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M3RKMUS1C (also known as Merk) is an American YouTuber who's real name is Erik Phillips.

He was born on June 15, 1995 in Massachussetts He has gained many subscribers over the years on his YouTube channel and this amount totals at a staggering 4 million. Erik records himself playing games solo or together with friends but he also creates random videos about other topics, like music. Erik started off his YouTube channel on April 22nd, 2009 and publicized his first video on July 18th, 2009. The title of this video is "skrub's 1st vid." and it is a video of him covering the song: Always with me always with you (originally performed by Joe Satriani) on his guitar. Erik would continue to create videos of him playing the guitar, living up to the MUS1C (leetspeak for music) part of his channel.

Erik has always loved to play video games and this would influence his YouTube career. On the 28th of May, 2010 Erik publicized his first video concerning a video game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Seeing as these videos resulted in more views and subscribers, Erik posted more of this content and eventually, his channel was based upon video games instead of music. Erik chose to keep the name of his channel intact.

Erik has a one distinct characteristic that makes him completely different from other YouTube channels, his many different personalties. He often finds himself portraying himself as someone else with a complete different set of characteristics. An example of this is Melvin, the persona he invented for his second channel "Nerd Plays".