How Civilization Videos Broke YouTube

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Civilization events will forever stand at #1

Can’t believe my legacy was reduced to “Just another player.” Damn me and Ize carried the early events.

One thing I hate is how whenever one famous youtuber makes a video on a certain topic it all of a sudden becomes the most listed thing on youtube. It just shows how much greed and the lack of originality most youtubers have.

I'm not usually interested in these kinds of Minecraft commentary videos, but dang, this is fire 🔥

Was apart of clownpierce's group in the first magicgum event, good times. still in his original "The Disciples Of Clownpierce" discord server. Loved your take on this! you did a super nice tye between your comedy and the history. I hope for another resurge of this minecraft niche. W video

Clownpierce is in every thumnail now😂😂😂

Ish’s 1000 player civilization was awesome, that had such a great storyline that the players made

I was one of the original people that watched magicgum from his first theory videos to his SMP too! Yeah.. unfortunately it was a fail. Despite how much of a mess it was, it is still THE favorite smp I have ever played on. I have tried finding another SMP over the years to find the same vibe I've gotten from his trapped smp to no avail. The fact that mobs could actually kill you. The fact that death have real consequences. The sense of danger and the importance of allies. Trust and betrayal, allies and enemies... There is a friend that I still actively talk to till this date I met through that smp! It will forever have a special place in my heart. We often talk back about it and documents everything we can find about it. Due to it being a fail, its history is pretty much erased off the internet, and nobody knew what happened in it aside from the participants. I'm so glad you made this video! I met my group on magic's discord then we stuck together throughout the whole smp. The hiding type with underground bases. Nothing can ever replicate the feeling of having clown's streams on the backgroud while panicking, calling the whole team on at 2am because clown raided our base. Checking his and vandrayk's cords live, if we are ever getting close to him. NOTHING. Can ever replicate the feeling when one of our most trusted member for 1 month turned out to be CLOWN's friend and spy, and the one that's been ratting out our cords the whole time. Clown made a video on that entire situation that I would kill to watch again. It is privated after he joined lifesteal (very fair as the quality doesn't catch up at all). Clown blew up shortly after that, very deserved from his sheer pvp skills. If only there is a way to see old vods from magic's and clown's streams. After claiming blocks became a thing the server died down a lot. Despite our trapping strategies we still got bullied hard by clown and kings of the end. I wasn't lucky enough to get into the later events magic made. I've witnessed my friend participate in some tho. Was really fun to watch as well. I've never participated in Ish's events. However, his content is the only other that reminded me of magic's. It is a lot more storytelling focused as you said, makes them easy to attach to and pick a team to root for! Apologies for wall of text haha. Me and my friend as two nerds has been trying to document as much things from the trapped smp as possible. I really shocked to see a 2024 video to talk about it. I still haven't given up on civilization videos (that's why I'm here, obviously). Maybe one day someone can be as great as those two had done...

fun fact: this entire genre is pretty similar to a minecraft creepypasta(?) called "The Closed Map Experiment". this doesn't really add anything to the video but it is worth mentioning because they are both about experiments focusing on replicating human behavior in minecraft

my favourite civ videos are ibxtoycat’s experiments with different political ideas, they’re very interesting and a precursor to the whole civ events that wasn’t mentioned here

I personally think the peak of Minecraft civilization videos was the one made by "I go by lots of names".

This video is only gonna be Ish, sword4000, and Sipover.

There's this other Minecraft civilization community that quite underrated deserves to be mentioned Stoneworks Organized cities Actual politics Wars with well planned tactics Even religion Having 10,000 wiki pages of server history, in the last 4 REAL LIFE YEARS. It's insane It may be what MagicGum has been trying to replicate. Actually civilizations in Minecraft that act and function like a real nation. I genuinely wonder if he knows about it. He would probably love it Its not just 4 islands with different biomes. (Which they actually made fun of lol) But an actual map with its own geography, each state, kingdom, empire having their own respective land and their own respective borders. The scale itself far massive than any civilization event anyone has ever made even combined. The thing is tho, they're not that we'll known despite the rise of Minecraft civilization. Unlike events that are filmed LIVE, various people having their own POVs and their own recorded footage, admins watching everything 24/7, in stoneworks, they do actual documents which is not as exciting. They also seem to limit their players more on creative freedom. They can still build great structures in their respective land and all but seem to take things more "seriously" in a sense. I personally don't know how it works since I don't know that much and only recently discovered them, but I think there's more restrictions that force players to socialize and work together, which makes sense to prevent divide and solo players causing havoc. I honestly think you should cover a video about them. They kinda deserve it, as well as asking them how things work unlike in regular Minecraft civilization people can immediately be stacked as hell if put enough effort. Hope you see this

this is an amazing video, as a member of the community. you my friend have nailed all the aspects of it and i was bewildered to find you didnt have atleast 1 million subs my friend. you are destined for greatness <3

Watching my face in the thumbnail at 10:56 hit me like a flashbang lmao, Skip's video actually did insane numbers for his first ever video, he cooked HARD, but as you said, obviously wouldn't hit 2022 levels of numbers, despite the actual event being hosted in late 2022/early 2023 Edit: Also amazing video! Was such a fun watch being part of the community and having played in nearly all of the events shown off here :)

I love this video so much well done with the editing. I also love how you use the brand new Minecraft songs from 1.21