The Team Crafted Story: Fake Friends & Fallen Idols

Minecraft it’s one of the most popular video games of all time enjoyed by players of all ages the simple nature of the game and the endless possibilities make it appealing to an endless number of secondary works namely the creation of video content all right what’s going on guys

Um i’m here playing minecraft which is a pretty awesome game i was turned on to it by adam c nanners and hello beginning in 2012 the first generation of minecraft let’s players grew their own fame parallel to the game’s explosion in popularity connecting with millions of viewers around the world with that explosion

Also came the creation of one of the formative youtube groups titled team crafted names like asf jerome deadlocks the bayesian canadian husky mudkips minecraft universe sundi and skydesminecraft would become the team’s most recognizable members collaborating on hundreds of videos and building a brand around the culture of the game

With the group generating millions in revenue and being at the top of the youtube ladder it’s likely they all knew that someday it would come to an end with their stardom fading his viewers lost interest in their personalities and turned their gaze to newer fads but it would be impossible to predict just

How bad things would get the story of the rise and fall of youtube groups is one we hear over and over again and retellings on the platform and at first i expected the story of team crafted to merely be another average arc that is what most people will tell you

After all instead what i found is one of the most tragic stories in internet history filled with eccentric characters corrupted villains and bizarre twists leading to the ultimate downfall of one of the 2010’s biggest gaming channels after unraveling the web i think it’s time to finally properly tell the sad story of skydesminecraft

And teamcrafted Hey guys skye here and i wanted to thank you all for 5 million subscribers when i first started youtube i never thought i would ever get this far i am way out with sky does minecraft i never [ __ ] once said i was the victim of second time pedophiles

Pedophiles pedophiles this guy is a pedophile they were complete dicks to us of course you know what group i’m talking about you don’t [ __ ] tattoo integrity strength knowledge on your [ __ ] body while sitting here and being like yeah i’m the [ __ ] [ __ ] i know everything you don’t know everything no one knows everything

That’s not legal i’m a bad father that i’m not seeing my son enough i agree 100 i wish i could see more On january 17th 1993 the man we know is skyed as minecraft and annette nobody was born to the name adam dahlberg according to him around 2008 he was extremely depressed being relatively overweight at 320 pounds and working a job he was sure was a relative dead end

At his local subway but that didn’t mean that there weren’t greater aspirations in the back of his mind that he was trying to exercise the gin the demon channel is truly a relic of a forgotten time centered around the game runescape adam would make let’s plays and voice acted skits within the game

Once upon a time there lived three ordinary people gizzy zacaroon and chuck one day gizzy sacre roone and chuck bumped into an easter bunny i’m granting you one wish each said the bunny and with a quick twirl emote they all have one wish the bunny disappeared much of this is

Very much a product of its time with the bandicam watermark present in many amateur gaming youtubers vids visible on all of his uploads his online friends namely ant venom and seto sorcerer made content in the same sphere although each had a unique personality and brand of video that being said

For all of his wishes to be a popular youtube gamer the conditions just weren’t right while runescape has a dedicated playerbase it was released all the way back in 2001 and its chances of becoming the wave to carry him to success were extremely slim adam has also stated that

At the time for the most part all he really had was runescape it was what he spent the majority of his days doing at one point he joked that as the agility of his in-game character increased it decreased for him in the real world what i’m saying here is that at the time

He was very fat coupled with his depression he was having a hard time so he decided to largely take a break from the internet to focus on his own well-being after pushing himself to lose some weight he managed to improve his mood overall and manage his mental health

Issues in a much better way making a return to the internet in 2011 to find that it was a much different landscape than when he had left while a lot of things can change online in a year the biggest difference he noted was that all of his friends he had

Met playing runescape had since moved on to a different game like where are my friends what the heck happened what happened was that they had discovered a new game minecraft ant venom began making minecraft videos with his series hunt for the golden apple in which he would attempt to find the

