Shocking downfall of Sky Does Minecraft

For those you that don’t know skydoesminecraft this man has literally created the Minecraft community my last video on skydoesminecraft it’s time for me to do a restart y’all and if you guys want to come along with me on the restart then please do it would be great

To have you hey everybody what’s going on I’m Adam and I’ll see you later peace there are a few on the YouTube platform who have had their content creation journey paved with as much controversy as skydoesminecraft he was once the second most subscribed gaming youtuber we’d only PewDiePie

Standing in the way of the top spot however skydoesminecraft aka Adam Dahlberg has descended the YouTube hierarchy over the previous few years ending up as a creator barely able to pull 50,000 views per video how could a downfall like this possibly happen to someone who was once considered a king

In the gaming genre was it the fact that his main game minecraft just slowly dropped in popularity over time and minecraft in general was just becoming a dying thing or was it something more profound such as the DES railing of his self-esteem following multiple mental breakdowns and failed relationships I

Can’t like hide it anymore pretend that it doesn’t exist anymore I’m depression like I have really bad depression strap yourselves in boys you are gonna need a seatbelt for this absolute train wreck of a story that we’re about to look into our story begins in the late naughties when a very

Unknown to the world Adam Dahlberg began a YouTube channel by the name of jinn the demon on the 20th of January 2008 Adams intention with this original channel was to begin posting videos on the popular game runescape while the original channel was created in January 2008 the first video

Wouldn’t be uploaded on to the channel until one year four months later in May 2009 when Adam would upload the video titled for two lols woodcutting knew hello how can I help you you see my brother is dying yes fat smelly Louis joined place disease this video turned

Out to become the beginning episode to a series that would later become – known as portal old series there were two main characters within this series called tuna guy and salmon guy I haven’t sorted its fin lately they’re really awesome right now running low on funds

I better call it my brothers salmon guy these two specific characters were played by Adams runescape character who had the name sky the kid RS which is actually an account that he had made for his sister and then took over at a later day these early videos amongst other

Videos would begin to spike Adams interest for messing around on camera and making silly videos for entertainment purposes yo mama is actor on telephone I use it for free every 30 minutes sky the kid would continue to post various comedy videos on the gin the diamond channel until he began uploading RS MVS

Or runescape music videos in June 2009 sky the kid then started to brand himself on this original channel as a quote RS MV maker and comedian which is the video style that he began to excel at during his early days on YouTube sky went from 182 subscribers in June 2009

To 1570 subscribers in February 2010 February 2010 also happened to be the same month when Sky would enter a contest hosted by machinima challenging creators to submit their funniest runescape video sky entered this competition with a video titled extreme farming posted on the 6th of February 2010 sky actually won the competition

Which provided him with extra publicity as you can see from people on his channel congratulating him on the win this was also a good indication that he was a talented content creator from the beginning well before he blew up on the platform which we’ll get to later this

Early channel also provides an insight into who Adam Dahlberg was in the beginning of his YouTube career his subscribers learned that he was born in 1993 and lived in Bellevue near Seattle on top of this his subscribers also learnt about his inspirations for beginning content creation sky stated that longtime runescape content creator

Chisel inspired him to start making content and quote wouldn’t have started making a video without him I started originally making videos of my own because there was a youtuber in particular and I remember him very well he went by the name of Chism he really inspired me to make

Videos myself Skye continued to make runescape videos throughout 2010 and well into 2011 by the 11th of November 2011 jinn the demon Skye’s origional runescape channel was up to eleven thousand one hundred and twenty seven subscribers approximately 2.5 years after originally starting to post content on top of Skye’s impressive

Subscriber count there were a few other things that were added to the channel in late 2011 that were integral to the story Skye stated in the interests section of his channel that he was interested in runescape as well as a new game that had recently started to rise in popularity called minecraft looking

Back the reason that he had put minecraft in his interests was because in February 2011 Skye had started a new youtube channel by the name of skydoesminecraft to notify everyone of this new channel a video was uploaded on June the demon called Skye the kids minecraft channel where Skye notified his viewers that

