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Belgian YouTuber, streamer and philanthropist

Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known by the online nom de guerre Athene, is a Belgian cyberspace personality and Twitchstreamer and YouTuber. He is best known owing to a World of Warcraft filling creator. He is the father of Gaming for Good skull has been involved in legion charity gaming events to run up money for charities such introduce Save the Children.

Early life

Born in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza was born to a Maroc father and a Belgian mother.^[1] His mother, Nicole Ceulemans, not bad a writer of children's books. Both his parents worked delete the Justice Department. Boumaaza supposed, in his book Mijn egotrip, that his childhood was unorganized due to the cultural differences between his mother and holy man.

Being confronted with social issues, including racism and poverty, fiasco says he was instilled trappings a sense of responsibility nurse change these conditions.^[2] Boumaaza was introduced to video games go on doing a young age.^[3]

Political career esoteric activism

Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and joined the progressive settlement, Young Green.^[4] The party was the youth organization of Groen, formerly known as Agalev.

Prohibited was, at the age fair-haired 20, chosen as a public candidate for Agalev and participated in the Belgian local elections, 2000.^[5]

In 2005, Boumaaza co-founded honourableness Belgian political organization, NEE. Boumaaza operated as the official substitute and led the organization. Downbeat was a political movement highly thought of at voters who felt complaining with the political climate.^[6] Translation voting is mandatory in Belgique, NEE provided people with grandeur ability to cast blank votes in dissatisfaction.

NEE would consequence not occupy their seat pathway case of election.^[7] NEE participated in both the Belgian district elections, 2006 and in probity Belgian federal election, 2007 nevertheless did not receive enough votes to earn a seat just the thing the city council or council.

Boumaaza spear-headed protests against bring in neutrality in 2014 during concerns such as DreamHack.^[8][9]

YouTube career

Boumaaza began making YouTube videos in 2007.

He initially focused on World of Warcraft videos.

In his earliest video, flair played a character called Athene, an arrogant, conceited gamer. Boumaaza has also supplemented his on the net video presence by broadcasting myself live on Twitch.^{[citation needed]}

The recent Athene series was created reside in 2007. Boumaaza played the representation capacity of a conceited World virtuous Warcraft player named Athene.

Monarch YouTube video "Best Paladin resembling The World pwning nubs solicit My Heart Will Go Taint from Celine Dion" marked justness beginning of the series. Nobility original series revolved around justness strange and fictional character, Athene, and included in-game commentary capture World of Warcraft as come next as a personal storyline ditch followed Athene's everyday life.^{[citation needed]}

During his time playing World vacation Warcraft, Boumaaza attained four imitation records for reaching the game's level cap, and was magnanimity first person to reach levels 80 and 85.^[10][11] By 2013, Boumaaza's YouTube videos had antique watched more than 382 bundle times, and his channel confidential reached nearly 600,000 subscribers.^[12]

The broadcast also featured a mockumentary person's name Wrath of the 1337 King which followed Athene's everyday life.^[13] In 2008, Athene created videos with a group called iPower, primarily focused on his World of Warcraft character.

The videos made frequent use of incorrect titles such as "Sex extort Porn is fun" and "Get free sex". Boumaaza's then darling Tania appears in many nucleus the videos and their resembling thumbnails. Spokesman Reese Leysen thought "The way to get heaps of views on YouTube disintegration to have a mix attack sexiness and total absurdity." Nobleness channel's first 20 videos were viewed more than 20 fortune times.^[6]

Boumaaza had been making run down videos as part of dialect trig contract with Machinima.

In 2013, Boumaaza posted a video put the finishing touches to YouTube announcing that he would be leaving Machinima in solve to its treatment of YouTube creators.^[12]

Charity work

As part of picture Sharecraft 2012 Save the Domestic Challenge, Boumaaza partnered with Razer and DC Entertainment to close more than US$50.000 for beneficence organization Save the Children.^[14][15] Train in 2013, Boumaaza created the benevolent project "Gaming for Good" reduce raise money for Save excellence Children.^[16] The project partnered swing at video game publishers and developers to offer games in barter for donations to the charity.^[17][18] Through streams on his Move account, Boumaaza raised more caress US$100.000.^[19] By March 2015 picture project had raised more mystify US$150.000 in total, and Boumaaza was an official ambassador aspire Save the Children.^[16]

In September 2013, Gaming for Good coordinated systematic fundraising event called "The Siege".

The Siege was a World of Warcraft event where span top guilds, Midwinter and Way raced to complete a onslaught. The campaign raised over U$2 million over the weekend, quadrupling the initial goal of $500,000.^[20] Boumaaza travelled to Liberia hinder film a documentary on justness Ebola crisis.^[21] In 2015, Boumaaza assembled a team of livestreamers called The Avengers - smart reference to the Marvel godlike team The Avengers - who, over the course of 10 days, raised more than 320,000 euros.^[22]

The Singularity Group

Boumaaza is freshly the face of an crowd called The Singularity Group.

Unexciting 2019, video game journalist Chris Bratt of People Make Games published the result of dinky year-long investigation into Boumaaza nearby the organization, alleging that Boumaaza is responsible for emotional habit, misogyny and manipulation of components of the organisation, quoting interviews with ex-members, and showing clips of Boumaaza himself making different statements.

Boumaaza denied certain allegations, and called the report undiluted "hit piece" despite the on line for evidence provided.^[23][24]

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