Shiny fruit inside of a dungeon some of you might be wondering you know you’ve probably heard of a golden apple but you haven’t really seen one been found or you don’t know what it is uh what a golden apple is it’s just an it’s an apple that can restore all 10

Uh 10 of your hearts and how you get a golden apple is it is the rarest treasure you can get from a dungeon his ability to talk at length while playing the game and extensive knowledge of its mechanics made his uploads very appealing to viewers drawing nearly 8 000 subscribers as of

March 2011. much like adam taylor was a young guy who wanted to achieve success on the landscape being a lifelong gamer himself seeing that his friend was having some fun adam created a new channel with a new brand dedicated to the game jin the demon became skydesminecraft and with the help of ant

As his mentor he started to post consistent content centered around the game hey guys welcome to the first episode of sky does minecraft so wow [ __ ] crappy ass [ __ ] this [ __ ] what the [ __ ] okay so i get the worst [ __ ] world possible things were looking up for adam after personal self-improvement from

Weight loss he was feeling better mentally and he moved out of his dysfunctional childhood home and into an apartment with his at-the-time girlfriend don with a new channel and a community of online friends he felt like he belonged again it could only be up from here Minecraft was quickly picking up momentum as sky and his pals were growing their own small audiences and the bubble was just beginning to form with a pantheon of new faces trying to join the race to success in more game related terms minecraft was the mob spawner

If you made videos on the game you’d probably get views but at the time much of this was very unfocused most people saw the game as just another sandbox with a new geometric aesthetic people would build different objects and recreate their favorite retro game sprites next to their little houses

The full potential of the game hadn’t quite been reached yet that’s where sky and his pals would come in what if instead of simply playing the game unedited they tried to plan a story out between the different channels no please don’t do it man you have so much to live for no Are those diamonds get them i’m going to jump Different let’s players could become characters and personalities building a plot for viewers to follow from episode to episode we could create these full-on sets in the game and we could record them and make little skits it would go from us playing the game and acting like the characters which is called roleplay and

Then moving into these little skits where if something was happening in the game that couldn’t actually happen we would edit it in similar to what red vs blue did with the halo games a few years earlier sky and his pal’s virtual cinematography got a decent following over the next year or so

Skye managed to grow his sub count considerably by the middle of 2012 and by the time august rolled around he had more than a hundred 000 subscribers this is where things really began to snowball not only was he at the forefront of a new genre but he was also extremely consistent

Daily uploads combined with more and more people playing the game contributed to a perfect storm of success in february of the next year sky reached 1 million subscribers his rise was meteoric passing the at the time number one minecraft content creator and raking in more than fifteen thousand

Dollars per month off his videos alone i talked to my dad and he was looking at these numbers and thinking it was some kind of nigerian scam you’re making how much off the internet i was freaking out my family was freaking out the best thing we could think of was to

Get a lawyer and incorporate so i don’t get slammed on taxes skye was heading one of the most popular youtube channels in the world just a few years prior he was working for minimum wage and is trying to satiate his depressive mood by eating fast food

Now at just 20 years old he was making more money than everyone he went to high school with and all while enjoying a hobby he would have been doing regardless needless to say things were going pretty well for him of course while he was the biggest

He was not the only one the original deadlocks channel was created on february 21st 2012 and it wasn’t long before the man behind it tyler ellis found success in the minecraft genre just six months later he had more than 500 subscribers more than most new channels managed to

Get in a year by november he was approaching 50 000 a few short months later he was past triple that a similar story is told in minecraft universe or jason all of these people would frequently collaborate on videos and watching uploads from around this time it’s easy to see the appeal

Just watching a few average and pretty relatable guys hanging out feels very personal my god what is that when i was two i pooped in the pool um i don’t remember when i was two i think i was on the jungle gym at one point anyway read the rules okay okay

Put the headset down they all feel like kids you could have met in high school or college and played games with and for younger demographics they represented their future selves becoming entertainers through a very average and typical activity looking at these channels raw analytics and archived screenshots

Shows just how quickly all of them blew up it must have been extremely overwhelming to go from teenagers and young adults playing games with their friends over skype to being bona fide role models for millions of kids over the course of one calendar year eventually the minecraft map

