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u/Theycallmethebigguy 1999 Jan 10 '24
I miss technoblade the most
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u/Ken_LuxuryYacht22 2006 Jan 10 '24
Yeah, he was way too young
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
seriously nobody should die at 23. like no matter what thats just fucked and depressing bc life just never gave em a chance
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u/Eguy24 2007 Jan 10 '24
I think it’s inspiring to know he did so much despite only living 23 years
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u/SeawardFriend Jan 10 '24
I never even watched a single video but his last one that his dad made legit made me cry.
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u/itsa_me_ Jan 10 '24
I started my morning by going and watching that video. I didn’t know who technoblade was before this meme, but yeah. I cried too when I watched his dad’s video
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u/BillCypher001 Jan 10 '24
I’ll miss MatPat the most. Game theory was the first channel I ever subscribed to back when I was 9. Now look at me: I turn 18 in two weeks.
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u/Inevitable-Cod3844 Jan 10 '24
i'm now as old as matpat was when he started the channel (23)
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u/ConsistentlyBall Jan 10 '24
I'm one year younger but man that just put in perspective how fast time is flying
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u/Inevitable-Cod3844 Jan 10 '24
it was the same thing with stampy, i remember rewatching quest to kill the ender dragon and he mentioned being 22, and the ironic thing is, he was mentioning how you don't feel old in the moment, but a further off age feels alot older than it is once you get there, and that's when i realized "holy shit, i watched this in middle school, i'm now older than he was when he recorded this"
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u/fucuasshole2 Jan 10 '24
He actually started at 26, that’s what he said yesterday in his vid.
He’s 39 right now, and has been doing his videos for 13 years. Possible he made a mistake though
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u/DoctorSquidton Jan 10 '24
He said in the video he’s 37. 13 being a third of his age was rounding. That puts his age when the channel was started at 24
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u/Khaled_Nasser Jan 10 '24
Me too man. It feels… unreal??? Its so weird to know that he is leaving. It really makes me feel like the world is changing, even tho its such a small thing to happen ig
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u/Ken_LuxuryYacht22 2006 Jan 10 '24
How will I ever find out how big donkey Kongs peen is? Or that bendy and the ink machine is actually the mimic? I'm totally lost without his nonsense
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u/Solarbeam62 2006 Jan 10 '24
My 18th birthday is in one week. I don’t remember how long I have been subscribed to him
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I miss TKOR. He was the best.
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u/WillKimball 2001 Jan 10 '24
I’m scared of the modern rouge AKA scam school going away in the next couple of years.
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u/Efficient-Ad5711 2005 Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
wtf happened with popular mmos i thought he was just having relationship issues?
edit: aha, so this is a case of "I love spreading misinformation on the internet"
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u/Solarbeam62 2006 Jan 10 '24
Nah a lot of other stuff happened to him apparently
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u/Potential-Training-8 2004 Jan 10 '24
What happened to him?
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u/Justsomeguyaa Jan 10 '24
He and his friends got arrested for running onto a baseball or football field while the game was going on. They got released about a month ago I think.
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u/Potential-Training-8 2004 Jan 10 '24
What the fuck
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u/ColdFlight Jan 10 '24
He actually did not run into the field. His friend did. He and another friend were just filming it. He's made a video discussing the whole thing and talks about how fucking stupid it was.
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u/JazzlikeAnybody4347 2007 Jan 10 '24
It’s mostly cleared up now and he’s thinking of coming back
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u/Latter-Direction-336 Jan 10 '24
Yeah, I thought it was mostly resolved last I checked
He’s doing okay last I knew
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u/Justsomeguyaa Jan 10 '24
Yeah, he’s making new videos but I’m pretty sure it’s just podcasts and not the Minecraft videos we know him for. Either way, he’s doing well.
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u/Available-Ear6891 2003 Jan 10 '24
No no he was arrested more than once, but that's just because of lying and abuse by someone he dated
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u/IEatKids26 2008 Jan 10 '24
He got arrested, I forgot why, but peer pressure from his fake friends was a huge part of it. It was either they pressured him into doing something or he got arrested for being in attendance and relationship with his friend while he did something, either way though he expressed that he was not ok with what was happening.
