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Raul Alvarez Genes, born on November 5, 1988 in Badalona (Catalonia), he is one of the most recognized worldwide, although everyone knows him as AuronPlay. With more than 27 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, Auron is the ; It is also within the worldwide, and his community grows day by day on his Twitch channel, where thanks to his streams he has sneaked into the top of . If you still know it, we present it to you below.
He started his career as a hobby
Genes is a really reserved person with his private life, however we know that he comes from a family of three brothers, where he is the middle one. He has also stated several times that he started working at the age of 16 in a graphic arts and bookbinding company in Barcelona. He would end up retiring from this company 9 years later due to his career as a content creator.
His first YouTube channel was opened on February 28, 2006. where he dedicated himself to criticizing other YouTube figures without any filter. At first she took this channel as a hobby and did not generate content on a regular basis, even in his first videos she even covered his face. He did this mainly because of the theme of his videos and the possible repercussions they could have on his life.
This theme helped him to amass a good number of followers quickly, as well as to antagonize many other content creators, among which a rivalry with Y finally stood out. in 2012 it brought as a consequence the closure of the channel, and also He deleted or made private much of the content he had published until then, so for the following year he would radically change his theme and start recording videos with more humor than attacks on other YouTube celebrities.
In this way, a series of more humorous contents began, although still marked by criticism, on different contents of the video platform. Today, their content diversifies into topical commentary and gaming content on Minecraft, Pokémon, and Fortnite.
Among his most popular videos on YouTube are: “The heaviest child on YouTube”, with 44 million views; “Jordi Wild telephone prank”, with 33 million; “Reacting to my memes”, with another 26 million and many other videos that exceed 15 million views.
A fame marked by controversy
As might be expected from its content type, Auron has been caught up in various controversies with others and has even received several complaints both legal and on the networks, like when he made the hashtag #GranHermanoVIH popular, when he criticized the third season of the program “Big Brother” which responded by appealing to the way in which the influencer criticized the program and suggesting that he give his salary to the fight against HIV, and finally Auron He had to take back his words.
One of the most remembered was by the ex-president of FC Barcelona, his favorite team, Josep Maria Bartomeu in 2017. That year, many club fans strongly criticized the coach due to the abandonment of Neymar, a situation that Auron took advantage of to mock too. His jokes were based on comparing Josep to Nobita, a character from the animated series Doraemon with whom the coach bears a certain resemblance.
By 2018, Auron was notified of a criminal complaint filed with the Spanish police for “make comments against Barcelona, the player and the president ». Which was dismissed by the authorities and did not end up proceeding, equally later both reconciled and “Nobita” gave him a team shirt with his name.
In June 2019, through Twitter, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, symbolically named him as “YouTube minister” of his country.
Por Decreto Presidencial, nombro a @auronplay como mi Ministro de @YouTube. https://t.co/kOYBxtss5V
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) June 16, 2019
AuronPlay, contracted by several internationally famous brands
Despite everything, AuronPlay has achieved great success and has consolidated a strong community of followers, not only in Spain but internationally. For this reason, many renowned brands have been interested in him for collaborations, such as Doritos, Samsung, Ubisoft and Sony.
With the latter, Auron has made several collaborations marked by his particular way of being to promote some of the premieres of the production house. Among them we can count a casting that he performs to find a substitute for Denzel Washington for the sequel to El Justiciero, a casting in which each participant ends up exasperating the youtuber with his inconsistencies.
There is life beyond YouTube
In addition to generating content on YouTube, he also has a Twitch channel, where he is also one of the main streamers on the platform with 8.6 million followers. In the first quarter of the year positioned himself as the most watched Spanish-speaking streamer on Twitchbeating influencers like Ibai, TheGrefg and .
AuronPlay is also famous for its popularity in memessince during his career it has been used to generate comical images with his reactions and that have become popular around the world, especially for consumers of his content.
In addition to that, he has also dedicated himself to doing live shows with the production company YouPlanet, which he founded together with youtuber Wismichu. He has also published three books: From the worst to the best: Auron’s advice where he answers questions that he has been asked throughout his career as a youtuber; AuronPlay, the book, which public in 2016 and is an autobiography; and finally, The Hater’s Game, his first novel and that was published in 2017. On the other hand, during the 2020 quarantine, he dedicated himself to selling masks under the brand of .
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