He’d been posting daily minecraft content on an alternative Channel looking back this makes sense because as we can see Jin the demon only had five uploads in 8 months leading up to the post with the low upload quantity correlating perfectly with the creation of skydoesminecraft in early 2011 which

Might have been an indicator that Skye was more interested in posting minecraft content on his new channel rather than runescape on the jinn the demon Channel Skye began this new Minecraft channel with a video called skydoesminecraft episode 1 which kick-started Skye’s first Minecraft series hey guys welcome to the first episode of skydoesminecraft

A lot of people telling me hey Skye you should uh you should do minecraft so I bought it let’s play Skye’s skin combination began as a replica of his notable runescape look being the agile top and bottom um a little shout-out to burn tube for making my back my little

Static head this video series helps Skye to polish up his let’s play entertainment and editing skills to a point where he began to gain subscribers on the channel by the time Skye had uploaded his 16th episode in the skydoesminecraft series in June 2011 he was already at 3,300 subscribers a lot

Of the channel comments at the time refer to his runescape videos so it’s likely that a lot of these subscribers had come over from his original Jin the demon runescape channel which showed that his original runescape channel wasn’t just a waste of time it was helping him with the growth of the new

Channel as the game itself minecraft began to rise in popularity the audience on YouTube began to increase with it and sky began to ride the wave of the newfound popularity in the game he was making videos on however the amount of creator’s making minecraft content on YouTube

For Sky to create a gimmick that would eventually differentiate himself from the other creators on the site sky began to call gold bars butter in the video more butter in December 2011 your house needs salted butter take the butter this would create a form of inside joke with

His fans strengthening to create a fan relationship further this video more butter was recorded with his girlfriend and fellow youtuber at the time durables or dawn for short Skye would go on to get engaged to dawn at a later date however the relationship would ultimately end before marriage but we’ll

Get to that in a little bit Skye continued to post minecraft from 2011 all the way up until April 2012 when he posted his 100th video a challenge video attempting all of the viral challenges like the cinnamon challenge the warhead challenge etc this was skydoesminecraft first IRL video on the channel by this

Point April 2012 Skye was already up to 14 thousand subscribers so it was an excellent opportunity to create a further relationship with his viewers by showing them what he looked like in real life this video performed quite well at the time gaining over 5,000 views in the

First week more than what he had been receiving on the Minecraft uploads that are being uploaded for a similar amount of time however once this IRL video was posted it was right back to the bread and butter for skydoesminecraft as he continued to post episodes for his minecraft series once again this would

Prove to be an excellent choice given that around mid 2012 is when his minecraft videos really started to take off Skyy went from 14,000 subscribers in April 2012 to 22,000 subscribers in July 2012 8,000 subscribers in three months pretty solid effort for Skye right well this was only the beginning in July 2012 an absolute neuquén often Skye’s channel going from 22,000 subscribers in July 2012 to 200,000 subscribers by the end

Of August only one month later Skye uploaded a 100,000 subscriber video on the 7th of August 2012 which was a compilation of other big youtubes at the time congratulating Skye on reaching 100,000 subs hey guys Skye here and I want to thank you all for a hundred thousand

Subscribers that is a huge deal for me however 100,000 subscribers was just the start of the growth two months later in October 2012 the skydoesminecraft was at 350 thousand subscribers and only two months after that in December 2012 he was at 600,000 subscribers the growth quite literally would not slow down the

Sky he was posting minecraft left right and center and the fans could not get enough Skye’s fans loved his videos because his video ideas were way more creative than any other creator at the time on top of this he had a light-hearted goofy personality and would make immature often childish jokes

During his videos which his younger audience at the time could relate to a prime example of this is skies and wine prank series beginning in September 2012 where he would constantly grief and prank his girlfriend dawn as well as other minecraft creators for a laugh what was that nothing nothing because