Cops and robbers was released being a remake of a halo 3 mini-game in which prisoners had to escape from their policeman captor the game allowed for a lot of entertaining banter and really brought out the personalities of whoever was playing it not unlike how among us and fall guys have as of recent

While the games are extremely simple in concept and are merely contemporary takes on pre-existing formulas watching some friends play them together and [ __ ] around makes it particularly interesting to audiences the first episode of minecraft cops and robbers was posted to the skydesk minecraft channel on april 10th of 2013. today

This video has almost 20 million views and subsequent episodes would accumulate similar success i will hit you again i will kill you i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m here with beijing canadian he’s by himself as well yeah let me appear oh thank you we see some kind By this point adam tai and jason had built quite a devoted audience together largely glued together by adam wikitubia is notorious for its inaccuracies often being laden with false or irrelevant information dream’s page once read that i accused him of saying the n-word when in reality

I simply wanted him to say it regardless all of these people’s pages have sky listed as one of their most important assets his channel was easily the most popular of the three and as a result his popularity not only benefited himself but also his friends

Who he intended to bring to the top with him fans fell in love with their dynamic and would subscribe to all of the players making it beneficial for all involved these collaborations soon became staples of the channels as they quickly realized how profitable they could really be the numbers just speak for themselves

Here hey stars and recruits this is jason from minecraft universe and sky does minecraft well we’re back naturally the friends eventually created a skype chat to make it easier to record these videos and having to think of a name for it randomly chose team crafted it was

During one of these calls the deadlocks pitched the idea of formally creating a team of minecraft content creators while initially skeptical adam reluctantly agreed and so the trio began to search for new members to join the first to join the group would be seto sorcerer one of skye’s old online friends from the

Runescape days but they knew if they truly wanted to grow they would need the help of more Personalities awesome sauce films was a let’s play channel created by a group of childhood friends though they managed to garner minor success working under machinima they began to drift apart in 2011 as each focused on their own endeavors two of its members however remained very close namely mitch in

Jerome the former of which rebranded to the bayesian canadian the duo who had begun playing minecraft together started an ongoing let’s play initially just playing survival their content eventually evolved to showcase various maps and minigames their most successful outing however would be the hunger games series whose

First episode was uploaded in april of 2012. so keep those nipples on ice please keep them nice and chilled around the time the video was posted mitch announced that he’d reached 50 000 subscribers by the end of the year that number had doubled mitch and jerome finally made a name for themselves in

The wider community though received backlash from former fans who felt they’d sold out regardless this new success caught the attention of sky and quickly their paths began to converge that year adam decided to attend pax east with jason and caveman films it’s here that they would first meet the

Duo with the prospect of a content team on their mind he asked if the two would be interested and they were so throughout early 2013 the creators extensively collaborated with each other soon others joined in with names like sundi and husky mudkips beginning to appear it’s not exactly clear how they all met

But what is known is that discussion occurred pretty casually amongst a friend group because that’s all it was at the time a friend group um it was one of those things where jason ty and adam were all talking about it at making team at the same time they made their

Own little thing and they invited me into a call they’re like hey man you should be a part of our thing and i was like hell yeah bro reinforcing just how loose it was adam recruited two people from his real life to play with them his former roommate dakota and fiance

Don he encouraged the two to have a social media presence with dakota opting to use the name kermit plays minecraft they also hired a team of artists to enhance their branding who provided them all with matching painted avatars as well as animated shorts videos began being uploaded daily to

Which they quickly accumulated millions of views each those first months of that year were spent solidifying their shared audience as one by one each of them continued to surpass milestones in june husky mudkips reached a million subscribers one month later so did sundy eventually all but one of

The full-time creators would reach a million with the only odd one out being said a sorcerer of course none of their growth spurts could compare with adams who at the time was now surpassing the 5 million mark it’s crazy it’s a mind-boggling number because behind every single one of those

