Markiplier
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| Born | Mark Edward Fischbach June 28, 1989 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | ||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2012–present | ||||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 37.7 million[1] | ||||||||||||
| Views | 22.7 billion[1] | ||||||||||||
| Network | Polaris (formerly) | ||||||||||||
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Mark Edward Fischbach (/ˈfɪʃˌbɑːk/ FISH-bahk; born June 28, 1989), known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. One of the most popular YouTubers on the platform, he is known for his "Let's Play" videos of indie horror games.[2][3] He was listed by Forbes as the third-highest-paid content creator on the platform in 2022,[4] and has won four Streamy Awards and a Golden Joystick Award. He has spun off his YouTube fame into a media career, venturing into acting and filmmaking.
After joining YouTube in 2012, Fischbach became popular on the platform with Let's Plays of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Five Nights at Freddy's series; as of July 2025, his channel had over 37 million subscribers.[5] He signed with talent agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016. While with the agency, he released a clothing line, wrote and directed the YouTube Original series A Heist with Markiplier (2019) and In Space with Markiplier (2022), and hosted or co-hosted two podcasts which reached No. 1 on Spotify.
In 2023, Fischbach signed with United Talent Agency and was nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award. He starred in the series The Edge of Sleep (2024), and will make his theatrical debut directing, producing, writing, and starring in the horror film Iron Lung.
- ^ a b "About Markiplier". YouTube.
- ^ Myers, Maddy (April 21, 2023). "Markiplier to direct and star in movie adaptation of horror game Iron Lung". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ^ Brey, Betsy (2020). "Five Nights at Fan Games: Feminism, Fan Labor, and Five Nights at Freddy's". In Clarke, M.J.; Wang, Cynthia (eds.). Indie Games in the Digital Age. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-1501356438.
- ^ Brown, Abram; Freeman, Abigail (January 14, 2022). "The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars: MrBeast, Jake Paul And Markiplier Score Massive Paydays". Forbes. Archived from the original on January 17, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
- ^ "Markiplier's YouTube Stats". Social Blade. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
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