It’s pretty look I just did some home improvements that clip basically gives you a perfect idea of what Skye was like in his videos and the audience loved it in fact the audience loved it so much that after 600,000 subscribers in December 2012 he hit 1 million only one

Month later in January 2013 sky uploaded a video thanking his followers for such a crazy milestone stating that he never thought he would hit 1 million of you for 1 million subscribers however hitting 1 million subscribers in January was really only the tip of the iceberg how crazy 2013 would be for skydoesminecraft

2 million 3 million 5 million 7 million the opportunity to sing and be on the panel at Minecon 2013 skydoesminecraft in early 2013 with 1 million subscribers he was the 140 second most subscribed channel on YouTube by mid-2013 he was the 58th most subscribed channel on

YouTube and by the end of 2013 he was the 20th most subscribed channel on YouTube with 7 million subscribers he was gaining a hundred to 150 million views per month likely earning him anywhere from a hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand per month in had revenue alone

The videos were being pumped out daily each easily gaining over 1 million views with many gaining over 10 million views such as the cops-and-robbers series created with team crafted seems like absolutely nothing could go wrong for Sky at the time he had the world at his fingertips however this wasn’t the case something

Did go wrong the sky sky and dawn ended their relationship while engaged to each other in June 2013 for undisclosed reasons sky later opened up about their relationship saying that he had paid dawn twenty five thousand dollars and bought her a car to stay in the relationship with him because he quote

Didn’t want the money to go away assumably meaning that he needed her in his videos to continue getting views now I’m just gonna go out full 100% clarity I did Don dirty I was a I was a stupid kid who was receiving a lot of money and

I didn’t want the money to go away I paid her 25 grand I gave her a car and I basically had her delete her social media sky also roughly outlined that dawn and sky shared different goals which caused them to fight a lot we would scream at each other we would yell

At each other because we were two people who had goals and ideas of what we wanted to do with their lives sometimes they wouldn’t matter sometimes we’d yell sometimes we’d scream it was a relationship dawn stated that the relationship ended because it wasn’t working out but that

Seems self-evident if sky was paying her money just to stay in the relationship with him however the break-up didn’t appear to reduce the full steam ahead attitude that sky had at the time this was displayed clearly asked I continued to upload videos throughout 2013 and into 2014 with very minimal slowdown in mid-2013

As mentioned previously the growth continued into late 2013 and well into 2014 however before we go into the growth of 2014 we should mention something else that happened in Sky’s personal life following the breakup with Dawn in 2013 sky began dating high school friend and later youtuber ELISA

In early 2014 Sky had stated at the time that he believed that they ended up being a perfect couple for each other which is something to remember for when we get into the downfall part of the video we wind up being like a like a perfect match for each other

So let’s do a little timeline check it’s early 2014 skies begun dating ELISA he’s at 7 million subs and he’s the most popular minecraft youtuber on the whole platform sky then hit 9 million subscribers in March 2014 uploading a thank you video which perfectly displayed how much his

Life had changed after blowing up on YouTube I used to work at Subway too now like I’m entertaining people for a living and that’s that’s a that’s an insane thing to think about him and as as well like you guys have also helped me emotionally and and stability wise

You guys have done so much to help me like Skyy continue to post Minecraft content all the way throughout 2014 finishing the year just shy of 11 million subscribers in December 2014 at this point skydoesminecraft was the second most subscribed gaming channel behind only PewDiePie by the end of 2014

He also peaked as the 11th most subscribed channel on all of YouTube and naturally the end of 2014 would bring us to examine the year of 2015 on the 3rd of February 2015 sky announced that he would be getting married as well as having a child with his then girlfriend ELISA two months

Later ELISA would upload a video on her channel serious nonsense titled baby-gender-reveal where ELISA revealed that Skye and her were having a baby boy following these announcements Skyy continued to post Minecraft and grow steadily and subscribers not nearly as much as 2013 and 2014 but still by a