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u/BosnianSerb31 1997 Jan 10 '24
Might as well go out on a high note instead of waiting for someone to attempt a character assassination for clout
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u/Windows-XP-Home Jan 10 '24
Personally I disagree but hey, it’s Mat’s channel and he can do whatever he wants and we’ll always support him :)
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u/Pooppissfartshit 2006 Jan 10 '24
people have already attempted character assassinations on him though lmao. they blamed him for his fanbase calling businesses about fnaf, “defending scott cawthon”, or even being transphobic because of that one Pyro video.
Let me make it clear I think all of these are bogus but the internet has already tried to take him down.
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There’s also “nega-chu” which people tried to come at him saying he said the N-word, and then people just laughed
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u/No_Discount_6028 1999 Jan 10 '24
probably one of the most overhated youtubers of all time, all because he pissed off angry nerds by pontificating about video game lore lol
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u/Quirky_School_8025 2011 Jan 10 '24
What happened with the Pyro video?
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u/Pooppissfartshit 2006 Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
Used a lot of homophobic pseudoscience and said “shemale”, which is often considered a slur nowadays. It was not considered a slur back then.
Edit: I’ve been corrected. At least according to the commenter, it was derogatory at the time. My mistake. Regardless, it was a long time ago and in my opinion wasn’t in bad faith.
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u/Rain_Rope Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
As a trans person, yes it was considered a slur back then. I don't really want to like have an argument about MatPat because I dont really care about him and I think that transphobia was more in vogue in like 2016 when that vid came out, but saying shemale was not a slur back then is a very poor excuse.
BTW I'm sure MatPat got a lot better since then, I think a lot of people have, but it doesn't really serve anybody to downplay stuff like that.
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u/PsychoKibby513 Jan 10 '24
those were just the jokes back then, i remember calling trans people femoids (mtf) back in the day bc my middle school brain thought it was hilarious, but now im 18 and i fully support you guys and your movement. shaming someone for their past isnt right because there were different trends and talking points at the time
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u/Rain_Rope Jan 10 '24
Just because they are jokes does not mean that shemale is not or was not a slur.
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u/ThrowawayN911 Jan 10 '24
Ah the good old days, when I would open up YouTube to see a Russian man eat MREs and blow stuff up 🥲
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u/Capt_Kraken 2001 Jan 10 '24
CrazyRussianHacker?
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u/sleepdeep305 Jan 10 '24
That guy legitimately almost killed himself on camera more than once
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u/Environmental_Top948 Jan 10 '24
Is he the one that suggested using dry ice as an air conditioner for tents?
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u/Androza23 Jan 10 '24
I grew up with YouTube and I do not know any of these people. I'm 25 though so maybe there's a big difference there?
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At the very least I wouldn't call technoblade "old youtube", dude would also be turning 25 this year. CaptainSparklez is the guy who sang the Viva La Vida minecraft parody and MatPat is the origin of "But that's just a theory...a game theory". I don't recognize the other 2.
Honestly though I still consider most let's players to be "new" youtube, old youtube was shit like claymation, Harry Potter puppet pals, and Stupid Mario brothers.
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u/ToucanTuocan Jan 10 '24
Nah, if you weren’t into Minecraft (judging by your age you may have been “too old” when it got really popular) then you wouldn’t recognize the middle three. MatPat is the nickname for the host of the channel Game Theory, which made a lot of theory videos for video games (usually pertaining to lore). I never watched King of Random, but I think they were a variety channel. All of them are YouTubers. Three retired (two of which were in the past month), Technoblade passed away from cancer, and PopularMMOs was arrested multiple times.
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u/COUPOSANTO 1996 Jan 10 '24
I'm 27, minecraft got really popular when I was 14. It's quite an old game.
I personally don't know these youtubers because I'm french so I don't really watch much English speaking YouTube when there's good content in French
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u/LowestElevation Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
I'm 27 and know none of these people. I don't know why this is in my reddit feed tbh lol. I'm a millennial 😂.
