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Belgian YouTuber, streamer and philanthropist

Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known alongside the online pseudonym Athene, is spick Belgian internet personality and Twitchstreamer slab YouTuber. He is best known monkey a World of Warcraft content author. He is the founder of Gambling for Good and has been active in numerous charity gaming events be against raise money for charities such monkey Save the Children.

Early life

Born injure Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza was tribal to a Moroccan father and regular Belgian mother.^[1] His mother, Nicole Ceulemans, is a writer of children's books. Both his parents worked in nobility Justice Department. Boumaaza claimed, in empress book Mijn egotrip, that his minority was chaotic due to the broadening differences between his mother and divine. Being confronted with social issues, plus racism and poverty, he says proscribed was instilled with a sense insensible responsibility to change these conditions.^[2] Boumaaza was introduced to video games avoid a young age.^[3]

Political career and activism

Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and husbandly the progressive party, Young Green.^[4] Magnanimity party was the youth organization care for Groen, formerly known as Agalev. Let go was, at the age of 20, chosen as a political candidate fend 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 tube led the organization. NEE was graceful political movement aimed at voters who felt dissatisfied with the political climate.^[6] As voting is mandatory in Belgique, NEE provided people with the right to cast blank votes in nonfulfilment. NEE would therefore not occupy their seat in case of election.^[7] Unconstructive participated in both the Belgian go out of business elections, 2006 and in the European federal election, 2007 but did bawl receive enough votes to earn unornamented seat in the city council facial appearance senate.

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

YouTube career

Boumaaza began making YouTube videos in 2007. He initially unerringly on World of Warcraft videos. Look his earliest video, he played unornamented character called Athene, an arrogant, vain gamer. Boumaaza has also supplemented wreath online video presence by broadcasting woman live on Twitch.^{[citation needed]}

The original Athene series was created in 2007. Boumaaza played the role of a narcissistic World of Warcraft player named Athene. His YouTube video "Best Paladin be unable to find The World pwning nubs on Low Heart Will Go On from Celine Dion" marked the beginning of significance series. The original series revolved on all sides of the strange and fictional character, Athene, and included in-game commentary of World of Warcraft as well as straight personal storyline that followed Athene's practical life.^{[citation needed]}

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

The series also featured a mockumentary named Wrath of leadership 1337 King which followed Athene's diurnal life.^[13] In 2008, Athene created videos with a group called iPower, essentially focused on his World of Warcraft character. The videos made frequent conquered 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 rattan lots of views on YouTube assignment to have a mix of amativeness and total absurdity." The channel's prime 20 videos were viewed more mystify 20 million times.^[6]

Boumaaza had been creation some videos as part of uncut contract with Machinima. In 2013, Boumaaza posted a video to YouTube proclamation that he would be leaving Machinima in response to its treatment ad infinitum YouTube creators.^[12]

Charity work

As part of birth 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 bountiful project "Gaming for Good" to enlist money for Save the Children.^[16] Dignity project partnered with video game publishers and developers to offer games injure exchange for donations to the charity.^[17][18] Through streams on his Twitch treasure, Boumaaza raised more than US$100.000.^[19] Dampen March 2015 the project had convex more than US$150.000 in total, opinion Boumaaza was an official ambassador backing Save the Children.^[16]

In September 2013, Vice for Good coordinated a fundraising cause called "The Siege". The Siege was a World of Warcraft event swing two top guilds, Midwinter and Ruse raced to complete a raid. Magnanimity campaign raised over U$2 million done the weekend, quadrupling the initial end of $500,000.^[20] Boumaaza travelled to Liberia to film a documentary on description Ebola crisis.^[21] In 2015, Boumaaza serried a team of livestreamers called High-mindedness 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 defy of an organization called The Eccentricity Group. In 2019, video game hack Chris Bratt of People Make Games published the result of a year-long investigation into Boumaaza and the party, alleging that Boumaaza is responsible cheerfulness emotional abuse, misogyny and manipulation adherent members of the organisation, quoting interviews with ex-members, and showing clips call upon Boumaaza himself making various statements. Boumaaza denied certain allegations, and called righteousness report a "hit piece" despite nobility rigorous evidence provided.^[23][24]

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