Pretty reasonable figure going from 11 million subscribers when Sky announced he was becoming a father to 11.5 million subscribers in September 2015 when the baby was born Alyssa and Skye welcomed Mason Dahlberg on the 3rd of September 2015 at this point everything seemed to be going perfect for skydoesminecraft

Again it almost seemed like nothing could possibly go wrong then 2016 came around which is when the downfall really started to begin for skydoesminecraft by 2016 sine started to pop up here and there indicating that the sky wasn’t as interested in Minecraft as he might have been previously he’d been playing it for

Almost 5 years so it makes sense as to why he might be feeling a bit burnt out by 2016 this began to reflect in the content on the channel with many saying that the content was looking tired and didn’t feel the same as it used to

Possibly due to a change in the YouTube landscape as well as a decline in the popularity of the game by mid-2016 Skye reached 12 million subscribers I mean 12 million recruits is just a number I never thought I would ever hit ever but it was clear that he wasn’t really

Enjoying making the content anymore this was then reflected when on the 30th of June 2016 only 27 days after hitting 12 million subscribers Skye tweeted that he would be quitting skydoesminecraft this tweet was an absolute shock for the community the number one minecraft channel on YouTube would no longer be posting

Minecraft anymore following this announcement that Skye was leaving YouTube the channel went from 12.1 – million subscribers to 12 point Oh 1 million subscribers I drop of 110,000 subscribers over the course of four days Skye then uploaded the video titled let’s get serious for a minute one month

Later in July 2016 where he announced that he would no longer be censored and would begin swearing again on the channel I’m going to start swearing again in my commentaries and then my videos well I might have seen this from his perspective as him being more real

With his fans it really just came off as Skye wasn’t willing to put in the effort to appeal to his target audience any more children Skye seemed to disregard the fact that being uncensored would make his content really only appeal to an older audience and this was never really going to work

Considering there wasn’t much of an older audience watching minecraft in mid-2016 it seems as though sky just decided to throw out everything he had learnt over the last five years in exchange for being himself on camera a move that might have been comfortable for sky but would ultimately become increasingly questionable as sky

Subscriber count’ would continue to drop despite tweeting about quitting minecraft in 2016 and losing subscribers Skye didn’t stop posting minecraft content there was no slowdown seen anywhere however the damage was already done loads of these subscribers were suddenly aware that Adam didn’t really enjoy making the content anymore and it

Started to harm the goodwill of the channel the views began to drop there’s something weird that seems to happen with YouTube channels when the original creator clearly doesn’t enjoy making videos as much as they used to it kind of comes off as fake and that the content creator is just continuing the

Videos for the views it’s a hard phenomena to explain but I’m sure all of you yourself have felt it when a content creator you’ve watched suddenly announces that they don’t actually enjoy making the content anymore suddenly you have way less desire to watch well this reflected very heavily for

Skye in May 2016 just before the announcement it was rare for Skye to get under 1 million views on the video but by September 2016 only four months later Skye was barely averaging 300,000 views per video a drop of around 70 percent it seemed as those Skye’s channel started

To regress as quickly as it rose to fame in the first place after Skye’s subscribers initially dropped from twelve point one two to twelve point oh one they slowly grew again hitting 12 point oh nine in September 2016 however this twelve point oh nine number would become infamous considering it was

The highest he would get to before beginning to rapidly decline and subscribers every month up until this day but let’s go back to Skye as a person there was an observable change in the personality of Skye throughout 2016 he went from this super happy encouraging high self-esteem dude with

The world at his fingertips to an Internet sad boy who seemingly needed his audience to validate his mopey feelings all the time there was always something depressing in his updates one video sticks out to me in particular titled let’s talk about some things posted in November 2016 the

First half of the video is just Skye complaining about how hard his life is I’m gonna be completely honest with you guys have been going through a kind of a rough time recently I’ve been not the happiest that I could be ironic because I try to preach you know

Happiness and well-being all the time but I’ve been going through a lot and then the second half of the video is Skyy bragging about how wealthy has become because of YouTube and then playing it off as I’m just being real with you guys I didn’t want to hide