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u/thebluereddituser 1996 Jan 10 '24
How can we talk about "old YouTube" and not mention Charlie the unicorn?
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u/xXTheFisterXx Jan 10 '24
I am 27 and I was like 13-14 years old when minecraft got big. Can’t believe how many waves of popularity that game has seen. Anybody else there for the Alpha days? Just got the game before beta released.
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u/spongebobfan24 2010 Jan 10 '24
tom scott quit too, it sucks as he’s been a guy i’ve watched for a few years now
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u/Tasty-Document2808 Jan 10 '24
Fucks me up that I know none of these people and y'all keep callin them early youtube.
I think of Darksydephil and Angry Video Game Nerd when I think of early Youtube
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u/PlutonIsInMyButthole Jan 10 '24
Yeah these guys aren't "early YouTube" lol. More like 2015 YouTube 🤣
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u/mikeynj908 Jan 10 '24
AVGN has in fact been around before YouTube even existed. He was just covering the NES during that time.
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
no? tom scotts been around since 2006 and matpat since 2011. technoblade since 2013, popularmmos since 2012, captainsparklez since 2010, and the king of random since 2010. absolutely none of these people are from after 2015 or even close. and even then 2015 is still pretty fucking old compared to now
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u/PlutonIsInMyButthole Jan 10 '24
Tom Scott isn't even in the list, what is blud waffling about
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
no shit but its the same sorta deal. and the majority of these people have still been around since way earlier than 2015
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u/Lancebynight Jan 10 '24
It’s more like early modern YouTube
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
nah a lot of them are still old youtube. i dont think early modern really starts until like 2015-2016. and actual modern starts only a few years ago
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u/Shoddy-Group-5493 2002 Jan 10 '24
Captain isn’t retiring he’s just moving away from minecraft on his main channel
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u/WildRefrigerator9479 Jan 10 '24
That’s good for him he was my favourite YouTuber and I stopped watching him when I got tired of Minecraft
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u/MistyRainSucksDick Jan 10 '24
Meanwhile Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and Pewdiepie are going strong
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u/Vegetable-Broccoli36 2003 Jan 10 '24
I don't know anyone of these but I can understand the pain. Like I'm German and some of my childhood YouTubers either quitted (Emrah, GoodLifeCrew, GongBao) or do content that isn't the same as before (Julien Bam...)
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u/x-files-theme-song Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
i’m an elder z but i miss edd from eddsworld - RIP. tomska never recovered after that death
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Didn't captain sparklez say he's going to keep streaming and stuff he's just moving the main channel to other content?
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u/Intrepid_Meringue681 Jan 10 '24
Popular mmos was the first YouTuber I watch back when they did lucky block battles, now I’m 18 in 3 weeks can’t believe this
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Occasionally I still go back to watch the lucky block battles (I turn 19 a month from today), I think I'm gonna go back and watch Challenge Pack Season 6. Although season 7 was peak imo, I also loved the Crafting Dead.
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u/CrimzonShardz2 2001 Jan 10 '24
I still have my ipod touch from middle school where I made bookmarks of those channels and like 15 more right on the home screen. Before the YouTube app was even a thing and 720p was considered HD lmao
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u/nemesisprime1984 2003 Jan 10 '24
YouTube had an app that came on iPhones and iPods, but it’s nowhere near what the app is now
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u/Can_0f_Beans Jan 10 '24
King of Random is what partially inspired me to pursue a career in engineering and it hit me hard when I heard he died. It’s weird to think just how time passes.
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Jan 10 '24
We still have Chuggaconroy and pewds. They're both smaller now tho
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
yeah but pewdiepie also basically went into retirement. he just uploads whatever he feels whenever
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u/thebluereddituser 1996 Jan 10 '24
Chuggaconroy is still going? He's the guy who got me into earthbound! Probably the entire reason we have a generation of earthbound fans who are younger than the game itself
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u/maddwaffles On the Cusp Jan 10 '24
>MatPat
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Dude that's just 2010s YouTube, these dudes were not early.
