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• The entirety of Thank You, A new year and 50000 Subscriber Special, where Mark shows just how much he's happy about what he does, and how happy he is to have his audience, and how thankful he is for all of them to help him get where he is now.
  • All of his "thank you" videos are very heartfelt, particularly his 1000th video special. In "Draw My Life", Mark really goes in-depth into his pre-YouTube home life and his motivation for making videos.
  • His video when he reached one million subscribers is very low-key, showing a montage of some of his best moments while he talks in a very low tone about how much the channel and his fans mean to him.
• In the final minutes of Presentable Liberty, Mark practically begs Sal to break the generator and survive, and becomes despondent upon hearing of his death.
• During his Dead Space 3 walkthrough, while entering a bunker, Mark encounters Buckell who, moments later, dies from hypothermia. Mark then says that he had liked the character and is quite sad that he had to die. Whilst he isn't really devastated, it's nice to know that Mark shows that he has some respect for Buckell; especially when Mark exits the bunker, he states that he will not try to stomp on Buckell's body, even though he greatly distrusts dead (or supposedly dead) bodies.
  • It's the same reaction with Hammond's body during Dead Space.
• The end of this video is the most heartwarming yet. 38:40 mark is where your heart will start melting.
• Markiplier's Omegle Adventure. It's so nice to see Mark talking to all his fans over Omegle and making everyone's dreams come true, which was enough to make some of them cry.
• The entirety of Mark's "Farewell Charity Livestream" promotional video, put out three weeks in advance as a send off to his time spent in Ohio before moving to LA. He spends the entire video gushing about how much he loves his work and thanking the fans for supporting him since the channel's inception, and for donating to the cause of each livestream. You can just hear how much this means to him in his voice as he talks about how much he appreciates the support of his fans, and it tugs on your heartstrings to hear that, especially how much time he puts forth towards each and every video he makes. Even though he says he "feels like an old man in a younger man's body," his enthusiasm for what he does is just palpable, and it really speaks to him as a person, as well as an entertainer and gamer.
  • The entirety of the livestream itself also counts. While it's ludicrously long, it's very nice to see just how close Mark, Wade, and Bob's friendship is, and how much fun they're having^note (read: lots) while playing games for charity.
• The last part of his playthrough of Outlast: Whistleblower is simply full of Mark having multiple fanboy moments over the various nods to continuity. The way he gushes is pretty nice to see.
• Mark finally beating Vanish. Just watch it here.
• In Off, when he encounters the Critic Burnt and realizes that it's only calling out for help and is completely defenseless, he attempts to delay the battle for as long as possible before being forced to kill him.
  • When Mark discovers he has to fight Hugo, who's only a toddler, his first reaction is to spam the Flee option. You can even hear him furiously pressing his space bar. It takes him a while to finally start attacking and when he does he uses his most powerful attacks, trying to end the battle as soon as possible.
• Mark's milestone video for 3,000,000 subscribers. He's audibly on the edge of tears at several points as he describes how far he's come, and he concludes it with an inspirational message to all of his fans. Then the ice challenge comes on...
• It's hard not to feel good for Mark after he completes the 4-20 mode on Five Nights at Freddy's, considering the sheer joy and happiness that he exerts. How much happiness exactly? According to Mark himself, happier than when he beat Vanish.
  • In the same way, Mark's reaction to just barely beating night 5.
• In the last video of Mark's playthrough of Five Nights at Freddy's 3, when the Golden Ending is revealed.
  Markiplier: "You want some cake? Cake?"
• All his charity work. According to this and this, Mark does all of his charity work as a dedication to his father, who as stated in his Draw My Life video, passed away from cancer.
• His "thank you" video for the four million subscriber milestone features Mark playing with two of his brother Tom's dogs.
• The bulk of his Let's Play of the Indie game "To The Moon" is either this or hilarious.
• Most recently, he released ''An Important Message'', apparently "just because". Have some tissues handy.
