 We've compiled the list of facts about social media sensation Markiplier. Let's get into it Mark Edward Fischbach or better known as Markiplier was born on June 28th 1989 and Honolulu, Hawaii Who grew up in an army base because his father was in the military his father met his mother while stationed in Korea? He has one older brother Jason Thomas Fischbach who is an artist and author of the web comment two kinds Markiplier is a half German from his father and half Korean from his mother side Mark's mother always confused him with his brother calling his brother Mark and calling him Thomas Mark grew up playing video games with his brother Thomas on his first console the Super Nintendo He mentioned that he was in the marching band when he was younger and he was a trumpeter His parents got into a lot of arguments and fights which would later lead to a divorce Markiplier's father would later meet a woman named D who would buy Mark his first PS2 in High school his nickname became Marco Sparkles after an event in which someone threw glitter in his hair Mark stated that he took four years of Spanish in high school and French in college While attending college mark bounced around between majors jumping from a game designer to an engineer then going to medical school Markiplier would then proceed to graduate from the University of Cincinnati He originally aspired to become a voice actor. He worked as a bartender and carpenter of some time during his life Mark originally started on YouTube with the intention of becoming a sketch comedian before deciding to take on the role of a let's player He opened his channel on May 26 2012 and since then has amassed over 17.5 million subscribers and 7.3 billion total upload views On October 30th 2013. He hit his goal of 1 million subscribers Mark was nominated for a trending gamer at the game awards in 2015 Mark's all-time favorite movie is Terminator 2 you receive the taco trophy from Rachel Rae for creating an amazing margarita Well, that concludes the video guys Hopefully you guys didn't enjoy the video and if you did remember to smack that like button Let us know in the comment section below what you'd like to see next and if you haven't already subscribed Please do subscribe to keep up with the world's best videos