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Etho is the grandfather of all red stones

The others- slowly dying Ethos- *I always come back*

i think its really sad how etho became less relevant due to the fact that he never clickbaited

It's pretty sad when youtubers you watch just randomly disappear especially when you watch them on a daily basis.

I'm a simple man. I see Etho, I click.

If Etho ever stops uploading I will understand but I will cry so hard he's literally my hero

It feels to me like Etho's videos manage to nail both effectively targeting adults and children- kind of like the muppets.

There was this Dutch youtuber called 'skydive177' and made 'minecraft overlevingsgids' wich means minecraft survival guide. He was in the middle in a modded minecraft series and he died in it. He said he was going to save his stuff. He never uploaded ever again. That was around 6 years ago. I miss that guy...

I've been watching Etho for almost 10 years now. He has been a huge part of my childhood and I'll never forget him. I think the best thing about Etho is the fact he hasn't hardly changed one bit. His style of making videos and uploads are just simple and is just right. He never asks for likes and/or subs either. He deserves so much more and is still my favourite KZfaqr to this day

I like that even though a couple of them are doing *relatively* worse than before, you're still pointing out that indeed, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for them.

Etho, the Yogscast, and Captainsparklez are the youtubers I've been consistently watching for almost a decade at this point. Amazing content and amazing people.

The great thing about youtubers like Etho is that they didn't care about the 'floating' subscribers, but focused just on their core base and, perhaps more importantly, just did what they liked to do.

I think you missed someone really important- GenerikB. He founded Hermitcraft and played on it for its first season. however, he got bored of it and decided to not participate in the second season. Later, when it grew more popular, he tried to return but the hermits decided they didn't want him back. he was also a member of Mindcrack

Yogscast are still some of the only KZfaqrs I actively watch. I watched their stuff back in the WoW days, listened to their OG podcast around it's beginning, and still watch all their new content and podcast. They just have such a unique style of humour that you can't get anywhere else

God, I miss Jerry and Harry. I'm still good at Herobrine's Mansion, but now there's no one to play it with.

The Yogscast is the reason I started playing Minecraft. I loved Lewis and Simon's sense of humor, and even binged the Yogpod (their podcast.) Shadow of Israphel was a little misleading for me, though. I thought the series was using a mod, and I tried SO HARD to find it.

"They ended up milking the crap out of the series" A line i thought i would never hear from TheMisterEpic.

Love etho, my #1 watched KZfaq for like 7 years now

You're the reason I make Zelda history videos now. Thanks for being an inspiration MisterEpic!

Been a minute since I’ve watched Etho... he is in my eyes my favourite KZfaqr of all time, I hope to see him grow even more, brings a tear to my eye when I watch his old videos for nostalgia

TheMisterEpic: iBallistic's videos were... OK, I guess. IBallisticSquid: brooooooooo

Nice video, this reminded me of some of the youtubers I used to watch. The only one I still watch regularly is Etho, who I’ve watched since 2013, and will continue to watch till he stops uploading. I loved that his style never changed and that he stayed true to himself.

I feel like etho, above all else, represents minecraft really well. He's been around for so long, and has had an influence on not just redstone, but building and survival and his stuff is also just entertaining (Episode 404 of the survival lets play comes to mind as a highlight). Hes also one of the few minecrafters I know of that can build a base INTERIOR FIRST, and have it look amazing. Like seriously, who doeas that?! Etho, thats who does that.

The original Yogscast for me will always be the definition of the perfect KZfaq channel and no-one can change my mind.

A video on old redstone KZfaqrs could be interesting. Like cnb, cubehamster, fvdisco, sethbling, code crafted, jl2579 etc etc. A history of redstone on yt Ig

Etho is still my favorite youtuber, he's really a genius, and makes such amazing content.

Could you make a video about MCC? I feel it's really risen in popularity. You've got Grian, you've got Dream, you've got Techno, you don't have money-minded hosts and sponsors, I think it would be a really fun video.

I remember watching Iballisticsquid and stampy all the time as if it were yesterday. Man these videos bring so much memories back

Omg I forgot its Jerry and Harry existed

Ethos reminds me of Sweden's biggest gaming KZfaqr (Stamsite). An early minecraft player with a loyal fanbase.

Etho and Technoblade have one thing in common: They'll _NEVER DIE_

6:15 - "this was quite literally groundbreaking at the time" ... Well, it *is* Minecraft.

Etho’s gotten me through a lot of stuff, and I’ve been with him since the start. Aint ever gonna drop him.