Numbers is a subscriber and it’s a person and it’s just so breathtaking that you guys would take the time out of your day to come and check out my channel and watch my videos it’s just i don’t know what to say other than thank you so much it’s really hard to

Overstate his influence him randomly calling gold butter in the game was so influential that i remember most kids i played with at the time referring to gold as butter even though most of them had never even seen skye’s videos his stardom went so far that he even

Managed to appear in a lady gaga music video for many of these guys in just a few years or even months they’d gone from living paycheck to paycheck to signing mouse pads for giveaways skye’s channel alone was generating a hundred million views every month the ad revenue was astronomical it’s

Perhaps no surprise that their interests eventually became more financial but predictability does little to prevent consequence that summer saw great growth for the business but it was also with that period of time that many personal relationships began to fall apart on june 14th of 2013 adam announced on

Twitter that he and don had broken up this came off as very abrupt as the couple had gotten engaged less than four months prior asking viewers to respect their privacy at the time for years the truth remained undisclosed however it would later be revealed that the relationship had fallen apart for

Quite some time the two often got into intense shouting matches and simply had incompatible goals for the future in fact adam would later admit that the two only stayed together in those final months because he paid her too he paid her 25 000 dollars to continue dating him and even purchased don a

Car to bargain back her love while this seemed to work for some time something must have pushed her over the edge and no bribery could salvage that she subsequently deleted her online presence at his request and attempted to quickly disappear from the public eye meanwhile adam had very little time to reminisce

As he and his associates continued operating the content machine there was a noticeable lack of reflection on his behalf the sudden wealth had warped his mind as he was more concerned about it stopping than his questionable behavior sure he was able to bury what had happened with don successfully as she seemed more

Than willing to exit his life but the same cannot be said for one of his older friends and it would be his treatment of him that led to a controversy which to this day overshadows much of the team’s legacy it’s the last day in vegas and you looking good at him yeah buddy

I’m ready for this he’s ready his body is ready this entire hotel room was completely destroyed over the course of one night so yeah that’s always a plus that fall team crafted began pushing itself as a group they launched their own website and dedicated group channel where they

Revealed they’d all moved into a new house together their plans detailed vlogs skits and more active series due to the ease of recording however fans took noticed that one of the earliest members of the group was absent in fact he’d been seemingly exiled no longer appearing on any of their

Featured channels this would turn out to be the aforementioned smallest creator seto sorcerer who it appeared had been completely inactive online seda wasn’t like everyone else in the team he preferred to create more informational videos his humor didn’t quite match up but he enjoyed their company nonetheless the most important distinction however

Is that he wasn’t in it for the money the squids the [ __ ] i mentioned pretty briefly that seda was one of adam’s old runescape friends having known each other for over four years despite this he refused to show adam his face or even tell him his first name sedo wasn’t

Just not extroverted he was extremely introverted and he later admitted that team crafted was the first real group of friends he’d ever had you can only imagine then how distraught he became after they deliberated about how unmarketable his association was that august the group made plans to meet

Up in las vegas to take their first steps toward live-action content just days before flying out on august 13th mitch initiated a group call to discuss whether or not sedo should be kicked from the group their justification was that because he wouldn’t forfeit his name or face his presence prevented them from

Exploring skits and vlogging he also wasn’t funny or popular enough to overlook those things it’s said that the only person who didn’t vote him off was not adam but tai who was also the only one to remain in touch with no forewarning whatsoever sedo was now out of the click

Sedo fell into several depressive episodes and had trouble sleeping as he lost the only friends he had but the one that hurt the most was adam he recalled that some words said in that august call cut deeper than any blade and that he didn’t even recognize adam anymore

After all the two had known each other for years prior to online fame meanwhile the group seemed to move on without him just fine as they spent the rest of that week hanging out together at pax as fans continued to clamor for an explanation seto finally broke his

Silence that december he uploaded an outlast video explaining his side of the story and how he’d been removed from the group since august he then stated that he was done with his channel and wanted to move on with his life the video was only made public for 30 minutes

