Cyprien Iov (born 12 May 1989), often known simply as Cyprien (French pronunciation: [sipʁijɛ̃]), is a French comedian, actor, and YouTuber known for his short comic YouTube videos. He became known for his videos on Dailymotion under his pseudonym Monsieur Dream, before continuing to make videos on YouTube under his real name. Cyprien is also known for his short films uploaded onto his YouTube channel.[2][3]

Cyprien Iov
Cyprien in 2022
Personal information
Born (1989-05-12) 12 May 1989 (age 35)
Nice, France
NationalityFrench, Romanian
Occupation(s)Comedian, actor, YouTuber
Websitewww.cyprien.fr
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers14.5 million[1]
Total views3.20 billion[1]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2011
1,000,000 subscribers2012
10,000,000 subscribers2016

Last updated: 2 Sept, 2024

As of January 2024, his YouTube channel had 14.5 million subscribers and over 3.1 billion views. He was the most-subscribed French YouTuber from 2013 to 2020, and is now the third-most, behind Squeezie and Tibo InShape.[citation needed]

Early work

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Cyprien Iov was born on May 12, 1989, in Nice.[4] In April 2007, Cyprien began posting videos, humoristic podcasts, and tests to his blog on Dailymotion.[5] At that time, he was 18 years old. His videos were also posted on his on his internet blog, monsieurdream.com (which is now cyprien.fr), where he also put his unusual illustrations and videos. He created stickers representing him that he enjoyed sticking everywhere and sending by post to his readers. He then decided to migrate to YouTube.


In April of 2007, Cyprien left the South to settle in a small apartment in the capital and he began to animate Le Rewind on the news site 20minutes.fr. Le Rewind is a weekly internet column on unusual news for which Cyprien writes the articles and does the editing.

References

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  1. ^ a b "About MonsieurDream". YouTube.
  2. ^ (in French) "Cyprien et Norman toujours en tête de You Tube France" Archived 2016-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, Stratégies, 12 December 2015.
  3. ^ (in French) "Cyprien, le multimillionnaire" Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Libération, 19 December 2016
  4. ^ Țimonea, Dorin (2016-02-05). "Francezul de origine română cu milioane de vizualizări pe Youtube: "Românii sunt consideraţi hoţi pentru că oamenii îi confundă cu romii"" [The Frenchman of Romanian origin with millions of views on YouTube: "Romanians are considered thieves because people confuse them with Roma"]. Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  5. ^ Anizon, Emmanuelle (2012-04-16). "Norman, Cyprien, Hugotoutseul et les autres… les stars de la webrigolade ;-)" [Norman, Cyprien, Hugotoutseul and the others… the stars of the webfunny ;-)]. Télérama (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
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