Simon Unge

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Simon Unge

Unge at the re: publica 2013
General information
language German
genre Let's play , vlog , reaction videos
network ContentView GmbH
YouTube
channels unplayed
portrait format
founding July 2, 2012 (unplayed)
November 4, 2019 (portrait)
Subscribers over 3,520,000 (unplayed)
over 350,000 (portrait)
Calls over 1,600,000,000 (unplayed)
over 35,000,000 (portrait)
Videos over 3,500 (unplayed)
over under 100 (portrait)
(As of August 20, 2020)

Simon Unge (born August 31, 1990 in Erkelenz ; real name: Simon Wiefels ), also Unplayed or Unge , is a German influencer and web video producer .

Life

Unge was born on August 31, 1990 in Erkelenz near Mönchengladbach . He and his siblings grew up with his mother, since his father died when Unge was nine years old. He completed his training as an educator in 2013 . Before that he had worked in an institution for mentally handicapped people. At the beginning of 2014 Unge moved to Cologne . In January 2015, Unge shared his apartment for a short time with another YouTuber , who uploads videos to YouTube under the pseudonym "Peterle". In March 2015, another YouTuber with the pseudonym "Reyst" lived with him, who also initially accompanied him on his world tour.

Unge moved to Hamburg in 2017 . At the end of 2018, he and his partner moved into an apartment on the Portuguese island of Madeira and, according to his own statements, acquired a plot of land and a few months later several properties on the island.

For several years now, Unge has lived a life without animal products. The vegan life is often a topic in his numerous streams on YouTube.

YouTube channels and live streams

In May 2011, Unge started uploading videos on the topic of longboards and dreadlocks on the Unschwer channel . At the beginning of 2012 he opened the channel without any problems , on which vegan recipes followed. Unge later discontinued both channels and deleted some videos. In July 2012 he started producing Let's Plays and founded the channel Ungespiel for this purpose . Since then, he has regularly uploaded self-produced videos there. These are mainly stream excerpts from his streams, which he starts every evening at 8:00 p.m. In these he either reacts to content from other Youtubers or he plays games. Unge is accorded great importance in the Minecraft Let's Play scene, among other things, because he helped initiate the introduction of large-scale projects. Together with the YouTuber GermanLetsPlay , he organized the Minecraft project Varo (short for Vanilla Roleplay ), in which many YouTubers took part. A total of four seasons of Varo ran . In addition to Minecraft, Unge also occasionally produced videos about The Sims 4 and horror games like Slender - The Eight Pages on this channel .

On his second channel, Ungefilmt , he regularly published vlogs and other real-life videos. Here, among other things, he also deals with the topic of emigration. The channel is also set.

On December 20, 2014, disputes with his network Mediakraft Networks became known, whereupon Unge started the new channel Unge for all following videos (see the section Problems with Mediakraft Networks ) and his channels Unfilmed on December 20, 2014 and unplayed on December 29, 2014 hired. On August 4, 2015, Unge stated in a video on Unplayed that, after an eight-month break, he would now upload his Let's Plays on this channel again. On May 2, 2016, around one and a half years after the Unge channel opened , the last video appeared there in which Unge reported on the future of its channels. Accordingly, Unge and Unfilmed will no longer be used and all content will only be published on the old Unplayed channel in the future .

Unge regularly broadcast Let's Plays in the form of a live stream on Twitch or YouTube . As part of reaching the 100,000 subscriber mark, he hosted a 24-hour live stream, and after reaching 200,000 subscribers, a 48-hour live stream. On March 19, 2016, he started a 30-day live stream in which different people took turns acting. He also organized the Minecraft project Suro (= Survival Roleplay), which ran over several seasons .

Unge now only uses YouTube.