• During Happy Wheels Highlights #65, someone posted their own thoughts on Mark's previous video 'An Important Message', stating how much they love him and thank him for everything he's done for them. A bigger heartwarming aspect is that it was done by Happy Wheels user Caspie1405, whose levels has appeared frequently in Mark's Happy Wheels videos. Counts as a Moment of Awesome too being this was done on Happy Wheels.
• It's definitely saddening to hear that Mark had been in an abusive relationship... and yet he refuses to buy into the rhetoric that "equality means both genders can hit each other", and stating that no one, regardless of gender, should ever have to be hit by their partner.
• His 5 million sub video. It slides towards Tear Jerker territory at times, as Mark says that he misses the simplicity of the earlier days when he can just pick up an indie horror game and play it, but he's also proud of the community that's been built because of him.
  • While saddening, it was pretty heartwarming to hear Mark mention his father, stating he would have loved to ask him how proud he would be for what he's done. Remember: Mark never mentions his father for the obvious reason.
• His vlog simply entitled Out with the Old. It comes off as a saddening video about Mark summarizing his entire year and stating how amazing it was for his two milestones (hitting four million and then later on hitting five million subscribers), but ends with him stating how he's hoping for a new year, even stating he will put out two videos a day for his fans in order to not be so far behind from them.
  • What makes it so sweet is Mark insisting in the end that he's okay and that it isn't a sad video, but moving into a new journey. Seeing him throw his arms up at the end before the fade out makes it better.
• There's something sweet about Mark being offended by the portrayal of him in the fan made game New Home. In the game Mark is portrayed as someone whose fame got to him and he comments multiple times that he is nothing like this.
  • It gets better. It turns out that the reason Markiplier (in the game) was acting so odd was that he was actually an unknown entity who had taken Mark's body. The white figure pursuing "Mark" in the game is actually Markiplier, trying to recover his body from his impostor's control.
• His reaction to the 6 million fan music video done by his fans is a real tearjerker, and very heartwarming. Mark cries tears of happiness, talking about how all this means so much to him, how he appreciates and loves every one of his fans for their continuing support, and even brings up his late father while mentioning his trip to the White House. Despite tears, Mark is really grateful for his community, and how much they support and inspire him to be a better person.
• His video on getting FNAF 3's Good Ending: in where the murderer dies and the ghosts of the children are finally able to pass on. In it, he thanks everyone who provided him with the clues to getting it and admits he's very happy and content with this ending of the Fazbear saga, even going so far as to say he kinda hopes there won't be another game just to preserve the beauty of this moment.
  • It's oddly cute to see how he feels about the original four animatronics that he spent so many hours with, he's upset and shocked when Purple Guy rushes out during the between-level minigames to dismantle them. While playing as Bonnie he yells "Oh God! Run away!" when he encountered the ERR message and realized Bonnie was about to befall the same fate as Freddy, while playing as Chica he begs in a deadpan but slightly frustrated voice "Chica no! Why do I care? Why do I care? Why do I care what happens to Chica?" and during Foxy's minigame he starts by giving Foxy a wimp voice and talking about going to visit his friends but when Purple Guy dismantles him Mark yells "You killed Foxy too?!" in a dismayed voice.
• On March 21, 2015, Mark posted on Facebook that he'd been admitted to the hospital (nothing life-threatening) and insisted that he'd be back to making videos in no time, apologizing for possible delays. The comments were filled with nothing but messages telling him "Don't worry about the videos; we just want you to get better!"
  • The next day he announced that he would be heading into surgery. #GetBetterMark promptly became a trending topic on Twitter.
  • In spite of being in the hospital for surgery, he still manages to make two videos to assure everyone that he's okay. It's hard to hear him speak slowly in a dry, gravelly rasp as opposed to his usual energetic demeanor, but it quickly turns back around when his mother, lovingly nicknamed Momiplier, surprises him with homemade soup. The fan response to Mark smiling again and his mom's obvious care for him while he's out of action is heartfelt relief.
