Cyprien Iov

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 36) Nice, France
Nationality	French Romanian
Children	1
Website	www.cyprien.fr
YouTube information
Channel	Cyprien
Years active	2007–present
Genre	Comedy
Subscribers	14.6 million[1]
Views	3.27 billion[1]
Associated acts	Yvick Letexier Norman Thavaud Squeezie
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2011 1,000,000 subscribers 2012 10,000,000 subscribers 2016
Last updated: 6 July 2025

As of July 2025, his YouTube channel had 14.6 million subscribers and over 3.2 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]}

His father passed away in 2024 and he has two children.^[4]

Early work

Cyprien Iov was born on 12 May 1989 in Nice to Romanian parents.^[5] In April 2007, Cyprien began posting videos, humoristic podcasts, and tests to his blog on Dailymotion.^[6] 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 Paris 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.