SkyBoi – History of Minecraft SMPs in 10 Minutes

I’m gonna build an illegal Minecraft furnace in order to ban my enemies this is a modern Minecraft SMP video but go back 10 years and they looked a little more like this you know what’s missing from the Hub is just an easy way to get out to another

Smps have existed long before people started making videos on them the oldest known survival multiplayer server SMP is Minecraft online it was released back in 2010 and it’s been running with the same map ever since Minecraft online may have been the first but it’s not as well known as 2b2t launched shortly after

2b2t is famous for having absolutely no rules and as a result a ton of slurs over its 12-year history it’s been played by over 780 000 unique people while there may be an absolute immensity of videos on the server now back then almost all Minecraft content on YouTube

Was in the form of Let’s Plays one such let’s play YouTuber was a dude named good Boulder fist but unlike everyone else he wasn’t satisfied just playing by himself kind of starting to get stale meanwhile totally unrelated survival multiplayer happened to have just been released and so good sport of

Unfortunate timing led to the first private YouTuber SMP just two months after survival multiplayer was even added his server was called Mind crack for some reason it still exists but I would be surprised if you’ve ever heard about it that’s because many of the members gone to a new server after

Minecraft changed the rules and this new server was hermitcraft if there’s anything we know for sure it’s that hermitcraft has withstood the test of time despite being founded in 2012 it remained popular for the 11 years since spanning nine whole seasons and thousands of hours of content it’s safe

To say hermitcraft is incredibly iconic and one of the pillars of the Minecraft Community it defined a whole era of SMP videos the formula now was to start a server with a bunch of friends who already have a huge audience then just play Minecraft with them and record it

Everyone’s fan base then grows together and it’s like a free money glitch okay so hermitcraft is obviously working how would we keep this going I mean we just had a ton of mods attack of the B team was the first popular modded SMP and

When I say modded I mean it it had 60 mods covering every possible genre Tech magic Adventure while that number isn’t quite as insane nowadays at the time most computers could barely even run it other servers were started and the s p Community was thriving however the end

Of 2014 marked its downfall over the next few years prominent members of the Minecraft Community like El lionmaker were exposed for some really [ __ ] up [ __ ] on top of that the Minecraft fandom was growing up like our friends at school would bully us for still enjoying

It do you play Minecraft well I mean not not really much anymore I mostly just I code for it yeah I was really proud of that one Minecraft was seriously on the decline and the game was seen as a joke but just when it seemed it would die for good two

YouTubers saw a potential no one else could oh my God bars meet call me Carson you’ve probably heard of him or maybe you haven’t I don’t [ __ ] know he and his significantly less famous friend C scoop decided to randomly start an SMP they invited a bunch of their friends

But like this was unheard of these were cool YouTubers not stupid Minecraft players but nonetheless it would be named SMP live the name derives from a rule setting that you have to be live while you play and as a bonus that technically makes it the first SMP with

A Twist who everyone’s genuine surprise the s p was a massive success turns out no matter what game you’re playing putting a bunch of funny people on the server and forcing them to make content bound to create some bangers it wasn’t just viewers who took notes DJ killer keemstar they’re making Minecraft

Videos and they’re popular it can’t be Minecraft is cringe take a look for yourself boss clout quick make me a Minecraft server hey can you join my Minecraft event thanks hey uh can I join Zoo fine whatever and thus Minecraft Monday was formed I won’t talk too much about it but basically it

Was like an event with a bunch of mini games and also money this is generally how it went wait I killed him by accident so there I was competed in a Minecraft tournament for five thousand dollars one suddenly Minecraft Monday may seem inconsequential but the relationships it Formed eventually led to SMP Earth

By this point the reputation of Minecraft was well and truly revived and it was proven that smps could still be successful so a former s p Live member Wilbur soot decided to launch SMP Earth the map puts a recreation of Earth allowing members to fight over different real-life countries SMB Earth functions

Similarly to SMP live but with a new competitive spirit that hasn’t been seen before this is something that later smps would push to the extreme eventually it did end but the time spent together on the server fostered relationships that would later form into the dream SMP dream’s Innovative Minecraft Manhunt

Videos absolutely blew up with the series as a whole having over 500 million views which would be insane enough but I actually lied it has 1.3 billion during his meteoric rise he quietly set up a survival server for him and his friends to chill on and over the

Next few weeks the server grew from four to a modest seven members during those few weeks a nagging little boy was begging to join could not join no can I please join no [ __ ] you can I please join fine as long as you don’t say anything when Tommy first joined he was

Immediately banned for grieving but instead of keeping it that way dream decided to take a different approach you didn’t know if you wanted him on there I didn’t I was like no I don’t really want him on here he’s kind of he’s kind of a troll maybe that’d be a good thing he

