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Hi, I'm Markiplier and this is my Wired Autocomplete interview.
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I have googled myself before.
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I'm a bit egotistical like that,
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so I want to see what's going on in the world about me.
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Okay.
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What is Markiplier's real name?
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Mark Edward Fischbach.
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That is my name.
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What is Markiplier's catchphrase?
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I don't know.
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I'm not a Pokemon.
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I don't have a catchphrase.
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I say...
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I say that a lot.
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That might be my catchphrase.
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You can bleep stuff out, right?
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What is Markiplier's favorite game?
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Okay, confession.
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I'm a bit of a fake gamer.
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I don't really play games on my own casually anymore.
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I like board games now,
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so those are pretty cool.
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There's this one I played the other day called Nemesis.
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It's an amazing board game,
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so board game's kind of my thing right now.
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What is Markiplier's favorite food?
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Oh, this one's easy.
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This one's chicken and dumplings from Cracker Barrel.
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There's nothing cuisinarily, cuisine-ly, cuis- there's nothing amazing about the food itself,
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but there's something so comforting about it.
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My dad, when I was growing up,
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he would cook biscuits and gravy,
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you know, a lot of casseroles,
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a lot of meatloaf, a lot of soups, stews.
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There's something about Cracker Barrel's chicken and dumplings that just tastes like home.
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What is Markiplier's religion?
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I am not religious.
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I don't consider myself to be fully atheist,
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but I don't go to church,
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I don't go to anything like that.
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Whenever I was growing up we would go to church every weekend
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and as I grew up I kind of drifted away from it so I don't consider myself to be religious.
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What is Markiplier's net worth?
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Probably less than what the estimates say but it's more than I deserve,
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way way more than I deserve.
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I live very comfortably and that's something that I actually wrestle with a lot
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because I don't spend a lot of money on myself.
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I like to eat cheap,
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I like to try to be as frugal as I possibly can.
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I donate a lot of my money to charity.
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I don't really care about my net worth.
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What is Mark Flyers zodiac sign?
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It changed a few years ago, didn't it?
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Right?
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Didn't it change?
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Anyone zodiac in here?
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I don't know.
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The answer is I don't know.
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Oh and I didn't mention before,
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but I wanted to mention the stylist,
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makeup artist, the wonderful person.
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I don't normally look this good.
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My hair is a nightmare,
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flyaways and everything, so this is not my day-to-day life but I like it.
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What does Markiplier mean?
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It means nothing.
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You think this was thought up with any like care?
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Like this is this is multiplier with my name in front of it.
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What is Markiplier like in real life?
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Kind of an ahole.
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I mean I'm nice.
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People usually are surprised when they meet me in real life because I'm not screaming all the time and I'm not loud.
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I like spending personal time with people.
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You know, I like getting to know people.
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That's more personal to me and that's more important to me.
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What music does Markiplier listen to?
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I used to not listen to music.
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It wasn't really a point,
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but I just didn't have time in my life to kind of seek out music.
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But my favorite band right now is this band called Here Come the Mummies.
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They are a funk band where there's 11 or 12 people in the band and they all wear full mummy outfits.
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They're so fun and All their songs are about sex.
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I don't know, it's just bizarre and I love them a lot.
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What is Markiplier's real hair color?
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Here, here it is.
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There it is.
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What is Markiplier afraid of?
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Mannequins, failure, probably a ubiquitous one.
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Tryptophobia, I have tryptophobia.
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That's a fear of like small holes,
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like patterns of small holes, really creepy stuff.
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What breed is Lucy Markiplier?
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Oh, my mom has a dog by the name of Lucy.
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Lucy is about the size of a polar bear.
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She's a great Pyrenees.
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She's awesome.
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Markiplier, how to twerk.
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Okay, there's backstory to this.
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Some fan at some convention asked me if I knew how to twerk,
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and I didn't, but I tried.
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Then following it up, I decided to make a video that was like one of my biggest regrets on my channel.
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There's so many videos on my channel that are the reason I can never go into a career in politics,
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and that is one of them.
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Why Markiplier?
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Okay, this is probably the category that's gonna expose me a lot.
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Why did Markiplier have surgery?
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Oh, before I did YouTube,
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I had a tumor in my adrenal glands.
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So my first surgery was to get that removed.
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The other surgery that I had in the middle of me having a YouTube channel was,
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I had scar tissue that had adhered to my intestines.
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So it blocked up, I became,
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as doctors called it, full of sh,
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and I had to get that removed.
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Why did Markiplier drop out of college?
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Well, that whole YouTube thing I was doing.
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A lot of people question my decision here because I dropped out when I was two semesters away from graduating.
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I was a biomedical engineering student and I had almost completed my degree,
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but I was doing YouTube and going to school and finals for my senior project were coming up.
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Like, it was just one of those things where I couldn't dedicate myself to both.
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So I wanted to dedicate myself to YouTube full-time.
