PATREON: patreon.com/skyboimc for everyone saying "actually..... spoke was first ☝☝" 1. no he wasn't, he got it from wilbur soot 2. that didn't impact the wider trend, which is what this video's about
@@partyzombie6211If you watched the patreon segment of the video, he said that people who are members get access to a part of his discord server which allows you to watch videos early
One thing I hate is how whenever one famous youtuber makes a video on a certain topic it all of a sudden becomes the most listed thing on youtube. It just shows how much greed and the lack of originality most youtubers have.
Thats human(actually not even just humans animals also do that) nature. In general people imitate other more successful things so they can also prosper
Was apart of clownpierce's group in the first magicgum event, good times. still in his original "The Disciples Of Clownpierce" discord server. Loved your take on this! you did a super nice tye between your comedy and the history. I hope for another resurge of this minecraft niche. W video
I wanna add that ibxtoycat was one of the first pioneers to this "Minecraft experiment" format with his fanbase. He originally started minecraft social experiment ideas just like MagicGum 5 years ago, (3 years before MagicGum) with Minecraft realms and having his fan base sorta larping to the idea with his social experiments. This itself was more of a beta version of "Minecraft Civilizations", but his input did make me wonder and believe that he is one of the reasons why Civilization videos are so popular today even if people might not realize or remember. His Minecraft Communist Server Experiment is one of the most popular videos on his channel.
ibxtoycat did his first civilization video in 2018 Wilbur Soot did his first one in early 2020 And EarthMC has been a thing since 2016 MagicGum was far from the first one.
fun fact: this entire genre is pretty similar to a minecraft creepypasta(?) called "The Closed Map Experiment". this doesn't really add anything to the video but it is worth mentioning because they are both about experiments focusing on replicating human behavior in minecraft
Scripted would be a better way to put it. Sure, there was some level of scripting in most of the others, but Parkour Civilization and the like are compeltely scripted.
@@Kozkaynnah it’s just a completely other channel ish marusK magic gum and whatever are one and the other are joofy,Joll and conk,evbo who then have happened to inspire a lot of other people
I was one of the original people that watched magicgum from his first theory videos to his SMP too! Yeah.. unfortunately it was a fail. Despite how much of a mess it was, it is still THE favorite smp I have ever played on. I have tried finding another SMP over the years to find the same vibe I've gotten from his trapped smp to no avail. The fact that mobs could actually kill you. The fact that death have real consequences. The sense of danger and the importance of allies. Trust and betrayal, allies and enemies... There is a friend that I still actively talk to till this date I met through that smp! It will forever have a special place in my heart. We often talk back about it and documents everything we can find about it. Due to it being a fail, its history is pretty much erased off the internet, and nobody knew what happened in it aside from the participants. I'm so glad you made this video! I met my group on magic's discord then we stuck together throughout the whole smp. The hiding type with underground bases. Nothing can ever replicate the feeling of having clown's streams on the backgroud while panicking, calling the whole team on at 2am because clown raided our base. Checking his and vandrayk's cords live, if we are ever getting close to him. NOTHING. Can ever replicate the feeling when one of our most trusted member for 1 month turned out to be CLOWN's friend and spy, and the one that's been ratting out our cords the whole time. Clown made a video on that entire situation that I would kill to watch again. It is privated after he joined lifesteal (very fair as the quality doesn't catch up at all). Clown blew up shortly after that, very deserved from his sheer pvp skills. If only there is a way to see old vods from magic's and clown's streams. After claiming blocks became a thing the server died down a lot. Despite our trapping strategies we still got bullied hard by clown and kings of the end. I wasn't lucky enough to get into the later events magic made. I've witnessed my friend participate in some tho. Was really fun to watch as well. I've never participated in Ish's events. However, his content is the only other that reminded me of magic's. It is a lot more storytelling focused as you said, makes them easy to attach to and pick a team to root for! Apologies for wall of text haha. Me and my friend as two nerds has been trying to document as much things from the trapped smp as possible. I really shocked to see a 2024 video to talk about it. I still haven't given up on civilization videos (that's why I'm here, obviously). Maybe one day someone can be as great as those two had done...
@@NightmarelizedDina Fair, but what's the worst that could happen? Best case scenario you get the vods back, worst case scenario you get ignored. And it seems like you have plenty of evidence to back up your case for getting in touch with him.
