Rubén Doblas Gundersen

Biography

Rubén Doblas Gundersen (born 13 February 1990), better known as elrubiusOMG or simply El Rubius is a Norwegian-Spanish YouTuber whose channel primarily consists of gameplays and vlogs. He has the most subscribers in Spain and is among the 50 channels with the most subscribers on the platform in the world.

In 2014 he published El Libro Troll (English: The Troll Book). During 2015 and 2017 he published a total of three comics from his Virtual Hero series. He also participated in an anime series based on the comics. A tweet from his official Twitter account was the most retweeted tweet in the world since 2016. The tweet was often retweeted.

In 2016, Time magazine included him in its list of “next-generation leaders” and named him an "online conqueror". In 2018, he obtained the world record of viewers live during an online YouTube broadcast for a tournament of the Fortnite video game. He is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, with the third-most-followed Twitch channel in the world.

•   Rubén Doblas Gundersen created his first YouTube channel in 2006 under the name of "EI   RubiusOMG". He claimed this channel to be a play on words referring to his name and the fact       that he had blonde hair when he was little. 
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His first video "The Audience" was uploaded on 8 December 2006. His video was a montage of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV in English. During 2011, he began regularly uploading videos of montages of the newer video game Skyrim, to which Rubius commented on unusual and humorous situations. 

In January 2012, despite the growing popularity of his videos, he announced that he would change his channel because the one he had at that time could not be associated with a contract with Machinima Network, Inc. This was due to uploading three copyright infringement complaints on YouTube.