Heyo everybody! Thank you all so much for watching this video (unless you just came down to the comment section to read while watching, which is cool). I'll update this pinned comment if I need to clarify anything further than what's already been discussed in the video. Stay respectful, and also maybe like this video to get the algorithm on our side! :)

It takes a man like me a month to make a 100 days video, and that's with my man Wisefish editing the videos. It's a lot of work, but it's fun. I think if some of the people who were faking it put the time in to do the full thing, they may actually enjoy it. I like getting to make little stories and share goofy clips. As for the translations, I'm almost sure every single 100 days I've done has been ripped. I've also seen a few videos where people have gone through, and shot for shot recreated some of my videos. My man, that HAD to have been more work than just recording your own.

"These videos are normally cut down to 20-30 mins" Forge Labs: *laughs in 1-2 hours*

It’s *notable* haha to mention that Luke even admits he was wrong to try and protect this style of content and heavily encourages *anyone* to do 100 day style challenges.

what makes LTN better, is that he actually apologized for trying to trademark the idea in his 100 days afk video.

I definitely agree with you that some are faking it for views, but it is extremely doable to upload a 100 days every week. 100 days is 33 hours, but only if you don’t sleep during the in-game nights, if you sleep every night it’s only 18 hours, so for me an average 100 days takes 20-22 hours to record, usually about 4 sessions across 4 days. If I full on go for it I can record one in 3 days (I did 100 days twice a week one week, it nearly killed me 😂). Then once it’s recorded it’s probably about 8-10 hours of editing, which someone else does for me, then I just go through edit in an intro, add music, and check everything’s fine, which takes a couple of hours. So with more than one person in a team it’s doable, but if I was editing it myself, obviously once a week is ridiculously hard work. And you can usually tell if it’s fake because they achieve barely anything in 100 days lol

Just came across this video and I couldn't agree more. The biggest issue I have with fake 100 Days is how it pollutes the search results and makes it a lot more difficult for legitimate 100 Days to grow. It also paints other 100 Days content in a bad light. If theres hundreds of fake videos, new viewers will just assume that this is the trend, a garbage take with no legitimacy. I only see fake videos harming this trend yet it seems like it has no consequences on those channels. It takes me roughly a month to come up with a modpack/idea, record it, edit it and its a fun time telling a story and making a quality product. Just seems so soulless to fake it all and a lot more work, unless they dont care if they get called out or get "in trouble"?

WaxFraud, Skyes, ForgeLabs, LukeTheNotable and MogSwamp are the only 100 day minecraft youtubers I’ve watched so far that have been very legit and have very entertaining content.

A few years ago I would watch Jerome so much, I never would have thought he’d end up like this, how the mighty have fallen 😔

Just had someone mention this video to me and I 100% agree, it REALLY bothers me when people don't put in the real work. It takes me and my editor about 100 hours to make each of these big videos, between my recording time, their editing time, and my doing VO/ReplayMod/Effects. Seeing people crank out fake videos, especially creators with a huge fanbase, cheapens that effort and honestly just really makes it harder to be an honest creator. Good video.

Forge Labs is another great example of an actual 100 days KZfaqr.

6:45 that isn't photoshop, that's his actual head Made me burst into laugh 😂

I absolutely love kolanii, his videos have such great quality balanced with his dry humour makes such good content, his voice is so nice to hear and isn’t loud and constantly persistent in us subscribing to him (not saying self promotion is bad just frequent self promotion is annoying and over the top) in kolanii’s 100 day videos not only does he actually progress and finish his 100 day challenge but also making extremely amazing builds and is constant to make everything look good aesthetically which I quite like, there’s not a bad word I can say for kolanii and I would never dare to, this is my utter respect and devotion for this man, making great content that’s high quality but also his dry humour makes it 10000000% more better to watch, love you kolanii, keep it up

LukeTheNotable was -one of- The OG. What I love about his style is that he narrates and explains the events that happens on each day along with the days that are boring, no skipping. They still explain them for a few seconds at the very least before moving on.

As someone who has made 100 day videos and done all the editing myself - I can say that it takes a LONG time to make a legit one. Even when sleeping a lot it's still not easy, and I always felt bad sleeping too much because I knew that it was just eliminating time that I could have spent doing cool stuff. I also had one of my ideas stolen and made into a video that was most likely faked so that was fun. Eventually my 100 day videos fell out of the algorithm, so I just kinda stopped making them at a certain point. Not 100% sure what caused the shift, but either way it was fun while it lasted.

Yeah I remember when LTN acknowledged when he tried to trademark “100 Days” survival videos. Not many creators are willing to admit when they messed up. At the same time I do like how he called out the people who put so little effort into it when there are creators (and their editors if they have them) who bust their arses making content for people to watch on a platform that’s oversaturated with faked low effort rubbish.

