Mrwhosetheboss

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Mrwhosetheboss
Personal information
Born
Arun Rupesh Maini

(1995-10-24) 24 October 1995 (age 29)
Nottingham, England, UK
Education University of Warwick (BEc)
Occupation YouTuber
Spouse
Dhrisha
​
(m. 2024)​
Website mrwhosetheboss.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
GenreTechnology
Subscribers
  • 20.1 million (Mrwhosetheboss)
  • 7.14 million (Mrwhosetheboss Plus)
[1]
Total views
  • 6.305 billion (Mrwhosetheboss)
  • 3.828 billion (Mrwhosetheboss Plus)
[1]
Network Night Media (2021–present)
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2015, [2] 2021 [3]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018 [4]
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2022 [5]
Last updated: 24 November 2024

Arun Rupesh Maini [a] (born 24 October 1995), better known as Mrwhosetheboss, is an English YouTuber who is best known for his technology-related content, and is the creator of one of the biggest tech-related YouTube channels.

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Early life and education

Arun Rupesh Maini [6] [7] was born on 24 October 1995 [8] [9] in Nottingham, England [10] [11] and is of Indian origin. [7] His mother is from India, and moved to the UK when she was 15. [12] : 1:18  Maini's father is from Leicester, England. [12] : 1:41  As a child, he attended two schools. On weekdays, he would attend a regular English school, and, on weekends, he would attend a Hindi school, in order to learn Hindi. [13] He was educated at the fee-paying Nottingham High School, [14] and then moved on to study economics at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. [15]

Career

Maini originally began by creating video game related content. When he was 14 years old, Maini's brother gave him his first smartphone, a ZTE Blade. Maini "fell in love with it", made a video about the phone, and that video performed "much better than I expected". This caused Maini to turn his attention to creating videos about smartphones. [15] [16]

During his time at university, Maini had an eight week internship at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, an accounting firm in London. Maini didn't find this very interesting, and often finished his jobs "really quickly", so would write down ideas for YouTube videos that he would record in the evenings. When he finished this internship, he was offered an entry-level job, that would earn a salary of £35,000. However, he turned down the job and opted to focus more on his YouTube career. [15]

The Mrwhosetheboss channel initially focused on videos about smartphones. However, as the channel gained a following, Maini extended his video topic to cover other types of technology, and has since also made other opinion-related technology videos. [15] In 2015, Maini uploaded his first viral video which was a tutorial on creating a makeshift 3D hologram projector by crafting a pyramid composed of reflective material and placing it on a smartphone screen. [17] [18]

In May 2021, Maini signed with Night Media. [19] In September 2022, Maini released a video claiming that Samsung phones may have problems with swelling batteries after he found that his Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Samsung Galaxy S10 had all experienced the issue. Similar claims were corroborated in the video by YouTuber Marques Brownlee. [20] [21]

In August 2024, after achieving a goal he set himself of overtaking Apple in YouTube subscribers, Maini, along with Matthew Perks, built a 2.054 metres (6.74 ft) replica of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which, on 29 August, achieved a Guinness World Record for the largest smartphone replica. [22] [23]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2021 Streamy Awards TechnologyWon [24]
2022 Streamy Awards TechnologyWon [25]
2023 Streamy Awards TechnologyNominated [26]
2024 Guinness World Records Largest smartphone replica Won [22]

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References

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  2. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (9 October 2015). "100,000 SUBSCRIBERS....I'M IN TEARS GUYS :O :O :O" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 November 2024– via Twitter.
  3. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (12 April 2021). "I'm literally lost for words.

    Started this channel less than a day ago, and we just hit 100,000 subscribers"     (Tweet). Retrieved 24 November 2024– via Twitter.
  4. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (15 February 2018). "WE DID IT - The First UK Tech channel ever to hit 1 Million Subscribers - I'm so incredibly humbled by the support, and can't wait to show you what we have planned for the future 🙏" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 November 2024– via Twitter.
  5. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (1 March 2022). "We did it. 10 MILLION. Dream come true. 🏆

    VERY Special video coming tomorrow - stay tuned"     (Tweet). Retrieved 24 November 2024– via Twitter.
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  7. 1 2 "Indian-Origin YouTuber creates world's biggest iPhone: Mrwhosetheboss breaks record with 6.74-foot working replica". The Economic Times . 8 September 2024. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  8. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (24 October 2017). "I know it's my birthday, but I just couldn't wait to make this video for ya: PIXEL 2 XL BATTERY LIFE - TESTED! 🔥" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 March 2023– via Twitter.
  9. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh [@Mrwhosetheboss] (5 February 2022). "So I've just realised that this is what comes up if you google our channel...😂 It was meant to say "I'm Arun Maini, I'm a 26 year old economics graduate"" (Tweet). Retrieved 11 May 2024– via Twitter.
  10. ↑ Mrwhosetheboss Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED (Video). 26 October 2022. Event occurs at 0:59. Archived from the original on 9 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023– via YouTube. I was born in a city called Nottingham in the UK.
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  12. 1 2 Maini, Arun Rupesh (5 August 2023). 60 facts about me | Mrwhosetheboss (Video). Mrwhosetheboss. Archived from the original on 16 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024– via YouTube.
  13. ↑ Mrwhosetheboss Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED (Video). 26 October 2022. Event occurs at 3:01. Archived from the original on 9 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023– via YouTube. So, as I was growing up, I actually went to two different schools. I went to a normal English school, but then, during the weekends, I went to Hindi school, where I just spent the entire time learning the language.
  14. ↑ Old Nottinghamians (28 April 2021). "#wordsofwisdom

    Arun Maini (ON 2007-2014)

    'to the people who want to do something but don't think they can, or don't know how to, just TRY. That sounds obvious, but taking that first step is your only shot. It won't come to you.

    Nottingham High School changed my life. I only appreciated being surrounded by intelligent and ambitious people once I'd left school. It got me used to being ok with not always winning, but also fuelled me to always try to.

    #nottshigh #alumni #education #motivation"    . Facebook . Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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