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I wanted to take a risk.
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I worked as an engineer in co-op.
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I didn't want to keep doing that.
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I really enjoyed this, so that's why I dropped out.
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Why was Markiplier's first channel banned?
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All right, YouTube famously has a lot of algorithms and a lot of systems that are automated.
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My first channel was banned because they thought I was abusing the AdSense system.
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My channel was not even monetized.
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This is where it was really heartwarming because I had just under 2,000 subscribers.
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Back then, that was a huge number.
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I basically put out a video that was like,
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look, this is the situation,
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and if you guys can do me a favor,
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resubscribe to this new channel, and they did.
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600 people followed.
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That's when I knew that I had something special that people were going to be by my side.
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That was just a really important time in my channel.
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Why can't Markiplier drink alcohol?
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Okay, so I'm half Korean.
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So a lot of people in Korea,
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they can't process alcohol correctly.
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They get red in the face when they do.
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I get that to a super degree.
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The last time that I really drank alcohol,
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I actually had a heart attack.
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I was in the bathroom and I felt dizzy it didn't go away
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and then I passed out and I felt silly because they called an ambulance and I was like,
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no, it's not needed.
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And then in the ambulance ride over,
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I had another heart attack.
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It's a very weird thing and I'm not risking that again to drink,
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so that is why I can't drink.
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Why does Markiplier have a pink mustache?
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This harkens back to the beginning of my channel.
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I did a sketch with this character Wilfred Worfstache,
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who was supposed to be a news character.
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I did that, people really loved the sketch,
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people made fan art of it,
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and so it's become such an important part of my channel that it's kind of become the symbol.
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Why is Markiplier king of Five Nights at Freddy's?
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Uh, because I said so.
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Why is Markiplier taking a break?
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This was a while ago.
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I had basically been making two videos a day,
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every day, without vacation, up until this point.
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And it was getting to me that I was making videos every day that I wasn't really proud of.
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It was getting to me that I wasn't making videos that push myself.
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I wasn't using to learn anything new.
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I wasn't using to elevate myself.
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And it was just getting to me.
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And so I needed to step back,
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and I needed to take a month.
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And when I came back from that,
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you know, I came back with a better mindset,
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and I came back with a healthier attitude about, you know, making videos.
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Like I can push myself and I can do these videos that people love and I can find ways to be creative.
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It's crazy that I'm only answering these questions now instead of explaining when I did it.
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You know, it's only really hindsight that lets me realize why I needed this so badly. Who Markiplier?
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Who drew Markiplier's icon?
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I should know this.
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It was so long ago.
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They did a wonderful job.
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Of course they did a good job,
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but now I seem like such a asshole because I don't even know their name.
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That's the tragedy of it.
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And that was like the first crisis of my channel is I was getting
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so popular that I wasn't able to keep up with everybody.
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There were times when the people that I thought I knew,
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you know, I forgot them completely and people would come out of the woodwork like,
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Hey, where are you?
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Oh, you're too big now to hang out.
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Those kinds of things, they eat me up.
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It's just like, I don't have enough time for everybody.
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I don't have enough time for everybody.
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The first time that I got an email from a parent of a kid who passed away that watched my videos,
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I was broken inside.
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Like that, that just tore me up inside.
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And there was this other make-a-wish kid that I had met just on a whim,
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like I flew out to see her.
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And then I found out two months later that she'd passed away.
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and I was I was done for days after
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that like I couldn't think and I couldn't like I couldn't even fathom
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that concept that someone who was laughing and you know this wonderful person was gone
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I barely had the chance to know her I mean it
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changed everything it's why just like two weeks I was sitting down
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and I wanted to do a 48-hour charity stream to raise half a million dollars.
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Like, I'd never done that before and I wanted to do it and everyone was like,
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48 hours is a lot.
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And it's like, compared to what people have been through?
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That's nothing.
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If I can and raise money for good and
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if I can dedicate myself to these causes and if I can keep trying to push my audience in the right direction,
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then like, why wouldn't you do that?
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Why would you not do that?
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Anyway, I went way off topic.
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I went way, way off topic there.
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I'm sorry about that.
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Who edits Markiplier's videos?
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Okay, so right now, this wonderful person by the name Elixian,
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he has been an animator,
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animating some of my videos,
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my gameplay stuff for years, since the very beginning.
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He's been kind of the backbone of my channel.
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I just talked with him the other day and I asked him if he wanted to go full time and he said,
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yes, hell yes, and I'm like,
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that's so amazing, because he's better at editing videos than I am.
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Who was Markiplier's first subscriber?
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Ah, this was my friend, Michelle.
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I set out on Facebook a long time ago,
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they're like, hey, I got a YouTube channel, anyone wanna subscribe?
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And none of my friends did.
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And Michelle was my first subscriber,
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and Michelle believed in me,
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and Michelle was there for me.