I know a lot are commenting about Etho. I just cant help but add to it. Etho is a childhood superstar of mine. I was never into the loud and obnoxious youtubers that played mini games. I only watched Etho. At 22 years old now and I still watch every single one of his uploads. My favorite series he has ever done, was his Project Ozone 2 series. He is such an amazing person and I can not say enough good things about him.

It's fascinating to me now how long-term survival playthroughs have now become the thing people like to watch. The exact thing that was not what we were all watching a few years back Someone asked Lewis about how he felt about the decline of The Yogscast, and he said something along the lines of "We had out time in the sun, and I'm just glad we all enjoyed it" Another minecraft youtuber that might be worth looking into is Direwolf20. I watched him before I even made this youtube account (I had his channel bookmarked on the homepage of my iPod Touch 4 and I'd click it everyday) and he's had a son in that time who's a few years old now. He's only showed his face maybe 3 times, and has pretty much never stopped making modded minecraft SMP videos. Also bascially every single video (barring DireNews and other random ones) are between 30 & 40 minutes

Up to this day, I am still waiting for the Part 43 of Shadow of Israphel..

I wonder if dream, george, tommyinnit or others in the current mcyt community will be like the people in this video, if they'll ever hold the same nostalgia for younger kids.

Ethoslab still going strong

So glad you talked about Etho! I started watching him 8 years ago and he still remains my favorite youtuber (you're in the top 5 don't worry :D) Edit: Awww your comments are making my day, great to see so many other people that love Etho!

Etho was there in the beginning, he had his time in the light, and then when the resurgence happened he was there to nurture the new stars. He might just be the greatest of all time

The Yogscast is the one content creator I've watched daily for over a decade now. It's that one constant in my life and a comfort to still have them there. Like a close friend who'll always be there to make me smile

when etho said ''i'm really only doing this for fun and for you guys, i don't really care about the stats'' it made me have faith that etho wont be like those other youtubers who downgrade or just stop posting, etho is my comfort youtuber, and the reason that i play minecraft, and luckily for us ever since he came back to hermitcraft he's gotten many views even though, like he said, he doesnt care about the stats

Love all the effort you've been putting into all of these videos on the OG minecraft youtubers as well as the history of the game in general. These people and the game in general really made an impact on a lot of viewers in my opinion and it's nice to watch these videos every now and again that talks about the people that a lot of us would have otherwise forgotten

I'm guessing u never heard of "yaw"(youalwayswin" those guys were my childhood

Remember when fortnite took #1 and then uts community became so tox everyone came back to minecraft lol

Etho's regular view count has *always* (since like, 2012) been in the hundreds of thousands though. I don't think there was a single episode of his main let's play to get less than 300k views within a week of uploading. It's just that he uploaded less at one point, and also the hermitcraft series is his most watched series of all time. Although I'm just going by memory, so I could be wrong.

Etho is one of those people you could call the old guard but he was one of the few that stuck it out in vanilla minecraft sure he had others including modded minecraft but he was one the few that still kept a vanilla series going during those rough years.

I think when you are over 21 years old and still are/and/or become a fan of Etho, it's stuck forever. Because he has a very honest style of presenting videos and good humor to accompany them. So whatever he does, it's almost like listening to a podcast. ps: Not that you can't be a fan of Etho if you are younger than 21, I'm saying cause there is college/job life, etc for most the 21-year-old ppl (there are more reasons to not follow his videos)

when you realize that soon, technoblade, grian, mumbo jumbo, dream, tommyinnit, tubbo & others will have a video like this in the future

Something I find fascinating about this is it shows even within the world of 'minecraft on youtube', there are various silos with little overlap. I've been watching youtube minecraft videos from back before the nether update, and have only heard of a couple of these people.

One older Minecraft KZfaqr I remember was "TheMinecraftMuse". He did some minecraft tutorials earlier on, before moving to lets plays (including one of his most popular series, Muse Farms) and even ran a survival server for a while that I remember playing on for a bit. Got into his stuff through my cousins, and quite enjoyed it. He eventually moved onto a second channel, called Spumwack, where he did other stuff (including at least some Minecraft stuff, including a second season of Muse Farms), eventually moving to Fortnight (IIRC) and later reaction/comedy videos (it appears) before apparently just abandoning his Spumwack channel as well. Dunno if he's still around anywhere at all.

You should do “what happened to team crafted ?”