Though was made available afterwards by a fan the comment section of team crafted was subsequently filled with the hashtag save sedo as prepubescent children made horribly cringy tribute videos in hopes of cheering him up now it is worth stating that team crafted disputed his recount of events

Mitch who received the largest influx of hate comments wrote a formal response to his video later that day he claimed that they thought sedo had left on good terms viewing him as being honorably discharged he then argued that if he wanted to just be friends there was no point in him

Officially being a part of team crafted given they were all going to live together that doesn’t make much sense of course not being included meant he’d spend far less time with them additionally multiple artists were in the group as well who didn’t fulfill those expectations but really all of that is besides the

Point some members of the group would eventually extend apologies to sedo which he accepted despite the drama being officially over however their justification and handling of the situation left a permanent stain on their brand as the fans became aware of their more cynical business-minded nature it was now

December of 2013 and to team crafted it seemed like the sky was the limit and for good reason adam had become the 12th most subscribed to youtuber on the entire platform and they were all now living together despite viewing it as an opportunity to produce new forms of content in reality

Very little actually came from their shared household there was a a nerf gun vlog plays minecraft you’re right yeah yeah let’s go by the way i’m gonna take a big gun for this one you cocked that thing oh oh which was very underwhelming they released a series of team crafted shorts

Which would presumably be their skits and not only did these underperform but they’re they’re also uh eggs eggs eggs eggs eggs eggs eggs eggs eggs what is that my fingernails wait is that post malone but their motivation to explore new avenues seemed to dry up as things began falling apart perhaps

Sedo’s response was a sobering moment or maybe adam was too busy being in a lady gaga music video regardless he would leave the group in march of 2014 and tai followed soon after adam would later go on record to state that it wasn’t personal just business team crafted just disbanded

Because some of us just didn’t see eye to eye it’s not that we disliked each other it’s not that we hated each other it’s not that we we we dislike any of the members it’s literally as simple as yeah i like purple you like blue like that’s

That’s literally it this of course would prove fatal for the project as many of their careers relied entirely on that shared viewership i got to where i am by myself and people wrote on my back to get where they were sunday included and i wrote on gizzy gaza’s back

And stole his content to get where i was i don’t give a [ __ ] what anyone says the dude came to me uh when his channel was completely dead and he was coming back to youtube and basically team crafted helped lift him back up to where he was before

With the departure of the group’s primary life force one by one each of the members paid their dues ending almost as quickly as the idea was conceived it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why it all died so quickly you could blame mitch for facilitating its commercialization you could even blame adam for leaving at

All but perhaps these issues can be attributed to their dynamic becoming a business necessity and when you don’t see eye to eye on these decisions any sentimental attachment you had to those people is pretty much thrown away for a while the channel remained defunct after the group disbanded however

On june 1st 2014 tai uploaded a video elaborating on his thoughts of the fallout admitting he disliked what it became because the account was now inactive he proposed turning it into a community channel for smaller creators where friends could meet together and commentate uh but i came to conclusion

That no one’s touching this channel and the group isn’t really a group anymore so i thought why why waste this why waste this amazing opportunity that me and skydesminecraft we both made together this video was privated an hour after was uploaded indicating that behind the scenes members rejected his philanthropy

Adam continued to grow substantially throughout early 2014 uploading two videos per day he also found new creators to collaborate with such as basherverse and xrpmx13 fans noticed that dakota adam’s old roommate became less active online it turns out that he was starting a family and celebrated the birth of his son

Later that year he had little free time in general nonetheless to do youtube so he was out of the picture adam still wanted real life company however so he attempted to rekindle other past connections one of these new old friendships was with a childhood pal named starlet zao of whom he was piers

With all the way back in the third grade through a mutual friend the two reconnected and before long he too would become a content creator under the alias jin bob hey what’s poppin my name is jim bob welcome to the channel to get things started i have for

You today a let’s play more specifically a let’s play of minecraft i know original right shocking but more importantly than that he contacted an old high school crush named elisa reconnecting through facebook she began venting about her recent falling out with an ex and all of the typical drama that

