealed his identity for the first time on YouTube there.
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On 27 April 2012, the channel reached 100,000 subscribers, which El Rubius celebrated by streaming on YouTube, answering questions from his followers.
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El Rubius remained the largest YouTuber in Spain until 2012.
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El Rubius became the most subscribed Spanish channel in November 2012 by surpassing fellow YouTuber Willyrex.
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In 2014, El Rubius published an interactive book full of challenges titled El Libro Troll.
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El Rubius made a cameo appearance, this being in Torrente 5, a Spanish comedy film by Santiago Segura.
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El Rubius couldn't suppress his tears after telling Mejide that he was suffering from depression due to the burden of fame and being away from his family.
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In February 2016, El Rubius denounced the Spanish newspaper El Mundo through a video, saying that they had distorted and manipulated an interview that he himself granted, in order to "sell more".
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El Rubius announced that he would not give any more reports or interviews for the press.
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In October 2017, El Rubius announced the production of Virtual Hero, an animated television series produced by Motion Pictures from Barcelona and Jaruyi studio from South Korea, together with Movistar+ and Zeppelin TV, based on his comic series.
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At the beginning of March 2018, El Rubius released a video called La verdad sobre El Rubius.
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In March 2018, El Rubius broke his world record during a live broadcast of Fortnite, having more than a million viewers tuning in and 100 Spanish-speaking streamers.
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On 3 October 2018, El Rubius uploaded a documentary about his life on his YouTube channel.
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El Rubius resumed the activity of his old original channel elrubius to reupload his content on Twitch there.
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El Rubius imitated the video of the announcement of the signing of streamer Ninja to the streaming platform Facebook Gaming there.
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On 7 November 2020, El Rubius uploaded a video on his YouTube channel where he commented on the massiveness of his community and the negative effects this has on social networks to celebrate reaching 39 million subscribers on his channel.
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In December 2020, El Rubius uploaded a video to his main YouTube channel, announcing that he was opening a Pokemon card box valued at $20,000 on his Twitch channel.
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The content of El Rubius' channels are primarily gameplays, sketches, vlogs, and montages, mostly related to video games, with the particularity that they are made with humour, satire, and sarcasm.
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El Rubius offered a change of fresh air, with a more dynamic and more edited content, in addition to performing it with acid, black, absurd, and surreal humour.