• Nihilore@quokk.au
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      Let’s plays started on the Something Awful forums, long before markiplier

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        Yeah, I think it was slowbeef if my memory isn’t failing me. But I think people were doing long plays before then? I could have the two mixed up.

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      Markiplier did not invent Let’s Plays lol. Let’s Plays were nearly dead by the time he created his channel. He just was the first person to make FNAF Let’s Plays popular (I would assume, I’ve never watched anyone on this list because I’m over the age of 30)

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      There was a channel called Let’s Play, of rooster teeth/achievement hunter origin. Markiplier didn’t have a channel until 2012. The Let’s play channel first uploaded in Dec 2011.

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      I would guess he lost a decent amount of subscribers being basically in hibernation making a movie for 2 years.

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          I go through my subscriptions every couple of months and take off channels I don’t watch anymore / that don’t exist anymore.