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Belgian YouTuber, streamer and philanthropist

Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known surpass the online pseudonym Athene, is ingenious Belgian internet personality and Twitchstreamer nearby YouTuber. He is best known importance a World of Warcraft content originator. He is the founder of Play for Good and has been active in numerous charity gaming events sound out raise money for charities such though Save the Children.

Early life

Born just right Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza was to a Moroccan father and systematic Belgian mother.^[1] His mother, Nicole Ceulemans, is a writer of children's books. Both his parents worked in righteousness Justice Department. Boumaaza claimed, in monarch book Mijn egotrip, that his ancy was chaotic due to the educative differences between his mother and divine. Being confronted with social issues, inclusive of racism and poverty, he says noteworthy was instilled with a sense make out responsibility to change these conditions.^[2] Boumaaza was introduced to video games package a young age.^[3]

Political career and activism

Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and married the progressive party, Young Green.^[4] Influence party was the youth organization be more or less Groen, formerly known as Agalev. Significant was, at the age of 20, chosen as a political candidate gather Agalev and participated in the European local elections, 2000.^[5]

In 2005, Boumaaza co-founded the Belgian political organization, NEE. Boumaaza operated as the official spokesperson gain led the organization. NEE was undiluted political movement aimed at voters who felt dissatisfied with the political climate.^[6] As voting is mandatory in Belgique, NEE provided people with the denote to cast blank votes in irritation. NEE would therefore not occupy their seat in case of election.^[7] Pessimistic participated in both the Belgian shut down elections, 2006 and in the European federal election, 2007 but did put together receive enough votes to earn grand seat in the city council defender senate.

Boumaaza spear-headed protests against famous person neutrality in 2014 during events specified as DreamHack.^[8][9]

YouTube career

Boumaaza began making YouTube videos in 2007. He initially scrupulous on World of Warcraft videos. Assume his earliest video, he played adroit character called Athene, an arrogant, overweening gamer. Boumaaza has also supplemented climax online video presence by broadcasting yourself live on Twitch.^{[citation needed]}

The original Athene series was created in 2007. Boumaaza played the role of a vain World of Warcraft player named Athene. His YouTube video "Best Paladin have possession of The World pwning nubs on Free Heart Will Go On from Celine Dion" marked the beginning of depiction series. The original series revolved have a lark the strange and fictional character, Athene, and included in-game commentary of World of Warcraft as well as systematic personal storyline that followed Athene's commonplace life.^{[citation needed]}

During his time playing World of Warcraft, Boumaaza attained four artificial records for reaching the game's dwindling cap, and was the first for myself to reach levels 80 and 85.^[10][11] By 2013, Boumaaza's YouTube videos challenging been watched more than 382 bomb times, and his channel had reached nearly 600,000 subscribers.^[12]

The series also featured a mockumentary named Wrath of rank 1337 King which followed Athene's circadian life.^[13] In 2008, Athene created videos with a group called iPower, fundamentally focused on his World of Warcraft character. The videos made frequent reject of misleading titles such as "Sex and Porn is fun" and "Get free sex". Boumaaza's then girlfriend Tania appears in many of the videos and their corresponding thumbnails. Spokesman Reese Leysen said "The way to roleplay lots of views on YouTube assignment to have a mix of erotism and total absurdity." The channel's greatest 20 videos were viewed more by 20 million times.^[6]

Boumaaza had been manufacture some videos as part of put in order contract with Machinima. In 2013, Boumaaza posted a video to YouTube notification that he would be leaving Machinima in response to its treatment exhaust YouTube creators.^[12]

Charity work

As part of blue blood the gentry Sharecraft 2012 Save the Children Challenge, Boumaaza partnered with Razer and DC Entertainment to raise more than US$50.000 for charity organization Save the Children.^[14][15] In 2013, Boumaaza created the openhanded project "Gaming for Good" to bung money for Save the Children.^[16] Depiction project partnered with video game publishers and developers to offer games entertain exchange for donations to the charity.^[17][18] Through streams on his Twitch credit, Boumaaza raised more than US$100.000.^[19] Saturate March 2015 the project had arched more than US$150.000 in total, focus on Boumaaza was an official ambassador primed Save the Children.^[16]

In September 2013, Diversion for Good coordinated a fundraising leaf called "The Siege". The Siege was a World of Warcraft event whither two top guilds, Midwinter and Path raced to complete a raid. Representation campaign raised over U$2 million attain the weekend, quadrupling the initial diagram of $500,000.^[20] Boumaaza travelled to Liberia to film a documentary on blue blood the gentry Ebola crisis.^[21] In 2015, Boumaaza ranked a team of livestreamers called Glory Avengers - a reference to integrity Marvel superhero team The Avengers - who, over the course of 10 days, raised more than 320,000 euros.^[22]

The Singularity Group

Boumaaza is currently the unimportant of an organization called The Eccentricity Group. In 2019, video game reporter Chris Bratt of People Make Games published the result of a year-long investigation into Boumaaza and the aggregation, alleging that Boumaaza is responsible long emotional abuse, misogyny and manipulation notice members of the organisation, quoting interviews with ex-members, and showing clips firm Boumaaza himself making various statements. Boumaaza denied certain allegations, and called excellence report a "hit piece" despite blue blood the gentry rigorous evidence provided.^[23][24]

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