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 Maini
​
(m. 2024)​
Website mrwhosetheboss.com
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2011–present
GenreTechnology
Subscribers
  • 20 million (Mrwhosetheboss)
  • 7.14 million (Mrwhosetheboss Plus)
Total views
  • 6.213billion (Mrwhosetheboss)
  • 3.825 billion (Mrwhosetheboss Shorts)
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2015
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2022
Last updated: 16 October 2024

Arun Rupesh Maini [a] (born 24 October 1995), better known as Mrwhosetheboss, is a British YouTuber who is best known for his technology-related content.

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Early life and education

Arun Rupesh Maini [1] was born on 24 October 1995 [2] [3] in Nottingham, England and is of Indian origin. [4] [5] His mother is from India, and moved to the UK when she was 15. [6] : 1:18  Maini's father is from Leicester, England. [6] : 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. [7] He was educated at the fee-paying Nottingham High School; after completing his GCSEs, [8] [9] he studied economics [10] at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. [8]

Career

He started uploading video game content to YouTube. When he was 14 years old, his brother gave him his first smartphone, a San Francisco. Maini made a video about it, which did much better than he expected. From there, he turned his attention to creating videos about smartphones, which ultimately led to the trajectory of his channel. [8]

When Maini was studying at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, he was on an economics track. During the course of his studies, he had an internship at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, an accounting firm in London. He considered these eight weeks "rather mundane and boring". When there, Maini would often complete his work "really quickly" and begin jotting down ideas for new YouTube videos to be recorded that evening. At the conclusion of his internship with Price Waterhouse, Maini was offered an entry-level job that made a salary of about £35,000 (about $44,285). However, he turned down the job and opted for his career in YouTube. [8]

Maini initially focused on videos about smartphones, including smartphone reviews. However, as the channel's following expanded, he extended his video premises to covering laptops, cars, and even a vacuum cleaner. He has also made videos where he gives his opinions about topics such as manipulation of the media by tech companies and the metaverse. [8] 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. The video received coverage from The Daily Dot and CNBC. [11] [12] The video is his second most viewed YouTube video, with his collaboration with youtuber MrBeast being the only video to have more views than his hologram projector video.

In May 2021, Maini signed up with Night Media. [13] 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. [14] [15]

In August 2024, Maini achieved his goal of overtaking Apple in subscribers. Later that month, Maini achieved a Guinness World Record of building the largest scale replica of the latest iPhone model. [16]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2021 Streamy Awards TechnologyWon [17]
2022 Streamy Awards TechnologyWon [18]
2023 Streamy Awards TechnologyNominated [19]
2024 Guinness World Records Largest scale replica

of an iPhone 88" display

Won [16]

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ Maini, Arun Rupesh (2 March 2022). Free Tech for EVERYONE (Video). Event occurs at 9:41. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023– via YouTube. My name's KING. [...] My house , king, and my middle name, Emmanuel.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ @Mrwhosetheboss (7 October 2017). "Born and brought up. Indian origin, but that still makes me British :P" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
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