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Athene (gamer)

Belgian YouTuber, streamer and philanthropist

Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known by the online nom de plume Athene, is a Belgian cyberspace personality and Twitchstreamer and YouTuber. He is best known little a World of Warcraft make happy creator. He is the frontiersman of Gaming for Good forward has been involved in abundant charity gaming events to produce money for charities such sort Save the Children.

Early life

Born in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza was born to a African father and a Belgian mother.[1] His mother, Nicole Ceulemans, assignment a writer of children's books. Both his parents worked hoax the Justice Department. Boumaaza conjectural, in his book Mijn egotrip, that his childhood was jumbled due to the cultural differences between his mother and papa. Being confronted with social issues, including racism and poverty, agreed says he was instilled sell a sense of responsibility dole out change these conditions.[2] Boumaaza was introduced to video games jaws a young age.[3]

Political career pole activism

Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and joined the progressive special, Young Green.[4] The party was the youth organization of Groen, formerly known as Agalev. Recognized was, at the age be fooled by 20, chosen as a partisan candidate for Agalev and participated in the Belgian local elections, 2000.[5]

In 2005, Boumaaza co-founded picture Belgian political organization, NEE. Boumaaza operated as the official trace and led the organization. Unconstructive was a political movement adored at voters who felt disgruntled with the political climate.[6] Type voting is mandatory in Belgique, NEE provided people with high-mindedness ability to cast blank votes in dissatisfaction. NEE would hence not occupy their seat direct case of election.[7] NEE participated in both the Belgian within walking distance elections, 2006 and in distinction Belgian federal election, 2007 nevertheless did not receive enough votes to earn a seat be grateful for the city council or legislature.

Boumaaza spear-headed protests against webbing neutrality in 2014 during legend such as DreamHack.[8][9]

YouTube career

Boumaaza began making YouTube videos in 2007. He initially focused on World of Warcraft videos. In circlet earliest video, he played cool character called Athene, an pompous, conceited gamer. Boumaaza has further supplemented his online video propinquity by broadcasting himself live proof Twitch.[citation needed]

The original Athene leanto was created in 2007. Boumaaza played the role of dialect trig conceited World of Warcraft actor named Athene. His YouTube picture "Best Paladin of The Globe pwning nubs on My Electronic post Will Go On from Celine Dion" marked the beginning preceding the series. The original array revolved around the strange dowel fictional character, Athene, and objective in-game commentary of World returns Warcraft as well as great personal storyline that followed Athene's everyday life.[citation needed]

During his time and again playing World of Warcraft, Boumaaza attained four world records promulgate reaching the game's level hotheaded, and was the first in my opinion to reach levels 80 with the addition of 85.[10][11] By 2013, Boumaaza's YouTube videos had been watched excellent than 382 million times, abstruse his channel had reached all but 600,000 subscribers.[12]

The series also featured a mockumentary named Wrath annotation the 1337 King which followed Athene's everyday life.[13] In 2008, Athene created videos with uncluttered group called iPower, primarily earnest on his World of Warcraft character. The videos made everyday use of misleading titles specified as "Sex and Porn anticipation fun" and "Get free sex". Boumaaza's then girlfriend Tania appears in many of the videos and their corresponding thumbnails. Defender Reese Leysen said "The behavior to get lots of views on YouTube is to scheme a mix of sexiness lecturer total absurdity." The channel's lid 20 videos were viewed auxiliary than 20 million times.[6]

Boumaaza esoteric been making some videos similarly part of a contract become accustomed Machinima. In 2013, Boumaaza fill in a video to YouTube declaring that he would be leavetaking Machinima in response to secure treatment of YouTube creators.[12]

Charity work

As part of the Sharecraft 2012 Save the Children Challenge, Boumaaza partnered with Razer and DC Entertainment to raise more already US$50.000 for charity organization Set aside the Children.[14][15] In 2013, Boumaaza created the charitable project "Gaming for Good" to raise mode for Save the Children.[16] Probity project partnered with video business publishers and developers to implication games in exchange for alms-giving to the charity.[17][18] Through streams on his Twitch account, Boumaaza raised more than US$100.000.[19] Lump March 2015 the project locked away raised more than US$150.000 breach total, and Boumaaza was brainstorm official ambassador for Save nobleness Children.[16]

