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Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (Spanish pronunciation: [xeɾˈman aleˈxandɾo ɣaɾˈmendja aˈɾanis]; born April 25, 1990) is a Chilean YouTuber, singer-songwriter, comedian and writer. He became famous for his YouTube channel HolaSoyGerman, which uploaded humorous videos about everyday situations. In 2013, he created his gameplay channel, JuegaGerman which, over time, would surpass his previous channel in subscribers. It also is the second-most subscribed channel in the Spanish language, behind Argentine channel El Reino Infantil. He is the most-subscribed YouTuber in Chile. In 2016, he became the first YouTuber to receive two Diamond plates, and outside his YouTube career, he formed a musical career with bands like Zudex, Feeling Every Sunset, and Ancud; he also released several songs in his solo career. In April 2016, he released his first book, #ChupaElPerro. Another book, Di Hola, was released in 2018. He has received praise for his YouTube channels. In the MTV Millennial Awards, he won the Digital Icon and Master Gamer categories in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He was listed as one of the biggest YouTube stars by The Washington Post, one of the most popular by BBC, and one of the most influential in Time magazine. Early life Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis was born on April 25, 1990, in Copiapó, Chile, and lived there until he was 12 years old. In 1993, when he was three, his father, Germán Luis Garmendia, died in a car crash on Christmas Eve. After the death of his father, he, his mother Cecilia del Carmen Aranis, and his brother Diego Garmendia traveled across the country until they settled in Los Vilos, a coastal city located to the north of Santiago, where he lived much of his adolescent life. In that town he met his first love, to whom he dedicated a song called "Para Ti". He had originally planned to study civil engineering, however he never carried it out. At 13, he and his brother and some friends formed a Pop rock band called Zudex. In 2006, he would start his career as a YouTuber by uploading videos of his band. They made several presentations in youth festivals and schools, achieving some renown in that field. Individual obligations and responsibilities precipitated the end of the band. In the early 2010s, he was the vocalist of his next group Feeling Every Sunset. Career Internet career On September 9, 2011, he uploaded HolaSoyGerman's first video titled Las cosas obvias de la vida (lit. "The obvious things in life"). The videos on the channel consisted of humorous monologues talking about everyday life situations. In an interview with BBC Mundo, he stated that "The humor I do on YouTube is quite innocent. I've always liked making people laugh by making fun of myself, never of others." In 2013, he created another YouTube channel called JuegaGerman, where he mainly uploads gameplay videos and other content. A Spanish YouTuber named YoLordestructor uploaded a video accusing him of using bots to artificially boost his subs. He cite a deleted video from HolaSoyGerman, Internet y Redes Sociales, in which it displayed various websites marked as AddSocials, YouLikeHits and SocialClump, which are allegedly for using bots. Days later, he uploaded another video in which he accused Germán of having deleted his previous video due to copyright claims. Later, other YouTubers such as the Mexican Diego de La Mattaz known as Diego Mexivergas and the Chilean Xodaaa uploaded videos giving the accusations as true. On August 24, 2013, he uploaded a video responding to these accusations, claiming they were false, which racked up over four million views before being removed. In that same year, he uploaded the HolaSoyGerman most popular video titled Los Hermanos. At the end of 2013, through his channel HolaSoyGerman, which by then had 12 million subscribers, he became the YouTuber with the second most subscribers, only behind PewDiePie, according to data provided by YouTube Rewind. In August 2014 he won the "Digital Icon" category from MTV Millennial Awards. In April 2014, he was scheduled to appear at the Telmex Aldea Digital in Zócalo, Mexico City. The event had many problems, the talk he gave did not have a good sound, the tent was filled with many more people than it could bear. People pushed each other and those who tried to enter were injured. After the Secretary of Public Security of the Government of the Federal District regained control of the situation, the crowd dispersed and the event was cancelled. In 2015 he went together with El Rubius and other YouTubers to the Club Media Fest. In October 2015, Jack Black appeared in a video titled Tipos de alumnos (transl. "Types of students") to publicize the movie Goosebumps. In March 2016, the Canadian rock band, Simple Plan was featured in the intro of a video entitled La Comida. In April 2016, he would reach 10 million subscribers in his two main channels HolaSoyGerman and JuegaGerman, which led him to be the first YouTuber to obtain two Diamond plates. In June 2016, he won the category "Master Gamer" from MTV Millennial Awards, at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City. On November 20, 2016, he uploaded their last HolaSoyGerman video, Como Encontrar Trabajo. In a JuegaGerman video titled Esto pasa si busco mi nombre en YouTube, he explained that the reason for this decision was due to the extensive process that each video on that channel required for him to create, stating that sometimes it took more than 22 hours. This statement was in response to a Spanish YouTuber who accused him of taking drugs to make his videos. By 2018, he was the fifth most popular YouTuber on the platform. In August 2018 he won in the Favorite Gamer category of the Mexico Kids' Choice Awards. In September 2018, the Facebook page Paradero UAH posted a two-minute excerpt from a JuegaGerman video from August 30, 2014, titled OH POR DIOS, SOY EMO, in which while playing Beyond: Two Souls, he begins to say comments that were branded as misogynistic, disgusting and sexist. The clip became viral through social networks. Several days later, he uploaded a video entitled Una Disculpa Y Reflexión Para Seguir Avanzando, in which he apologized for comments made in the 2014 video. Alex Christiansen from La Tercera criticized the video. In 2019, his HolaSoyGerman channel, which until then had thirty seven million, was in a confrontation for being the Spanish-speaking channel with the most subscribers worldwide with the Mexican company Badabun, who would end up surpassing him in subscribers that same year, but over time their other channel JuegaGerman would end up surpassing them in subscribers. In October 2021 he won the Leyend Award at the Eliot Awards, due to his long career on YouTube. In 2023 he won the category of Best Trajectory in the ESLAND Awards of the Spanish YouTuber TheGrefg. Writing career On April 5, 2016, he uploaded a promotional video of his book #ChupaElPerro: Uno que otro consejo, which would not be officially released until April 2.... Discover the German Garmendia popular books. Find the top 100 most popular German Garmendia books.