Surrounded it adam offered to fly her out to los angeles for the weekend an offer which she graciously accepted upon her arrival elisa attended a party that night at the former team crafted house but as the guests began to leave the two began speaking more intimately with each other sharing their personal

Turmoils and life experiences that short visit soon turned to a month due to complications with the airport and by june the two were publicly dating we’re actually going to have elisa over here do my makeup reaching 10 million subscribers by the end of the year this was when adam’s

Channel growth would begin to peak marking the beginning of the end for minecraft’s first golden age on youtube fans would notice the gradual loss of passion over the next two years adam kind of became a caricature of himself it seemed like he was very fatigued with the game itself

And sought to diversify his content that summer he began a vlog channel titled sky does things where he would upload vlogs challenges and a variety of other content with alisa 2015 was the year that adam planned to make several big changes in both his personal and business life in february he announced that the couple would be getting married and they’d conceived a child as well his son mason would be born in september of that year

As he proclaimed that he would no longer swear on his main channel in order to become a better influence to kids he also began more seriously pursuing business endeavors conceptualizing what would become sky media relocating to offices in bellevue washington he began employing his friends to form a new content

Creation team this took a far more professional approach than team crafted had with adam wanting to make sure his employees were taken care of with health benefits and a 401k the mainstay lineup for sky media consisted of an entirely new roster with jinbop your pal ross that guy

Barney as well as two of their editors many of the creators adam had begun associating with were considered as well including the aforementioned basher burst i hate you so much that’s why i was that’s why i was science did it for me i’m like you could do it i

I was like okay these signs are telling me i can well you go on the server like to film a lot having a massive channel of his own and beloved by his audience brandon seemed like the perfect fit for the office probably one of the best

Games that i’ve played in a long time it’s just so simple and beautiful and just fun and epic and wonderful in every single way as is typical of regular jobs a background check was performed on him only to uncover that he had a criminal record he had been charged for having an

Unlawful transaction with a minor because of this revelation adam distanced himself from the up and comer shortly after the information was anonymously leaked to drama alert these events would be the first dominoes eventually leading to his very public downward spiral i never said i was the [ __ ] victim

I’m sick and tired of being called a [ __ ] rapist i’m tired of it all i’m tired i just wanted to leave i just wanted to leave my [ __ ] room and i was in for years and it finally did and you [ __ ] won’t leave me unfortunately though sky media lasted

Longer than team crafted it didn’t survive much more than a year rather than be allowed to operate their own accounts adam purchased each of their channels from them at least this is what ross alleged who at the time used the name house underscore owner instead he was given the job of managing

It which upset him as he’d created the account as a kid he was told that if he wanted it back he’d have to purchase it so instead he created the your pal ross persona his childhood relic was then transformed into couch potatoes a sister channel for the organization sky media didn’t just

Achieve team crafted stream of live-action content however it also managed to become more corporate it’s around this time that the tube heroes toys began being released licensed action figures based on their in-game skins these could be found in big name stores across the country it’s perhaps fitting then that adam subsequently attempted to

Reboot the friend group this time under the name vision squad this iteration was even more short-lived than the original during one of those sessions an argument broke out that would permanently fracture the business ross was roommates with both of the business editors tim and max one of them had made a vague tweet

Criticizing pewdiepie’s content which adam assumed was about himself he brought it up during recording leading adam to accuse ross of being manipulated by them this upset them so much that all three of them moved out leaving on such bad terms that he claimed adam threatened to

Bleed them dry in court if they ever spoke out in late 2015 jin bop also left the offices citing creative differences it’s unknown if the drama had any impact on his decision with adam simply stating that jyn wanted to focus on his personal channel instead adam quickly fell out of touch with his

Former friend unaware of his long-term plans then all of a sudden jinbot became silent in august of that year offering his fans no further explanation as it turns out almost immediately after leaving jin had begun speaking inappropriately with an underage fan after receiving art from a 14 year old he befriended her