    • A fan actually drew a picture of Momiplier holding a sick Mark in her arms. It's absolutely adorable.
      Mark (via Facebook): I showed my Mom this and her face lit up, she was so amazed that someone took the time to draw her!
  • On March 24, he revealed that the surgery was a success and reiterates that he is thankful for everyone's comments and well-wishing.
    • About 3 hours later, he gave a Twitter update: Lucy greeting him home. Boop!
• In his video of him playing Good Husband, the game makes him pick up a gun to shoot the wife to death. Needless to say, even though the wife is a total Asshole Victim (she even says "fuck you" to the main character as he points the gun at her), Markiplier does not want to do it. At all. He keeps trying to not do it. He tries to leave the room and find ways to avoid doing it. The only reason he goes through with it is because the game gives him no other choice. Even though he finds the whole thing funny in a dark way, he makes sure to say at the end of the video to just be nice to people and give a kind word to your family.
• Surprisingly enough, his playthrough of Five Nights at Fuckboy's. Specifically, part 4.
  Mark: I have the best time of my life just entertaining you guys, because that's what I love to do! It is so fun! Every part of it. I wouldn't- I wouldn't trade it for a single thing in the world, I would not. Thank you guys, that's why I say thank you. It's hard to describe what you guys have allowed me to do with my life. The fact that from the start of what I was doing to now I'm able to just have the best time of anything I've ever done in my life. I'm just able to have the best time every single day. And I might gripe and groan about certain games and whatnot, but that doesn't mean I'm ever, ever, ungrateful for the opportunities I've been given.
• Markiplier grants a wish for the Make-A-Wish Foundation with a young man named Patrick who wanted to be a YouTuber. Patrick's channel gained more than 150,000 subscribers less than one day after the video was posted. Now that's an awesome way to use your Popularity Power.
• Mark's tweet to his late father wishing him a happy Father's Day and calling him the greatest man he'll ever know.
• His reaction to the 8th Million Subscriber Fan Reaction Video can be considered this. While being a huge Tear Jerker, it hits the heartwarming levels when Mark speaks about how, as a community, they all have each other, and should always help each other out no matter what.
  • While it's just a reaction video he's seeing, seeing Mark tell his fans not to cry when seeing their reaction is really sweet.
  • When Mark speaks about his father again, he talks about the ideals he passed down to him, which Mark tells us that he's now passing those same ideals down to us.
  • Mark having to re-watch the 6 million subscriber video just to calm himself is pretty heartwarming too, even if it only causes Mark to break down even more.
    • "Everything is going to be alright."
• The end of this video (at Indy PopCon) calls back to the Goofy Goober song, including Bob not joining in and walking away at the end. What makes this heartwarming? At the line 'We're all goofy goobers', Mark literally drags in Jack in the way only friends can, getting him to join in with the group. Jack even joins in in the last line and action!
• The entire balcony chat with both Wade and Mark. The three hours on that balcony that would change their lives forever.
• Markiplier dedicated an entire video to helping a longtime friend of his get a better job in his field, just promoting his friend and his skills.
• Seeing Markiplier just geeking out over something is just adorable to watch. Even if he didn't become an engineer the passion that he has is just cool.
• In Markiplier Reacts to Teens React to Markiplier, he goes into the video expecting the teens to hate him. The reality turns out to be the exact opposite; everyone, whether they had already been subscribed or hadn't heard of him until now, loved him and his videos, with members of the latter category saying they're going to subscribe to him later. Mark is understandably overjoyed.
  • He's particularly touched by Daniel's story about how his (Marks) videos helped keep Daniels' spirits up during a rather depressing series of events, and Mark even says that he needs to get in contact with Daniel afterwards.
• Markiplier likes Ashley from Until Dawn so much that when he accidentally gets her killed by a Wendigo, he refuses to accept it and decides to replay the entire game from scratch so she can survive and get together with Chris.
