Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (Spanish pronunciation: [xeɾˈman aleˈxandɾo ɣaɾˈmendja aˈɾanis];[a] born April 25, 1990) is a Chilean YouTuber, singer-songwriter, comedian and writer.

After the death of his father, he, his mother Cecilia del Carmen Aranis, and his brother Diego Garmendia[7] 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.

[13] On September 9, 2011, he uploaded HolaSoyGerman's first video titled Las cosas obvias de la vida (lit.

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.

[30] 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.

[35][36] In March 2016, the Canadian rock band, Simple Plan was featured in the intro of a video entitled La Comida.

[37][38] In April 2016, he would reach 10 million subscribers in his two main channels HolaSoyGerman and JuegaGerman,[39] which led him to be the first YouTuber to obtain two Diamond plates.

[40] In June 2016, he won the category "Master Gamer" from MTV Millennial Awards,[41][42] at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City.

[50][51] 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,[52][53] in which while playing Beyond: Two Souls, he begins to say comments that were branded as misogynistic, disgusting and sexist.

[66] He later toured Latin America to promote it;[67][68] On April 23, he participated in the Bogotá International Book Fair, in Colombia,[69][70] signing more than 100,000 copies during twelve hours,[71] in which more than 50,000 people attended.

[5] During his visit to the forty-two edition of the Buenos Aires International Book Fair on May 7 in La Rural,[73][74] he sold more than 8,000 copies.

[76] On May 14, he held a book signing day at the La Cúpula Theater, located inside O'Higgins Park,[77] in which 3,000 people registered for that event.

[79] On June 11, he made a promotional visit in Bicentennial Park, Mexico,[80] in which more than 7 thousand people attended, of which 4,500 acquired signed copies of the book.

[82][83] In September 2018, he announced the release of his fictional novel, Di Hola, which is "a moving story about loyalty, love and friendship"[84] starring Oscar and Natalie.

[93] On November 22, they posted on his band's official account the music video for "Cambia", a song with "quite soft guitars and melodies with German on the microphone.

[101] In La Tercera, Paul Quinteros criticized the admission prices stating that charging for 40 thousand pesos was a "massive impudence".

'Water for Africa'),[106] in which he shows his support for a non-profit campaign known as Agua Mi Caridad, whose main objective was to raise $100,000 to help the northern region of Sahel.

[108][109] In 2016 he dubbed Julian's voice in Ice Age: Collision Course in Latin Spanish,[110][111][112] whose character was described by Garmendia himself as "loud and scandalous".

[131][132] In December 2021, he made an appearance in the Digital Table of the Teletón,[133][134][135] in which he donated 30,000,000 Chilean pesos[136][137][138] on behalf of the Antofagasta region.

In it, he dedicated himself to chatting with Saavedra, Jorge Zabaleta and Pedro Ruminot, the latter stated that he contacted Germán to appear in an old CHV program, El club de comedia.

[144] In November 2015, he uploaded a twenty-minute video to JuegaGerman in which he talked about how an alleged "obsessed fan" had threatened to kill people close to him.

[151] Notimérica explained that in its content it uses the performance of various characters in some scenes as a "characteristic resource" to give the videos "great dynamism.

"[152] In April 2013, he was listed in a New York Times article,[153] and in July 2015, he was chosen as the second YouTube's biggest star from the Washington Post,[154] both claiming that their earnings were 1.3 million dollars per year.

[157] He denied being a millionaire in an exclusive interview with the Informe Especial program: "People rely a lot on the CPM in the United States, which is the cost per thousand visits, something that we don't have.

[161] In January 2018, the BBC chose him as the second most popular YouTuber,[162][163][164] and in June 2018, Wired highlighted his aspirations to act, write, and direct in Hollywood during his stay in Los Angeles in 2017.