the way people describe this guy sounds no different than a average rust player

This is the first time I seen an actual documentary on a rust player. As toxic as he was, I think he came back pretty hard by doing things for the community.

If kinn wasnt a toxic manchild, i truly think his aproach to his server and community in constantly trying to get opinions on improvement and shit like that wouldve made him a goat in the rust community

Played affinity once with a 30 man group. Group next to us was roof camping (was a no roof camping rule at the time) us from water treatment tower. We shot back at them and Kinn appeared after about an hour and walled in our entire base and stacked them 4 storeys high. After about a minute he deleted our entire base. Apparently the group we were fighting were friends with Kinn. Never played the server again after that. Good riddance

as a person that got banned on vital for no reason (i told neeko he's legless) we need affinity back

As someone who isn't in the Rust scene I have no bias for or against any of these parties, Facepunch overstepped their boundaries by shutting down Kinn's own server. It's one thing if this behavior was on the official servers but it's not and Facepunch is definitely in the wrong.

KiNN was a very good server owner, would constantly take suggestions and add new things that the community wanted, i had the most fun on rust on affinty.

This man is a MENACE to the rust scene and I FUCKING LOVE IT

Insanely well produced video, glad to see you're keeping up the documentaries

Such a great time back in the day. Miss you Jack, keep making great vids.

never really got into main scene rust but a group of my friends and i made a team for the initial launch of affinity servers and kinn flew around in vanish and talked to a lot of the groups. he asked questions on what he should add to the server and even flew our group to roams. he genuinely just seemed like a cool dude who just loved rust

PLEASE make more documentaries dude i just remembered my time in ib and was going insane holy shit this was awesome

as a rust player trough 3 years of playing affinity was the best and most "peacefull" server ive ever seen i have a lot of good memories and r.i.p to kinn and all staff members hope affinity somehow will show back

As someone who lived through all of this I am so happy that you made this. ~Yoster

watched this all the way through and still didn't even notice this was from a youtuber with under 1000 subscribers instead of a big youtuber, great job bro

I was still new to rust, and had a large clan living beside me, who helped show me the ropes and gave me my first weapon ever, a python. They eventually ended up getting raided and I ran over on repeat trying to stop them. The clan raiding them had around 5-6 players, my neighbors were 3, we couldn't defend. The big clan raided me next as punishment I guess, didn't really get anything. When I came back with rock watching them blow in they didn't kill me they just let me know you can't get in the way of a raid. I just watched as my jank base was blown into. They saw I really didn't have much, nor did I know how to build a proper base. They protected me and told me to reseal it, and that they don't wanna ruin the game for me so early on. The rust community is a strange one. I love it, I don't understand all the technical rules yet but I think people are willing to work with you if you're just patient and kind. After talking the clan gave me a few weapons, and I helped my neighboring clan rebuild. We all became semi friends until the end of the wipe 4 days later. I never got their discord and haven't played rust since. It's emotional and I'm not sure why.

This is insane quality keep up the work!

Affinity was an absolutely amazing server and I do have to honestly say Kinn for the "most" part of at least being a server owner/runner, was great. But his attitude and all the other bits he's done completely condem him and still to this day he hasn't grown out of the childish personality and angry lash outs. I don't think FP did the best thing completely blacklisting his server, but I agree Kinn needed to basically be smacked down to reality in the end.

amazing vid as a kinda new (currently in hiatus clan member) in vital never knew this story. keep up the great story focused videos

Dude your content is unmatched I loved this game when I downloaded it in 2019 love hearing the history behind it

comparing doxxing and ddossing to cheating in a video game is CRAZY

Rust players supporting a manchild is really not surprising at all

Bro your videos are top tier, keep up to the amazing work!

I always look forward to your videos, because they are interesting and keep me up to speed with gaming and the endings of your videos with the Zelda theme always makes me feel nostalgic

Very well editied and visual clips.