  Mark: ...no. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nuh-uh. No. Eh, no. No. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No! No! I'm... No! I'm--! No! You think I'm gonna just put up with that bull? No! I... No! No, I'm not gonna put up with it! I'm not gonna put up with it! I'm drawing the line in the sand! No! I'm gonna play the whole... fucking... game... again... because... NO! I REFUSE...! NO! N-O... MEANS NO! I'm gonna play through the whole goddamn game again, the whole game again, I'm gonna play through the whole game again, I like Ashley too much for my stupidity to get in the way of her love. I am gonna make sure that she ends her experience here on this mountain in the happiest way, being bone-zoned by Chris because that's! What their love! DESERVES! (Beat) FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--!
  • He is so adamant on this point that the entire rest of the video is dedicated to his determination to fix his mistake, including an amusing segment of self-chiding and commentary on how even Ashley's dialogue indicated he was about to do something stupid. We don't even get outro music or his usual annotations and links before the video ends.
    • And he doesn't just save Ashley in the new run. He saves everyone. And he manages to preserve Matt and Emily's relationship as well. Bravo, sir.
    • The above point deserves mention too about saving everyone as he at first chooses that whatever happens will be canon... and accidentally gets Mike killed. However, he quickly resets his game to prevent this. Cheating? Perhaps, but the mistake had been a result of a fatal misinterpretation of one of the game's totems, which seemed to suggest Sam remain perfectly still and do nothing at all even when presented with a choice during the wendigo invasion of the cabin. Mark's refusal to let the ambiguity of the game's clues prevent him from saving Mike, who he had been ripping on a lot over the course of the game for his often jerk-like tendencies, is pretty cool.
• Fanbase example: After the announcement of Mark's hiatus after Daniel's passing, the fans came out in support. Quite a few have intentionally made sure to watch his old videos, or even just having a playlist on mute in another tab, just to make sure he still gets an income as he takes time to grieve.
  • Jacksepticeye even uploaded an animation video of him and Mark with a link to Mark's version of their collab just so he can still receive income while he's away.
    "So this was made by Nichole quite a while ago but I decided to upload it for a few reasons which are important. First is that I just really like it. The Forest series with Mark was so much fun and this perfectly displays how much fun it actually was.
    
    Second reason is because Mark is gonna be away for a while and for a very very good reason. I am very happy that he IS taking that time off but sadly youtube algorithms don't care about the reasoning behind that and it's all automation and numbers. Therefore the time away will could hurt his channel slightly due to the consistent uploads being broken so I wanted to remind people that Mark is still here in a way. He WILL be back and until then it's up to us to keep his channel moving and grooving so youtube doesn't punish him too much for taking time off. If this video can help keep him in the spotlight a bit more or drive new people going to his channel then I am happy :)
    
    I'm not doing this to suck up to a youtuber bigger than me either, I'm doing this to help out a friend during a very hard time the way I think he would return the favour for someone else. He'd say he doesn't care about that but I still don't want to see his channel suffer."
• His latest Facebook post after returning to LA following Daniel's death, "I think everything is going to be okay"
  • Even before hand, he said he was going to do a livestream to raise money for Daniel's family and in his memory.
• Markiplier returns indeed, even more when he's shown that he's healing from Daniel's passing and praising him as his friend. Get some tissues.
  • In that video, he said that he set up a fundraiser for Daniel's family. As of this writing, that fundraiser reached its $50,000 goal in 3 days.
• In the opening for his first Undertale video he mentions that while he had been advised to play the game in a Pacifistic way he would have done so anyway, and is upset when he accidentally destroys the Dummy (luckily that doesn't count against him). He's also very kind to the monsters he meets—he compliments Froggit, happily flirts with Moldsmal, and determinedly tries to cheer up Whimsun.
  • When he meets Napstablook, he does his best to cheer them up and is upset when he realizes that all of Napstablook's attacks involve them crying.
    Mark: Who would murder them? They're so cute!
