Solidarity REACTS To “How One Player made the Best Minecraft Server”

So this person is called Anna magician and they made a video called how one player made the best Minecraft server grian making the life Series so they made a video this video has 285 wait I’ll scroll down 285 000 views it was posted 11 days ago

So I I really really wanted to watch this video um I haven’t seen it so I’m excited to see it it’s 12 minutes long um so I thought we’d just react to it to to each other um if you’re watching on the short Channel subscribe thank you thank you so

Much uh I’m about to reach year two in stardew five dollars for mystery thank you so much dude geez man year two man you’ve been playing right let’s watch it together and let’s enjoy regular Minecraft player he likes Prime his friends flying around with elytra and generally goofing off oh and he also

Started this girl wait hold on you see those were clips from the life series just how and why these are contenders for the best Minecraft servers ever we have to go back wow it’s around the start of 2021 and green is the best Minecraft servers mate are you having a bubble bath would

You guys agree with that holy moly that’s a that’s a line to hit that’s a that’s a bar that is a ball right there I think I think the server is pretty cool though um yeah he’s looking at the state of Minecraft YouTube everyone seems to be making pretty much the same stuff

Hardcore series 100 days and he’s been making horror craft videos for nearing on three years now all his other series build swap tutorials they’ve kind of died out and green has an idea what if he made something new something different something that hasn’t been done before what if he introduced a

Completely new idea to the entire Minecraft YouTube space and so green came up he adapted hey if you’ve got to live on YouTube you got to adapt that’s what he did with the SMP that started all of this third life the concept is pretty simple a bunch of

Your favorite YouTubers trapped in a hardcore multiplayer server with a tiny World Order who are only given three lives on their first two lives everything is normal but on their third life hence the name they become hostile and have to try and kill every other player on the server last person

Standing wins third life was extremely different for green I’ve never played any kind of hardcore series ever and it was definitely a shot in the dark this series had a bunch of new things for an audience that basically only watched hermitcraft at that point no mega builds

No huge projects new people held a new server with different rules third life wasn’t nothing and that made it a risk if it didn’t pay off William would have spent all that time as well as every other third life members time on a server that just didn’t work true the

Gamble of Epic Proportions this it was a gamble but I feel like the way we the way that Graham put it right at the start is there’s a limit it is a short series it lasts between it lasts I reckon maximum Eight Episodes so even if it didn’t work

For the third life we knew that that it was only a short amount of time so if it didn’t work eh we go back to what we’re doing if it did work holy moly we got a short series here that like that is doing so well and everyone loves it the

The reason yeah I feel like some of the attraction is because it’s a short series the reason it works even better than a normal series is because you know every episode is so much time recorded at the same time it’s compacted in down to like a 30 to 40 minute video so every

Week you’re getting a full video of content and it only lasts up to eight weeks long it it paid off by the way I feel like that concept of like short amount of time for a series is like more popular do you know what I mean not guaranteed to work at all

But it did I said it at the same time I think up with nearly five million views on the first video and starting one of Minecraft YouTube’s most talked about series ever it didn’t even stop there though because after the success of third life the members took a break for

Making another SMP last life which argumented even better than third life it innovated on the premise adding much more drama intention to what was already one of the most emotionally charged series around and even added pearlescent Moon and mumbled the mix last life was in my opinion the analysis and Lizzy

They just they just missed Lizzy though they just missed Lizzy there I want to point that out best life series to date and we’ll get to why in just a second because there has been one last series double life now why do I think last life was the best of the

Three it’s fairly simple actually like I was saying last life innovated on the third life concept and adding just a few mechanics the number of lives each player got at the start wasn’t just free anymore it was randomized from two to six and you’re able to give your life to

Another player if you wanted to like trading the last change is the most interesting one once every session one or more random non-red players people who would be friendly normally would be selected to become the boogeyman the boogeyman was the only person who knew who they were and unless they could kill

One of their fellow friendlies one of their fellow yellow or green names by the end of the session they would instantly become a red name the next time they logged up brutal um bro let’s be honest to be fair I do think limited life is like green has innovated it again which he’s

Just a he’s just a genius he’s done that again but like last life was it was it was the jam it was the bee’s knees double life was good double life was good but like the introduction of the boogeyman the I really re and I think everyone loved the randomized

Lives like from two to six like man but I’m glad that we’re in limited life we’ve brought back the boogeyman um concept because it’s such a good one do you know what I mean um yeah sorry are you the boogie man no why why I’m not the boogeyman are you sure

