- Hi, my name is Markiplier,
and this is everything I do in a day.
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- [laughing] Perfect! - Oh no.
[laughing]
[upbeat music]
I live in Los Angeles, California.
Every day is different for me
'cause YouTube is different every day,
but this is what I typically try
to adhere to as far as a schedule goes.
The first thing when I open my eyes,
I just wish I was still sleeping.
I don't love sleep, but I enjoy sleep.
My alarm, [alarm ringing] it gives my girlfriend PTSD.
It's the same alarm, it's "Constellation".
It's one of the Apple defaults.
It is just so damn annoying, but it gets me out of bed.
I have my alarm set for 6:30 every morning.
I can get out of bed as early as like 6:45.
That's pretty much the earliest that I'm out and up
'cause I try to wake up while I'm still laying down,
keep my eyes open and stuff like that.
I snooze all the time.
I snooze all the time!
I can waste 30 minutes just snoozin' away.
I'll check Reddit when I wake up
to try to get some news in me,
but for the most part I got work to do,
so I just kinda get up and at 'em.
So, first thing I do in the morning is workout,
30 minutes of workout, it's real intense,
get it out of the way.
I workout at my home.
I got Shaun T. on my side.
I do Insanity Beachbody Workouts.
Every morning it's Shaun T. screamin' at me to do
some jump thing, some pushup, to keep diggin' deep,
but I'm just so tired that I don't want to.
But I've done it for so long now that this is a routine.
I shower after my workout.
I don't know, what's an average shower, five minutes?
I don't know, however long it takes to get the sweat off.
I gotta get movin'.
So my dog Chica knows the routine.
She comes up with me when I wake up.
I let her out in the backyard and then she comes lays down,
waits for me to do my weird jumping movements.
She'll just look at me and be like,
"Ah, it's just Dad bein' stupid,
"jumpin' all over the place."
And then I'll go get a shower
and then she knows it's walk time.
So I take her and then my girlfriend's dog Henry
and I take 'em out for a walk.
We try to do mornings and evening walks.
If we can't get an evening walk, I'll just do mornings.
But maybe like 15 minutes,
just around the block a little bit.
Dog breakfast, it's breakfast time for the pups.
I get them their food.
I give them their multivitamin.
I put a little bit of salmon oil in there,
I've started doin' that because I've heard
it's good for them.
So just a little drizzle of salmon oil.
They like it, it's like gravy.
Then my breakfast, I don't know,
usually eggs or somethin' like that.
I like to take my time with breakfast
'cause it allows me time to think about what I need to do.
I've been tryin' to keep track of my meals,
so this is a new thing.
I try to keep track of everything I eat,
just to be conscious of it.
I'm not tryin' to lose an incredible amount of weight.
I just like being on top of things.
Around eight o'clock is when my video goes up.
So, you know, I can check comments on that.
I can make sure that it went up okay.
If there was a problem, I can go address it real quick.
But usually I get those done the night before,
or started to anyway, I didn't used to do that.
I used to wake up even earlier,
get the video up for that day, that morning.
I don't do that anymore, very unhealthy.
It's nine o'clock, that's when my team'll
start botherin' me.
I say team, I don't really work with them
on a day-to-day basis, I'm talkin' about my manager,
agent, assistant, all the lawyers, all those people.
YouTube is like my territory.
I work, my editor works.
Just to make the videos that go on YouTube,
that's basically just me.
My team is workin' on the deals for bigger projects,
helping me coordinate a Host with Markplier stuff.
And anything bigger than just YouTube,
that's what they're dealing with.
My inbox [laughing] and text messages are reaching
quadruple digits now, so no, I'm very bad about that.
I'm not a completionist when it comes
to those kinds of things.
I am all over the place.
I'll sometimes decide I'm gonna clear up my whole inbox,
and then never do it again for the life of me.
My assistant will message me saying like,
"Hey, you forget X. Y, Z.", and of course,
I've forgotten X, Y, Z because I wasn't
thinkin' about X, Y, Z, so I gotta get on top of that.
That's usually my nine to 10 to 11,
depending on if I have a meeting
or a phone call that I need to do.
Some days I'm live streaming with my friends.
Some days I have recording sessions with my friends.
If it's like Monday to Wednesday,
usually that's recording time.
11 to about three or four o'clock is recording time.
Like one video could take that entire block
depending on what it is, or if I'm being efficient about it,
and I'm recording just game stuff, you know,
I can get like three, four, five videos done.
So long as I can get one video up a day, I'm happy.
So, by the time this is out, my second [laughing]
channel will have launched.
So I've been recording like crazy for that.
Seven videos for one channel, seven videos for the other,
miscellaneous extra videos I need to do for promos,
brand deals, stuff like that, 14 or more a week.
I don't have a planning process.
It's very much just on the fly.
When I sit down, say 11 o'clock to record,
I'll do research, I'll be like,
what indie game has come out?
What cool thing do people wanna see?
What do my friends wanna play
if we're doin' a group recording?
To be perfectly honest, I don't play games on my own anymore
just because I don't have time and gaming is like
less of what I do, less than half of the video content
I record is about games.
Maybe like a few hours a day, yeah, somethin' like that.
I have an A7III as my main camera,
just because I think it looks really nice.
It's a very easy camera to use.
I like my lighting to be nice.
I'm not an expert at lighting,
but at least I would like to have
some dynamicism to the lighting.
