{"id":100492,"date":"2026-01-30T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:06:08","slug":"mark-sent-us-internet-superstar-rallies-community-to-clear-snow-for-local-drive-in-movie-premiere-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100492\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mark sent us&#8217;: Internet superstar rallies community to clear snow for local drive-in movie premiere | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211;\u00a0A unique party took the spotlight at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shankweilers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shankweiler\u2019s Drive-In Theatre<\/a> Thursday night: a shovel party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having an impromptu snow removal event here at the drive-in. There\u2019s a lot of people excited to see \u2018Iron Lung\u2019 premiere here at the drive-in,\u201d said Matthew McClanahan, owner of Shankweiler\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIron Lung\u201d is a highly anticipated movie from the mind of Mark Fischbach, better known as Markiplier.<\/p>\n<p>Fischbach is a longtime content creator with millions of followers online.<\/p>\n<p>And lucky for Shankweiler\u2019s, posts about the shovel party on social media caught the attention of the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found that out right before going to bed. I was checking on our video and then suddenly all of these comments: \u2018Hi from Mark. Mark sent us,\u2019\u201d McClanahan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw this on a post he put it on his story, so I called up my friends and they came along with me,&#8221; said Martin Nguyen, of North Whitehall Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While lots of people who showed up at Shankweiler&#8217;s are fans of the internet superstar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up watching Markiplier,&#8221; said Alexis Dawkins of Allentown. &#8220;I&#8217;m 22 and I&#8217;ve been watching Markiplier since I was like in elementary school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others turned out just because.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My parents brought me here when I was a little kid, so help &#8217;em out!&#8221; said Francis Gross Jr., another volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>And after lots of shoveling, plowing, and snow blowing from this group of volunteers, the show will go on this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211;\u00a0A unique party took the spotlight at Shankweiler\u2019s Drive-In Theatre Thursday night: a shovel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,5114],"class_list":{"0":"post-100492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-instagram"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}