The channel rose to early success, gaining 1 million subscribers in its first 5 days and 4.56 million in its last few minutes, and over 11.5 million video views in its first week. On November 15, 2019, Fischbach launched a new channel with fellow YouTuber Ethan Nestor (known online as CrankGameplays) called Unus Annus, a channel which planned to upload a video every day for one year, after which the channel would be deleted along with its videos. Produced by Fischbach and Rooster Teeth, the series contains 31 possible endings and features other YouTubers such as Rosanna Pansino, Matthew Patrick, and Game Grumps. In October 2019, Fischbach announced a new Choose Your Own Adventure-style story similar to A Date With Markiplier, a YouTube Originals production titled A Heist with Markiplier. On March 29, 2018, Fischbach announced his YouTube channel had surpassed 20 million subscribers. In 2017, Fischbach posted an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure-style video titled A Date with Markiplier, which was well received by fans. Throughout 2016, Fischbach moved some of his focus to comedy sketches, showing his aspiration of improvisational theatre. Continued growth and larger projects (2015–2019)įischbach co-hosted the 2015 South by Southwest Gaming Awards with The Legend of Korra voice actor Janet Varney, and was featured in YouTube Rewind. He returned and reached 10 million subscribers on October 15, 2015. After the death of Daniel Kyre and disbandment of Cyndago, Fischbach temporarily went on hiatus from Septemto October 5, 2015. At the time of their disbandment, the group had made forty sketches and fourteen original songs, many of them featuring Fischbach. Cyndago disbanded following the death of Daniel Kyre. Their work was noted for having unexpected endings and dark, often disturbing, humor. Matt Watson from Kids w/ Problems later joined Cyndago after they moved to Los Angeles. įischbach in 2015 Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers (2015)īeginning in 2015, Fischbach lived with fellow YouTubers Daniel Kyre and Ryan Magee, who created and ran the YouTube sketch comedy and music channel Cyndago. In 2015, he was rated sixth in a list of the twenty most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States. įischbach 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. Due to the success of this series, Fischbach played the other games in the FNAF franchise, and also had a cameo in Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery. In August 2014, Fischbach began his famous Five Nights at Freddy's playthrough, which became his most popular playthrough to date, the first part having over 100 million views as of February 2022. 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. In 2014, the MarkiplierGAME channel was listed on NewMediaRockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at number 61. 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. Fischbach's first series was a playthrough of the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. This led to the creation of the name "Markiplier", a portmanteau of Mark and multiplier. Fischbach's original intent for the channel was sketch comedy where he would be portraying all of the characters in the sketches. History Early years and growth (2012–2014)įischbach first joined YouTube on March 6, 2012, creating a channel under the username "Markiplier", and uploaded his first video on April 4, 2012. Ī recurring staple of Fischbach's channel are charity live streams, 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. He has also collaborated with celebrities such as Jack Black and Jimmy Kimmel. įischbach 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. 1.2.3 Continued growth and larger projects (2015–2019)įischbach 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.1.2.2 Hiatus and breaking 10 million subscribers (2015).
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