Maximilian Miles Christiansen (born September 23, 1983), also known by his nickname Maximilian Dood, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. He is a well-known figure in the fighting game community. Christiansen creates video content about several fighting games, including Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Killer Instinct 2013. He also works to organize local fighting game tournaments and has made efforts to bring back older fighting game series.
Early and personal life
Maximilian Miles Christiansen was born on September 23, 1983, to Diane Christiansen, an acting coach from Illinois. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. Christiansen has Dutch ancestry from his father's family. Before becoming a YouTuber, he worked as an animator and illustrator. Christiansen is married; his wife, Jessica, gave birth to their daughter, Ripley, named after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in the movie Alien, in 2020. His younger sister, Tess Lauren Christiansen (born in 1989), is an actress who appeared in the slasher film Most Likely to Die. In October 2021, Christiansen's financial details on Twitch were exposed after a large data leak.
Internet career
In 2007, Christiansen started his YouTube channel called Maximilian Dood. He left his job as an online video game producer in 2011 and began making videos full-time. His videos mostly focus on fighting games, such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and Soulcalibur. He later moved his live streams to Twitch, using YouTube for recorded videos, until his contract ended in 2024. His first video was in 2013, where he played against Justin Wong in the original season of Killer Instinct. As of 2024, his YouTube channel has over 1.7 million subscribers, and his Twitch channel has over 1.3 million followers. Christiansen also has a second channel called "YoVideogames," where he plays multiplayer games with friends Matthew "Matt" Simmons, Kenny O'Brien, and Steve "Steeb" Springer.
Christiansen's videos mix teaching players how to play games with showing his reactions while playing. He created a web series called Assist Me! for Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 game, explaining the game's rules, characters, and strategies with funny skits. In his Mortal Kombat videos, he demonstrated how to perform special moves called fatalities and included humorous introductions for hidden characters. Some of these videos were removed from ads and marked as age-restricted in 2019 after the release of Mortal Kombat 11. In 2017, a video about Injustice 2 discussed changes to character designs, pointing out flaws in the faces of characters like Supergirl and Wonder Woman. Christiansen has also made videos about other games, such as Bayonetta 2, which included a reference to the Nintendo series Star Fox. This video was covered by Eurogamer in 2014. He has also made many videos about Final Fantasy VII and its related games.
After Machinima, a company that helped content creators, closed in 2019, Christiansen was no longer part of the group because his videos used music that caused copyright issues.
As an important member of the fighting game community, Christiansen helps organize online tournaments and works to bring back older fighting games. In August 2021, he started a campaign on social media to get Marvel vs. Capcom 2, a fighting game from 2000, re-released. The game had been removed from stores due to problems between Marvel and Capcom. The campaign made the hashtag #FREEMVC2 popular on Twitter, and the game's developer, Digital Eclipse, showed interest in re-releasing it. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was finally released in 2024 as part of a collection, with Christiansen appearing in a promotional video. In 2019, two years before this campaign, he started another effort to bring back the Killer Instinct series, which also gained attention on social media.
In January 2021, Christiansen hosted a Killer Instinct tournament on Twitch, working with Twitch Rivals. He had previously helped the game's developer, Iron Galaxy, create promotional material for the game's reboot. The stream had more than 41,000 viewers watching at the same time. In May 2021, he also hosted a Mortal Kombat X Lives tournament, but the event was paused after players' personal information was leaked during the stream. Christiansen and Twitch Rivals said they would hold the second part of the event later. Christiansen also directed a mod for Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite called Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite & Beyond, which added new features and used a special art style to improve the game's graphics.
Other works
Christiansen participated in two episodes of Did You Know Gaming? in 2014, sharing facts about Street Fighter and Killer Instinct. Christiansen is featured as an assist character in the 2022 action game Jitsu Squad. In July 2023, a special cosmetics partnership between Christiansen and Naraka: Bladepoint was released.
