Meet Markiplier!

By Diana Gudiel-Benitez

Most of you guys know YouTube has a lot of Let’s Players, such as PewDiePie, Tobuscus, SmoshGames, RoosterTeeth, etc, but have any of you heard the Let’s Player named Markiplier? Some might since he has done a lot of videos of him collaborating with other gamers.

First off, what’s a Let’s Player? A Let’s Player is a person (or a group) who record themselves playing a game, later posting them online. Markiplier, as I said before, is a Let’s Player as well. Who is he anyway? His real name Mark Edward Fischbach, and he was born on June 28, 1989. He started his YouTube channel on May 26, 2012, and has been successful since then. Now, some of you may be thinking, why should I care who he is? Why are you writing about this guy? It’s because Mark, in my opinion, is one of the nicest YouTube gamers ever. Seriously.

He has about 1,400,000 subscribers, and to show his appreciation, he uploads a video every 100,000 subscribers that has him talking about how thankful he is to his fans and how he will attempt to become better for them. Really sweet, if you ask me. He even did a series of videos called Markiplier Fanmail, where he read all the letters and opened all the gifts his fans sent to him. In one of these videos, Mark playfully insulted about some his fan’s letters which only resulted some of his fans to email him and say they were offended, not realizing he was only joking. In the next video, Mark was shown looking quite upset, and he apologized for his behavior, not knowing that it would offend some. To me, this shows that he really does care about his fans. There’s quite a few videos where he was shown to be emotional about his fans; like I said, he really cares. He also continues to play a game if the fans demand it; he mostly does horror games, so when this happens, he is shown to be scared, but does it anyway for them. One of the best things about Mark though is that he hosts charity live streams on the website, Twitch. He tries to host them every month, playing random games by himself, or with his friends, Bob and Wade.

What I’m trying to say is, check him out; Mark is a really generous, sweet, and fun guy who seems to have the gift of lifting sorrow spirits up. We all need that type of person in our life.