Why does Jerome look like a irl villager

I absolutely enjoy, playing the full 100 Days. I even make it a rule not to sleep, as I find the best stuff happens at night. It takes me a minimum 4 weeks to upload a video, and most of the time it ends up being 5 weeks in between. I know it can be easier to take the shortcut and fake content, but I feel its unfair to fool your viewers. Plus I enjoy seeing the story unfold while I play. I give myself 1 simple task, and it allows the story to write itself. Great video Fizzy!

Honestly ya’ll are doing it all wrong. I can actually record a 100 days video in about 5 hours as I only play about 25 days but because of my extremely fast wrists and elbows I can build much faster than the average player. Then I send off the footage to 13 video editors who get it finished in about 3 hours. All in all, it takes about a day. Then I take a month off, and upload the video somewhere at the end of my break whenever I’m ready. I’m living the life and you should too. My advice? Start trainin those wrists and elbows.

Bro Jerome looks just like a villager 💀💀

Luke and ForgeLabs make good 100 Days, like they squeeze out good 3 hours of content, sometimes even longer, not only that they are incredibly enjoyable to watch for the person alone, especially Sean, he is goofball with Godtier humor.

Jerome played my modpack somewhat recently (Valhelsia 3 - he titled it something like "I survived 100 days as a Viking", which was a weird choice, since it seems they were basing that entirely off Valhelsia and Valhalla sounding similar). It was pretty apparent that they hadn't played for all that long, since there was next to no normal progression even at the end. One thing that the comments section noticed is that we have a day count on the screen in the pack (below the minimap), and his was locked on day 1 the entire time, since they had the day/night cycle turned off entirely, freezing the time to mid-afternoon. I'm pretty confident that they were using the /locate command to find our custom structures instantly too, since some pretty rare ones showed up in quick succession without any other progression in-between finding them. It's kinda weird getting to the end of the "100 days" and seeing what looked like a day one starter house and no exploration of dimensions other than the overworld - if I had to guess I'd say they recorded it in a single session, and not a lengthy one. I'm kinda torn on that video - on one hand I appreciated the showcase of our modpack and the custom work that we've created for it, but on the other I'm really not a fan of the dishonesty nor how shallow it makes the videos feel. A genuine "100 days" video would look very different, and I'd be extremely grateful to see somebody do it one day.

Forge Labs is a perfect example of genuine 100 Days Minecraft Challenges. His videos are clearly legit and you can see his progress in them, plus his struggles, which just adds to how genuine they are. Those fakers not only steal his ideas, but the titles and how he does them: "I Survived in [blank] for 100 Days (Here's What Happened)" It's pathetic how lazy they are

15 more secs and bro would’ve made bank

The "just skip 15 days" is just hilarous. Especially near the end, where a lot of of special stuff is supposed to happen before it ends. I can totally understand skipping a few days. Mainly when they do the same task for multiple days and nothing noteworthy happens, like mining or sometimes building. But usually it's just a few days and the KZfaqrs usually mention it "for days 5-7 I continued mining". But this, this is just hilarous

The audience knows and the views show. When it’s genuine, it will blow up with views, IMO

Smallishbeans is a great example of someone who uploads real 100 days videos, he always shows his stats in the videos and you can actually see the days go by cause he always shows it.

This is fun to see when I was thinking about jumping on the trend, but with super short summary videos of what was built rather than editing down that many hours of footage.

"this isnt photoshop, it's his actual head" BRUH thats so disrespectful 😭🤣

Forge Labs is my absolute FAVORITE. He’s freaking awesome. I definitely see how faking these can cause issues in communities, people who actually do this take so much time and effort and even months to produce, while others put NO effort

I bet there is a mod out there that basically tracks what in-game day it is and how much IRL time has passed

I swear those content farms 'I spent 100 days in minecraft as a golden wither warden dragon' videos are so shitty and annoying

Thank you for sharing! I just came back to Minecraft and wanted to start doing Hardcore. It'll take me like a month to get there with the way I am trying to be healthy now if I want to reach 100 days. I don't even know if I'll ever make it to 100 days with how slow I am defending myself.

I miss the good old days where walking to the far lands, or doing an actual multi part survival series where all gameplay is shown was the norm.

I usually do Surviving 100 days in Minecraft, it's completely crazy! Despite not having so many videos of that, they are videos that really have a job behind them! good video bro

Good Video, but one critique: You say they record around 30h and edit around 70h which makes 100h. BUT if they have a team of Editors, they only need the 33h of playing and send that to the editors.

only thing i can say that potentially could explain the weird upload schedule is staggered scheduled posting. meaning the videos are recorded sometime between then and a month+ beforehand, edited, then uploaded to yt then scheduled for a point in the future

Forge Labs would be a prime example of a good and legitimate 100 days video. He shows his progress from day to day, and his struggles. Plus he does often say that he took inspiration from LuketheNotable so yeah.