As a rust clan owner that used to be big on affinity fridays ive talked to kinn a lot of times for several reasons and this was all before the whole blacklisting thing and i could really sense his change in mood after the blacklisting he started to develop a drinking problem after the blacklist but got it back together. Just wanted to put that out there hes a very nice guy in a 1 on 1 call but imagine what it does to someone when you do repetitive annoying work with little kids on the most toxic game on the planet and you are trying to have a professional server.

great videos. excited to see your channel grow

Affinity was the move

so cool to find a channel without a bunch of subs that’s still uploading. great content man, excited to see you grow

I remember when I was trying to be an admin for rusticated servers that I might have to run into some people like kinn. Those admins seemed to have known this stuff pretty well as I believe he was permanently banned on those servers on top of the current list.

well made video nice to see the old main scene get some attention

i love your SunnyV2 style content keep it up.

Bro I watched and Played rust for about 6 Years now and I'v never heard of this dude

As someone who use to be in .dot I can tell you without a doubt in my mind that Kinn was not playing a character lol. He, like many of us, got way too attached to the game and when his ego gets hurt he gets salty.

Amazing video, brings back the old memories 🥲

He wasn’t the villain we wanted but it was the villain we needed

I remember when all of this happened, was a glorious time.

only 6k subs!? that is criminal you need way more attention quality content mate keep it up

Love the RuneScape music in the background in the beginning

hes got the mindset of a grinder and i respect that

No matter how you put it, Kinn always had represented the average rust clan member, while others may not act or do things Kinn did, that does not mean they have no intentions to do so and most put up an act to seem better.

Fire video you should do more of these!

I'm sorry if mojang allowed 2b2t to still exist there's no need for face punch to ban his server

Affinity staff also brought out the old recoil server Legacy main, when neeko found out he straight away snitched to facepunch as he saw all the old clans were coming back to play and alot of current vital groups werent playing because of it

Gotta love these videos about someone I've never heard of, because I know my expectations are low to begin with

this was crazy holy you deserver more man

As immature as Kinn was, he brought good things to the main scene of Rust. Though he did bring good things, it does not out weigh his childish, and malicious behavior.

iv always felt bad for kids who think Rust is a competitive game

this vid was lit enjoyed it very much I miss affinity

underrated fr great content.

was Kinn just misunderstood?

Y’all out here defending him and his servers like he didn’t literally dox people, cheat, and ddos servers 😭

Your so underrated your quality is amazing

i love watching videos like this when ive never ever heard of anyone mentioned in them

playing with this guy 4 years ago was fun sad to see him go

i cant help but admire his motivation he gets shit done fp to him

You deserve more subs this is frost and fancy orb quality video. This reminds me of FitMc 2b2t but of rust :)

what a well put together video, keep this up bro, need more like this

This video brought back so many good and bad memories, Throughtout my time playing affinity since it was basically released, I feel as he did the best to strive to make his server more enjoyable and perform better and yes this vid did sum up the bad things and good things and I feel as you either got to hate him or love him but he provided a fun environment to play on even if it did get bad sometimes.

Honestly, Kinn was a real piece of shit - but it doesn't seem right that FP blacklisted his server permanently (by blocking the IP), if people want to play on a piece of shit server with him it's their choice since they bought the game. This would be like if Minecraft permanently blocked 2B2T (which has had FAR worse controversies, involving real crime that has resulted in people going to prison). Frankly, seems like FP just got butthurt that Kinn defied them and wanted to make an example, blocking him from the server list was understandable as a server like that would negatively affect FP's reputation, but the permanent IP blacklist is just overkill and stupid. If FP wouldn't have done that Kinn would've kept playing, slowly got bored and probably not caused any serious problems to anyone, now they created someone who has a vendetta, and someone with a vendetta can very quickly become dangerous and unstoppable. 10/10 great video, would watch again!

Kinn was like "You got yourself a villain, just because you want one" type of guy, you guys will never knew about him, until u meet him directly.

Really well made video mate!