Ever since i found Etho literal YEARS ago i have been saying forever he is the best MC youtuber out there and hes probably my favorite youtuber period.

I’ve been an Etho fan for awhile. And when Etho joined hermit craft season 7 and there were so many different KZfaqrs on their I decided to check out what happened to some of the others guys that were on the mindcrack server and some that were in previous versions of hermitcraft. So many odd t make it, it kinda makes me sad.

Man, every time I see a video talking about old minecraft youtubers and etho gets mentioned, I get blasted with nostalgia Ever since I started watching him like a decade ago now he's always stayed true to himself, he's always been the same genuinely kind guy who just wants to make cool videos about a game he likes, never doing it for the fame or money It's gonna be a sad day when he's finished with youtube

Man. Too much nostalgia. Brain overloading. Tears flooding. *Diamond.exe has stopped working*

ItsJerryandHarry and JerryVsHarry have so much potential because of their unique humour and their broad skills. Unfortunately, I also got disappointed because they decreased the effort they put into the videos. While JerryVsHarry has been uploading constantly, they no longer put out all the previous series they did and just made Build Battle videos with clickbait. The worse part is that they are stuck in 1.8 and seem uninterested in the newer versions. I with a couple of viewers pressed them into trying out 1.16. They did do a 1.16 speedrun but that's it. They went back to Build Battle after that. I understand that they focus on KZfaq video quantity to keep their server running but I am still hoping they do something new. I may give up on them anytime soon.

The yogscast never really slowed down, they used their success to shift business, they now run a fairly substantial MCN with 37 members. They aren't the most popular anymore but thats good, they have the very lucky position of "cozy", they don't have to worry about being the most relevant or powerful so less stress and more fun.

I still watch Etho. 21 y/o now and I've watched almost every video he's made for over 10 years and I honestly don't plan to stop.

itsjerryandharry’s server had a parkour mode we speedrunners loved and it was hard to watch it decline over the years :(

Etho in the thumbnail like he hasn't been consistently uploading and growing for pretty much his entire youtube career

Etho is such a legend, you should go check out his channel, his most recent world tour is a good place to start.

You should have covered Cubehamster, the guy is basically the father of slimestone, he really gave it a boost and got a lot of people including myself interested in his various flying machines from missiles to bots. He started to die off at the end of 1.9 when the first SBRT failed(most of the battles happened but the final didn't), he still uploaded but he slowed down and within the year hs channel died, now he rarely uploads and it's even more rarely minecraft. I miss the guy, always a nostalgia trip when I watch his Slimestone playlist

A few others that haven't been covered yet are YouAlwaysWin (probably best known for SurvivorCraft a game show style series based off of the TV series Survivor, Skyblock style maps, mods, etc.) MeatWagon22 whose half the duo of YAW (when it comes to Minecraft Meatycraft probably stands out) TheOnlyBentley a friend of the former 2 I mentioned and like the former was once part of NextGenTactics (probably best known for MageLife and ModLife and being really chill) those 3 used to be my favorites because before Minecraft they were part of a Call of Duty channel called NGTZombies and would play custom made Zombies levels, and after they had a falling out and switched to Minecraft I watched their stuff until around 2015 or 16 then stopped because everyone stopped Minecraft around then, I looked last year and all 3 still uploaded but I'm not sure how they're doing. Lastly how about GameChap and Bertie? The dynamic duo with funny over exaggerated fake British accents?

I hope this new gen mc youtubers will have the same impact on the younger mc playerbase, leaving another path of mc nostalgia

I’ve been watching etho since late 2011. Love the guy. He’s the only minecrafter I really have left on my subscribers. I watch every episode cause I dunno he’s engaging and I’ve always liked his content

I honestly hope you make a video on the Shadow of Israphel series alone. You've always pumped out consistently good content and I'd totally watch you cover something that has a story line

Only true og's remember our boys Setosorcerer and AKspartankiller

Tbh, I'd Like to See AviatorGaming On here, Ever since he disappeared last year, just a small callback would bring the nostalgia

These are making me realize how many youtubers I've been missing. And even know I can't find them. GimmeDiamonds was a group I loved growing up with. But even know I can't find them. Another I sadly can't remember their name. They had a Vincent Valentine skin, they used to help animate MC shorts and such. Enjoyed cookies. I remember so many laughs from their content. And wish I could find them again.

Anyone else remember watching Etho's old Mindcrack FTB stuff with the floating islands and honeycomb labs and stuff like that?

