Perhaps one of the most famous icons of the Internet, and YouTube stars is Markiplier. As of November 2016, his channel has over 15 million subscribers, over 6 billion total video views, and is the 21st most subscribed channel on YouTube. Fischbach specializes in Let's Play gameplay commentary videos and indie games, commonly of survival horror and action video games.

Mark Edward Fischbach, known by his Internet persona and main YouTube username Markiplier, is an American Internet and YouTube personality star. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Fischbach began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Generally, he is a YouTube star who gained fame as Markiplier, uploading videos of him and his friends playing and commenting on video games. His channel has earned over 11 million subscribers.

He was born on June 28th, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States and has American and Korean ancestry. His father served in the military where he met his mother of Korean origin. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally, Fischbach studied to become a medical engineer at the University of Cincinnati but dropped out of college to pursue his YouTube career. Before his YouTube fame, He originally aspired to become a voice actor.

Starting his Internet web video YouTube career, Fischbach first joined YouTube on May 26, 2012, creating a channel under the username "Markiplier". Fischbach's first series was a playthrough of the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. After playing several other game series, including Penumbra and Dead Space, YouTube banned Fischbach's AdSense account. Though he appealed to YouTube as a last effort, the appeal was ultimately lost. Because of this, a new and current channel was created and dubbed MarkiplierGAME. In 2014, Fischbach's YouTube Channel, Markiplier, was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #61.

Since then, he has collaborated with many others, including Jacksepticeye, LordMinion777, Muyskerm, PewDiePie, Matthias, GameGrumps, Cyndago, Yamimash, Jacksfilms, CaptainSparklez, and LixianTV, as well as acting appearances in TomSka's asdfmovie series (voice only) and in Smosh: The Movie. He has also played many games on his channel, including the Five Nights at Freddy's series, Garry's Mod, Happy Wheels, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Minecraft (while intoxicated), SCP - Containment Breach, HuniePop, SOMA, Until Dawn, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, To the Moon, The Evil Within, Alien: Isolation, Among the Sleep, Grand Theft Auto V, and many more. He has also done "Impossible Challenges" (spicy peppers, painful trials, etc.), sketch comedy with Matthias and Cyndago, and played horror spin-off parodies from games like Slender: The Eight Pages and Five Nights at Freddy's. At the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, Fischbach appeared on a panel with Red Giant Entertainment including Benny R. Powell (Wayward Sons), David Campiti (Pandora's Blogs), Mort Castle (Darchon), David Lawrence, and Brian Augustyn. He also co-hosted the 2015 South By Southwest (SXSW) Gaming Awards with The Legend of Korra voice actor Janet Varney. Fischbach and fellow Youtuber Jenna Mae appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September of 2014 following the backlash that Kimmel received regarding jokes he had made about YouTube and Let's Play videos. Fischbach joined the Red Giant Entertainment board in November 2014. He was featured in Youtube Rewind 2015. Fischbach is often referred to as one of the kindest, generous, and down-to-earth YouTubers. He has done many charity live streams, donating to charities such as Doctors Without Borders and to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, located in his hometown. Fischbach also enjoys keeping a close relationship with his viewers, often going to conventions and interacting with them on social media. He also highly praises his community's support, taking much pride in how his viewers care about each other as well as him.

In his Cyndago collaboration, Fischbach made many comedy videos together with the YouTube sketch comedy and music channel, Cyndago. The channel was founded in 2012 by Daniel Kyre and Ryan Magee in South Carolina, stemming from Magee's post-high school film work. Matt Watson from Maker Studios later joined Cyndago after they moved to Los Angeles. Their work was noted for having unexpected endings and dark, often disturbing, humor. Following Kyre's attempted suicide on September 16, 2015, and subsequent death two days later, the remaining members of Cyndago chose to disband. At the time of their disbandment, the group had done forty sketches and fourteen original songs, many of them featuring Fischbach. Watson and Magee then decided to work on Watson's own comedy and music channel, Kids w/ Problems, and they continue to collaborate with Fischbach. After the death of Daniel Kyre and disbandment of Cyndago, Fischbach temporarily halted uploads and went on hiatus from September 17 to October 5, 2015.

On March 23 2015, he had emergency surgery and posted a video from his hospital bed which received over 5 million views. Fortunately, the surgery was a success and mark returned to vlogging afterwards.

