Bachir Boumaaza
| Bachir Boumaaza | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 June 1980 Antwerp, Belgium |
| Residence | Forst (Lausitz), Germany |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Other names | Chiren, Athene |
| Occupation | YouTube personality Razer USA representative |
| Years active | 2007 – present |
| Website | gamingforgood |
Bachir "Chiren" Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), also known by the online pseudonym Athene, is a Belgian YouTube personality and social activist. Boumaaza founded "Gaming for Good" which cooperates with Save the Children.
Boumaaza was born in Antwerp, Belgium to a Belgian mother and a Moroccan father. He attended Sint-Agnes, Lyceum Borgerhout and Lyceum Deurne. Belgium|Belgian
Boumaaza began creating YouTube videos in 2007, playing the role of an eccentric World of Warcraft player named Athene. In addition to his regular videos, Boumaaza released a full-length movie depicting the fictional life of his character Athene, in 2008. Since then, Boumaaza's videos have broken away from strictly playing the role of the character Athene and have included personal vlogs, interviews, social and political activism, science discussions and charity work. Boumaaza has also supplemented his online video presence by creating a live video feed.
In 2011, Boumaaza formed an online YouTube initiative called "Together to the Top" (TTTT) with the objective of promoting new YouTube content creators by featuring smaller producers' videos and offering backlinks on his YouTube channel. In addition to providing backlinks, Boumaaza pledged to film a personal video (individual video responses) for each of his fans who subscribed and provided a backlink to Boumaaza's channel. The project was ultimately a failure and Boumaaza never delivered on his promises.
Boumaaza was a contributor for Razer Academy, a program started by the gaming peripherals and accessories manufacturer Razer USA. Razer Academy never left its beta stage and was instead re branded as RazerZone.
Boumaaza appeared in Big Brother 2 Belgium. In 2015, Boumaaza officially relaunched the Athene/World of Warcraft gaming series on YouTube.
In 2011, Boumaaza released a full-length documentary called "Athene's Theory of Everything" on the subject of conscious experience and perception. Although the work was not peer reviewed and neither scientifically nor philosophically rigorous, Boumaaza claims that the work could have implications for science and metaphysics, and that many of its conclusions were supported by evidence in the field of neuroscience.
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