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Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (born: April 25, 1990 (1990-04-25) [age 33]), better known online as HolaSoyGerman. or JuegaGerman, is a Chilean YouTube celebrity, comedian, entertainer, vlogger, and a Spanish speaking YouTuber. On the channel, he uploads comedic videos about various life and fictional topics, occasionally talking about events that occurred in his own life. As of August 2023, the HolaSoyGerman channel has 43.6 million subscribers. On top of that, all of his videos on his main channel has a combined total of over 4.8 billion views.

German no longer uploads content to the HolaSoyGerman. YouTube channel but does upload daily on his JuegaGerman channel.

Rise To Fame[]

Germán began his YouTube career in early September of 2011 after being encouraged by friends. He started to gain a following on the platform from standing and talking about everyday and unusual topics but in a fast-paced, quirky, and relatable manner along with doing comedy sketches to imitate what he was talking about which targeted mostly children to young adults as fans of him and his channel. Germán does these videos in his house, but he moves frequently meaning that every couple of videos, he is in a new location. A majority of Germán's fans are Spanish but there are many who are of other nationalities as well due to many of his videos being subtitled in various languages, some of them already know the Spanish language, and some of them who doesn't even know the Spanish language but enjoys Germán's content and personality.

By late 2012, Germán's channel was already the most-subscribed Spanish speaking channel and became the first to be in the top ten most-subscribed on February 20, 2013. Germán's subscriber growth skyrocketed in the same year as at that time he was gaining over a million subscribers a month on average, resulting in him gaining the second most amount of subscribers in 2013 only behind PewDiePie.

By the beginning of 2014, all the videos on the HolaSoyGerman. channel had amassed one billion total views and over 14 million subscribers, making him have the third most-subscribed channel behind Smosh and PewDiePie, although just a year and a half before then not even being in the top 100.

However, the popularity of Germán caused conflict. In April of that year, Germán was scheduled to attend a fan greeting in Telmex Digital Village in Zócalo, Mexico City. However, the attendance for the occasion was overcrowded and many people in the crowd fainted due to heat exposure and had to be evacuated. Many disobeyed to leave because they wanted to see German, some moving past the barricades and moving to the tented area to see him and to get away from the hot weather. The occurrence caused many injuries, eventually a light element plunging and injuring ten more people. Security then aided the injured and dispersed the other people who attended the event. Although German didn't attend the gathering due to the incident, he expressed his condolences to the people affected afterward.

Despite this, Germán's HolaSoyGerman. channel finally surpassed YouTube Veterans, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla's Smosh channel (who just less than a year prior was the most-subscribed YouTube channel) to become the second most-subscribed user-generated channel of all time on June 21, 2014.

Due to Germán's fast channel growth, he received MTV's "Icon of the year" award in August 2014 and won it again a year later.

Although since May 27, 2018, the HolaSoyGerman. channel has been the fifth most-subscribed channel on YouTube, the channel currently gets over 140,000 subscribers a month despite him not uploading compared to most content creators. However, Germán gets more than 24 million views monthly, averaging around 24 million viewers per video Germán makes and uploads.

Channels[]

JuegaGerman[]

JuegaGerman is the secondary channel created by Germán in May 2013.

Germán uploaded his first video on the channel on June 20, 2013 where he played Slender. Near the end of 2013, he began to upload more of his commentaries of popular games such as The Walking Dead, Slender, Happy Wheels, etc. He has been consistent on this channel ever since, even more so than his main channel, uploading gaming videos, collaborations with other YouTubers such as fellow popular Spanish content creators, Fernanfloo and elrubiusOMG, and even personal vlogs, more so than his other two channels, some similar to the videos he uploaded on both, nearly daily. These videos include much more editing, sometimes much less but also include much more watch time and organized playlists of all of the channel's videos than both of his other channels. The channel is the 45th most-subscribed channel, peaking at the 16th position five different times throughout 2017 to 2018, and the 255th most viewed channel on YouTube with over 49 million subscribers and over 14.9 billion total views.

Germán currently gained subscribers and views faster than his main channel and has double the views than the HolaSoyGerman channel which used to be but is no longer in the top 100 most viewed channels, Germán being the only channel owned by Germán to be on the list currently. Germán's channel is as well among one of the fastest-growing channels in terms of subscriber and view gain.

On October 16, 2020, JuegaGerman surpassed HolaSoyGerman. in subscriber count, making Germán's second channel larger than his main channel.