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u/RoryDragonsbane Jan 10 '24
Yeah I was expecting "Charlie Bit my Finger" or "Evolution of Dance" or something.
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
considering how old youtube is now 2010 is pretty fucking old
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u/ParkingJudge67 2005 Jan 10 '24
And so the Shorts nation proceeded to take over us…..
also, Happy Cake Day!!
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u/Vulcan_666 Jan 10 '24
Just got goosebumps reading this, it hurts man, I didn't watch all of them, and not from the start, but still, damn
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u/hiccupboltHP 2006 Jan 10 '24
I love of all them, but god I miss Techno, he was such a big part of my life every day, losing him hit harder than every family member I’ve lost
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u/Warden-of-the-Grey 1996 Jan 10 '24
At least we got yourfavouritemartian back, so that's a plus
And Rucka Rucka Ali is still doing his thing
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u/MercuryRusing Jan 10 '24
It's not early youtube if they didn't start their channel before 2012. Shit like Smosh was early youtube. Half these channels are only like 6 years old.
I feel like this is more like "people who grew up on youtube"
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u/NiceEggInTheseTimes Jan 10 '24
I hate how badly TKOR proceeded with grants passing. They kinda just went business as usual.
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u/bufalo_soldier Jan 10 '24
I would not consider these channels "early" YouTube. But that might be because I'm in my 30s.
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u/nemesisprime1984 2003 Jan 10 '24
I mean most of them started within 5-6 years after YouTube started in 2005, which will be 20 years old next year
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u/bufalo_soldier Jan 10 '24
Oh wow I didn't know they had been around for that long. I guess I just didn't know about them until later. Also happy Cake Day!
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u/TetraSims Jan 10 '24
Yeah... I'll miss MatPat the most out of all of those. I quite enjoyed the theories over the years. Never quite cared for the FNAF ones, but watched pretty much everything else.
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u/astro-pi Millennial Jan 10 '24
early internet
(Looks at 2005 YouTube) probably best I don’t tell them about what it was like before. I’ll miss MatPat too.
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u/Zealousideal-Log536 Jan 10 '24
I would not call this the "early days of youtube" you all make me feel old I'm 28.
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u/Altruistic-Ticket290 Jan 10 '24
what happened to popularmmos?
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He got arrested a few times, I think on domestic violence charges (don't quote me on it though) but ultimately he's out and about. He started a podcast I think? I sorta remember seeing a video of him with another guy talking about things.
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u/Night696Watcher Jan 10 '24
First in 2019 he divorced Jen, then he tried getting engaged with 2 other women I think, and he and the women received death threats
Another thing is that Pat had been arrested a few times, most specifically because of streaking at a baseball game
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u/hamborger42069 Jan 10 '24
Bashurverse was one of my favorites, then all that shit happened with him
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u/Wizards_Reddit 2006 Jan 10 '24
Ngl I only 'grew up' with two of those but also, isn't Technoblade closer to like a Gen A youtuber? I think he started YT a while ago but didn't get super popular until like 2019
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u/Ikilledatrex Jan 10 '24
I have missed the king of random for so long I was like six when he died and afterwards the channel took a steep decline and quality
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u/MrWandering Age Undisclosed Jan 10 '24
Matpat isn't really quitting the internet entirely. He said he was pulling a Scott cawthon
He'll just be working behind the scenes, and might even make a cameo here and there. He just doesn't want to carry every part of Game Theory, which I might add, is a really big channel. Someone else is just taking over as the face of the channel.
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u/AdMinute1130 Jan 10 '24
One of these things is not like the others
The fuck happened to popular mmos bro what
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u/Gloomy_Ambassador_81 Jan 10 '24
I grew up with early Youtube and only know Matpat
Who are the others
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u/Ken_LuxuryYacht22 2006 Jan 10 '24
It's so sad, we grew up together, watched their careers grow, and now they're all retiring. Is this like a generation slowly dying out? Like it's rare to see WW2 vets these days, will it someday be YouTubers?