I am I’m the Boogie Man the reason this made last life so interesting however was because in the initial stages of their life tension built up very slowly with no one on red lights there was no imminent danger and the series was fairly normal whereas in last life there

Was always that chance for a sudden twist took her there was always some sort of reveal or betrayal every single episode it guaranteed that every session had at least one interesting and drama-filled storyline yeah but impacted the entire server as friends struggled with the idea of betraying their own to

Save themselves and every non-boogeyman player was basically playing among us while also being in the series the tension the reveals and storylines that these mechanics added to last life made the most enjoyable and memorable of the three series that spice it up even more before we move on though can we talk

About how the naming of the series could not have been worse like with the first one being third life and the second one being last life and the last one being double life it’s a mess but all three of these series hey you together could it’s not our foul all right

This is not our fault we we we thought it was gonna be a one-off series secretly see sorry Kirsty we’re reacting stuffers secretly what we’re actually doing it’s just confusing you we’re doing it on purpose I’m not even gonna lie I’m gonna break the fourth wall they’re literally naming the series just to

Annoy the community just to let you know that’s what’s Happening Here that is what is happening here I’m not lying to you they’re doing it on purpose all right I’ve broke the fourth wall here easily be considered as one of the best Minecraft content SPS of all time

They delivered on their premise superb it performed extremely well left an impact on their viewers and didn’t stick around longer than they needed to at all they were never milked for views so with all of that context let’s talk about how it was done you see the people who

Played on the life smps were all Green’s friends which thanks to the side of YouTube that grid is on meant that most if not all of them mainly played Minecraft in a very Cooperative wholesome manner these are people that were begged to collab regularly and were usually pretty solitary and made content

On their own or with a small group of friends but because they made similar content to each other they shared a huge amount of viewers but didn’t make content on the same server and so the member list alone Drew interest because there were so many interactions and collaborations that people had been

Asking for for years yeah there were regular faces of course to help ease viewers in and the fact that these people were friends made collabs even more natural made them live off the standards of the viewers who had been hyping them up in their minds for years now I’m sorry Graham

I love your back laughs even if that wasn’t enough isn’t it isn’t it weird that I don’t know how this works but isn’t it weird that the life series I feel like worked better but everyone wanted these creators to like cross over and collaborate the the life series worked better

And turned out better then the hermitcraft slash Empire’s crossover and I wonder why that is do you know what I mean I feel like the life Series in its separate entity with all the creators coming together on a one separate server worked better than the crossover and I don’t really know

Why that is but it did I don’t know I’m not I’m not TR I’m not sure why do you guys want do you guys know what I mean I’m trying to I’m trying to put it in in good words but maybe I’m not just saying it right live series just way

More chaotic it’s the chaos I think that people want the chaos maybe yeah yeah maybe I think the crossover was awesome too is just different yeah yeah maybe maybe Martin Martin’s in the live series bro yo I’m saying it next SMP I’m in Martin is coming with me he needs to be

In a he needs to be in a long-term SMP I’ve said this the whole time man needs to be in a long long term SMP he’s too good he’s too good at everything he does to not be in a long-term SMP um he needs to be in everything right

Let’s continue YouTubers that you were used to seeing buildings they were taking Martin with us the life series were ingenious because they took away everything that could have facilitated these types of playstyles the normal friendships that we were used to turn into weary alliances or conversely bonds

That would never break no matter what the series has a much more serious and real kind of potent emphasized even more by the scrappy nature of the homes and houses the members would live in cobbled together with limited resources a far cry from the luxurious Mega bases on

Servers like hermitcraft or Empires just like the very premise of the life Series this was a breath of fresh air something new something different something that didn’t feel stale or played out even Within These creative spaces and it may read the series unpredictable without the safety enough to their Limitless

Resources and insane gear these players were much more fallible they made mistakes I remember that I’ve never seen before so it was pretty literally writing fan fiction for the viewers putting their favorite skunk leads on scrimmlows into situations that they would never normally get into excuse me scrunklies and scrim Leo what what

What was that word seen before green was pretty literally writing fan fiction for the viewers putting their favorite scrum please on scribblows into situations that they were scranklies and scrimlows what never normally get into and seeing how they would react the series itself was great but it always felt like you

Never knew what was just around the corner or who would reveal themselves as an evil mastermind Burger King That is where the next part of all this comes in because that was Etho who’s usually pretty down to earth yelling into the mic with excitement as he gets a kill because of the inherent drama of the series like lastly for example the actual emotion and excitement caused by