Mark's older brother is Jason Thomas Fischbach who prefers to go by Thomas is an author, writer, and artist best known for being the brother of Mark Fischbach, although he makes limited appearances on his brother's channels. He created the comic Two Kinds. Thomas was born on July 28, 1987, in Hawaii and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio where he since resides. He is a digital artist and is recognized as the creator and author of the popular webcomic TwoKinds. As reiterated by Mark, Tom does not like to be in front of a camera - the few times he is seen is due to Mark's pressing for his appearance for the sake of the audience. Despite this, he was featured as Mark has planned, albeit voice-only, in Mark's Orcs Must Die! 2 playthroughs. He has made several small appearances in Mark's live streams, most recently in the Farewell live stream. Before fame, He started drawing when he was 14 and debuted Two Kinds on October 22, 2003. In an amazing trivia, He attended the University of Cincinnati to study radiation therapy. Like his brother Mark, he was born in Hawaii prior to moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. He's older than Mark by exactly 23 months. He also provided commentary for Markiplier's Let's Play of Orcs Must Die 2.

His biological mother is Korean and was born on March 21, 1964. She and her parents were originally North Korea, though they left for South Korea during the Korean War. Little is known about her except what is told by Mark himself in his Draw My Life - Markiplier video. It is known that they are in good relationships, and Markiplier usually visits her during holidays.

He is best buddies with fellow YouTuber and Twitch streamer Ray Narvaez Jr. (now formerly of Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth, he left the company on April 17, 2015).

His late father was a USAF serviceman, who met Mark's mother while stationed in South Korea.

Mark has gone on record to say that the inspiration for the voice of his character Wilford Warfstache was Jim Carrey's impression of Walter Cronkite from Bruce Almighty (2003).

Mark is referred to by some of his fans as an exceptionally caring and lovable person, which is one of the main reasons his channel is growing so rapidly. Special vlogs in which Mark talks directly with his fanbase are not rare, but on 10/10/2013, after finishing the fan-made game Ripest of Fears, Mark openly admitted that he has lost some of the contacts with his fanbase while doing his best to be a good entertainer, and he accused himself of giving too much importance to things that really didn't matter, such as putting his subscribers counting ahead of himself.

Alongside his suave and sonorous voice, Mark has a well-trained eye for quality in games, praising creative or innovative features, especially physics-based examples.

After playing a game, he will often pause for a minute before ending the video to talk about the quality of the game, what the developers did and didn't do well, as well as giving them advice as to how to make the game better.

Mark is also known for his hidden talent of bending his feet backward. This has been shown multiple times at the conventions he has attended.

Mark has said publicly he's been attending acting and improvisational comedy classes. A vocal fan of the improv television program Whose Line Is It Anyway?, creatively also involved in music since playing the trumpet in the school marching band, Mark's channel reflects that with parody songs while his skits with Cyndago show his natural comedic acting chops. He hints at a possible foray into serious music while playing Killing Floor 2 with JackSepticEye and LordMinion777 in May of 2015.

Recently, he has been taking up guitar and performing on tour. Mark has also since uploaded a cover of 'Thinking out Loud' by Ed Sheeran onto his channel. Alongside this he has taken singing more seriously, getting voice coaching lessons so that he can sing along to the music.

In order to perform on tour, Mark has attended regular improv classes with Tyler, Ethan, and others.

I'm officially done, I can't do it anymore, I'm throwing in the towel. It's insanity, insanity to even try... which is why I'm going to do it one more time. And we all know what came next.

[trademark sign-off] And as always, I will see *you*... in the next video. Bye-bye!

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[recurring phrase] Criminy Christmas!

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You do you,and I'll do me,and we won't do each other,probably.

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Sometimes you must reach beyond yourself to reach yourself within.. yourself.

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What I do is temporary but what I leave behind is forever.

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Life is hard,Should you be too

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What rhymes with axe? MORE axe!

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Where's the blacksmith

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Hello new world, how’s it going? I’m here to wreck everything.

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I just thought random screaming would help me out.

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You're not alone in anything that you've done.

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How do I put thrusters on a baby?

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Don’t go for the booty if it kills you.

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Whatever you do, be it small, big; have a goal and believe in yourself

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Never give up, no matter what may set you back, and know that at the end of the road, you’re going to have something that you can be proud of.

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THERE AIN'T NO BAILING ON THIS PAIN TRAIN

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Life's full of wasted opportunities

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I want to live in a world where every person gives far more than they take

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Be good to everyone. You never know who might be suffering alone

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