I’m here before kids start blessing my whole family 😂

I remember always watching danTDM's mod review on the family computer(which was still in windows xp) and I always watched popularMMos. remember bomby.

Talking about old mine tubers Y'all remember a survival island let's play? It started with a plane crashing, had two guys, they built a big boat, then TNT cannon'd it? And also a survival let's play, I think the dude made a multi-story house, hoe'd dirt before planting trees, built a waterfall, and I'm pretty sure he made the map into a treasure hunt.

The Yogscast was my childhood. I remember watching Shadow like it was the coolest thing ever. I didn't have the game so watching other people play just made me upset but with how they set up Shadow with the story and plot I was able to watch without being jealous. Then I finally did get a laptop and Minecraft but they had started Jaffa Factory, my laptop was a potato so I couldn't play Modpacks myself. I don't think in my life I have been as entertained as I was when I was watching Shadow and Jaffa Factory.

It’s sad to see some of the most nostalgic youtubers fall off the platform but such is the circle of life. Old channels die to make room for new fresh life

I still watch all of the Yogscasts content to this day

yogscast were my inspiration for gaming and im glad theyre still uploading.

Squid used to be the shit back in day. his sky island series, skyrim letsplay, the quest to series, and all the hypixel and modded he played with amy lee and ash dubh the cheese man were some of my favourite videos ever. He even did a semi scripted galacticraft series similar to the yogs.

Morale of the story: dont do clickbait

they're not dead We just grew up -someone on the internet

did you ever look at GameChap and Bertie? a comedic British duo that explored mods and maps like crazy for a long time and even had 2 stories that were their most popular but never ever got a conclusion ever, those being Survival Island and Quest For The Golden Monocle, they stopped Minecraft stuff at some point, possibly Minecraft's downfall days, and they now focus on Mario and Smash Bros, I think they made a second channel to play Minecraft but that didn't really do much

I somewhat recently ran into iBallisticSquid in a very unusual place, he ended up being a colab partner for ScrapMan, kAN Gaming, Moonbo and Kosmonaut for Scrap Mechanic, he made several appearances in their Multiplayer Monday series. It was strange seeing him surface again in the stuff that I watch now.

You should check out Gizzi Gazza for this series.

These videos are so pog

If anyone remembers those Minecraft Mod Showcases where there were these two guys in a house and they had very exaggerated accents around Beta 1.8 time, they’re called AdamzoneTopMarks. Go watch some and experience nostalgia

6:32 those textures bring me back, wow.

SSundee was my childhood coming back from school just to see his skyfactory videos even if the game was dead. Now he just makes among us content milking it till its dry

I’m curious....why have you not covered paulsoaresjr yet? He was arguably one of the biggest KZfaqrs in the 2010-2013 era of the game, and was featured on the official Minecraft page for quite some time.

Etho said at the end of one of his world tours. "My subscriber count hasn't really changed for several years, but the age of my viewers are much older. It's as if my audience is growing up with the channel." Paraphrased off memory. It's bittersweet. Some people grow big fast and fall faster. Etho grew fast, but with his content, he had no chance to fall- only to stop growing. Maybe for the better.

Cool fact about Etho is that though he might not be the biggest channel he's inspired a lot of people to make content most notably Mr Beast.

Can you do a video on Zisteau? I wanna know what happened and why he fell away from Minecraft and to other games

Your favourite minecraft youtuber is Etho and it shows

Would Love to See a 4. Part. Especially about the German KZfaqr Gronkh. He Had 1000+ Minecraft Episodes began in MC Alpha.

iBallisticSquid never finished his Minecraft Xbox Slippery survival series, which was a total bummer because I really loved those series

Before some of you say KZfaq would be broken because there are more likes than views, that's normal, there are Cache Servers that temporarily save the views and then your pc becomes the info from a temp server and the temp server updates this count about every 2 minutes

Whats funny is that, In the 2015-16 era I stopped watching the popular mini game content and fell in love with Etho’s content.

Anyone remember SkyDoesMinecraft's mod showcases or the "Epic Parkour" Series? I have so much nostalgia for mods like MoreTNT and Elemental creepers

Yogscast was the real deal back in the early days of minecraft. Heck, I could still remember their lets plays and song parodies and usually come back to check on them. You can really see that a single change of trend can be a huge impact on youtubers within the early trend, causing their downfall, but some continue to stand strong regardless if they lose subscribers or views, some even rise back up and continue to increase. To them, it’s all about the fun of making content, appreciating the loyalty your followers have on you.