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Markiplier Launches Interactive Sci-Fi Adventure ‘In Space,’ One of YouTube’s Last Originals
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTop creator Markiplier — more than two years after his first YouTube-funded interactive special hit the video platform — is finally back with his next choose-your-own-adventure-style project: sci-fi action-comedy “In Space With Markiplier.”Markiplier (real name: Mark Fischbach) is one of YouTube’s highest-earning and most popular creators, with 32.5 million subscribers. “In Space With Markiplier” is among YouTube’s last original productions: It shut down the original content group earlier this year but committed to completing and releasing shows that it had already contracted for.About five hours after its release Monday, “In Space With Markiplier” (watch at this link) had garnered more than 1.4 million views.