  • While initially distrustful of Toriel, he starts to warm up to her as he realizes that she really is just a kind old lady and worries that something bad might happen to her. Of course, the worst thing that could happen to Toriel is Mark himself but luckily he refuses. He's also slightly horrified at the fact that while you can kill Toriel, unless you brazenly walk into her attacks she will not kill you.
• Mark finally adopted a dog, and her name is Chica. It's positively adorable to see how much he already loves his puppy.
  • Also, the fact that his puppy was named Chica. Seems as though the series had a positive impact.
  • One adorable story comes from when she played in the mud. It's full of d'aaaawwww.
  • Chica had to get spayed, so Mark took a day off to make sure she recovers. While it's somewhat depressing to see Chica so high on painkillers, it's nice to see him take extra time to make sure she's fine.
• Mark Squeeing over space in his Universe Sandbox video.
  • Now in musical form!
• In his Super Mario Maker let's plays, he tries very hard not to insult or berate Ross like the way the Game Grumps did, feeling that his levels are somewhat fun and doesn't want to hit that level of animosity that Arin and Dan had for him.
• In his fifth Agar.io video, Mark uses one of his nicknames to name his cell, causing a lot of his fans that're playing to crowd around him and donate their mass so he can get bigger. Some of them even careen straight towards him and let his cell eat them entirely, sacrificing all their hard-earned progress for the cause. Mark is visibly surprised and touched by all the kindness.
• You wouldn't expect this trope to happen in Drunk Minecraft but episode 9, PEN1S CANNON has Wade meeting his future wife Molly when he jokingly asks who wants to marry him as Mark does marry Bob in-game. The rest of the video has the both of them chatting.
• Despite the Fandom Rivalry people have with these two, PewDiePie and Mark immediately hug it out after Pewds slaps his face because Mark punishes himself for not having a video up while him, Felix, and Jack were at New York. This is of course followed with Jack's turn and both men are very hesitant to slap Mark.
  Felix: Say something mean, come on, I can't just slap you.
  Jack: I don't want to hit him too hard.
  • Also funny due to the insult he gives Jack.
    Mark: Septiplier is dead, I'll never be your boyfriend.
• His absolutely giddy joy at playing Doom (2016), since the original Doom was one of the first games he ever played.
  • Made even more prominent in Doom Eternal due to the creators making a reference to him and his father in-game.
• Part this and part Tear Jerker, Markiplier tries out another fan-made quiz about himself, and while he has some hilarious fails, the ending of the quiz is unexpectedly sweet, with Mark even tearing up a little as he realizes how this quiz has been around for a while and it makes him happy to have these memories, and how those memories will still be there, even in the future. It really shows how sweet and humble he is, how happy he is for all his fans and what they do. It's sure to bring tears of happiness to all who see it through to the end!
• At the end of his playthrough of That Dragon, Cancer he puts up pictures of his own father.
• Mark finishing up Blank Dream and apologizing to his fans for not continuing the game after so long, even admitting how he misses the simplicity of playing games when he first started.
  • His glee when he sees Mishiro smiling at last at the end of the game.
• This may seem minor in the grand scheme of things, but the fact that everything that's on the plate in Chef Dog is safe for Chica to eat. It really shows how much Mark cares about his dog that even for the sake of comedy, he makes sure his pup is safe.
  • Also note that the closed captioning specifically notes that Chica would be enjoying her spaghetti without sauce: most commercial sauces are bad for dogs.
• At Markiplier's PAX 2016 panel, Wade proposes to Molly.
• The video "I Don't Deserve This" is a vlog where Markiplier talks about winning a "Celebrity of the Year" award from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He recounts not having a speech prepared because he didn't think he'd win, as well as openly crying as he won it.
• One of the videos Mark watches in "Try Not to Smile Challenge" advertises an organization called Hope For Paws that rescues homeless pets. Mark is so touched by the story of a dog named Clarabelle that he has to pause the video, get Chica, and hug her as he watches the rest of the video! At the end, the video asks viewers to donate $5 to Hope For Paws, prompting Mark to go to their website and donate $1000!