HolaSoyGerman2[]

This initially was Germán's second channel where he randomly schedule posts bloopers and behind the scenes from his main channel videos as well as posting extra vlogs and comedy sketches which consisted of more personal and serious things about his life with less video editing and transitions than his main channel. There have been twelve videos uploaded on this channel, the first being uploaded on October 7, 2011, a week after its creation, and the last being uploaded on June 2, 2013, nearly three weeks before his current second and most active channel released its first video. This account has not had any activity since then and there is no explanation from German as to why. The channel has had over 3 million subscribers since January 9, 2018, and over 35 million total views, his most viewed video on here being his second to last.

German Garmendia[]

In this channel Germán uploads music he makes by himself or with his girlfriend. This channel has 1.36 million subscribers and 19 million total views on YouTube and his most popular song is a cover of the song Supernova by Ansel Elgort. Germán's music channel is still active today creating music.

Controversy[]

The English community and more so (primarily) in the Spanish community stated multiple times that Germán uses bots, making it the reason why he has many subscribers.

One day, a YouTuber by the name of "LordDestroyer" noticed and screen captured a computer browser having a link to a bot website belonging to one of his earliest videos titled "Internet Y Redes Sociales" (The Internet and Socialmedia ), at the timeframe 0:40. LordDestructor immediately created a video showing the evidence, and at this point, Germán who had only been on for only six months and already had over hundreds of thousands of fans saw the hate comments on his videos, deleted his video where it showed the browser, and hid the statistics of every video from then on for a while. Unfortunately, by then, many Spanish YouTubers were already making videos discussing the matter and saying that he was cheating and stealing's money plus the viewers' money as well.

Shortly after, Germán made a video saying that he was just "trying" the website out to see if it really worked and that he didn't care about the people that hated him, stating that there was a community of Spanish people all around the world that we're doing something truly amazing with his channel. Later, LordDestructor made a video explaining that German claimed and deleted his video about the bots to protect his reputation. He eventually left due to an overwhelmingly negative response from Germán's fans to him.

Some years later, Germán was again accused of using bots, this time by Youtuber "Mexivergas" and "Xodaaaa" accusing him of botting and how he did it before so he is probably doing it again. This time Germán defended himself, making a video called "bots" where he explains what a bot was and why he didn't have any. This controversy got so big that it made the news and put Germán in every single TV and screen. The controversy was such a big deal that YouTube themselves had to step in and look into this, after some time YouTube found that Germán was not using any bots. Some of the things that Germán says about this today is that "It's sad how controversy makes you popular."

Stalkers[]

German faced problems with stalkers and people coming up to his and his girlfriend's house which resulted in Germán having to constantly move houses. It got to a point where Germán had to be really careful and not show up his address or give any hint of where he specifically lives. Germán came out with a video called "Esto tiene que parar... Por favor" (This has to stop... Please) where he explains his situation along with his girlfriend and showing his audience videos of little kids and other people coming up to their house and recording the inside. Germán explains how his house had tall walls for people to not get in but it was no use since people still managed to traspass them, and Germán explains how the stalkers tried to take pictures of his girlfriend in the shower. After that video Germán moved houses and started being careful to not reveal anything that might give away his location.

Music[]

During his teenage years, Germán had a band with 2 other friends called "Feeling Every Sunset", the songs he made we're mainly in English, one of the most famous songs he made during that time was called "Heartless" which became his outro song for his channel HolaSoyGerman. The band broke up and went separate ways. Some years later Germán kept saying he wanted to make a band or start making music again. Some time later he created his band called Ancud.

All of Germán's fans started supporting Germáns band "Ancud" which it was mainly composed of him and his brother Diego Garmendia, and launched their first album "Se Hacen Realidad" Their songs were in spanish and genre rock. The first song Germán uploaded was his song "Señales" this song was made and dedicated to his girlfriend Lenay Olsen. Their music video for their song "Cambia" quickly becamed their most watched YouTube video reaching over 38 million views. The band also performed in big events like The Club Media Fest. Some years later the band broke up for unknown reasons.

Years later, Germán decided to make solo music with his channel "German Garmendia" where he uploads his songs, his first song and also his most famous song on that channel is a cover of Supernova by Ansel Elgort. After that Germán uploaded a song called "Tregua." he wrote this song along with his girlfriend Lenay Olsen AKA wiinter (Artist name). Germán's music channel is still active today.

Channel Milestones[]

Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.

