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Lucas Hauchard (born January 27, 1996, in Vitry-sur-Seine), better known under the pseudonym Squeezie ([skwiːzi]), is a French web video artist who has been active since 2011. His YouTube Channel provides let's play, humour videos, music videos and reaction videos.

Since 2019, he has been the most popular French videographer, ahead of Cyprien, with 14 million subscribers. From its creation in 2011 until June 2019, his channel has generated more than six billion views and has more than 1,300 videos. He also participates in the Bigorneaux & Coquillages channel (formerly CyprienGaming) with Cyprien Iov, and he streams regularly on Twitch.

Beginnings on YouTube
Lucas Hauchard started on YouTube in May 2008 with a first channel specialized in the game Dofus, Dofus Bouclier. 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 also has a video game theme.

He created his current channel on YouTube under the pseudonym Squeezie in 2011, at the age of 15. Focused on video game testing, his channel has achieved a relatively high level of celebrity, making him the youngest French person to surpass one million subscribers on YouTube at the age of 17. He was then reaching about 300,000 views per video, while working for his degree in economics and social sciences.

Growing popularity
In April 2013, with half a million subscribers, he teamed up with Cyprien Iov, a French podcaster, to create the CyprienGaming channel, which is also specialized in video games.

In 2014, he was frequently accused of plagiarism by the Swedish video maker PewDiePie, an accusation he refuted through a video. In March 2014, according to the website SocialBlade, which takes several factors into account, Lucas Hauchard is the most popular French YouTuber, ahead of The Sound you Need, Cyprien Iov, Rémi Gaillard and Norman Thavaud. At the end of 2014, the same website stated that Squeezie's videos are viewed 70.7 million times, more than Rémi Gaillard, Norman and Sébastien Cauet videos combined.

He appears in the YouTube video Rewind 2015, a video created by YouTube bringing together the YouTubers and Internet personalities who marked the year.

In 2017, he participated in the show Fort Boyard, along with Cyprien Iov. Squeezie culminates more than 1,860,000 subscribers earned in 2017, and adds more than a billion views to his view counter. He surpassed Norman in terms of subscribers in June 2018 and Cyprien a year later, becoming the first French-speaking videographer.

Diversification of activities
Squeezie co-wrote a book with Maxenss, Tourne la page, published by Michel Lafon in 2017.

In March 2017, he launched the Web TV LeStream together with Cyprien. The launch stream on Twitch beat the record number of views for a French stream, with more than 150,000 simultaneous viewers.

In September 2018, he launched a new secondary channel, SQUEEZIE LIVE, dedicated to the best of his live gaming on his Twitch channel, which he produces every week. The channel had more than 500,000 subscribers just a fortnight after its launch.

On January 31, 2019, Squeezie performed William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Cyprien, McFly & Carlito, and Le Pérave, at the Barrière d'Enghien casino in front of five hundred people. This theatrical performance was organized following a YouTube Warrior competition lost by Cyprien and Squeezie against McFly & Carlito in October of the previous year. The play was rebroadcast live on Twitch and broke the Stream record with 390,000 simultaneous viewers for a total of 635,000 people.

On July 3, 2019, he launched his Yoko brand, born of a desire to combine streetwear and Japanese culture, created with his brother, Florent Hauchard.

Media coverage and controversy
In 2015, Lucas Hauchard's relations with certain media became quite tense, especially with a Canal+ journalist who asked him many questions about the money he earned from his videos, questions that he felt were "heavy in the long run".

In November 2017, he published his first book, Tourne la page, published by Michel Lafon. During an interview on the set of Salut les Terriens! the presenter, Thierry Ardisson, was at the centre of a violent controversy following his interview with Squeezie, which was considered highly condescending.

In April 2017, he announced in a video that he had been contacted by an association against cyberharassment following the publication of a video in which he filmed his reactions to videos that made him feel uncomfortable. A girl in the video had been cyberbullied and her mother had contacted the association. Squeezie subsequently announced that he had withdrawn the video, claiming that he was at fault for having perpetuated the harassment despite the fact that the video had already created a buzz before he had seen it in his own video, and that he had been using the opportunity to raise awareness about cyberbullying.

On August 6, 2018, Squeezie published a tweet denouncing the practices of certain YouTubers who use their celebrity to take advantage of young subscribers. A real buzz would follow this announcement, fuelled by an article in Le Parisien newspaper naming names and giving rise to a Twitter hashtag: #BalanceTonYoutuber. Squeezie would apologize some time later on his YouTube channel, regretting a witch hunt, while reiterating his support for the victims of such practices.

Pseudonym
Lucas Hauchard first chose "aMOODIEsqueezie" as a pseudonym. "aMOODIE" refers to his guild on the online video game Dofus at the time of the creation of his channel. As this guild no longer exists, he changes his nickname to Squeezie, which comes from the contraction of the English song Squeeze it by Tiësto and DJ Frank E.

Income
It is impossible to estimate the real income of people earning a living from YouTube, as some videos are not monetized, some ads may earn more than others, and some Internet users block videos. Moreover, the money collected only feeds the turnover of the videographer's business, which is subject to taxes and contributions. Profits are also used to finance projects, buy equipment, rent a studio and pay the gross salary of the video editor(s).

In 2018, according to the SocialBlade site, advertising income could bring his company between US$262,000 and US$4.2 million per year, or between €210,000 and €3,380,000.

Initially under contract to the company Wizdeo, in September 2015 Squeezie signed a contract with Mixicom, an advertising network bought out by Webedia after which he is thought to have earned four million euros.

Filmography

 * Cinema


 * 2015 : Bob l'éponge, le film: Un héros sort de l'eau by Paul Tibbitt: Kyle the Seagull
 * 2016: Ratchet et Clank by Kevin Munroe: Ratchet


 * Web series


 * 2016: Les Kassos (episode 42, Irrito)
 * 2018: L'Épopée temporelle (Season 2, Episode 1, Le temps cassé) by Cyprien lov: President Squeezie


 * Short films


 * 2015: Technophobe by Théodore Bonnet: Arthur's friend, himself
 * 2016: La Cartouche by Théodore Bonnet: himself

Discography

 * Singles
 * 2017: Placements de produits ft. Maxenss
 * 2018: Freestyle de l'autodérision
 * 2018: Top 1
 * 2018: Freestyle de potes ft. Maxenss and Seb la Frite
 * 2018: Pas tout seul
 * 2018: 90 VS 2000 ft. McFly & Carlito
 * 2019: Le gaming c'est fini
 * 2019: Bye bye ft. Joyca
 * 2019: Mirador by Kezah and Freddy Gladieux
 * 2020: Influenceurs


 * Collaboration
 * 2017 : Assassins des templiers by Norman

Awards

 * 2016: Best gaming youtube at the Coca-Cola Gaming Awards
 * 2016: YouTube video maker of the year at the Q d'or (TF1)