• "Deer Man" shows footage of him and Tyler playing with random fans in the neighborhood after the gameplay. Hilarious and fuzzy, but Mark does try to reach out to his local fans and have fun with them.
  • Mark has been doing a lot more videos with local fans watching and participating, including an adorable little girl whom Mark recruits to shoot arrows at his friends.
• At the end of his 6th livestream of Undertale as Mark and Tyler discuss their theories of the game's lore and story, he gives a monologue about his praise for the game. However, he also gently admonishes the fandom, not begrudgingly as most people probably would and have done, but by laying out the flaws of how audiences reacted and how they hurt the game and the fandom's image. He throughout it, he doesn't raise his voice, or even sound remotely upset.
  Mark: "Have faith in the people you care about, and trust them find their own way. And let them make their own mistakes and discover new things you may have not seen."
• On Mark's "November Charity Livestream", around the seven hour time stamp, Mark has to get his armpits waxed, and the group volunteers Amy to rip the paper off. She vocally expresses her displeasure in hurting Mark and apologizes several times.
• Mark took to Twitter to explain a vivid nightmare he had, where his brother has passed away and everything he saw caused him to breakdown and cry while telling others to let their family know they love them. His brother promptly then replied.
• His video, RESPECT. Due to the fallout regarding PewDiePie, Mark finally put in his own two cents on the matter and it speaks volumes.
  Mark: People are gonna say that I'm defending the wrong people or I'm defending bad people or I— I'm spreading hate indirectly because I support other people. That's not the way I see the world. I see each and every one of us not defined by our race or our creed, but each and every one of us a new opportunity to define ourselves. And in order to defend that, I have to advocate the treatment of everyone as an equal. Because if you don't have that, what's gonna become of us?
  • Some commenters saw parts of the video as Nightmare Fuel due to Mark's apparent Tranquil Fury, but given his friendship with Felix and his views on basic human decency, is it all that surprising that he'd be livid?
  • Also doubles as Tear Jerker as at some points it sounds like he's fighting back tears.
• His let's play of "Markiplier Adventures 2". While simple and to the point, Mark was touched by the dedication the creator did for the game, even if it took so two to three years to make, Mark even became heavily emotional near the end but more of him wanting to assure fans he loves everything they do for him, even saying he does see it.
  • He becomes very quiet when the game included his game character meeting his deceased father, with him telling Mark how proud he is of everything he's done.
    • Props also for the creator to use Mark's father's last words from "Draw My Life" as well. Makes a Tear Jerker too.
  • Mark showing affection to the fact the game gave the Nurse character Mark's known to yell at in Surgeon Simulator a prominent role. He even gave her a name: Leslie.
• Two somewhat-recent videos called "I Feel Lost" are more Tearjerker territory. During the second one, which he recorded some time after the first one was uploaded, he stopped and looked at his phone. He was getting tons of messages from fans showing support.
• From "The Legend of Markiplier" while sad that he refused to have SomeOrdinaryGamers on his team it becomes heartwarming that he would rather have Wade than someone he doesn't really know. It's even more heartwarming considering how Wade is usually treated.
• In a most recent video Mark is shown spending Amy's birthday wandering around Joshua Tree National Park. It's utterly heartwarming and Mark encourages his fans to also wish her a happy birthday.
• Amy doing makeup on Mark.
• The 12 hour Livestream from the 28th of October where Mark and his friends play games, talk about "Who Killed Markiplier?" and raise money together with the chat. They end up donating more than 107,000 Dollars for the National MPS society.
  • The whole stream is them hanging out and having fun, as well as praising each other and the absentee actors on their work for "Who killed Markiplier?"
  • Clearly the most heartwarming thing is Chica-cam towards the end. Mark puts a camera on his dog Chica in her bed and tells the viewers he will give her pets every time people donate. It doesn't take long and huge donations start pouring in, the audience wanting to tell Chica that she is a good girl.
