Love Is Not The Same As Respect: Why Markiplier’s Beliefs Are Not Mine

Priya Sridhar
4 min readApr 1, 2020

I owe Markiplier for making the Five Nights at Freddy’s games much less scary than they were to graduate student me. He helped me laugh at the monsters in the dark. As a result, I stopped seeing animatronics in the shadows when the sun went down.

With that said — and here is the but — I haven’t seen recent Markiplier videos. Some of it may be some fatigue on keeping up with my subscribers on YouTube. A bit of it is trying to keep up with all the great content that’s out there. Most of it, however, is feeling…

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Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.