Before asking her to strip and wear lingerie her parents began to notice catching the child wearing a locket with his face in it they then called law enforcement who began monitoring his activity that summer he traveled to detroit in an attempt to meet her only to be arrested and found guilty of

Enticing a minor for sex news of this would first break that september to which the only response adam could muster at the time was wow me and jen stopped talking uh ages ago um like about a year and two three months ago it’s always like i get called

And told like some crazy [ __ ] is going on with someone that i know sky media was just too ambitious of an idea and for it to have longevity required more forethought and probably more reliable people team crafted should have been a wake-up call to learn from his mistakes

But instead adam only flew closer to the sun consequently the business venture succumbed to the consequences of very hastily made relationships this brings us to 2016 a very tumultuous time for the skydesminecraft channel by this point adam had devoted it to variety gaming but the pivot hadn’t gotten back much of

His audience he had dropped the family friendly mantra he adopted when his kid was born saying he wanted to try to go back to making uncensored content unlike his peers despite this more seemingly honest approach and a dropping of any corporate pandering he didn’t salvage much

The channel was on the decline and it wasn’t much better for his personal life in a deleted tweet skye vented to his audience about how elisa had cheated on him with another guy which likely would have become a much bigger story initially if keemstar hadn’t been willing to forfeit its

Presence in a drama alert news video thanks to a request from skye himself on september 30th 2016 sky posted a video to his channel informing his audience that he had spent a week in a mental hospital around this time he also broke up with elisa officially and the two began

Frequently fighting on twitter it’s one thing to have your girlfriend quietly exit the public eye it’s another to embarrassingly have arguments with her over your seemingly business related twitter account in january of 2017 skye said that he would be taking a six week hiatus from the channel

Try and repair his own state of mind similar to what had happened when he left runescape more than half a decade prior he wanted to rebuild it seemed that at least temporarily things were starting to look up in march of 2017 him and elisa announced that they were back together even

Posting videos again on top of that sky reportedly received an eight-figure deal from some anonymous person or company at this time to keep making minecraft content on his channel this however wouldn’t last as he and elisa split again and the two began to lash out publicly at each other skye tweeted out

I wish i never met you along with a barrage of other inflammatory tweets within these he revealed a discovery he had made being that she had cheated on him for a second time it seemed like he was finally through with her that’s the thing that kind of pissed me off i’ll be honest

Like i the thing that made me angry was the fact that a person could be putting on this mask for for so long and basically be mooching off of subscribers from another person and followers from another person and then be treating them like complete [ __ ] behind the scenes adam had also grown

Distasteful of the minecraft community at this point saying that he hated people’s masks a very frequent theme after the olessa breakup he said it all felt too commercial and uncreative with the genre being populated entirely by people making videos to make a buck rather than to have a genuine connection

To an audience the sky channel was largely dead at this point and in july of 2017 adam released a video signing off his minecraft career basically i’ve been in this block world for so long that i feel like it’s time to go explore the real world the sky channel was now

Completely inactive with adam saying that he gave away all of his equipment and sad accounts to some of his former employees from the business today the team crafted channel appears to be run by some some girl who merely acquired it and had nothing to do with the inception of the group

Similarly ross’s channel was given to some young women who make vlogs or something at this point we also learned of a much sadder fact being that adam was not allowed to see his son because of his adverse relationship with the mother i’d imagine skye’s feelings on the

Subject were only made worse when alessa decided to involve herself in a petty personal drama he had with ksi appearing in his diss tracks music video adam’s struggle to gain custody of the child was very public at this point and audiences began to sway to his side

Thanks to an emotional interview he did with keemstar where he begged to see his son i’m not upset at you i’m upset at her for continuing to ruin my life when i haven’t done anything to her i haven’t done [ __ ] to you you would [ __ ] you would talk to other people

You would speak to other people you can’t disprove anything i’m [ __ ] saying so [ __ ] try to do it i have nothing to lose because the only thing that i want is my son i gave up my channel i gave up everything i give up my income i don’t care about it anymore

