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'''Lucas Hauchard''', born January 27, 1996 in Vitry-sur-Seine, better known under the pseudonym '''Squeezie''', is a French videomaker and amateur video game player who has been posting his videos on the YouTube platform since 2011, where he mainly makes Let's Play videos. He is the third most-watched francophone on YouTube with more than ten million subscribers.
From its creation in 2011 until October 2017, his channel has generated more than 4 billion views and has more than 1,000 videos. He also participates in the Bigorneaux & Coquillages channel with Cyprien Iov.
== Biography ==
Lucas Hauchard launched on YouTube in May 2008 with a first channel specialized in the game Dofus, Dofus Shield. This channel, inactive since June 2008, has two videos. In November 2010, he created another channel, TheVideobc2, inactive since November 18, 2010, which has three videos; it is also about video games.
He created his current channel on YouTube under the pseudonym Squeezie in 2011, at the age of 15 years. Concentrated on video game testing, his channel achieved a fairly high profile, making him the youngest French to exceed one million subscribers on YouTube, at the age of 17 years. He reached about 300,000 views per video during this period, during which time he obtained his Baccalaureate (A-level equivalence).
In April 2013, he joined forces with Cyprien Iov, another French podcaster, to create the CyprienGaming channel (Now called Bigorneau & Coquillage), which also specializes in video games.
Since 2014, he is frequently accused of plagiarism of the Swedish video artist PewDiePie, an accusation he has refuted through a video. In March 2014, according to the SocialBlade website that takes many factors into account, Lucas Hauchard is the most popular French on YouTube, ahead of The Sound you Need, Cyprien Iov, Rémi Gaillard and Norman Thavaud.
At the end of 2014, the same website states that Squeezie's videos are viewed 70.7 million times, more than Rémi Gaillard, Norman and Sébastien Cauet combined. Lucas Hauchard's relations with certain media are quite tense, especially with a journalist from Canal +, who asked him a lot of questions about the money his videos brought him, questions that seem "heavy in the long run".
In November 2015, to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France, he participated in the video Imagine Paris where, with thirty other YouTubers and comedians, he takes again Imagine of John Lennon.
He appeared in the YouTubeRewind 2015 video, a video created by YouTube featuring YouTubers and Internet personalities who have marked the year.
In March 2017, he launched with Cyprien the web TV LeStream.fr. The launch stream on Twitch beat the record number of views for a French stream, with more than 140,000 viewers.
In April 2017, he announced in a video that he had been contacted by an association against cyberbullying following the publication of a video in which he filmed his reactions to uncomfortable videos. A girl in the video having been cyber-harassed, the mother of the latter had contacted the association. Following this, Squeezie announced that he had removed the video, considering himself guilty of having, according to him, maintained the harassment in question despite the fact that this video had already made the buzz before he himself mentioned it in his own. He took the opportunity to raise awareness of cyberbullying.
In 2017, he participated in the show Fort Boyard, with Cyprien Iov. In November of the same year, he published his first book, Tourne la Page, published by Michel Lafon.
== Pseudonym ==
Lucas Hauchard first chooses "aMOODIEsqueezie" as a pseudonym. "AMOODIE" in reference to his guild on the online video game Dofus at the time of the creation of his channel. This guild does not exist anymore, he changed his pseudo to "Squeezie", which comes from the contraction of the English song Squeeze it of Tiësto and DJ Frank E.
== Earnings ==
It is very difficult to estimate the real income of people making a living from YouTube. In 2014, Squeezie himself estimated he would earn around 100,000 euros a year. According to the SocialBlade website, advertising revenue could bring in between US $129,000 and US $ojhhhhjr between €93,000 and 930,000. According to Les Echos, Squeezie's revenues would amount to €40,000 per month or €480,000 per year.
First under contract with Wizdeo, Squeezie signed a contract with Mixicom, an advertising agency acquired by Webedia in September 2015, after which it received 4 million euros.
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