Germán Garmendia

Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (Spanish pronunciation: [xeɾˈman aleˈxandɾo ɣaɾˈmendja aˈɾanis];[lower-alpha 1] born 25 April 1990), known by his YouTube channels HolaSoyGerman and JuegaGerman, is a Chilean YouTuber, comedian and writer. With a combined subscriber count between all his channels reaching over 80 million, he is not only one of the biggest Spanish-speaking YouTubers, but also one of the biggest Youtubers of all time. He has produced a variety of songs together with his band Ancud. His book titled #ChupaElPerro was released in multiple stores in Latin America and Spain on 28 April 2016. He was also featured in the Latin Spanish dub of Ice Age: Collision Course as Julian.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Garmendia and the second or maternal family name is Aranis.
Germán Garmendia
Personal information
BornGermán Garmendia
(1990-04-25) 25 April 1990[1]
Copiapó, Chile[2][3]
NationalityChilean
Partner(s)Lenay Chantelle Olsen(2015-present)
YouTube information
Channels
Created byGermán Garmendia
Years active2011–present (only in JuegaGerman)
GenreComedy, video blog
Subscribers42.1 million (HolaSoyGerman)
42.6 million (JuegaGerman)
3.26 million (HolaSoyGerman2)
Total views4.37 billion (HolaSoyGerman)
12.13 billion (JuegaGerman)
41.61 million (HolaSoyGerman2)
NetworkMachinima Inc. (2013–2015)
Independent (2016–present)
100,000 subscribers 2012 (x3)
1,000,000 subscribers 2012 (x3)
10,000,000 subscribers 2013 (x2)
Updated: December 28, 2020

In August 2014 and 2015, he won the "Icon of the Year" prize from MTV Millennial Awards 2014.[4] He made a brief appearance in YouTube Rewind 2014[5] and made a longer appearance in the 2015 and 2016 versions due to how much he had accomplished during those years.[6][7]

As of June 2019, his main YouTube channel is the second-most subscribed in the Spanish language behind Badabun.[8]

Personal life

Garmendia was born on 25 April 1990 in Copiapó, Chile. At the age of three, his father, Germán Luis Garmendia Macías, died in a car crash on Christmas Eve 1993. Garmendia has an older brother named Diego from whom he lived separately during childhood until reuniting in Los Vilos. Germán and Diego call their mother "Super Mom" because she took care of them both. He was very interested in music from a young age, and when he was 13, he formed a band with his brother called Zudex.[9] Garmendia uploaded his first YouTube video in 2011 after being encouraged by his friends.[10][11]

Since 2017, Garmendia has lived in Los Angeles, California.[12] In 2015, he became a vegetarian for ethical reasons.[13]

Incidents

Sub-botting

In 2013, a YouTuber named "YoLordestructor" uploaded a video claiming that Garmendia had sub-botted. In the video, which is now removed via a claim from Garmendia himself, he shows one of his older videos called "Internet Y Redes Sociales"[14] (English: "The Internet and Social Networks") where, at the timestamp 0:40, it is shown that Garmendia has various bot websites bookmarked on his computer, including "YouLikeHits", "SocialClump", and "AddSocials". Garmendia later deleted his video and copyright claimed YoLordestructor original video, but by that point, many YouTubers in the community were already talking about it. He responded to the controversy in a now deleted video,[15] saying that he was just trying out the websites and seeing if it actually worked. He also said that he did not care about the people that hated him as there was a community of people doing something amazing with his channel.

Incident in Mexico

In April 2014, Garmendia was scheduled to appear at the Telmex Digital Village in Zócalo, Mexico City.[16] The event experienced an unplanned excess of attendees and many people were waiting in line to see Garmendia, but he fainted due to heat exposure and had to be evacuated. Eventually, the crowd became unruly, with attendees forcing their way past barriers and into the tented area, causing many more injuries. Ten people were injured when a light element fell into the crowd. After security regained control of the situation, the crowd was dispersed and Garmendia's event was cancelled. He later expressed condolences to his fans for the incident.[17][18]

Filmography
Year Title Role
2016 Ice Age: Collision Course (Spanish version) Julian

Notes
  1. In isolation, after a pausa or after an /n/, Garmendia is pronounced [ɡaɾˈmendja].

References
  1. Rosie Matheson. YouTube Famous: Making it big on the internet. 2015. Available at Google Books.
  2. http://www.elquehaydecierto.cl/noticia/sociedad/hola-soy-german-comparte-detalles-de-su-infancia-en-copiapo-video
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=h8WEzaGAjm4
  4. "Creador de "Hola soy Germán" gana premio en los MTV Millennial Awards 2014" [Creator of "Hola soy Germán" wins award at the MTV Millennial Awards 2014]. Emol (in Spanish). 13 August 2014. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  5. "HolaSoyGerman in Youtube Rewind: Turn Down For 2014". YouTube Spotlight. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  6. "HolaSoyGerman in Youtube Rewind 2015". YouTube Spotlight. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  7. "HolaSoyGerman in Youtube Rewind 2016". YouTube Spotlight. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  8. "YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Channels List - Top by Subscribers". vidstatsx.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  9. "Germán Garmendia de "Hola soy Germán": el chileno que arrasa en diablos señorita come pan internet con su humor de lo cotidiano". El Comercio (in Spanish). BBC News. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  10. "Germán Garmendia de "Hola soy Germán": el chileno que arrasa en internet con su humor de lo cotidiano". El Comercio (in Spanish). 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  11. Redacción Revista Tierra Cultah (23 December 2013). "Manual Práctico: Compilado de personas y personajes atacameños conocidos o históricos" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  12. Bruccoleri, Fernando (16 March 2015). "Germán Garmendia: 'La televisión me ofrece lo mismo que Youtube". HuffPost (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  13. "Garmendia's official Twitter" (in Spanish). 18 September 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  14. "Internet Y Redes Sociales (Reupload)". YouTube.
  15. "German Garmendia habla sobre las Polémica de los Bots". YouTube.
  16. Telcel (6 March 2014). "World's Largest Digital Inclusion Event returns to Mexico City from April 11- April 27, 2014". PR Newswire. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  17. "SSPDF confirma 10 lesionados en incidente en Aldea Digital". El Universal (in Spanish). 13 April 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  18. "Deja tumulto 13 lesionados durante la "Aldea Digital"". www.telediario.mx (in Spanish). 13 April 2014. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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