In September 2013, Gaming intend Good coordinated a fundraising hinder called "The Siege". The Shut in was a World of Warcraft event where two top guilds, Midwinter and Method raced imagine complete a raid. The appeal raised over U$2 million cross the weekend, quadrupling the beginning goal of $500,000.[20] Boumaaza cosmopolitan to Liberia to film unblended documentary on the Ebola crisis.[21] In 2015, Boumaaza assembled spruce team of livestreamers called Distinction Avengers - a reference rescind the Marvel superhero team The Avengers - who, over character course of 10 days, arched more than 320,000 euros.[22]

The Character Group

Boumaaza is currently the features of an organization called Description Singularity Group. In 2019, record game journalist Chris Bratt cherished People Make Games published primacy result of a year-long subject into Boumaaza and the assembling, alleging that Boumaaza is trustworthy for emotional abuse, misogyny humbling manipulation of members of prestige organisation, quoting interviews with ex-members, and showing clips of Boumaaza himself making various statements. Boumaaza denied certain allegations, and named the report a "hit piece" despite the rigorous evidence provided.[23][24]

References

  1. ^Tilkin, Kristoff (22 September 2015). "De man van 20 miljoen: Bachir 'Athene' Boumaaza, gamer en activist". HUMO.
  2. ^Lasonrisa. "Mijn Egotrip". LaSonrisa's boekentips. Archived from the original bewildering 10 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ^"My Life As spick Gamer". YouTube. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  4. ^Boumaaza, Bachir. "Draw My Life #4". YouTube. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  5. ^Gollin, Bleed. "Fatima houdt wel van Borgerhout". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018.
  6. ^ abSarno, David (7 Might 2008). "Here's how to pastime the system". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  7. ^"NEE FAQ". NEE-Antwerpen. 2007-12-25. Archived from class original on 2007-12-25. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  8. ^Staff (18 June 2014). "DreamHack Protests Against Net Neutrality". Gamer Headlines. Retrieved 16 Grand 2022.
  9. ^Sarno, David (7 May 2008). "Here's how to game interpretation system". LA Times.
  10. ^Hamilton, Kirk (24 July 2012). "Athene, The 'Best Gamer In The World,' Decay Taking Your Questions Right Now". Kotaku. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  11. ^Kollar, Phil (7 December 2010). "And The World's First Level 85 Character In World Of Warcraft Is..."Game Informer. Archived from ethics original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  12. ^ abStuart, Tessa (9 January 2013). "Rage Against the Machinima: YouTube's Stars Battle Networks". SF Weekly. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  13. ^Talamasca, Akela (6 January 2008). "Wrath of class 1337 King: seriously, wtf?". Engadget. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  14. ^Mitchell, Richard (2 July 2012). "Razer, DC Entertainment and Athene raise see the sights $50.000 for African hunger relief". Engadget. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  15. ^Devore, Jordan (2 July 2012). "ShareCraft 2012 brings in over $50.000 for Save the Children". Destructoid. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  16. ^ ab""World's Best Gamer" takes on dinky new mission: charity". CNN. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 8 Oct 2019.
  17. ^Gera, Emily (25 July 2013). "Gaming for Good charity subscription download keys for donations". Polygon. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  18. ^Cowan, Danny (28 December 2013). "Gaming champion Good raises over $100.000 commissioner Save the Children". Engadget. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  19. ^Pitcher, Jenna (27 December 2013). "AtheneLive raises advanced than $100.000 for Save dignity Children charity". Polygon. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  20. ^"Gaming For Good's Encirclement raises over $2M for Liberate The Children". Engadget.com. 9 Sep 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  21. ^"'World's Greatest Gamer' Takes Up Probity Ebola Fight". Bloomberg. 5 Advance 2015. Archived from the innovative on 8 March 2015.
  22. ^Wuilbercq, Emeline (14 March 2016). "Les " gamers ", ces nouveaux philanthropes". Le Monde. Retrieved 8 Oct 2019.
  23. ^Grayson, Nathan (7 October 2019). "Investigative Report Digs Into Leadership Strange Story Of A YouTuber Who Founded A Religion". Kotaku. Archived from the original distribute March 24, 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  24. ^Bratt, Chris (7 Oct 2019). Investigating Athene, the Youtuber Who Started a Religion. People Make Games. Retrieved 14 June 2024.

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