Markiplier

**Mark Edward Fischbach**, known online as **Markiplier**, is an American YouTube personality, online entertainer, charity fundraiser, producer, actor, and voice actor. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, he began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. He broadcasts daily Let's Play videos on YouTube and occasionally streams on Twitch. His channel predominately features reaction videos and playthroughs of Survival Horror games, as well as monthly charity livestreams.

Mark began his YouTube career in 2012. He originally became popular for his horror-themed content, such as his Let's Plays of *Amnesia*, *Mad Father*, *The Witch's House*, *Doki Doki Literature Club*, *OFF*, *SCP – Containment Breach* and all six games in the *Five Nights at Freddy's series.* He also recorded LPs of non-horror titles, such as *Happy Wheels* and *Dishonored,* and non-horror indie games made by solo developers, such as the *Henry Stickmin* series.

The Henry Stickmin series gained a lot of attention after Markiplier and Jacksepticeye posted videos on the games. This wound up paying off during the release of Completing the Mission, with many other streamers playing it as a result and by extension, the other games as well due to it being part of The Henry Stickmin Collection. This resulted in the entire series' popularity exploding over the course of August 2020.

Mark's channel has over 29 million subscribers and 15 billion views across all videos. He has also raised over 3 million dollars for different charities.

## History

Mark registered his first YouTube channel on March 6, 2012. He originally intended to upload comedy sketches and action videos. He named the channel "Markiplier", a portmanteau of *Mark* and *multiplier*, as he would be portraying all the characters in the sketches. However, Mark also had a lifelong interest in video games and decided to do gaming videos while the trend was growing. His first series was a Let's Play of *Amnesia: The Dark Descent* (2010), and the channel reached over ninety-four thousand subscribers within the year.

In 2014, Mark moved to Los Angeles to be closer to potential business opportunities. He began his now-famous Let's Play of *Five Nights at Freddy's* (2014), the first part of which became his most viewed gaming video on his channel. The success of this series led Mark to play the other games in the franchise, and he also had a cameo in *Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery* (2019). His other horror-themed content includes his Let's Plays of *Amnesia*, *Mad Father*, *The Witch's House*, *Doki Doki Literature Club*, *OFF*, and *SCP – Containment Breach.* He has also recorded LPs of non-horror titles, such as *Happy Wheels* and *Dishonored,* and non-horror indie games made by solo developers, such as the *Henry Stickmin* series.

Over the years, while still continuing to make video-game content, Mark has been branching out into other areas such as acting and voice talent. He frequently does multiple comedy skits and challenge videos portraying several characters of his own, most notably the pink-moustached Wilford Warfstache and his own evil counterpart Darkiplier. Additionally, Mark has taken part in more ambitious original content that relies considerably on audience engagement. He created the four-part original video series *Who Killed Markiplier?*, which ran from October 10-13, 2017. Later, in 2019, he and various other content creators worked together to make *A Heist with Markiplier*, in which the viewer plays the role of Mark's partner in crime in an interactive narrative with multiple branching paths. On November 15th of that year, Mark alongside Ethan Nestor (CrankGamePlays) created Unus Annus, a channel made with the intent to be deleted after exactly one year. The channel was deleted on November 14th, 2020 at the end of a 12-hour livestream, with almost 1.5 million concurrent viewers tuned in at the stream's final moments.

## List of Henry Stickmin videos

### *The Henry Stickmin Collection (Completing the Mission)*

 Henry Stickmin: Completing the Mission (THE END) | 54:04

## Trivia

* As a tribute to his Henry Stickmin videos, Markiplier has been given a cameo appearance in *Fleeing the Complex* as the character Mark Emu.
* His bio description is referencing Markiplier's Try Not To Laugh Challenge series.
	+ Markiplier made 23 videos on the Try Not to Laugh challenge from October 2016 to October 2019, and laughed in every single one.

* His name, "Mark Emu," is a reference to Markiplier's nickname, "Markimoo."