The funniest thing about the SMP to me is how we went through like 5 months of planning for the server to be taken offline after 3 months. For me, the mobs were kind of a pain point in my experience with the SMP, as I really focused down on the faction aspect of the server, and although I was fine with the death ban, it was made worse when you didn't have any idea of what the plug-in mobs could do mechanically. I still wish I was able to get some more hours in before it was shutdown though, I miss running EON, making textures for the server's pack and I miss Magic's community being active.
You're right in saying that Ish changed the game when it comes to Minecraft Civilization Events but I believe that him and MARCUSK are the currently the top Civ Creators on the platform. I've played in many MARCUSK Events and frankly they're some of the most fun I've had playing Minecraft and the videos never fail to come out great. Both Ish and MARCUSK both focus on the narrative and plot which makes it feel like I'm watching a movie!
Watching my face in the thumbnail at 10:56 hit me like a flashbang lmao, Skip's video actually did insane numbers for his first ever video, he cooked HARD, but as you said, obviously wouldn't hit 2022 levels of numbers, despite the actual event being hosted in late 2022/early 2023 Edit: Also amazing video! Was such a fun watch being part of the community and having played in nearly all of the events shown off here :)
I really like the idea of someone tracking the events that led up to these videos. Sure it's silly little Minecraft stuff but it's very cool that someone could wonder what led up to these and find your video as an answer. Good job!
this is an amazing video, as a member of the community. you my friend have nailed all the aspects of it and i was bewildered to find you didnt have atleast 1 million subs my friend. you are destined for greatness
my favourite civ videos are ibxtoycat’s experiments with different political ideas, they’re very interesting and a precursor to the whole civ events that wasn’t mentioned here
I don't think he had any actual direct influence on the rise of Civilization videos, but I want to throw in an honorable mention of ibxtoycat. His "Realm Experiment" videos were kind of a prototype version of these civ events, and he did them years before MagicGum started the ball rolling with this trend. A somewhat interesting anecdote, I've been supremely interested in this genre/concept for over a decade. I always had big ideas about it, but being a random nobody, I obviously didn't have the resources to make anything happen myself. That's how I found ibxtoycat's videos, and also how I found Ish's first civilization video. Like a month or so after Ish posted his first civ video, right as it was just starting to catch on but still only had a handful thousand views, I actually found it by specifically searching for a Minecraft civilization video, when the genre didn't even really exist yet.
@kringle7804 That's worth noting, although to my mind, it's a bit too different from the premise of civilization experiments/events. The key features of civ events to me are the fact that they don't have any kind of land claiming plugins, and the fact that they're hardcore, where everyone only has one life. Those are the major distinctions that make a civ event unique and give it the actual civilization feel. Stoneworks is much more so just a regular old survival multiplayer server with a roleplay focus, and those kinds of things have been around for much longer than civ events.
Nice video man this was dope to see the progression of civ events!! I've played in so many of these and I can't believe you even mentioned Trapped SMP that was so long ago and only lasted for a few weeks XDD! GREAT VIDEOOOO
The subscribe button glowed when you said it, I replayed it just in case I was tripping and it did it again. Great video, and mabye a cool subtle new feature that compels me to subscribe
Last time you gave a date I swear almost every person in the SpeedSilver Discord started saying the next video was then, actually kinda funny now that I think of it! *but i saw in skybois video it was gonna be then-* anyways! lovely video :D
I can't believe that I was one of the before 10K people. At least i think, I watched so many of your videos and you're doing great! Keep the good work up!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I remember way before this i had a similar idea of people doing civilization videos of minecraft but got immediatley annoyed when there was nothing like that in TH-cam then like 5 months later it was everywhere
Thank you for making this video. I was curious to see what the history behind this somewhat shortlived trend was. I keep coming back to these videos like once a year. Honestly I keep rewatching Ish's videos the most. The storytelling and cinematography are great and I keep wondering when another one is coming out. But man, I didn't consider that a lot of Ish's repeat participants are friends, but it makes sense. Not that I view that as rigging the experiment really, but in a way it is kind of necessary, especially if you have 1000 people and most of them would either do their own thing or troll relentlessly unless shown something interesting they could do instead. I know these are a lot of work to do, but I kind of hope they keep happening in some form or another. The storyline of Ish's previous civilization experiment was massive enough that some other participants felt compelled to tell their own perspectives and as someone in one of those videos said, this is exactly how civilizations, history, oral traditions form. Like if Ish ever does another one, I have an expectation that there will be a Sultanate at the very least and there will always be individuals that seek to obtain power by any means.