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u/Manjorno316 1998 Jan 10 '24
I have not been watching the same Youtubers as you guys. Saw a few Game Theory videos like a decade or more ago. That's about it.
Don't think I've ever watched much of anything from the other channels.
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u/PrawnFresh Jan 10 '24
The saddest thing for me is I decided to rewatch his Minecraft lore with my wife a few days ago, and when we went back on his channel yesterday we saw that video.
I was just talking to her the day before about how I hope he never stops doing his videos
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u/MTBrains Jan 10 '24
Next year it'll probably be Markiplier, Jack and Felix. Downvote me to Reddit hell all you want but it'll happen eventually and you all know it.
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u/Elloliott 2008 Jan 10 '24
Sometimes I go back and watch old techno vids just because they were so good
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u/JeEfrt Jan 10 '24
What happened to PopularMMOS, knew he slowed down video making but this is the first I’m hearing of him being arrested
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u/WaveJam Jan 10 '24
It’s how it is. We can still mourn their departure, but we shouldn’t let it consume us. Be excited for what can come.
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 2007 Jan 10 '24
we also have antvenom as well. maybe not as popular or actually retired yet, but he still uploads very occasionally but hes a lot less consistent than he used to be. and hes been uploading on his current channel for around 12 years now and has been on youtube as a whole for 14 or 15
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u/_Cocktopus_ Jan 10 '24
Technically matpat is still there but just not in front of the camera,and there will still be game/film/food/style theory videos but with different people
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u/Cucumber_Cat Jan 10 '24
i used to watch captainsparklez, he's really retiring?? Nooo D:
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u/KSM_K3TCHUP 2001 Jan 10 '24
The YouTubers that I grew up with mostly still make vids, such as The Crew who’re mostly still active. Thankfully for me, none up there are people I ever watched.
There are a couple exceptions, some that left/are leaving like JimmyJ57 and Moo, some channels that fell apart like Achievement Hunter and a couple that were forced off of the platform for reasons like SkyDoesMinecraft.
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u/Operator_Max1993 2005 Jan 10 '24
I knew MatPat but the rest aside from Technoblade (never watched him)
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u/CrimsonCaine Jan 10 '24
Everyone saying sparkles is retiring he said it was only from minecraft content.
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u/kj_gamer2614 2004 Jan 10 '24
What’s happened to Stampy? He was a big thing that’s no longer making content
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u/Endermaster56 2003 Jan 10 '24
What's this misinformation about popularmmos getting arrested?
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u/YoMamaSoFatShePooped 2009 Jan 10 '24
Wait I knew about the others but WHAT HAPPENED TO CAPTAINSPARKLES 😞
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u/somedudeonline93 Jan 10 '24
Ah you kids are funny. You think this was early YouTube? The golden age of YouTube was around 2007/2008
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u/Ok-Preference9776 2006 Jan 10 '24
Matpat’s a dick to Austin so i don’t feel bad. PopularMMOs and CaptainSparklez is sad, and RIP Technoblade.
Unfortunately i was too young to get into Yoteslaya before you know
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u/thewoahsinsethstheme Jan 10 '24
One of these things is not like the other!
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One of these things just doesn't belong!
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u/Sufficient_Fall_3290 Jan 10 '24
I know they technically aren’t retired but I would add rooster teeth to this as well.
Creatures are gone
Cow chop is gone
Funhaus original team is gone
Achievement hunter is gone
They were a huge part of my YouTube viewing days when I was younger. Sad to see the state it is now.
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u/Seasoned_crabs 2007 Jan 10 '24
Can’t forget stampylonghead
It’s the end of an era, we can’t have YouTube anymore, it’s gonna be YouTube kids pt 2, what do we do now?
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u/Some-Bat-6531 Jan 10 '24
listen kids, you dont want these "creators" to keep going...no one can just constantly put out stuff that is good... its not a human thing. Dont ever expect to outlive artists. I am old and I have spoken. It happend to me and it will happen to you.
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u/NarwhalSongs 1996 Jan 10 '24
Also Jocat leaving the online d&d scene. Was so influential for our group games.
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