Subscriber milestones[]

HolaSoyGerman.[]

  • 1 million subscribers: October 12, 2012
  • 2 million subscribers: December 14, 2012
  • 3 million subscribers: January 25, 2013
  • 4 million subscribers: February 24, 2013
  • 5 million subscribers: March 23, 2013
  • 6 million subscribers: April 19, 2013
  • 7 million subscribers: May 18, 2013
  • 8 million subscribers: June 18, 2013
  • 9 million subscribers: July 19, 2013
  • 10 million subscribers: August 19, 2013
  • 11 million subscribers: September 21, 2013
  • 12 million subscribers: October 24, 2013
  • 13 million subscribers: November 22, 2013
  • 14 million subscribers: December 21, 2013
  • 15 million subscribers: January 22, 2014
  • 16 million subscribers: February 20, 2014
  • 17 million subscribers: April 3, 2014
  • 18 million subscribers: June 19, 2014
  • 19 million subscribers: August 23, 2014
  • 20 million subscribers: November 10, 2014
  • 21 million subscribers: January 23, 2015
  • 22 million subscribers: April 28, 2015
  • 23 million subscribers: July 3, 2015
  • 24 million subscribers: September 9, 2015
  • 25 million subscribers: November 15, 2015
  • 26 million subscribers: January 16, 2016
  • 27 million subscribers: March 31, 2016
  • 28 million subscribers: June 8, 2016
  • 29 million subscribers: August 23, 2016
  • 30 million subscribers: November 16, 2016
  • 31 million subscribers: February 14, 2017
  • 32 million subscribers: July 11, 2017
  • 33 million subscribers: January 9, 2018
  • 34 million subscribers: June 27, 2018
  • 35 million subscribers: December 9, 2018
  • 36 million subscribers: January 24, 2019
  • 37 million subscribers: January 30, 2019
  • 38 million subscribers: February 15, 2019
  • 39 million subscribers: April 27, 2019
  • 40 million subscribers: November 10, 2019
  • 41 million subscribers: June 17, 2020
  • 42 million subscribers: December 5, 2020
  • 43 million subscribers: November 2, 2021

JuegaGerman[]

  • 1 million subscribers: December 22, 2013
  • 2 million subscribers: February 19, 2014
  • 3 million subscribers: April 22, 2014
  • 4 million subscribers: July 13, 2014
  • 5 million subscribers: October 4, 2014
  • 6 million subscribers: January 3, 2015
  • 7 million subscribers: April 3, 2015
  • 8 million subscribers: June 29, 2015
  • 9 million subscribers: September 11, 2015
  • 10 million subscribers: November 28, 2015
  • 11 million subscribers: January 24, 2016
  • 12 million subscribers: March 31, 2016
  • 13 million subscribers: May 20, 2016
  • 14 million subscribers: July 25, 2016
  • 15 million subscribers: September 18, 2016
  • 16 million subscribers: November 24, 2016
  • 17 million subscribers: January 9, 2017
  • 18 million subscribers: March 11, 2017
  • 19 million subscribers: April 22, 2017
  • 20 million subscribers: June 18, 2017
  • 21 million subscribers: August 12, 2017
  • 22 million subscribers: October 17, 2017
  • 23 million subscribers: December 17, 2017
  • 24 million subscribers: January 16, 2018
  • 25 million subscribers: March 2, 2018
  • 26 million subscribers: May 2, 2018
  • 27 million subscribers: June 24, 2018
  • 28 million subscribers: August 2, 2018
  • 29 million subscribers: September 14, 2018
  • 30 million subscribers: October 29, 2018
  • 31 million subscribers: December 18, 2018
  • 32 million subscribers: January 17, 2019
  • 33 million subscribers: February 3, 2019
  • 34 million subscribers: March 24, 2019
  • 35 million subscribers: May 27, 2019
  • 36 million subscribers: August 10, 2019
  • 37 million subscribers: November 1, 2019
  • 38 million subscribers: January 21, 2020
  • 39 million subscribers: April 17, 2020
  • 40 million subscribers: June 18, 2020
  • 41 million subscribers: September 4, 2020
  • 42 million subscribers: November 1, 2020
  • 43 million subscribers: February 5, 2021
  • 44 million subscribers: August 5, 2021
  • 45 million subscribers: January 4, 2022
  • 46 million subscribers: July 10, 2022
  • 47 million subscribers: January 4, 2023
  • 48 million subscribers: June 4, 2023
  • 49 million subscribers: December 8, 2023

Video view milestones[]

HolaSoyGerman.[]

  • 1 billion views: February 2, 2014
  • 2 billion views: July 17, 2015
  • 3 billion views: February 28, 2017
  • 4 billion views: August 23, 2019

JuegaGerman[]

  • 1 billion views: March 4, 2015
  • 2 billion views: December 11, 2015
  • 3 billion views: June 7, 2016
  • 4 billion views: January 1, 2017
  • 5 billion views: June 6, 2017
  • 6 billion views: November 15, 2017
  • 7 billion views: APril 18, 2018
  • 8 billion views: October 10, 2018
  • 9 billion views: April 1, 2019
  • 10 billion views: October 18, 2019
  • 11 billion views: May 8, 2020
  • 12 billion views: November 28, 2020
  • 13 billion views: November 19, 2021
  • 14 billion views: November 27, 2022