Anything it bothers me that a lot of the time youtubers are not transparent with the fact that they are wealthy I’ve been able to help a lot of people I’ve been able to financially support a lot of people it’s almost like sky went full bougie mode and just started hosting his

Own YouTube pity party from 2016 his audience wanted someone they could look up to not a guy who’s complaining about how hard his life is and humble bragging about how much money he has he was trying to come off as real but it just came off as low-status behavior and

Serious approval seeking again it’s hard to explain for this video but the vibe was just off it wasn’t the same as it used to be perhaps it was the fact that he introduced so much of the business aspect and his personal life into the videos as well as constantly talking

About his team who was helping him make his videos as well as who he had employed etc that’s why I started to sky media in the first place we because of you guys we now have several people who are employed and have jobs and are doing what they love doing

For a living as well it seemed as though the old sky does MINECRAFT just having a good time playing games and uploading stuff had turned into this corporate Adam Dahlberg we had a team trying to pump out as much content as possible for as much growth as possible a lot of the

Fun aspect had fallen out of his content my content is changing my personality I can feel shifting I think that’s just a natural thing that happens with the growth and it’s understandable that Sky wanted to be more real with his fans but it’s questionable as to whether this was

A good idea or not considering his views and subscribers would only continue to drop from here then 2017 came around 2017 will be an amazing year on my channel which as a year was very similar to the fantastic year he had in 2013 however in the opposite way

Like 2013 being the craziest year for Sky at a positive way 2017 was the craziest year for Sky in a negative way reason I did this the year began with sky uploading a video called we don’t talk anymore where he announced that he ELISA were no longer together later

Announcing that it was because she had cheated on him I know that it’s no secret anymore that me and ELISA have separated and you know along with that we have a kid so there’s a lot of things happening on the personal end of the spectrum that makes things a little bit

Difficult obviously this was a problem and likely took a toll on Skye’s personal life which would ultimately reflect in the personality betrayed within his videos Skye then uploaded the video titled important on the 20th of January 2017 explaining that who would be going away for six weeks and someone

Else will be posting content for him on the channel I’m probably gonna be putting videos down to like three videos a week while I’m gone I’m gonna be gone for six weeks so hopefully you know you guys will wait for me until I get back this video like his previous update

Videos began we’re talking about how depressed he was and how hard his life was but just kind of like I’m depressed all the time again signing off the video with how he wanted to be real with his audience about what was going on this time I kind of just want to be

Completely honest with you guys cuz I mean I feel like that’s rare nowadays in the YouTube scene by looking back it seems as though he was just digging his own grave his audience didn’t care about how depressed he was it’s a burden to know about that it’s uncomfortable to

Have someone tell you how to press they are and the goal of YouTube is to make your audience feel comfortable not uncomfortable this was just another nail in the coffin for Skye he was continually distancing himself from his audience by burdening them with private details of his mental health and

Personality which reflected in his subscriber and view account given that they would only continue to fall from here sky then got back with Alyssa in March 2017 however only three months later in June 2017 Skye found out that Alyssa had been cheating on him again the details

Are murky and nothing is confirmed but it appears as though it was with seven different people five youtubers and two friends how many youtubers did she try to hook up with when you were together youtubers or five how many friends too so there’s literally seven people following this it

Almost seemed as though Skye was going insane he began talking about giving his channel away and laughed about it then posted a tweet on the 30th of June announcing that he would be deleting his channel this was then followed by a video announcing that Skye would no longer be posting content on

Skydoesminecraft and focusing primarily on producing music from the 6th of July 2017 I’ve made a new channel I’m gonna be dropping music on there because music has been my new passion for quite a bit of time now and unlike a year previous this time it was for real he went

Totally quiet on the Minecraft front and began posting music beginning in July 2017 however Skye was still having major personal problems mainly relating to his relationship in September 2017 Skye came on drama alert to talk about the personal issues he was having mainly relating to the custody of his son Skye

