Paluten

Patrick Mayer, better known online as Paluten, is a German gaming and reaction YouTuber.
== Personal life ==
Paluten was born in the city of Hamburg on January 5, 1988https://www.promi-geburtstage.de/info/?id=6390_Paluten. In his youth his parents divorced, so he lived mainly by his motherhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/3zSG7HivQFCFTzVqd7mHW7. He finished the gymnasium and studied in Hamburg. In October 2012 he started making videos, as he already played a lot video games he decided to upload gameplay of it. His first Lets Play was about Need for speed:Most Wanted. Still living in Hamburg he decided to move, together with Rewinside, in the "YouTube Haus"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fl2vknyG-Y, an house nearly completely rented by different german Youtubers. He did this because he hoped for the great break through of his YouTube channel. That's why he used his last money for this project. Luckily it indeed worked an his channel blew up. After some time he moved out to Munich, as the Address was leaked an fans of all the Youtubers living there were "visiting" the YouTube Haus. Since then Paluten held his live more privat. It's known that he started building a house in 2021 and proposed to his unkown girlfried in January 2023https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOzqhzAIw4JTJIMkDTfLnkg/community?lb=UgkxHTALePmzasIfg3Idga1VyN6iW7kVYsgf. He gives updates about is house in nearly every podcast episode, he never spoke in public about his girlfriend.
==Content==
Paluten's main content is playing video games. In his early career he mainly played Minecraft, but later on he started playing other games such as GTA 5, or later on Wobbly Life. He is quite known in YouTube Germany for his Minecraft series called "Minecraft Freedom", which started on March 10, 2015 and ended 380 episodes later on February 4, 2016. In this series he also founded the "Freedom-Squat", an YouTuber friends group of four Youtubers: Paluten, GermanLetsPlay, Zombey and Maudado. This group was making videos together until GermanLetsPlay took a break from Youtube. On his second chanel, Team Paluten, however he uploaded reactions to videos. Since January 2, 2023 he stopped reacting to normal videos, instead he started only reacting to YouTube Shorts.
==Podcasts==
===Plötzlich Schwanger===
Plötzlich Schwanger (eng. "suddenly pregnant") was the first podcast Paluten was part of. Together with HerrBergman, another german Youtuber, the podcast was produced from March 3, 2020 to October 11, 2020. They did not have an exclusive topic, but spoke about everything they had in mind, like sports, personal stories or just funny things they had seen. Because the podcast was primarily a chill-out comedy podcast, they never spoke long about big problems, or serious political issues. After some time they had some recurring formats like the "Rollplay der Woche" (eng. Roll play of the week) were they roll played different characters in funny, or just hilarious situations. The podcast was stopped due to personal differences over the future of the podcast after 84 episodes.
===Kottbruder Podcast===
The Kottbruder Podcast is the second podcast Paluten participates in, together with GermanLetsPlay he similar to the "Plötzlich Schwanger Podcast", he talks about the world and everything. This time what so ever, everything is better organized as Paluten had this time more experience than before. There are again some recurring formats like the "Schokoriegel der Woche" (eng. Chocolate bar of the week) in which Paluten and GermanLetsPlay talk about an chocolate bar and give them an rating between one and ten. The podcast started on May 12, 2022 and is published every Sunday at 8am (German time). 
== Biggest Projects ==
=== Time in the "UFO" ===
At October 5, 2016 the YouTubers Paluten, Rewinside, Sturmwaffel, Dner and Izzyi announced that they were renting an office togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0uwtTUi5Q. They called it the "UFO" (dt. Ultra Fettes Office). Every involved Youtuber had his own big room in which he could do what ever he wanted. Some moved their staff there, some used it as chill area. Paluten never really used his room active, as he hadn't staff and worked from home. So he often was pranked, as his room was filled with ballshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxwZwYwB7k8 or his wall got sprayedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rreCgsv_fzE. Because he never used his room as office he mainly used his time there to do vlogs which he always began with "Hallo Freunde" (eng. Hello friends) to greet his present friends. After two years of usage, in 2018, the UFO was closed, because most of the members were gone and there was non sense anymorehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzpSGx1fqM.
=== Minecraft Freedom ===
On December 11, 2015 Paluten started his most famous project called Minecraft Freedomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA167G8hDAc. It was an Minecraft story project with friends and the community. The project told an story about an world called Freedom and an evil lord called Zarot. In this project the later called Freedom Squad played the first time together, and every day an episode was released. As Paluten had to record and cut an episode a day he hadn't time for his family or friends. 
==Books==
Paluten wrote, together with assistance, six books and one comic since March 29, 2018https://paluten.store/collections/bucher. All of the books have between 160 and 220 pages, the comic has 96 pages. The stories take place in the fictional world of Minecraft-Freedom, an old Minecraft project of him. Because of this Paluten and his pet pig Edgar are quite often the main protagonists. The books are published by Community Editions, and are quite successful, as all of them are SPIEGEL-Bestsellerhttps://paluten.store/collections/bucher. 
===List of Books:===
# Schmahamas-Verschwörung: March 29, 2018
# Der Golemkönig: June 28, 2019 (comic)
# Schlamassel im Weltall: March 23, 2020
# Donnerwetter am Mount Schmeverest: March 8, 2021
# Reise zum Mittelschlund der Erde: April 4, 2022
# Verschollen im Berschmudadreieck: November 9, 2022
# Der Große Preis von Schmonaco: March 6, 2023
==Subscriber milestones==
===Paluten=== 
*1,000,000 subscribers: Septemer 4, 2015https://twitter.com/snoxh/status/639847995102613504
*2,000,000 subscribers: February 8, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyg_iOig1yU
*3,000,000 subscribers: October 11, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QUQ73iPoDA
*4,000,000 subscribers: January 13, 2021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnyVe1XXAc
===Team Paluten===
*1,000,000 subscribers: November 23, 2022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SarkPWF62mk
==Sources==
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Category:Users who joined in 2012
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