Скачать или смотреть Could Markiplier’s Box Office Hit "Iron Lung" Change the Way Hollywood Sees YouTubers?

If you took a look at the Hollywood box office for the weekend of Jan. 30, you’d see something a bit surprising. Yes, Sam Raimi’s thriller Send Help is there. But so is Iron Lung, a self-financed movie based on a horror video game—made without a big studio behind it.

Instead, the movie was made by one guy, Mark Fischbach, better known by his YouTube name, ‪@markiplier‬ And, it's one of the top movies in America right now.

Mark has been making content for YouTube for over a decade. He was one of the early pioneers of “Let’s Play” videos—where he plays video games and comments on them for his fans. In his time on YouTube, he’s made a ton of different things. And, in 2022, he was nominated for an Emmy for In Space with Markiplier, a choose-your-own-adventure-style video posted to his channel. In 2024, he starred in The Edge of Sleep, a miniseries on Amazon Prime. Yet despite that success and his millions of subscribers, when Mark wanted to make Iron Lung, Hollywood still saw a YouTuber. So he proceeded alone.

On today's episode of What Next: TBD, host Lizzie O’Leary speaks with Markiplier about his breakout success and what it could mean for YouTubers.

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