Unclicked

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On September 18, 2016, Unge launched a format called unclicked for the first time , in which he reacts to other YouTube videos in a live stream (first episode was called Let's Watch , then #unklickt ). Sometimes there were cuts or individual reactions as videos on his YouTube channel. In the beginning he reacted to videos with MiiMii , with which he later moved into the so-called Stream House with his girlfriend Sabine . Since he emigrated to Portugal on the island of Madeira at the end of 2018, he has often streamed the format alone, occasionally he has guests.

Portrait

On November 4, 2019, he created his new channel Hochformat and uploaded his first video to this channel. In portrait mode is a real-life vlog channel which on Instagram is based -Stories and in which the videos for the channel exclusively with the smartphone to be filmed.

to travel

Longboard tour

In September 2014 Unge did a longboard tour together with the YouTubers Dner (real name Felix von der Laden ), Cheng Loew and Julien Bam ( FlyingPandas ). They drove 1,400 kilometers from List on Sylt via Kiel , Hamburg, Leipzig , Halle , Magdeburg , Hof and Ingolstadt to Füssen and Neuschwanstein Castle . During the tour, the four were accompanied by the team from the TV show Stern TV ; After the longboard tour, on October 15, 2014, Unge and von der Laden were guests on the show. Unge published the videos for this tour daily on his channel unfilmed .

World tour 2015

On February 28, 2015, Unge posted a video announcing an upcoming project, a world tour. This began on April 14, 2015 in Los Angeles , USA , where he initially stayed for two months, with a short break through a stay in Costa Rica . The viewers were allowed to determine the other goals using the Supz app published in the Google Play Store . The YouTuber Anton Reyst , with whom he recorded his experiences in vlogs , should initially be a constant companion . Later, the world tour was continued with changing companions, since, according to Unge, it should not be tied to conditions. The trip did not take place continuously in one go, but was interrupted again and again so that those involved can travel home to work on other projects. In Live Scores have been reported to date.

Disputes with Mediakraft Networks

Nomination of Unge the Webvideopreis 2015: Still from the video where he giving up his channel unplayed announced

On December 20, 2014, Unge announced through a video he published that he would give up his main channel unplayed and his V-Log channel unfilmed . This is due to disputes with the YouTube network Mediakraft Networks. This company did not provide any non-material or financial support for costly projects such as the longboard tour through Germany, although corresponding commitments had been made after Mediakraft came under pressure through a contract between Unge and Deutsche Telekom for mobile internet access. Videos were also deleted or exchanged during the longboard tour without prior notice. In addition, Mediakraft threatened to drive him into personal bankruptcy if he tried to legally leave the network. In an interview with Spiegel Online on December 22nd, Unge stated that he had terminated the contract with Mediakraft, which is still running out. In 2015 he set the video to "private" so that it can no longer be viewed. He is also using his channel Unplayed again as a gaming channel and, since May 2, 2016, as a vlog channel. On the channel Unge he published until that date vlogs and on the channel unfilmed small videos he not Unge wanted to upload.

With this step, Unge gave up around 2 million subscribers and a reach of around 30 million views per month. The video triggered a shit storm against media power and an enormous response in social networks. After a short time, hashtags such as #Freedom or #MediaKeineKraftMehr appeared in the Twitter trending topics. His channel Unge , which had already been created as a placeholder in May 2014 and which had over 450,000 subscribers just two days after the video was published, was the new main channel. The channel has now reached over 1.4 million subscribers. The start-up was done by a third person who was independent of Mediakraft, so that the network can no longer exert any influence on the new channel, as Unge announced in a comment on YouTube.

Mediakraft Networks commented on Unge's video on Facebook on December 21, and largely denied the allegations. The YouTuber LeFloid , whose Mediakraft contract expired in December 2014, described Unge's step in a video as a “disastrous departure” and paid him “respect”. The ApeCrime trio did not extend their contract with Mediakraft Networks either and thus resigned.

