What is Markiplier’s Net Worth?
With a net worth of $45 million, Markiplier is an American YouTube personality, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is among the world’s most well-known and highest-paid YouTube celebrities. As of this writing, Markiplier’s YouTube channel has about 20 billion views and more than 34 million subscribers. His channel is among the top 100 YouTube channels with the most subscribers. Markiplier is renowned for his humorous commentary on video games. His area of expertise is “Let’s Play” gameplay commentary videos, which typically highlight action and survival horror video games.
He made an appearance in the 2015 movie “Smosh: The Movie,” and he was the star, writer, and director of the 2019 YouTube Premium film “A Heist With Markiplier.” In 2018, Markiplier and fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye started the clothing line Cloak. He co-hosts “Distractible” and “3 Peens in a Podcast.” He co-produced and starred in the 2019 audio drama series “Edge of Sleep.”
Career Earnings
One of the YouTubers with the biggest earnings is Markiplier. His many social media ventures bring in between $10 and $20 million annually. He made $12.5 million in 2017 and $17.5 million in 2018, which was sufficient to rank him as the sixth highest-paid YouTuber globally. Markiplier became the third highest-paid YouTuber globally in 2019 after earning $13 million and $20 million in 2020. That’s almost $60 million in revenue only from 2017 to 2020.
With $38 million for the year, he was the third-highest-paid YouTube video creator in 2022. In 2023, he made $30 million. So, he made $128 million from 2017 to 2023.
Early Life
Mark Edward Fischbach was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 28, 1989. The Tripler Army Medical Centre is where he was born. He met his parents, Cliffton (who died in 2008) and Sunok when Cliffton was serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in Korea. Following his birth, the family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Markiplier attended Milford High School and participated in the marching band as a trumpet player. Markiplier frequently makes jokes about his family’s financial hardships when he was younger. He enrolled at the University of Cincinnati to study biomedical engineering after graduating, but he left to concentrate on his YouTube career. The artist Jason, Markiplier’s older brother, is the creator of the webcomic “Twokinds.”
Career
In March 2012, Markiplier signed up for YouTube, and the following month, he posted his debut video. “Markiplier,” a combination of his first name and the word “multiplier,” was the nickname he picked because his original plan was to produce sketch comedy videos in which he played all the characters. After playing several additional games on his channel, YouTube blocked his AdSense account, prompting him to start a new channel, “markiplierGAME,” in May 2012. His first YouTube series was a playthrough of the video game “Amnesia: The Dark Descent.” In August 2014, Markiplier started a playthrough of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” which became his most popular playthrough, with over 80 million views. He subsequently participated in further series games and made an appearance in “Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery” in 2019. Markiplier and fellow YouTuber Jenna Mae made an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in September 2015, following outcry against Kimmel for his comments about Let’s Play videos. A “Variety” list of the most influential celebrities among American teenagers in 2015 placed Markiplier at number six.
Markiplier resided with Ryan Magee and Daniel Kyre, who started the YouTube channel “Cyndago,” after relocating to Los Angeles. Many of their cartoons featured him, and Markiplier took a brief break following Kyre’s death in September 2015. The interactive video “A Date with Markiplier,” which he posted in 2017, was followed by a similar film, “A Heist with Markiplier,” in 2019. Markiplier and actress Janet Varney co-hosted the 2015 South by Southwest Gaming Awards. He and Ethan Nestor (also known as CrankGameplays) started the YouTube channel “Unus Annus” in November 2019 intending to post a video every day for a year before shutting it down. “Unus Annus” received over 11 million views in its first week and one million subscriptions in the first five days. Markiplier joined the board of Red Giant Entertainment in late 2014, and it was announced in 2016 that he would be starring in his comic book series. He expressed interest in pursuing other entertainment endeavours, such as acting and music, and signed with Endeavour in November 2016.
After joining United Talent Agency in 2023, Markiplier is scheduled to make his feature film debut in the horror film “Iron Lung.”
Personal Life
Miranda Cracraft, Markiplier’s 19-year-old step-niece, lost her life in a vehicle accident in June 2018. To pay for the funeral, he started a GoFundMe page and managed to gather almost $79,000. According to “Forbes” magazine, Markiplier has participated in several livestreams and charity fundraisers, raising almost $3 million in 2017. He collected $500,000 for the Cancer Research Institute in March 2018 by selling his “Tasteful Nudes” Charity Calendar for 48 hours. Markiplier has identified as a liberal who is in favour of universal health care, stronger gun control legislation, and LGBT rights. He voiced his opposition to George Floyd’s murder in 2020.
The popularity of his “Tasteful Nudes” calendar prompted him to create an OnlyFans account, with the earnings going to the World Food Programme and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital equally. The site crashed as a result of the surge in traffic when the page was introduced in December 2022.
Awards and Nominations
In addition to being nominated for multiple Streamy Awards, Markiplier won the Scripted Series award for “A Heist with Markiplier” in 2020 and the Purpose Award for Social Good – Creator in 2019. At the 2016 Make-A-Wish Foundation Award Ceremony, he was awarded Celebrity of the Year. In 2020, the Cancer Research Institute presented him with the Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research. Markiplier received a Golden Joystick Award for Best Streamer/Broadcaster in 2017 after winning a Diamond Creator Award/YouTube Creator Reward at the 2016 YouTube Creator Awards. Additionally, he has been nominated for the Game Awards (Trending Gamer, 2015), Shorty Awards (Creator of the Decade, 2018), and Kids’ Choice Awards (Favourite Funny YouTube Creator, 2018). In 2022, he received two further Streamy Awards: Scripted Series (In Space with Markiplier) and Show of the Year (In Space with Markiplier).
Real Estate
In 2016, Markiplier spent $1.6 million on a brand-new house in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Markiplier purchased Donald Glover’s house in the La Cañada Flintridge neighbourhood of Los Angeles for $4 million in April 2021. Three bedrooms, floor-to-ceiling windows, a swimming pool, and a cabana are all elements of the 3,279-square-foot house. Glover hired designer Barbara Bestor to remodel the house, which he had bought for $2.7 million in 2016.