Long live Affinity, FP was so wrong in blacklisting the server. As much as people hate him, Kinn changed the main scene, the community, and lots of other things. He'll never admit it again, but to have the game you've played for so long, loved, and probably grew up on, blow up in his face like it did, has gotta hurt. As fucked up in the head as Kinn might be from rust, dude is human.

never thought i’d see a rust video essay

well edited good job

One of the Rust server owners who helped me get to know the Rust community as a designer was KiNN. ♥

Kinn Is The Best Server Owner Out Of Neeko And Louis

kinn was one of the most genuine server owners, the reason he got so angry is because he actually CARED about his servers and the people playing them, EVERY OTHER SERVER only cares about the money, kinn genuinely cared about the game and his community

I haven't touched games in years, although I recall playing in the same server as DOT, ZZZ, 5K, Ich Bin and a few notable others. My clan "tL" (Formerly OYL), got the rest of the main clans on the server to agree to a strict rule of only having 8-man roams, this lasted for months and was a generally respected rule... except for DOT. They were the only group that could not respect every other clan's agreements, my only memories of DOT are of negativity and immaturity. I just stumbled upon this video and it reminded me of all those times playing Rust. Don't know if anyone will see this, hopefully, everyone I played with and against over the years has grown to live fulfilling lives, I only wish the best for y'all. My name was ricky, founder of tL. P.S. If anyone recalls TC Wars, I started that, but unfortunately, I was immature at the time and burned some bridges, and Navyblue (I think that was his name?) took over. Is TC Wars still a thing anymore? I believe Jack Shepard was there at the beginning as well, we had some calls. Anyways, it was fun, I have touched video games in a while just nice to reminisce, and would be cool if anyone in this comment section recognized me haha! Cheers!

Great Video

I think this shows how humans actually are. There are no absolutes as in someone who is 100% a good person or the opposite. We're just a person with many facets to our traits. Looks like Kinn can show compassion and willingness to help the community, but you cannot deny that his toxic, ddos, doxing actions can't really be justified either

kinn was a legend

holy shit jack is still alive and dropping content

Great script. Great storytelling. If I nothing about Rust this would still be entertaining. Conclusion was a bit lacking in my opinion but overall great video.

As a past Affinity staff member, I feel KiNN always had a good heart despite his actions.

kinn was super immature at the beginning but you could see significant improvement over the years and when he owned his own rust server most of the (concerning) toxic behavior was gone, he did great things for the rust scene and his servers shouldnt have been banned

Bro that runescape music took me ALL the way back wtf

Hope you make more rust documentaries

"Was he a bad guy?" Yes. His response to being told that he's not wanted was to lash out and try to destroy the game for other people. If everything described in this video is accurate, he's actually pretty awful. Even if he considers the things he was doing an "act" that still shows that he's willing to do awful things to people for the sake of entertaining his personal group.

toxic personality does not equal to no good heart or bad leadership, there's no all bad or all good, they right about kinn's toxic behavior, the actions fp took is to protect game enviorment which is right, if affinity shut doors and form a closed up community and do right things with beef there's no way they aren't on top rn.

The RuneScape music is so nostalgic

It’s always the runescape music that lets me know the documentary is about to be fire

I'm sure his toxicity and playstyle were something Facepunch didnt like but you cant ban someone and their community for just playing thebway they want to. And they were on their own server. Punishment was a bit too harsh.

kinn was a genius. He gained power through what some may say was evil but he turned his anger and hatred into passion and glory and was the most memorable server owner the game has ever seen.

Ahh the RuneScape music I love it

incredible video my man

Bro kinn seems like the rustiest rust player ever. He’s the king

was a good video. loved how melow it was. but persnaly from me who was on the receaving end of kinn i never ever have and will see him as postive. he was a terable person who acted like a kid in a mans body. good to see him go and the comunity of rust becoming some what more postive instead of filled with toxic lumps of shit. part of the reason why fokes say the game is starting to die. cant wait to see any next videos.

osrs music at start is goated

holy shit jack good video gng

If only Kinn chilled the f out once he got the servers running and kept his admins in check... You can't expect a game dev to let toxicity and profanities running rampant, it's bad for business...

Kinn didnt do the greatest things in the first part of his career but then managed to pay it back and then got attacked i personally believe he is innocent and should be unbanned and forgiven

jack shepard goated on the sticks and the mic. natural talent

What’s the outro song? I’ve been searching for a long while

you should make more documentaries such as this, they are very well made

free kinn!!!!!!!!

I think he was truly a good person but had some very bad anger issues that he should get checked out

tunnel of love outro song came out of nowhere w vid

2015 player, didnt know much about main scene though back then, good story telling