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So Michelle, if you see this, you're awesome.
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Who is Markiplier E?
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Is that talking about the E meme?
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I don't know, man.
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Someone basically used that as a joke,
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not even a real meme,
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and then I think the irony,
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because the internet thrives on irony,
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decided that that was the thing that they were gonna grab onto for months.
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I couldn't do a single live stream ever again without my entire chat just being nothing but E.
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At this point I have no license or desire of license of this image,
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which is why I keep it at a very low level of upkeep.
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Like at this point, I'm just a walking nightmare, so.
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Who is Henry Markiplier?
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Henry is my girlfriend's new dog.
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Who killed Markiplier explanation?
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Okay, so I made this four-part series called Who Killed Markiplier that told the story of,
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well, who killed me?
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And it's a little confusing because I left the ending intentionally ambiguous.
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A lot of people were confused about it and there's a lot of,
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like, mystery about it.
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But I kind of like that because it's a murder mystery.
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So maybe the answer isn't quite sublime.
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Is Markiplier good at Fortnite?
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Better than people think because I played it casually on my own a lot
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but talking and playing at the same time is not a skill I'm particularly good at,
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but I'm average.
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Is Markiplier going on tour?
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I was.
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I don't want to go on tour again for now
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because it is a drain on my life and it is so hard to do,
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and it is just grueling.
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It is nice to go out there and meet fans,
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but tour life is not the life for me.
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Is Markiplier in space?
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No?
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Is Markiplier John Wick?
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No?
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I don't know.
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Whatever you want.
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It's your fantasy.
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Is Markiplier liberal?
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Pretty liberal.
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Yeah.
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Pretty mostly liberable.
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Liberable.
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Is Markiplier vegan?
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Absolutely not.
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I love meat.
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I love eating meat.
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Now that being said, I've always thought that
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if they could lab grow meat that was even close to as good as meat meat,
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I would eat that.
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Fine.
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Because then, yeah, there aren't any animals being killed.
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Is Markiplier done with YouTube?
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No, no, no, a little bit, no, not at all.
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I am not done with YouTube.
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It is still a wonderful platform.
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As much as people shit on YouTube,
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it may not be the best place to make a living,
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especially right away, but it is a great place to get your ideas and thoughts out there.
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Boom.
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That's what I do.
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Thank you, everybody, that asked a question.
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Thank you for Googling these things.
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I bet you didn't expect that your Googles were going to be pulled up,
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but, you know, The internet is no longer private,
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so everybody is exposed to everybody now.
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Seriously, thank you guys so much for being even remotely interested in my boring life.
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Yeah, thanks for watching, and thanks for the interview.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Markiplier Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions”. Este vídeo tiene 306 frases y 2489 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:47. El hablante habla rápido, unas 181 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 50 de sus 306 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| catchphrase sustantivo | latiguillo | |
| dedicate verbo | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | dedicar |
| subscriber sustantivo | /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/ | suscriptor, suscriptora |
| dumpling sustantivo | /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/ | dumpling (damplin/domplin) |
| zodiac sustantivo | /ˈzoʊ.diˌæk/ | zodíaco |
| casually adverbio | /ˈkæʒuəli/ | ligeramente, de pasada |
| irony sustantivo | /ˈaɪ.ɚ.ni/ | ironía |
| meme sustantivo | /miːm/ | meme |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | exponer, develar |
| sketch sustantivo | /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ | esquicio, bosquejo |
| ambulance sustantivo | /ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/ | ambulancia |
| nightmare sustantivo | /ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ | pesadilla, mal sueño |
| adrenal adjetivo | /æˈdɹiːnəl/ | adrenal |
| animate adjetivo | /ˈæn.ə.mət/ | animado |
| animator sustantivo | /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/ | animador, animadora |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crecer |
| drop out verbo | marginarse |
| pass away verbo | fallecer, dejarnos |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir |
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse |
| go out verbo | salir |
| keep up with verbo | seguir, ir al paso |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I don't have a catchphrase.
- I'm a bit of a fake gamer.
- I don't go to anything like that.
- I don't really care about my net worth.
- Why would you not do that?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was thought · are automated · was banned |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have googled · have been · has been |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | kid who passed · someone who was |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 69 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: fathom /ˈfæðəm/, atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, thrive /θɹajv/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: casually /ˈkæʒuəli/, moustache /ˈmʌstæʃ/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, confession /kənˈfɛʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, biomedical /ˌbaɪəʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/, egotistical /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/, ubiquitous /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/, ambiguous /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sketch /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/, stylist /ˈstaɪlɪst/, scar /skɑɹ/, scream /skɹiːm/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, thrive /θɹajv/, vegan /ˈviːɡən/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: zodiac /ˈzoʊ.diˌæk/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, monetize /ˈmɑnəˌtaɪz/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, cuisine /kwɪˈziːn/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como catchphrase, dedicate, subscriber.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.