  • Turns into a Funny Moment when Mark sends Chica to Amy to get her pets and puts ETHAN in her spot, offering to call him a Good Boy and give HIM pets (for 4.20$ donations).
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a game designed to frustrate the player as much as possible, and in Markiplier's case it seems to work very well. Now, scroll down to the comments of his videos on that game and see how many of them are asking or even begging him to abandon the game and play something less rage-inducing.
  • Hell near the end of part 3 he posts various tweets urging his fans and everyone who is alive (good and bad) to stay away from the game. The fact he wants everyone (friend or enemy) to stay away from it and to discourage people from having their enemies play it is heartwarming.
  • His reaction to finally reaching the top of the mountain and finishing the game after eight videos of torture is genuine happiness that nearly brings him to Tears of Joy, and at the end he admits it was all worth it Despite Mark's prior burning hatred for Bennet Foddy (which included a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech and wishes that he would die in a fire), he still honors the latter's request at the end of the game of not streaming the reward for beating it.
• The fourth part of his Doki Doki Literature Club! playthrough has a very touching piece of dialogue. When Sayori reveals that she's suffered from depression for years, Mark says that he would cancel his plans just to spend time with her.
  • Also when cutscene showing Sayori hugging the player character shows up, Mark is shown looking on in happiness.
• Mark's legitimate happiness when Joseph, one of his favorite characters from The Evil Within, is revealed to be alive in The Evil Within 2.
• Chica's First Christmas Tree. 2:47 of Mark sharing Christmas joy with his pup, complete with upbeat music, hugs and Chica looking adorable in general.
• Special Message from Miranda’s Dad. While the video is touching in how much Mark talks about his niece Miranda (as well as her father, Mike), what's really heartwarming is the response. Mark set up a GoFundMe page for the cost of Miranda's funeral, asking for $15,000 dollars. The goal was met within twenty minutes of the video being posted. Within an hour, the donations had nearly doubled the goal.
  • Thirteen hours after the video was posted, nearly three thousand people had donated over $48k. By the time the donations died down, the final amount donated was $79,335 from 5.1k people.
• A small one, but in Fortnite, 50 vs. 50, Wade goes to investigate a building with one other teammate and didn't want Wade to go off alone, even with help from one other teammate, so he and Bob went to Wade to help him. Bob sarcastically said "Thanks, Dad." at Mark's concern for Wade.
• While playing the Subnautica: Below Zero expansion, Mark finds an enormous whale-like creature and practically squees with joy at how cute it is. He jokingly wonders if he can ride it- and immediately finds out he can. Mark practically cries from joy getting to hitch a ride on the gentle giant's fin. After spending the better parts of three episodes crying in terror, he ends the third episode in a state of pure joy.
• Markiplier's vlog on getting his wisdom teeth removed. Sure, a lot of the things that he says and does in his drugged up state are very funny, but from the bottom of his heart, completely out of his mind, he still can't help but be brought to tears by his fans & express how grateful he is of them helping him.
• Mark's genuine enthusiasm for the clam harvester motivational video at the end of Try Not To Laugh Challenge #5:
  Mark: That guy's a goddamn hero! That guy gave more inspiration than I could ever hope to give!
• Mark throws a major temper tantrum during "Getting Over It"; between 8:20 and 8:36 in this video, Chica just stands there, staring at him, as it to see if he's alright.
• While playing the Unity remake of SCP: Containment Breach, Mark went through the process of securing a canister of Argon, for a weird pressurizing machine with a sealed chamber. On activation, it pressurizes the chamber and unseals it... revealing SCP-1762, which promptly dispenses numerous instances of SCP-1762-2 in a beautiful scene. Mark, of course, follows it up with a particularly poignant statement.
  Mark: It reminds me that sometimes the paranormal and the surreal, you know, it doesn't always have to be something horrifying. It can be something beautiful and amazing and wondrous...it just doesn't belong. It's just anomalous.