In the summer of 2015, Unge signed a contract with the Maker Studios network , which belongs to the Disney group. Now because the partnership agreement with the network Mediakraft has expired, he unplayed reactivated as the main channel.

controversy

On June 14, 2015, a tweet in which Unge used the word "disabled" as an insult was criticized by the activist Raul Krauthausen , which provoked numerous tweets from other users with the hashtag "UNHindered" and prompted Unge to delete the tweet and apologize to Krauthausen . He later published a video on the subject of disability that was recorded together with Krauthausen.

Web links

Commons : Unge  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiefels gives his date of birth. unfilmed, November 3, 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Panel discussion “YouTube makes today's stars”. In: re: publica 2013 . May 6, 2013, accessed on December 25, 2014 (insert at the linked minute: "Simon Wiefels [Unplayed]").
  3. ↑ Hermann Schnitzler: “Let's Play” profile: Who is unge? In: Osnabrück newspaper. January 26, 2015, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b "Disabled" as a swear word. June 15, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Mini ROOMTOUR with dinner. February 8, 2014, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ My new roommate is ...?! January 13, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Another roommate in the YouTube house ?! March 24, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b revived: We emigrated! · Vlog 1 | relived. December 13, 2018, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ unplayed: APARTMENTS PURCHASED - Realtalk Finances. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Mediakraft Networks - New to the network . Retrieved December 22, 2014 .
  11. ↑ a b Simon Unge in portrait. August 2, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  12. ↑ I'm Back - First Video (TRAITOR BUG) on YouTube (August 4th, 2015).
  13. ↑ YouTube - Unge deletes channel, goes back to unplayed - News on PlayNation.de. In: www.playnation.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  14. ↑ IT'S GOING ON! 30 DAYS LIVE #unstreamed. March 18, 2016, accessed March 23, 2016.
  15. ↑ Unge REALTALK via YouTube, Twitch and Mixer | unclicked. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Unge: 1. Let's Watch Livestream - unplayed #unestreamt. In: YouTube. September 18, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2020 (past livestream).
  17. ↑ 'Unge' and 'Tanzverbot' celebrated by masses on the Internet. November 30, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Influencer Marketing: This is how Youtuber Simon Unge uses his Stream House as a brand platform. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  19. ↑ DNER and colleagues: On the longboard through Germany. In: Nordbayern.de. October 5, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Skaters reach Neuschwanstein Castle after a tour of Germany. In: Focus Online. October 11, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Youtube-Gamer Dner and Unplayed with the longboard across Germany ( Memento from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ The Journey to a NEW COUNTRY - Costa Rica # 01. January 1, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Who is coming on the WELTREISE? - The resolution! March 27, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 . .
  24. ↑ Details on the world tour. broadmark.de, March 8, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Live ticker: World tour by Simon Unge and Anton Reyst. videolix.net. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  26. ↑ a b The hardest decision of my life. #Freedom on YouTube , December 20, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014.
  27. ↑ Anger video from YouTube star: "I will not be treated like a shit heap". In: Spiegel Online . December 21, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  28. ↑ YouTube star Unge versus marketer Mediakraft: "Such a shit heap". In: Handelsblatt. December 21, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  29. ↑ Video interview: YouTuber Simon Unge about his argument with Mediakraft. In: Spiegel Online . December 22, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  30. ↑ Unge on YouTube. Retrieved December 21, 2014 .
  31. ↑ Leaves Mediakraft network unplayed. December 21, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  32. ↑ Comment from Unge under the video Mediakraft has played from (un) played the Videoamt channel . (No longer available online.) In: YouTube . December 21, 2014, archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 .
  33. ↑ YouTube: Mediakraft comments on unplayed video. December 21, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Unplayed VS Mediakraft - Network Culture & #freedom on YouTube (December 22, 2014)
  35. ↑ Simon Unge moves to Maker Studios. broadmark.de, August 15, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  36. ↑ ARE YOU DISABLED ?! Talk about disability. August 1, 2015, accessed August 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Simon Unge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiefels, Simon (real name); Easy (pseudonym); Unplayed (pseudonym); Approx
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German influencer and producer of web videos
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz