In Fortnite there exists a YouTuber who is among the most successful and popular of the colorful battle royale shooter. Standart Skill or Stanni entertains countless viewers with his huge number of subscribers, but who exactly is he and what has contributed to his success? We will show it to you.
Who is Standart Skill? Standart Skill or Stanni, as he is called on YouTube, is named Philip Geißler, is a 28-year-old YouTuber, and is among the most successful and largest YouTubers for the “Battle Royal” shooter Fortnite.
His passion and perseverance as a web video producer have earned him 3.17 million subscribers so far (as of May 31). Stanni is known in his videos as a loud, lively, and temperamental entertainer. Despite his daily uploads in the area of Fortnite, GTA 5, and other games, not much is known about the 28-year-old.
That’s why we dug deep and found out what Stanni did before, what made him become a YouTuber, and especially, what else he does apart from streaming and making videos.
From Office Clerk to Fortnite YouTuber
Before Standart Skill made entertaining videos, he sat in school and pursued training as an office clerk at the hospital in his hometown Neuruppin in northern Brandenburg. Once that was completed, he switched to the retailer Real to work as an office clerk.
On the side, the enthusiastic video game fan had YouTube running and sporadically released videos of his gameplay without a facecam. Simple recordings of his skills, which he recorded from his Playstation, edited together, and then uploaded.
When he first started with Fortnite on October 27, 2017, his career as a video producer really began. Daily videos of his fights or general topics related to the colorful battle royale shooters were graced with up to 3 million clicks.
Now the 28-year-old also used his face as an eye-catcher for his videos. Great emotions, followed by eye-catching thumbnails, are meant to attract new fans to the steadily growing Fortnite YouTuber.
When Standart Skill realized that he could earn more from ad revenue than in his job at Real, he focused primarily on YouTube and quit his office job. From then on, he made YouTube his main source of income.
Wide Range of Standart Skill and His Skills
What makes Standart Skill stand out? His talent to entertain viewers through his enthusiastic presence has gained him many subscribers. But the community also appreciates his constant presence. On his birthday and even Christmas, he puts together videos and thus entertains his fan community.
Even when Fortnite was completely swallowed by the black hole, Standart Skill streamed for almost 10 hours straight, proving that he is consistently there for his community. There was only a black hole to see, but it was still entertaining.
Here we have embedded the long stream for you about the black hole, where Standart Skill entertained his waiting fans for over 10 hours:
However, it should not only remain with his gameplay videos on YouTube. Standart Skill decided to also produce music videos like his YouTube hit “Skybase” and upload them to his channel. With this song, he gives a big thank you to his fan base and brings the virtual Fortnite world into reality.
If you want to hear the song, we have embedded his video here:
But the Neuruppiner does not only make music: He has also written two books titled – “Standart Skill – Fully Glitched!” and “Standart Skill – Cursed Again!” In these books, everything revolves around an adventure involving the video game fan and a game in which he is trapped in the virtual world due to a game error.
Despite the waning Fortnite hype, Stanni is still there and currently reports on the events of the colorful shooter. Hours-long streams while the Fortnite servers are turned off after a live event entertain his fans until they can get back into a match.
Now enough about Stanni, how about you? Do you know Standart Skill or even live in Neuruppin and have you met him personally? Let us know in the comments what you think of the YouTuber and whether you are a fan of him.