6:43 bro looks like he wants me to give 64 emeralds for 1 bread... why he look like villager

Great video, I am currently editing my own 100 day video and I'm way over 70 hours and I haven't even recorded the voice over yet.

Im just sad how far JeromeASF has fallen. I used to love his videos back in the mid 2010's.

Forge is another great example of a real, fun, and unique(sometimes, its kinda hard to be unique so cut him some slack) 100 days vid

This was in my KZfaq recommendation feed after watching ibxtoycat's "100 Days In A Flat World With ONLY A Bonus Chest!?" video, and I was worried for literally one second before I remembered that he livestreamed the entire series. And then I clicked on this video and noticed the upload date was older anyway.

"This isn't photoshop, that is his actual head" I can't 😂😂😂 Edit: a good example of youtube not caring about stolen content and just wanting revenue (what you said near the end) in the situation with SSSniperWolf

For Ryguy is that his 100 days are more of a story and are in premade maps. A lot of the time he pumps them out fast because most of it is him just checking for secrets and so he can just cut everything out, as his 100 days are story based.

U shouldn't forget to appreciate smallishbeans that guy just shows all the effort of each and every single day from day 1 to day 100

I suspect Jerome is using AI created content, considering how fast he uploads and how fake his facecam looks (I refuseto believe that he is actually built like a Bitmoji). Idk, it just feels AI to me.

The amount of work that goes in for 100 days is insane, especially in a series that is being expected by a lot of people. Some will have to be recording 100-200 WHILE 1-100 is being edited

I was also suspicious of Jerome, but he sounded soooo innocent.

this man is a W. He just instantly targets the dream stan as soon as the game starts

Hi! Fun fact about the background game- thanks for background btw- that game was designed by the youtuber @Grian after testing the sandblock entity and the similarity to tnt and gravel blocks.

KZfaq just though "hmm, this is the one" and made millions of impressions

I love Luke the Notable, he makes it’s quite fun to watch him go over the days. I like his commentary too it. I didn’t know he tried to trademark it tho but I’m glad to know he chilled out from doing that. I’ve been watching Him since his first 100 days

Kinda sad to see such big youtubers lying to their audiences like this. Honestly I appreciate longer 100 days videos due to the story and the satisfying effects of progress and seeing people overcome challenges or nearly die then make it through in the end.

“This is his actual head”💀💀💀

I’ve seen so many KZfaqrs fake these 100 days it’s unreal

JeromeASF faking it wouldn’t surprise me, saw him at a minecraft convention (a semi major one near DC) and he was “live-streaming” a minecraft game while he was at the convention

Smallishbeans is a good example for a person who doesn’t fake it, like the others he shows every single day AND him going to sleep at the end of each day

I agree. I watch to see people struggle with the random seed and overcome them but these perfect runs are annoying that skip over everything.

Another good way to tell is how long the videos are, like I noticed 100 day videos range from 40 minutes to two hours, and the Jerome video was only 24 minutes

I personally believe that we need to stop having the "we can't do anything about it" mentality.We, the viewers, are feeding into it. My point is that you can't win a fight if you don't even try to fight,we should prioritize content that has genuine effort behind it and be careful of fake or lazy content, since it pollutes the stream and hides the "gems" of youtube. That's my thoughts on the matter.

at 6:50 he said that it's his actual head not photoshopped i'm dead 💀💀

Oh I do not know-how about ALL OF THEM! The last time a genuinely good lets play series occurred that I could tell the order of the episodes without a dedicated list was five years ago.

Clearly they are referring to days in the Minecraft nether, so around 100 seconds

6:25 ITS EVEN WORSE! There was a clear view of the sky! You could see that no time went by!

Honestly knowing Jerome, Hes a veteran from the days of SkyDoesMinecraft who was one of his friends, so i understand him trying to keep his popularity from the past going

I don’t remember LTN trying to trademark his 100 days. Only thing I remember him doing is not using mods so anyone can try it and also listing other 100 days minecraft KZfaqrs in his main world with a monument.

I like the way there is some reverence for fakers, and tips for new fakers, "If you're going to fake a video, you can't jump ahead too many days". I agree that it's impressive! Honesty is i so important to me though. I wish they could title it "this is '100 days' quote unquote" or something like that. At the same time, I'm glad you made this video to give some legitimacy to the people who have to work their butts off to make just one video. A nice follow up video, if possible, would be to highlight some of the benefits of watching honest videos "See if you were faking you'd never notice this..." or something. Long live the honest!

I've been working on my latest 100 days video for like 4 months.