• His interactions with Bullet the German Shepard in Blair Witch.
  • This culminates in episode 5, where he absolutely refuses to do what the game wants and leave Bullet to die and walks in an infinite loop until the game hits a point that forces the issue for him.
• Mark's reactions after beating the first two levels of GTFO by himself. The first time, he is shaking in absolute shock, and the second time nearly reduces him to tears. He's just so happy for beating them, and much like FNAF, it will bring a smile to your face.
• During the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in the United States, Mark took to YouTube to use his voice as a way to get accurate information to the community as quickly as possible, emphasizing calm and rational response to his audience- wash hands early and often, stay inside unless absolutely necessary, stock up on basic food items but don't engage in hoarding, and most importantly, to not assume that just because someone was young and healthy to not assume that they couldn't pass the disease to someone with a compromised immune system.
  Mark: To be perfectly honest, I would LOVE for us all to take these preventative measures and it turns out this is just overblown nonsense. IT'S NOT. But I would love for that to be the case.
• While playing through Doom Eternal, Mark notes an Easter Egg dedicated to his late father: a book called "How to Comb Your Mustache" by Cliffton M. Fischbach, which is Mark's dad's name. Mark reveals that the developers put it in because he talked about how much DOOM as a series meant to him, and now his dad was immortalized as a small part of the world DOOM. Mark plays some soft piano music over finding the Easter egg, along with a genuine "thank you" to the game's developers, all while Trying Not to Cry.
• Mark repeatedly donating to his editor Lixian during Lix's livestream of Resident Evil 3. Mark pops in multiple times to encourage and joke with Lixian, the reaction Lixian has when this happens shows the positive relationship the two of them have.
  • The moments between Mark and Lixian continue during Mark's charity livestream against COVID-19. In the stream, Mark sends Kick Club out multiple times, but decides to have the last raid be to Lixian's stream. After joining the stream, Mark gushes about Lixian's talent and skills with editing, saying he works so hard and his channel deserves to grow. Mark even gives $500 in Lixian's stream, which helps to push Lixian's goal into overdrive. Lixian had started the stream with a goal of $500, and had raised ~$1,300 by the time Mark joined. After Mark and the Kick Club joined, Lixian had raised over $4,000, not bad for his first charity stream.
• An old video, but it still fits: Mark eating limburger cheese, just because why not. The reason it fits here however is because Mark said his late father used to be a big fan of it (a particular brand) and decided to give it a try after twenty years (albeit not the original discontinued brand). For the half of the video however...he begins to show some nostalgia and reminiscing about memories of his late father, emphasizing that his father was the best father he could ever want and he did whatever he could for him and his brother Tom.
• While playing the "End of Zoe" DLC for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, he finds a crawfish (which can be eaten to restore health) inside a waterlogged microwave but becomes so charmed by its friendly appearance looking out at him that he decides it's too cute to eat and leaves it alone.
• While his 7th Pogostuck video starts with a bit of a Tear Jerker as he intentionally backtracks all of the progress he struggled for, he spends the rest of the video laughing his ass off as he, Bob, and Wade play around with the Rubber Band Pairing mode. In heavy contrast to his raging through the past episodes, it's clear he's having much more fun screwing around with his friends instead of seriously trying to progress.
• For his HuniePop 2 playthrough, he has Lixian's animated avatar included in his thumbnails.
• In Solar Smash, Mark outright refuses to destroy terraformed Mars and instead begins waxing poetic about how much effort and sacrifice it would take to bring the red planet to life. He also expresses his hope that it will happen for real one day, even though he knows it won't be in his lifetime.
• Ever since Lixian became a Dad, any appearance of his avatar will often include a tiny little cartoon baby.
• Mark slipped a hidden cypher into the tenth video of his Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 playthrough. When translated, it is revealed to be a goodbye letter to MatPat, who had announced his retirement from being the face of Game Theory and its related series, with Mark wishing him and his wife Stephanie a happy retirement.

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