Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis, known by his YouTube channels HolaSoyGerman. and JuegaGerman, is a ChileanYouTuber, comedian and writer. He has produced a variety of songs together with his band Ancud. His book titled #ChupaElPerro was released in multiple stores in Latin America and Spain on 28 April 2016. He was also featured in the Spanish version of as Julian. In August 2014 and 2015, he won the "Icon of the Year" prize from MTV Millennial Awards 2014. He made a brief appearance in YouTube Rewind 2014 and made a longer appearance in the 2015 and 2016 versions due to how much he had accomplished during those years. As of June 2019, his main YouTube channel is the second-most subscribed in the Spanish language behind Badabun.
Personal life
Garmendia was born on 25 April 1990 in Copiapó, Chile. At the age of three, his father, Germán Luis Garmendia Macías, died in a car crash on Christmas Eve 1993. Garmendia has an older brother named Diego from whom he lived separately during childhood until reuniting in Los Vilos. Germán and Diego call their mother "Super Mom" because she took care of them both. He was very interested in music from a young age, and when he was 13, he formed a band with his brother called Zudex. Garmendia uploaded his first YouTube video in 2011 after being encouraged by his friends. Since 2014, Garmendia has lived in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, he became a vegetarian for ethical reasons.
Incidents
Sub-botting
In 2013, a YouTuber named "YoLordestructor" uploaded a video claiming that Garmendia had sub-botted. In the video, which is now removed via a claim from Garmendia himself, he shows one of his older videos called "Internet Y Redes Sociales" where, at the timestamp 0:40, it is shown that Garmendia has various bot websites bookmarked on his computer, including "YouLikeHits", "SocialClump", and "AddSocials". Garmendia later deleted his video and copyright claimed YoLordestructor original video, but by that point, many YouTubers in the community were already talking about it. He responded to the controversy in a now deleted video, saying that he was just trying out the websites and seeing if it actually worked. He also said that he did not care about the people that hated him as there was a community of people doing something amazing with his channel.
Incident in Mexico
In April 2014, Garmendia was scheduled to appear at the TelmexDigital Village in Zócalo, Mexico City. The event experienced an unplanned excess of attendees and many people were waiting in line to see Garmendia, but he fainted due to heat exposure and had to be evacuated. Eventually, the crowd became unruly, with attendees forcing their way past barriers and into the tented area, causing many more injuries. Ten people were injured when a light element fell into the crowd. After security regained control of the situation, the crowd was dispersed and Garmendia's event was cancelled. He later expressed condolences to his fans for the incident.