I just want my son i just want my son i want to see my son he didn’t recognize me you didn’t [ __ ] recognize me when i visited him thankfully he did manage to eventually gain partial custody although it has been stated that upon one of his first visits with his son

His kid didn’t even recognize him his business however had been largely up in the air with him frequently going back and forth between wanting to create content and leaving entirely he stated that he hated his past sky-related projects changing his channel name disguised as everything and uploading consistently again

However he eventually stopped posting yet again as of this video’s creation no new videos have been posted to his channels for five months skye had lost so much but above all he had finally become what he wanted a net nobody So where are team crafted and all of skye’s former friends now dead locks currently operates new channel titled locks where he posts videos about fortnite daily and has been doing so for more than a year his original minecraft channel appears to have been sold to plot twist which posts content about pop

Culture and celebrities minecraft universe was inactive for a year until about a month ago when he posted a video promoting his digital and 3d art career it appears to be a promotion for an nft he is releasing husky mudkips is posted more frequently although is relatively inactive his

Twitter and youtube are evidence that most of the people who once cared for his content are now gone bayesian canadian one of the largest members of the team received some success after the team broke up but as time dragged on he began losing relevance approaching the end of 2020.

After multiple attempts to revive his channel eventually gave up in early 2021 and let his fans know that he was working on a new project meanwhile jerome asef actually post minecraft content to this day and has a smaller but loyal audience sundi is doing extremely well having passed all of them in popularity

Due to evolving his content through different waves of game popularity most recently his among us videos have achieved mass appeal in 2017 seto sorcerer posted an hour-long video explaining what happened with team crafted and giving his reasons for leaving the online world today his subscriber count is hidden and

While he does post videos from time to time their success would seem to be reflective of a channel with a few thousand subscribers rather than someone who was at the front lines of gaming content just a few years ago in contrast to skye his old friend ant venom managed to successfully adapt his

Channel and is still heavily involved in the minecraft community around 2014 he stopped growing despite him constantly uploading freezing at 2 million subscribers after some major struggles with youtube he declared a break from the internet he made the move to focus his content less on playing games and more on their mechanics

Exploring the absolute limits of minecraft and breaking it multiple times since then he’s achieved critical success reaching 3 million and managing to be a major player in the gaming space shin bop is currently serving time following his grooming of an underage fan and is set to be released in 2023 in 2020

Sky started a new series titled nostalgia craft to reunite with some of his pals like bayesian canadian jerome and ant venom your pal ross also posed today to a very small audience in comparison to what it once was similar to mudkips sky has evolved a lot over the years and

Today he seems to be in a much better state than when he was at the peak of all of his drama according to a community tab post he has a new girlfriend and apparently a new daughter which has become his focus in the last half a year since he stopped uploading

To his channels whether or not he will return to youtube anytime soon and attempt to revive his channel i can’t say team crafted is the tale of what it’s like to be at the top It’s every creator’s dream to be the most popular youtuber to be a part of a group who makes videos together and lives together growing an online brand built on camaraderie and connecting with a shared audience unfortunately once given the opportunity many people are unsure of how to handle it

Skye’s rise to fame led to ultimately greed he threw money at his problems to fix the holes in his ship once that didn’t work he attempted to plug them himself as his friends moved on to other projects he attempted to adapt several times at first this made him disinterested in his fame

Eventually he grew to hate it everything he built almost a decade ago now only exists in the memories of the kids who watched him a time capsule of a bygone youtube empire which crumbled to the ground years ago well okay you know that sucks but at

Least we can take solace in the fact that a new wave of minecraft channels has recently blown up and all of them are handling their fame really well right right i genuinely love and care about all of you guys and that’s the best way i can describe it

You were like a whole bunch of kittens and i love you not every creator will feel the same as me that’s fine i’m being genuine every time i speak your kittens yeah you you care about your kitten’s dream yeah buddy oh yeah uh this is the part of the video where i say

Never mind i’ve been turkey tom thanks for watching and until next time leave me alone You