Filow
{{Short description|German musician}}
{{Infobox YouTube personality
| name = Filow
| birth_name = Felix Nier
| channel_id = UCeyP7G6IFDUa6UypHghbxdw
| channel_display_name = Filow
| years_active = 2014–present
| genre = {{Hlist|Let's Play|comedy}}
| subscribers = 221 thousand
| views = 26.8 million
| module = {{Infobox Twitch streamer|subbox=yes
| channel_name = Filow
| followers = 269 thousand
}}
| stats_update = January 2025
}}
Felix Nier (born 16 February 2001), known professionally as Filow, is a German influencer and musician.
Life
Felix Nier grew up in Potsdam.{{cite web | last=Hochgesand | first=Stefan | title=Berliner YouTuber Filow in seinem EM-Sauflied "Rasenschach": "Scheiß auf vegan!" | website=Berliner Zeitung | date=2024-06-28 | url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/musik/berliner-youtuber-filow-in-seinem-em-sauflied-rasenschach-scheiss-auf-vegan-li.2229612 | language=de | access-date=2025-01-02}} In 2020, shortly after finishing his Abitur, he moved to Berlin.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} He uses various social media channels such as YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and TikTok. He is under contract with 1UP Management.{{cite web | title=Filow – 1UP | website=1UP – Artist Management – Influencer Marketing – Full Service Agentur | url=https://1up.management/filow/ | language=de | access-date=2025-01-02}} In 2021, he took part in a Red Bull competition and became the official moderator of the Red Bull Twitch channel together with Ollimeee.{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |date=2021-05-13 |language=de |title="Die ersten Monate waren aufregend!" Red Bull Zockt 100 Hosts im Interview |url=https://www.redbull.com/de-de/ollimeee-und-filow-interview-red-bull-zockt-100}} He mainly does comedy segments on his channels. During Gamescom, an incident occurred that cost him a number of followers after he claimed to have uninvited another web video producer from the guest list. He received further criticism for a blind date video in which he participated.{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |author=Lydia |date=2024-04-23 |language=de-DE |title=Im "absoluten Höhenflug" macht ein Twitch-Streamer einen Spruch – Verliert die Hälfte seiner Zuschauer |url=https://mein-mmo.de/filow-ueber-shitstorm/ |website=Mein-MMO.de}}{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |author=MADS-Team |date=2023-09-04 |language=de-DE |title=Filow gegen Cisko G: Das steckt hinter dem Beef auf der Gamescom |url=https://mads.de/filow-gegen-cisko-g-das-steckt-hinter-dem-beef-auf-der-gamescom/ |website=MADS.de}}{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |date=2023-09-24 |language=de |title=Filow kassiert Kritik für Blind-Date-Video – Kritiker können wohl nicht lesen |url=https://www.ingame.de/news/streaming/filow-youtube-blind-dates-cancel-twitter-papalatte-streamer-twitch-koeln-92534290.html}} Since 2022 he has also been producing music.{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |language=de-DE |title=Filow – 1UP |url=https://1up.management/filow/}} In 2024 he performed with the Frankfurt duo {{ill|Mehnersmoos|de}} at Splash!. He produced the song Lieber Gott (German for "dear god") with them. He has almost 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify (as of August 12, 2024).{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |date=2024-07-09 |language=de |title=Filow tritt beim Splash! auf: Performt Song von Papaplatte |url=https://www.ingame.de/news/streaming/von-papaplatte-filow-tritt-auf-splash-festival-auf-singt-lied-93172302.html}}
He became known with the song Rasenschach, which he produced during the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany. The song was produced in the span of 3 hours during a live stream. It is less of a football song and more of a parody of a football song. In the two and a half minutes, he raps in a highly exaggerated Berlin dialect, with dirty jokes and sexually connoted puns, left-wing extremist slogans (with a line translating to "We're killing all Nazis and their swastikas"), chauvinism and references to {{ill|Balkonultra|de|}}'s party hit song Pyrotechnik, among others. He himself describes the song as a play on stereotypes.{{cite web|access-date=2024-07-22 |author=Stefan Hochgesand |date=2024-06-28 |language=de |title=Berliner YouTuber Filow in seinem EM-Sauflied "Rasenschach": "Scheiß auf vegan!" |url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/musik/berliner-youtuber-filow-in-seinem-em-sauflied-rasenschach-scheiss-auf-vegan-li.2229612}} The song reached number 58 in the German charts. He also performed this song in a live stream of the ARD, a German public broadcaster.{{cite web | title=„Recap 2024“ – Der große Twitch-Jahresrückblick der ARD Dachzeile (über der Überschrift): Streaming-Event | website=SWR | date=2024-11-20 | url=https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/kommunikation/pressemeldungen/twitch-ard-recap-2024-104.html | language=de | access-date=2025-01-02}}
In September 2024, his album Icke was released, reaching number 28 in Germany in its week of release.{{cite web | title=Suche – Offizielle Deutsche Charts | website=Home – Offizielle Deutsche Charts | url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche?artist_search=Filow&do_search=do | language=de | access-date=2025-01-02}}
He also created songs on his streams with other musicians like Ski Aggu and Ikkimel.{{cite web | title=SKI AGGU, IKKIMEL & FILOW machen Musik im Stream. | website=YouTube | date=2024-03-06 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbcf47YU2eI | access-date=2025-01-02}}
Discography
Studio albums
- 2024: Icke
Singles
- 2023: Glücksbringer (2 iPhones)
- 2023: Cheatcode
- 2023: Schiff
- 2023: Super Sex Bass (with yani5000)
- 2024: Red Flags
- 2024: Rasenschach
- 2024: Lieber Gott (with Mehnersmoos)
- 2024: Turbo
- 2024: Atze seit Tag 1 (with Frauenarzt; #17 of the German single-trend charts on 2. August 2024{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-03 |date=2024-08-02 |publisher=GfK Entertainment |title=Single Trending Charts |url=https://www.mtv.de/info/kj3m94/single-trending-charts |website=mtv.de}})
- 2024: Chopard
- 2024: Kiwi (with Chapo102)
- 2025: Jiggy (with Ikkimel)