Play Buttons[]

  • 100 Thousand Subscriber Plaque
    • HolaSoyGerman: 2012
    • HolaSoyGerman2: 2012
    • JuegaGerman: 2013
  • 1 Million Subscriber Plaque
    • HolaSoyGerman: 2012
    • HolaSoyGerman2: 2013
    • JuegaGerman: 2013
  • 10 Million Subscriber Plaque
    • HolaSoyGerman: 2013
    • JuegaGerman: 2016

Trivia[]

  • German's YouTube partner is Machinima.
    • From February to December 2017, his main channel was the most-subscribed channel with a YouTube partner.
  • He is the first person to have 2 channels with over 10 million subscribers.
  • He is also the first person to receive two Diamond Play Buttons due to both his main channel and his gaming channel exceeding ten million subscribers.
  • He is the first and only person to have two YouTube channels that has over 11-25 million subscribers.
  • German currently dates former MTV VJ Lenay Chantelle Olsen (formerly known as Lenay Dunn) who also has her own YouTube channel, Lele.
    • Both German and Lele (Lenay) made their relationship official to their fans in a YouTube video uploaded on the JuegaGerman channel titled Mi Novia (Spanish for My Girlfriend).
    • The couple moved to Los Angeles in July 2017.
  • German and Lele own two cats named Lucy and Copito, an unnamed ferret and formerly had a Chihuahua dog named Mimi.
    • Unfortunately in a YouTube video uploaded on the JuegaGerman channel, German announced that Mimi got lost and asked his fans to help him to look for her under the hashtag #DondeEstaMimi (Where is Mimi).
  • He dubbed the character of Julian for the Latin American dub of Ice Age: Collision Course.
  • American Actor, Jack Black appeared in an HolaSoyGerman video in late 2015.
  • German, often along with his girlfriend Lele, has also collaborated with American YouTubers on multiple occasions, two examples being Bart Baker and Anthony Padilla.
  • In June 2017, German appeared in Anthony Padilla's first sketch since leaving the popular sketch comedy YouTube channel, Smosh. Due to this, the video received a lot of views and likes, but an overwhelming majority of the video's comments were about German's brief moments in the video for the first several hours of it's upload. The comments were in the Spanish language although Padilla's channel is English based.
    • He collaborated with Anthony on his personal channel in August 2017 and March 2018 as the only guest star, where the same thing happened where this time, most of the video's comments were in Spanish permanently.
    • He collaborated with Anthony on JuegaGerman in August 2017 and January 2018, with the latter collaboration featuring Shay Mitchell, as well.
  • German knows how to speak English moderately well, and also understands it (but is slightly broken).
  • German is the lead singer of his and his brother Diego's own fairly popular band, Ancud.
    • Diego and German lived separately during most of his childhood until reuniting in Los Vilos.
  • Germán also has his own successful book titled #ChupaElPerro (Spanish for Lick the Dog).
  • German has his own website.
  • He is one of the first Spanish speaking YouTubers to appear in the Fine Brothers Entertainment series, YouTubers React, along with CaELiKe and LuzuVlogs as well as the first to appear in YouTube Rewind.
    • He has appeared in every single YouTube Rewind since 2013 all the way to YouTube Rewind 2018
  • HolaSoyGerman means "HiI'mGerman" in English.
  • JuegaGerman means "GermanPlay's" in English.
  • The only 2 video's German uploaded on his main channel that was not a blog was the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge" and "WATER FOR AFRICA".
  • In 2016, he became the first YouTuber to have of his/her 2 channels in the top ten most-subscribed YouTubers since Shane Dawson in 2011.
  • German has over 67 million subscribers if adding all of his three channels, surpassing PewDiePie and his second channel, PewDie, in October 2017 as having the most combined amount of subscribers on YouTube with over 57 million subscribers. Before PewDiePie and PewDie was Smosh's series' of channels, who lost the title to PewDiePie and PewDie in 2015. However, in October 2018, PewDiePie re-surpassed the combined total of all of German's channels again.
  • If adding up all of German's channels by views, it would be the 34th most viewed YouTube channel.
  • He has the most-subscribed channel associated with sketch comedy on YouTube.
  • German is the most-subscribed YouTuber to have his or her name in their channel username.
  • German is the second most-subscribed YouTuber/has the second most-subscribed user-generated YouTube channel behind PewDiePie.
  • He is the fourth most-subscribed male on YouTube, behind PewDiePie, Justin Bieber and Canal KondZilla.
  • German's father died in a car accident on Christmas Eve when he was three years old.
  • German used to get bullied in school.
  • German's second channel, JuegaGerman, supassed his main channel, HolaSoyGerman, in subscribers on October 16, 2020.
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