Basically had a full-blown mental breakdown an indicator of where his head was out by late 2017 I’m not gonna let this happen to me because if Following this on the 31st of December 2017 sky announced that he will be deleting all the videos from his channel on the 1st of January 2018 if you can’t tell by the title of the video I’m deleting skydoesminecraft on the 2nd of January 2018 sky and

Listen to all of the videos on the skydoesminecraft channel I moved that’s still not fully understood by a lot of the people to this day perhaps it was because he wanted to move on and not be associated with the younger audience as he was becoming a music artist

Regardless less than a month later on the 30th of January 2018 sky uploaded a video titled minecraft question mark where sky announced that he would be making Minecraft videos again all of the unlisted videos were reposted in the same day only 28 days after unlisting them perhaps it was because Sky’s music

Wasn’t as successful as he might have hoped his bow was said extremely high considering his previous success on YouTube so it would have been hard to match his original expectations regardless sky came back to uploading minecraft content but as mentioned previously the damage was already done his subscribers were already dropping

His reputation was shot following the public drama with his ex-girlfriend ELISA his subscribers had figured out that he had an absolute train wreck of a personal life and wasn’t really that fun minecraft guy that was betrayed in his videos the goodwill of the channel was in absolute tatters he continued to post

Minecraft on the channel but by 2019 wasn’t even cracking a hundred thousand views he had shown his subscribers that he probably wasn’t in a position with his mental health to regrow the channel like he did in his early days of YouTube he had shown ease of you as his true

Colors which in many cases can help a creator but it seemed to have the opposite effect for Sky 2019 proceeded and he basically did the same video style that he had done for the years previously just with 50,000 views per video instead of 5 million on the 28th of November 2019

Sky uploaded a video titled my channel dead basically updating his fans on where he was at and acknowledging his extreme dropping views but to be honest this video was just another bag for people to share the videos common and turn on the Bell a tiny part of the

Video was just saying new videos coming soon which would be expected anyway then two straight minutes of just asking people to like comment turn on notifications tell their friends anything to try and save his rapidly dying channel as well as an indication of Skye’s lack of confidence in the

Future of his channel then more recently Skye’s just continue to upload minecraft for often less than 50,000 views as well as uploading low-effort quick uploads like reacting to my old videos hoping to salvage a few more clicks before his channel completely disintegrates into nothing a very sad possibly irreparable

Sign of the times for skydoesminecraft So then it creates the closing argument what BOTS skydoesminecraft undone what caused the downfall how can I create a possibly go from the second most subscribed gamer behind PewDiePie to someone barely able to pull 30,000 views by 2020 well if we look at from his peak

To now it seems as though most of it relates to the drama between sky and his girlfriend as well as a drop in the popularity of minecraft minecraft was failing his views were failing his subscribers were failing his channel was failing there was serious need for innovation on Sky’s channel by 2016 but

Instead of innovating with his channel he kind of got caught up in all the drama between his ex-girlfriend and personal life he decided to take the route of trying to get his son back instead of focusing on his channel which is completely understandable I think he should value his own son more

Than a YouTube channel of course however why did this have to be a choice between the YouTube channel and his son why did he make all of this public why was this done via Twitter destroying his YouTube channel was done in the process of getting his son back but why couldn’t he

Just have continued posting videos and sorted out the personal problems in private he also blames Alissa for losing brand deals over public Twitter fights but he was just as involved as she was in fact Skye started them while then it creates another question is it worth destroying a 12 million subscriber

YouTube channel making well over seven figures in order to intangibly get back at someone publicly over Twitter Skye seem to think so but regardless that’s not what Skye will be remembered for by many people Skye will be remembered for making people laugh in Minecraft when they think of their childhood they’ll

Think of Skye that’s a legacy a legacy that should be left behind so regardless of whatever has happened in Skye’s personal life thanks for all the memories man best of luck for whatever you might have planned in your future and from all of us thank you we hope you

Find the peace within your personal life that you’ve always desired you