Mari Takahashi (internet personality)

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Mari Takahashi
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Takahashi in 2021
Personal information
Born
Mariko Takahashi

San Francisco, California, U.S.
Other namesAtomicMari
Occupations
Website www.atomicmari.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
Genre
Subscribers298 thousand [1]
Total views6.7 million (main channel) [1]
Associated acts Smosh
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
Last updated: September 16, 2024

Mariko "Mari" Takahashi, also known as AtomicMari, is an American YouTuber, internet personality and entrepreneur. She was a cast member of the YouTube comedy channel Smosh, hosting the Smosh Pit Weekly series on their second channel and becoming an original member of the Smosh Games channel. She departed from Smosh in 2020 and became a co-owner of Spacestation Gaming in 2021. She also appeared as a contestant on the reality game show Survivor in 2016.

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Life and career

Mariko Takahashi was born and raised in San Francisco, California and is Japanese-American. [2] [3] Her father was an engineer and her mother was a ballerina, with the latter's occupation influencing Takahashi to pursue dancing and ballet in her adolescence. [2] Takahashi also played video games as a child, such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter . [2] She worked as a professional ballerina for ten years while working various jobs on the side. [2] [4]

In 2010, Takahashi applied for a job with the YouTube comedy channel Smosh, formed by Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. [2] [5] At the time the channel had sought expansion of their content, [5] and according to a Lifehacker interview, Takahashi claimed that they called for a Japanese speaker. [6] She first became a host for their Smosh Pit Weekly series on their secondary channel, which detailed content from their Smosh Pit blog hosted on their individual website. [5] Takahashi initially dealt with negative comments according to Smosh's then-boss Barry Blumberg, with Hecox and Padilla telling her to ignore them. [5] The series initially lasted from 2011 to 2015 for over 200 episodes, before being revived in 2017 with Takahashi hosting once more. [7] [8]

Takahashi joined Smosh Games – a collaborative venture between Smosh and members of ClevverGames – in 2012. [9] [10] She hosted various series on the channel, including MariCraft, a Let's Play series where she played Minecraft with members of the Smosh Games crew. [6] [11] She also partook in an Assassin's Creed Origins -based mini-series with member Joshua Ovenshire in 2017. [12] Takahashi has been noted for her transition from working as a ballerina in a female-dominated industry to gaming as a male-dominated industry. [2] [13] She was the first female member of Smosh Games, [2] until Ericka "Boze" Bozeman joined in 2017. [10] With Smosh Games, she won two Streamy Awards, and was listed among Forbes magazine's 2017 "Top Influencers" in Gaming. [13] [14]

Outside of Smosh, Takahashi has pursued other ventures. In 2016, Takahashi was a contestant in the 33rd season of Survivor – Millennials vs. Gen X . [4] [15] In anticipation, she hosted MariCraft: Outsider as a Survivor-based version of the MariCraft series. [11] Takahashi played for the Millennial tribe, but was the first contestant voted out of her team. [15] After ten years, Takahashi departed from the Smosh brand in early 2020 to focus on her solo career. [16] The same year, she ventured into hosting as a correspondent for gaming website Polygon's Speedrun news series. [4] [17] Takahashi became a co-owner of the esports organization Spacestation Gaming in 2021. [14] [16] [18] She also worked with Lacoste for a Minecraft clothing collection in 2022, [19] and in 2023, she hosted the FailArmy gaming web series 50 Vs. 50. [20]

Appearances

YearWorkRoleNote(s)Ref(s)
2016 MatPat's Game Lab Guest YouTube Original series [21]
2016 Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X HerselfReality Cast Member [21]
2016Smosh Live!ChoreographerLivestream [21]
2017 Home & Family Guest [21]
2019 Retro Tech Guest YouTube Original series [21]
2021 Could You Survive the Movies? Guest YouTube Original series [21]

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations received by Mari Takahashi
AwardYearCategoryResultRef.
Forbes 2017Top Influencers: GamingWon [13]
Streamy Awards 2014 GamingWon (shared with Smosh Games) [14]
Streamy Awards 2017 GamingWon (shared with Smosh Games) [14]

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