My editor is in Portugal.
His name's Lixion, amazing.
He might be one of the best editors on YouTube by far.
He's an animator by trade.
And so, when I asked him to edit,
I thought that would be like a downgrade
because he's an artist in his own right,
but he was so excited to do it
and he's taken it to this new level.
I make all the thumbnails.
I take that as a point of pride.
Sometimes I'm not able to put as much effort
or pizazz in 'em as I want to, but that's my nightly ritual
is getting the video for the next day, doing the thumbnail,
making sure all the metadata is done perfectly.
I don't wanna change it because as my girlfriend knows,
I'm a fiddler, like I love tweaking things.
That's why I'm always pushing to do different things
on YouTube is because I can't do the same thing for long.
When "A Heist With Markiplier" came out,
I was just inspired to do it because we've done one
of those before, an interactive story.
And this one was intense.
I wanted to do it bigger than I've done before
and I wanted to really impress that I was gonna make
one of the best YouTube originals as possible,
that was my goal.
And not out of egotistcalnessness, but you know,
I just wanted to make the best I could be
and I knew I could make something good.
Those days were rough.
12 to 14 hour days, you know, five days a week.
And then I would have to go home, record a video,
edit it and upload it for my channel,
which could take like two hours to four hours.
So really intense days, but I loved it.
I like those days when I'm just totally exhausted
at the end of it.
I like focusing all my attention on making something.
I don't know, I just find it very fulfilling.
It's unhealthy, don't lose sleep.
I watched a very scary documentary and presentation
about losing sleep, it's deadly.
Get your sleep, very important.
I procrastinate just the same as everybody else does.
Like I'm not immune to it, but I know that because I have
such limited time, I can only do so much.
I'll stop for a meal break.
I'll come downstairs just to grab a snack
or something like that.
I'll take 30 minutes here or there,
but if it's like crunch time, then I have to.
But I think everyone's the same way.
I try not to go past five, but you can only keep up
doing videos for so long, you can only maintain
that level of energy when the camera's on, for so long.
Once five o'clock, I'm thinkin' about dinner.
I like to cook, I just don't have the time for it.
If I plan ahead, I can whip up a recipe,
but a lot of my stuff is just like,
stick it in the oven for two hours.
And I don't have two hours to wait, so...
If I go out, I know that it's gonna take too long,
so I always try to get things ordered
or I just whip up a quick meal.
And when I say quick meal, I mean quick and dirty,
like canned Dinty Moore Stew levels of meal.
I love that kind of stuff, it's the stuff I grew up with.
But if I'm tryin' to eat a little better,
I like order from say, Panini Kabob and Grill.
Like just get a nice kabob salmon,
green peppers, onions, some rice, a nice salad.
But that's a recent development.
Normally, it's always crap.
I'll tear through a block of cheese
and it's perfect 'cause I can bring it up to my desk
and I could just chop it up and eat as I'm workin'.
It's disgusting.
Let's say after dinner it's about seven o'clock.
If we're doin' the evening walk it would be then.
And then it's following up with emails that I forgot.
This is really hit or miss on whether I'm gonna
respond or not, it just depends on
if it's a project I'm really passionate about.
If it's something that I know can wait,
even if they say it can't wait,
I usually push it off for a little longer.
This is where I would watch some TV with Amy,
or not TV but Netflix.
I watch some YouTube videos.
Maybe like spend an hour or two doin' that.
Like 8:30ish, I try to go for a run.
I've been running up to an hour.
I hate running.
I hated running, but then a little shout out
to Nike Run Club.
They made me at least be able to tolerate it.
I don't run with Nike Run Club anymore.
I run with "Zombies, Run!".
So it's like this story where it's like randomly,
zombies can start chasing you when you're out on a run.
And it's dark, and I only play spooky music.
And so, it's like really scary.
So I'm out in the middle of my neighborhood
and it'll be like, ding ding, warning, zombies detected.
And I'm like, oh shit!
[dramatic music]
[laughing]
Around then I'll go back upstairs.
I'll check what video my editor has gotten me.
Usually he has things before time,
and I'll know what I'm gonna upload.
Sometimes I'm like, ooh, I hope there's a video up there
or else I'm gonna have to edit it.
So I'll upload it.
I'll make a thumbnail, that'll take anywhere
between 30 minutes to an hour,
depending on how finicky I wanna be with it.
And then usually about 10:30 I'm coming down
and ready to go to bed.
- [Interviewer] Do you wear pajamas to bed?
- Nope, undies.
I don't know, why would you wear pajamas to bed?
Unless it's like super cold that night,
but it feels uncomfortable.
I don't like things wrinklin' all over me,
so I don't need that.
I'm assuming I toss and turn.
Usually I'm on by back or on my side.
I think anyone would toss and turn if they're thinkin'
about something, or they're stressed about something.
But usually, I'm pretty good about sleep.
My girlfriend is actually pretty amazed
because I have the ability to sleep right away.
It's not a natural talent, it is a learned skill.
You try to do nothing.
It's a very backwards concept.
And then you focus on that
and then eventually you'll drift off.
If I don't get a full seven, my workouts suffer,
my videos suffer, everything suffers,
so I gotta get that sleep.
And then I get up and do it all over again the next day.
And I don't take weekends, which I should.
I'm Markiplier, and that is everything that I do in a day.