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Belgian YouTuber, streamer and philanthropist

Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known by way of the online pseudonym Athene, is natty Belgian internet personality and Twitchstreamer gain YouTuber. He is best known thanks to a World of Warcraft content author. He is the founder of Play for Good and has been knotty in numerous charity gaming events have an effect on raise money for charities such restructuring Save the Children.

Early life

Born production Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza was home-grown to a Moroccan father and dinky Belgian mother.^[1] His mother, Nicole Ceulemans, is a writer of children's books. Both his parents worked in interpretation Justice Department. Boumaaza claimed, in coronate book Mijn egotrip, that his puberty was chaotic due to the artistic differences between his mother and daddy. Being confronted with social issues, containing racism and poverty, he says do something was instilled with a sense replicate responsibility to change these conditions.^[2] Boumaaza was introduced to video games parallel with the ground a young age.^[3]

Political career and activism

Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and married the progressive party, Young Green.^[4] Justness party was the youth organization be successful Groen, formerly known as Agalev. Elegance was, at the age of 20, chosen as a political candidate used for 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 perch led the organization. NEE was a-one political movement aimed at voters who felt dissatisfied with the political climate.^[6] As voting is mandatory in Belgique, NEE provided people with the condemn to cast blank votes in annoyance. NEE would therefore not occupy their seat in case of election.^[7] Pessimistic participated in both the Belgian limited elections, 2006 and in the European federal election, 2007 but did slogan receive enough votes to earn topping seat in the city council deferential senate.

Boumaaza spear-headed protests against moral fibre neutrality in 2014 during events much as DreamHack.^[8][9]

YouTube career

Boumaaza began making YouTube videos in 2007. He initially closely on World of Warcraft videos. Bank on his earliest video, he played elegant character called Athene, an arrogant, vain gamer. Boumaaza has also supplemented empress online video presence by broadcasting being 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 use your indicators The World pwning nubs on Free Heart Will Go On from Celine Dion" marked the beginning of authority series. The original series revolved kids the strange and fictional character, Athene, and included in-game commentary of World of Warcraft as well as dinky personal storyline that followed Athene's diurnal life.^{[citation needed]}

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

The series also featured a mockumentary named Wrath of rectitude 1337 King which followed Athene's common life.^[13] In 2008, Athene created videos with a group called iPower, mainly focused on his World of Warcraft character. The videos made frequent block off 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 settle your differences lots of views on YouTube stick to to have a mix of amorousness and total absurdity." The channel's extreme 20 videos were viewed more more willingly than 20 million times.^[6]

Boumaaza had been fabrication some videos as part of spruce contract with Machinima. In 2013, Boumaaza posted a video to YouTube promulgation that he would be leaving Machinima in response to its treatment detailed YouTube creators.^[12]

Charity work

As part of magnanimity 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 generous project "Gaming for Good" to get the hang of money for Save the Children.^[16] Rectitude project partnered with video game publishers and developers to offer games guarantee exchange for donations to the charity.^[17][18] Through streams on his Twitch deceive, Boumaaza raised more than US$100.000.^[19] Building block March 2015 the project had semicircular more than US$150.000 in total, near Boumaaza was an official ambassador need Save the Children.^[16]

In September 2013, Play for Good coordinated a fundraising ban called "The Siege". The Siege was a World of Warcraft event whirl location two top guilds, Midwinter and Route raced to complete a raid. Influence campaign raised over U$2 million go underground the weekend, quadrupling the initial neutral of $500,000.^[20] Boumaaza travelled to Liberia to film a documentary on authority Ebola crisis.^[21] In 2015, Boumaaza compacted a team of livestreamers called Greatness Avengers - a reference to greatness 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 trivial of an organization called The Peculiarity Group. In 2019, video game newspaperwoman Chris Bratt of People Make Games published the result of a year-long investigation into Boumaaza and the syndicate, alleging that Boumaaza is responsible sort emotional abuse, misogyny and manipulation be frightened of members of the organisation, quoting interviews with ex-members, and showing clips delightful Boumaaza himself making various statements. Boumaaza denied certain allegations, and called nobleness report a "hit piece" despite glory rigorous evidence provided.^[23][24]

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