Markiplier

**Mark Edward Fischbach** (born June 28, 1989), known by his YouTube username **Markiplier**, is an American internet personality, video game commentator and charity fundraiser.

## Personal life

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Fischbach began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Cliffton M. Fischbach, was of German descent, while his mother is Korean. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, later changing his degree to Biomedical Engineering. He later left college and started his YouTube career.

In October 2025, Fischbach married his longtime girlfriend Amy Nelson, after being together for ten years.

## Career

Fischbach moved to Los Angeles, California in 2014, wanting to be closer to the YouTube scene.

, his channel has over 9 billion total video views and 22 million subscribers, and is currently the 36th most-subscribed channel on YouTube.

Fischbach plays in Let's Play videos, commonly of survival horror video games.

In 2017, Fischbach began his first improv tour, known as the "You're Welcome Tour", which spanned from North America to Europe and Australia.

Fischbach has done multiple charity streams and fundraisers with other YouTubers. _Forbes_ reported in 2017 that Fischbach and his fans had helped raise roughly $3 million for charity in past fundraising streams. In April 2018, he raised $1,506,793.81 in charities.

### Unus Annus

On November 15, 2019, Fischbach created a new channel with 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. The channel had 1 million subscribers in its first 5 days and 4.56 million in its last few minutes. The channel was deleted on November 14, 2020. The channel was meant to remind viewers about life and death and how quickly both can come and go.

### Podcasts

Fischbach, along with Wade Barnes (LordMinion777) and Bob Muyskens (Muyskerm) has streamed a podcast on Twitch called _3 Peens in a Podcast_ since 2018.

In 2019, Fischbach co-produced and starred in Edge of Sleep, an audio drama released on iTunes.

In May 2021, Fischbach announced that he, Barnes, and Muyskens would be starting a podcast called _Distractible_.

### OnlyFans

Fischbach created an OnlyFans account where any money he would get from subscribers would be split evenly between the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the World Food Programme. He promised to post "tasteful nudes" on his Only Fans account. He officially created the account on December 9, 2022, and the increase of people going to the website caused the site to crash on the same day.

## Philanthropy works

|Date|Charity|Total Funds|Others With Him|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|July 2012|Child's Play|$1,000.00||
|February 2013|Cancer Research Institute|$8,047.00||
|February 2015|Depression and Bipolar Support Association|$82,003.00||
|February 2017|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital|$115,717.00||
|March 2017|Charity: Water|$254,649.00||
|April 2017|Environmental Defense Fund|$123,111.00||
|May 2017|Game Changer|$198,378.00||
|August 2017|Joyful Heart Foundation|$108,585.00||
|September 2017|Direct Relief|$74,421.00||
|October 2017|National MPS Society|$107,878.00||
|November 2017|Save The Children|$422,773.81||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Nominated|Award|Result|scope="col" class="unsortable"||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|2016|Streamy Awards|Gaming||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Shorty Awards|Tech and Innovation: Gaming||style="text-align:center;"|||||
|Make-A-Wish Foundation Award Ceremony|Celebrity of the Year||style="text-align:center;"|||||
|2017|Golden Joystick Awards|Best Streamer/Broadcaster||style="text-align:center;"||||
|2018|Kids Choice Awards|Favorite Funny YouTube Creator||style="text-align:center;"||||
|rowspan="3"|2020|rowspan="2"|Streamy Awards|Show of the Year (A Heist with Markiplier)||rowspan="2"||
|Scripted Series (A Heist with Markiplier)||||||||
|Cancer Research Institute|Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research|||||||
|2021|Streamy Awards|Best Collaboration (Markiplier and CrankGameplays for Unus Annus)||||||

## Infobox (youtube personality)

- **name**: Markiplier
- **image**: Markiplier by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- **caption**: Fischbach at PAX West in 2018
- **channel name**: MarkiplierGAME
- **views**: 22.7 billion
- **birth name**: Mark Edward Fischbach
- **birth place**: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
- **signature**: Markiplier signature.svg
- **origin**: Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
- **years active**: 2012–present
- **genre**: [relatives] Lydia LaForce/cousin
Tomas Fishbach/brother
- **subscribers**: 37.7 million
- **network**: Polaris
- **silver year**: 2013
- **gold year**: 2013
- **diamond year**: 2015
- **silver button**: yes
- **gold button**: yes
- **diamond button**: yes
- **stats update**: 12 July 2025