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Maximilian Miles Christiansen (born September 23, 1983), also known by his nickname Maximilian Dood, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. He is a well-known figure in the fighting game community. Christiansen creates video content about several fighting games, including Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Killer Instinct 2013. He also works to organize local fighting game tournaments and has made efforts to bring back older fighting game series.
Early and personal life
Maximilian Miles Christiansen was born on September 23, 1983, to Diane Christiansen, an acting coach from Illinois. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. Christiansen has Dutch ancestry from his father's family. Before becoming a YouTuber, he worked as an animator and illustrator. Christiansen is married; his wife, Jessica, gave birth to their daughter, Ripley, named after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in the movie Alien, in 2020. His younger sister, Tess Lauren Christiansen (born in 1989), is an actress who appeared in the slasher film Most Likely to Die. In October 2021, Christiansen's financial details on Twitch were exposed after a large data leak.
Internet career
In 2007, Christiansen started his YouTube channel called Maximilian Dood. He left his job as an online video game producer in 2011 and began making videos full-time. His videos mostly focus on fighting games, such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and Soulcalibur. He later moved his live streams to Twitch, using YouTube for recorded videos, until his contract ended in 2024. His first video was in 2013, where he played against Justin Wong in the original season of Killer Instinct. As of 2024, his YouTube channel has over 1.7 million subscribers, and his Twitch channel has over 1.3 million followers. Christiansen also has a second channel called "YoVideogames," where he plays multiplayer games with friends Matthew "Matt" Simmons, Kenny O'Brien, and Steve "Steeb" Springer.
Christiansen's videos mix teaching players how to play games with showing his reactions while playing. He created a web series called Assist Me! for Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 game, explaining the game's rules, characters, and strategies with funny skits. In his Mortal Kombat videos, he demonstrated how to perform special moves called fatalities and included humorous introductions for hidden characters. Some of these videos were removed from ads and marked as age-restricted in 2019 after the release of Mortal Kombat 11. In 2017, a video about Injustice 2 discussed changes to character designs, pointing out flaws in the faces of characters like Supergirl and Wonder Woman. Christiansen has also made videos about other games, such as Bayonetta 2, which included a reference to the Nintendo series Star Fox. This video was covered by Eurogamer in 2014. He has also made many videos about Final Fantasy VII and its related games.
After Machinima, a company that helped content creators, closed in 2019, Christiansen was no longer part of the group because his videos used music that caused copyright issues.
As an important member of the fighting game community, Christiansen helps organize online tournaments and works to bring back older fighting games. In August 2021, he started a campaign on social media to get Marvel vs. Capcom 2, a fighting game from 2000, re-released. The game had been removed from stores due to problems between Marvel and Capcom. The campaign made the hashtag #FREEMVC2 popular on Twitter, and the game's developer, Digital Eclipse, showed interest in re-releasing it. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was finally released in 2024 as part of a collection, with Christiansen appearing in a promotional video. In 2019, two years before this campaign, he started another effort to bring back the Killer Instinct series, which also gained attention on social media.
In January 2021, Christiansen hosted a Killer Instinct tournament on Twitch, working with Twitch Rivals. He had previously helped the game's developer, Iron Galaxy, create promotional material for the game's reboot. The stream had more than 41,000 viewers watching at the same time. In May 2021, he also hosted a Mortal Kombat X Lives tournament, but the event was paused after players' personal information was leaked during the stream. Christiansen and Twitch Rivals said they would hold the second part of the event later. Christiansen also directed a mod for Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite called Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite & Beyond, which added new features and used a special art style to improve the game's graphics.
Other works
Christiansen participated in two episodes of Did You Know Gaming? in 2014, sharing facts about Street Fighter and Killer Instinct. Christiansen is featured as an assist character in the 2022 action game Jitsu Squad. In July 2023, a special cosmetics partnership between Christiansen and Naraka: Bladepoint was released.
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