Joins and he’s Troll and that’s kind of like a different aspect this is what turned dreams peaceful survival server into what we now know is the dream SMP once Tommy was allowed back in he started conflicts that developed into multi-month storylines and that combined with the rapidly growing list of

YouTubers on the server meant that the fan base grew like nothing Minecraft had ever seen before the dream SMP Minecraft fans just sort of watch the content they enjoyed but now they’ve become chronically obsessed they changed their Twitter profile picture to Tommy and its face they’d wear dreams ugly it’s merged

In public and they’d make gross aerobic fan fictions about sapnap X reader as the server continued to be popular the story became more and more tightly scripted and they continued to grow by streaming constantly so the dream S P stands wouldn’t have to go a second without hearing their favorite comfort streamer’s voice

But as successful as all of this was eventually something was bound to go wrong in 2021 only six new members were added as opposed to the 29 added in 2020. on top of this two of the most beloved members stopped playing and eventually after a slow decline it

Officially ended in April of this year but hang on a phenomenon this massive doesn’t just die because a few people quit what actually happened during the service Peak the dream s p fan base had a huge portion of women in non-binary people and after a dream at aikishi who

We later found out allegedly grimmed over a dozen little girls the fan base was fuming several of the women on the server have also explained how they felt like some of the other members and even their own fans have been sexist whether intentionally or not can you tell my

Researchers are feminist yet anyways these problems combined with the immense hate from outside of the community eventually led to the slow decline of the server there was also internal conflict between some of the members that probably contributed as a result people tried making their own smps but

None of them really caught on that was at least until the creation of the lifesteal SMP wait hang on that’s better roughly a year after dream SMP started mapic and jpeg 2 up and coming hundred days YouTubers decided to make their own SMP originally the plan was this

Lifesteal was actually going to be a hardcore server which means you log on and if you die you’re out it wasn’t really original if you know what I mean but everything changed when they invited a YouTuber named parrot I had this crazy idea you basically have hearts and

Hearts are like the server’s currency if you die to someone else they gain a heart you lose a heart so two creators jpx and mapen invited me and I was like all right if you want this to succeed I have an idea Paris concept was important because it meant whenever someone died

They’d lose a heart and it actually mattered but even if the concept helped it wasn’t the main reason life still worked like I teased earlier lifesteal put a massive focus on PVP and competition which are just naturally super fun to watch but after season one ended the server’s management kind of

Fell apart so as you all know we really need a new owner why what did I do bro you literally use slash TP and went into spectator mode yeah hey Order in the Court I’m out so since May pick up uses admin commands and jpegs just quit paradone’s the

Server now jury dismissed season two was when the server really began to take off having several new creators and beginning to capture the remains of the dream SMP audience they’ve honestly kind of been thriving ever since later on they pioneered the idea of video applications leading to Bangers like

This and bangers like this my application okay technically neither of those are lifestyle applications but you’re not going to notice you’re probably watching this on the toilet hang on though if they’re lifestyle applications what are they lots of people having seen the success of Life seal naturally wanted a

Piece for themselves and since the content mostly relies on a really cool idea rather than the person executing it anyone can get views by just copying what lifesteal does this content continued on like this for a while until all the SMP YouTubers eventually realized they didn’t even need to try

They could just fake it faking videos was so much faster and the fact that they weren’t limited by what actually happened meant that they could sometimes get more views than lifestyle themselves eventually though and this is weird these videos just sort of stopped I genuinely don’t know why I think it’s

Very possible if people started making them again they’d still work but regardless all the scripted YouTubers began to transition to more genuine content on actual smps and that’s where I come in I made a bunch of videos on the Bliss SMP but videos like mine could realistically never rival lifesteal’s

Massive lead over every other server I was like basically living in their Shadow One servers like Bliss started gaining notoriety tons of little smps were made usually by by kids the SMP space became incredibly fragmented and since this actually happened to be right around when dream SMP closed there was a

Huge opportunity for a new server to be made and so a former member of the dream SMP named quackity decided to step in and create the Q SMP his plan was to have both English and Spanish-speaking creators that way he could tap into double the audience it’s honestly really

Smart just Weeks Later dream announced his own multilingual server dream however included live translation and supported every language qsmp lacked why could they not to be outdone then revealed they’ve been working on these features for months and effectively forced dream’s entire server to shut down yeah honestly I’m just as tired as

You are but that’s where everything’s sort of at today three main communities lifesteal qsmp and hermitcraft all basically existing in harmony each with their own members enjoying making content with their friends if there’s anything I’ve learned from making this video it’s that the s p Community is all

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