The series is very real it’s not as much role play anymore but it has that aspect meaning that everyone from Joel who barely engages in lore on the main lore server that he’s a part of to Ren who is well ren red what have I done get personally invested

In series to get genuinely excited which means that all the tension and drama that’s built because of the series was well as real as it could be it was true emotion which obviously resonates with the viewers a lot more since they’re used to the true emotion of the creators

In other videos sessions are also all recorded at the same time every week with every member playing for the whole time meaning that for the duration of that session no one knows anything behind the scenes thanks to videos being posted earlier late so yeah experience that same suspense with the audience and

React naturally to it they don’t have to fake anything you are no I am the fact that sessions are recorded once a week coming together also means that every element is always in play you can’t wait for someone to log off and sneak into their base or lay a trap they

Could always return at any point making the active let’s say trapping someone else’s face that much more interesting if you do it alone you run the risk of them coming back but if you get a friend to distract them your friend might betray you and the inherent suspense of

The series only grows with each new element the fact that they are all recorded at the same time as well also means that it didn’t die out like other smps might where one or two players stop playing and slowly the s p dies Everyone is always playing recording for a fairly

Short but intense period of time altogether also meant that the release date for videos became something of a community event everyone chose what they’re doing to go watch a new last live video and discuss it afterwards it was a weekly series that everyone was talking about it’s the model which works

For huge networks like HBO and it got to the point where people who knew nothing about even hermitcraft were convinced I didn’t actually think of it like that why did I not think of it like that bro we do we drop episodes like TV shows drop episodes on the day

And I get annoyed by that and that’s exactly what we’re doing I am HBO I’m HBO I’ve become something I’ve never wanted to become oh my gosh we’re HBO oh gosh oh my oh my gosh we’re HBO the live series is HBO oh gosh oh no oh no Jesus

We wouldn’t be if we released it like different days but because we release it the same day at like near enough the same time with HBO we’re HBO and still watch it by just how interesting the discussion around it because adding on to that because of how short and high intensity each session

Was as well as how short the series themselves were all the life series were extremely easy to binge if you want to get into watching halfway through a season it would usually take less than a few hours to get completely up to speed that’s that’s cool and fantastic

Community rehabs but that last Point might make you wonder though if there’s so little content wouldn’t people get bored in between episodes surely the series will be forgotten quickly if there’s only one episode a week and you’d be completely right but there wasn’t only one activity every single member would release an episode

Every week right I mean with every week five or six different episodes with a different Viewpoint and a different story will be released a concept that is so fascinating that’s basically the whole gimmick of the knives out movies you see a set of events once with one

Bit of information and you build up your ideas and beliefs around that and then suddenly you are told a huge shocking piece of information that completely changes it that’s so good that he’s related to knives out I didn’t even think of it like that we’re knives out

Everything and see the same events again but in a completely different way at the same point in five different episodes Emily thanks for the five so thank you uniquely the only exception of this being that people in Atlantis tend to have similar videos you could definitely catch up on the live series

By only watching one perspective I can fully experience all of it and experience all the emotional highs and lows you’d have to watch more than one POV meaning not only that everyone on the server got more views but there was that much more content and depth the

Story that was being furthered each week the life series also weren’t completely milked for Content like other smps could end up being even though they could have conceivably gone on for much longer the creators inherently understood that keeping it short would mean that every episode mattered that it would never

Feel like it was stale or getting too slow that every moment felt like it had meaning this is also helped even more by the fact that well no one on the server is insanely good at PVP right the people who were feared excuse me more knowledge

Of the game people who could plan and theoretically outweight their opponents but in terms of pure PVP skill the lower skill level of basically the entire server as opposed to say a server like lifesteal SMP meant that every fight could always change with a good crit or

A lucky bow shot or just the element of surprise uh what on Earth foreign that’s what he meant that is what he meant the lack of access to an enchantment table furthered this not only creating an interesting bargaining ship as well as other things like sugarcane and sand in later series and

Wild card element but ensuring that enchantments were hard to obtain and gear was almost always pretty bad that plus golden apples being banned meant that even though some traps weren’t completely lethal or 100 foolproof they could still have a meaningful outcome and have the smart and the Trapper be

Paid off in a satisfying way it meant that every single moment mattered every episode every story mean every character genuine and it all felt necessary there was no padding for longer videos everything was there for a reason and served its purpose beautifully all these elements of a well thought out SMP and a

Tight-knit group of beloved creators coming together to create what is in my opinion one of the best Minecraft smps of all time and to win them you’d have to be one of the very best or the plan that was completely foolproof apply fun that you can watch in its entirety over here subscribe

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