Felipe Neto Rodrigues Vieira (born January 21, 1988) is a Brazilian

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and

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, currently having 44.7 million subscribers and more than fifteen billion accumulated views, he is considered the greatest

from Brazil, just behind the channel Você Sabia?. He is also the brother of YouTuber Luccas Neto. Currently, his videos focus on general entertainment. Felipe is the founder of Paramaker, a business of network inside of YouTube, which owns channels like Parafernalha and IGN Brasil Network, managing approximately channels, as an effort to professionalize the online video market in Brazil. He sold the company in 2015 to focus on his YouTube channel. Felipe has also engaged in other business activities as he and his brother created "Neto's", a food kiosk that sold "

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s", a popular

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. The brothers ended the project after Felipe became vegetarian. In 2020, he was included on ''

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''s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Early life

Felipe Neto was born on January 21, 1988, in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian father and a Portuguese mother. He has dual Brazilian and Portuguese citizenship. Felipe is the most-known fan of the Brazilian sports club

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, a club which he has sponsored, and also the Portuguese club

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. He currently lives in

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in Rio de Janeiro.

Filmography

Web

Film

Theater

Publications

Awards and nominations

Controversies

As a popular YouTuber in Brazil, Felipe occasionally streams his online games to his audience. He was caught cheating in online chess games in 2021. He admitted to being assisted by a chess engine while playing and argued that he was instructed by a chess coach to do so as it would be an adequate training method to improve his knowledge of chess.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Neto, Felipe 1988 births Living people Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian YouTubers Internet activists People from Rio de Janeiro (city)