1. Mark Edward Fischbach, known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor.
21 Facts About Markiplier
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Markiplier 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.
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Markiplier has spun off his YouTube fame into a media career, venturing into acting and filmmaking.
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Markiplier signed with talent agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016.
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Markiplier starred in the series The Edge of Sleep, and will make his theatrical debut directing, producing, writing, and starring in the horror film Iron Lung.
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Markiplier's father Cliffton was a German American military officer who met his Korean mother, Sunok Frank, while stationed in South Korea.
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Markiplier's father died in 2008 when Fischbach was 19 years old.
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Markiplier originally intended to upload comedy sketches and action videos.
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Markiplier named the channel "Markiplier", a portmanteau of Mark and multiplier, as he would be portraying all the characters in the sketches.
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Markiplier's first series was a Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and the channel reached over 94,000 subscribers within the year.
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Markiplier dropped out of university the same year to support his growing online career, only two semesters away from graduating.
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Markiplier was ranked sixth in a list of the twenty most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States.
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Markiplier was hospitalized but was taken off life support two days later.
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In October 2019, interactive special A Heist with Markiplier was released as his first YouTube Original.
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Markiplier announced a set of conditions that had to be met first before launching the page: The first condition was that his Distractible podcast had to become the most popular podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify, and the second condition was that a sports podcast he created with a friend had to become the most popular sports podcast in the United States and the rest of the world.
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On November 2,2022, he announced in a YouTube video that he was going to create the page at the end of the month, after making an initial batch of "tasteful nudes" and obtaining the "Markiplier" handle from an impersonator.
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Markiplier uploaded his first Let's Play of the 2014 survival horror game Five Nights at Freddy's on August 13,2014.
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Markiplier is highly engaged with the franchise's fandom, which has an overlap with his own.
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Markiplier made a guest appearance in the launch trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery.
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Markiplier has collaborated with celebrities such as Jack Black and Jimmy Kimmel.
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Markiplier's older brother, Tom, is a comic artist who created the long-running webcomic Twokinds.