Kolaani does some banger content. Shame he doesn't upload that often. Luke is the OG whose 100 day videos I have watched probably too many times. Kinda weird to see Jerome here since he was a legend back in the day. How the mighty have fallen

Bro Jerome looks like a fricking villager himself😂

Legando makes some really entertaining 100 days videos, theyre about 1.5-3 hours long each, and uploaded about monthly. He’s a super fun guy to watch, generally pretty funny, and goes through what he does on each individual day

Sometimes I wonder if those youtubers forgot they could simply make a "Testing this mod out" instead of making everything a 100days series.

I miss the good old days when hardcore Videos were just PBG’s hardcore survival videos.

The only thing I will say that'd be good to tell people too to keep in mind is that upload amount and upload consistency is something to be careful using as a deciding factor on if a channel is uploading fakes or not. Only reason I say this is because I'm aware of plenty channels that will record a lot of content that is time consuming for a month, and then edit that content over time and then upload them in rapid succession later on while uploading shorter, less time consuming videos between those upload sprees Basically, for anyone wanting to make sure the youtuber they're checking out is legit or not, make sure to look at all the factors and not just a single one, just like Fizzy looked at the upload schedule AND the video quality + the consistency of the days and progress speed and such

Him: talking Me: you better not fall

How JeromASF has fallen. I remember watching him and Bajancanadian back in the day. They were a big part of my childhood.

i love the "this is not photoshopped, thats his actual head" LMAO

Your last quote felt like i was reading a poetry

I'd always assumed every 100 days video is fake and the 100 days title was more used as an attention grabber/pacing device

Finally im not the only one who thinks its suspicious of them just turning the trend to a dirty cash grab instead of a dedicated series or video because of their fast pace

Good thing that you admit that LTN is definitely not faking the days also I don’t think you mentioned this, but Forgelabs doesn’t fake them either.

For the Hindi translation channels that’s one of the only times it’s seen as okay to copy strike and take someone’s channel down

Gotta agree man, when the people click in a video giving a chance for the title and the thumbnail of the video and is deceived that sucks man

"that isnt photoshop, that is his actual head" now thats a lot of damage

Honestly wasn't sure if this was going to be one of those clickbait exposed videos or not, but I was pleasantly surprised but seeing genuine issues regarding fake/stolen 100 day videos.

My only question is don’t a lot of bigger influencers record in advance as well?

the way jerome's mouth was moving during the sped up footage was hilarious lmfao

None of this surprises me, any trend on KZfaq that requires effort to produce in video form gets faked by lazy creators. Prank channels come to mind.

Im an editor with 2 year of experience, and an amateur KZfaqr. And i can 100% agree on this, the KZfaqrs fake, because i see the edits. Too much edits just look off and its just irritating to see more 100 day videos for people to only steal money from.

Bruh because of the Steve skin in the thumbnail I thought you were going to say keralis became a "100 days" channel lol

The biggest issue id have if i did this challenge would be forgetting or not knowing what day im on and just miscounting lol

Luke includes all his days, and if he wasn’t recording, he tells you some things he did that day. That’s pretty notable.

6:45 fav part

Why Jerome be looking like a minecraft villager? Bro lookin like he tryna sell me 3 wheat for 7 emeralds.

As a small content creator trying to get a following on youtube, content stealers and fake mc youtubers are the worst, in my opinion. People only get my respect if they actually put effort into their videos. It takes me 7+ hours to edit a video, plus the 2 hours in total, it takes me to record them. I can't possibly imagine that these people are geniunly making 100-day videos in a week. It makes me sad that some of these youtubers have fallen like this.

Not only that, in the clip you showed of saintly Jerome, he has full or nearly full durability on all his tools, in addition to none of the inventory clutter a normal player would have.

Luke the notable, cookie god, wadzee, paindomionation, wattles, f whip, jwhisp, and some smaller channels like niatsirhc are my absolute favorites honestly the minecraft community is awesome.

Something that I noticed is f3 isn’t toggle when showing the amount of actual days.

It's so weird seeing some of these KZfaqrs you used to watch, around 15 years ago, go down this route. I was a big fan of JeromeASF, BajanCanadian, NoochM, etc. when they ran their Call of Duty channel, ASF, and in the beginning with their Minecraft content. Seeing the ones who are still around on KZfaq go from genuine content creators who gained lots of success over the years to turning into fake content mills/factories of videos like this, as an attempt to save their declining and once relevant careers instead of doing so in a better way, is saddening. I would much prefer if they retired on top, release special big videos every few months instead, or shift their content into something else. ZexyZek is a prime example on how to make that change. Went from a lame Minecraft tr0lling channel, to gaining popularity in other ways in Minecraft as a teenager, to declining, to changing his brand into a Skate channel, after realizing his position, and gaining loads of success and millions of subscribers from it.