Before 100k subs club, hell yeah! I think your content is actually really unique in the way you show it. No one else really has these eye catching thumbnails, or cool cutaways, or even humor. I think you got 500k in the bag, keep going man, you got this.
I just stumbled across Civilisation videos yesterday with a video from Ish. Now I’m diving deep into the entire civilisation community and I love every second! Only few videos Menage to keep me that occupied with eyes on the screen constantly.
Where does stoneworks fit into this 🤔 Also, great video! Been a fan of Magic's since a bit before the first Trapped SMP launched and man, there was a lot of politics and spying just in discord before any minecraft event even started. Wish there was a video just on the discord politics lol. Never expected Magic to blow up this big and I'm really proud of him!
@AmeDayo stoneworks inspired magic a little, it was too rule ridden to be a true social experiment however and didn't allow for thoughts experiments to properly evolve
The discord politics were fun, I wish we got a second server so I can put everything I did into effect. Back when we thought there was a high possibility for a second server, me and Alu set up an information gathering network, 2-3 puppet factions and alt accounts to control them, even the ones that had a democratic focus. And then nothing happened, but hey, details.
Amazing video my guy! Honestly such a great documentary about the history of the civ genre for minecraft in general. And while I agree ish is the last of the main 3 making the civilization genre who knows where even he'll take his channel after his next video lol He could continue with civilization events or move on with different ones but that's just my take being part of the community as well lol.
I feel like I should mention IHasName. He's another youtuber who's videos mostly focus on the Origins mod. If you don't know, the Origins mod allows you pick from one of nine backstories, or "origins," which grant you various abilities and debuffs depending on what you pick. His three most recent videos follow the civilization format, with two of them utilizing the Origins mod.
Ive met SO many amazing people in this community. I'm just a mere event artist like i make ALOT ALOT of art from these events that i myself have played or watched people play. But ever since i joined this community ive been happier as a person and even improved my artstyle by 10x more. My adrenaline absolutely SPIKES thru the roof during these events when i play myself. And while i hate it i also weirdly love it. Because it gives u a new view of things. Despite meeting so many great people in this community it also comes with down sides. Some creators within it can be Rude or fake asf once u get to know them. Or just blind at the fact their viewers are literal children. It truely amazes me to see how far magic gum has come and many other youtubers in this community. I truely appreciate all their hard work and dedication they bring into these events. And the communities they build around their content
This is a genuinely really well put-together video essay I do have to say ive always been bothered by how later videos are no longer really experiments, since they force players down specific paths and events, instead of letting them create the situations
I think it’s def sad that it ended so quickly but as he said it’s hard to add anything. I think the whole thing was a great experiment and I personally enjoyed it very much. I do really wish there was more to add but there doesn’t seem to be. Thank you MagicGum for the amazing video.
There's this other Minecraft civilization community that quite underrated deserves to be mentioned Stoneworks Organized cities Actual politics Wars with well planned tactics Even religion Having 10,000 wiki pages of server history, in the last 4 REAL LIFE YEARS. It's insane It may be what MagicGum has been trying to replicate. Actually civilizations in Minecraft that act and function like a real nation. I genuinely wonder if he knows about it. He would probably love it Its not just 4 islands with different biomes. (Which they actually made fun of lol) But an actual map with its own geography, each state, kingdom, empire having their own respective land and their own respective borders. The scale itself far massive than any civilization event anyone has ever made even combined. The thing is tho, they're not that we'll known despite the rise of Minecraft civilization. Unlike events that are filmed LIVE, various people having their own POVs and their own recorded footage, admins watching everything 24/7, in stoneworks, they do actual documents which is not as exciting. They also seem to limit their players more on creative freedom. They can still build great structures in their respective land and all but seem to take things more "seriously" in a sense. I personally don't know how it works since I don't know that much and only recently discovered them, but I think there's more restrictions that force players to socialize and work together, which makes sense to prevent divide and solo players causing havoc. I honestly think you should cover a video about them. They kinda deserve it, as well as asking them how things work unlike in regular Minecraft civilization people can immediately be stacked as hell if put enough effort. Hope you see this
As someone who plays on the server, people can do pretty much whatever they want (unless it's against the rules which aren't too restrictive, mostly about cheating and toxicity). There's nothing stopping me from making the town hall a dirt hut. Some groups also have varying degrees of freedoms. Some are more strict, while other let people do what they want as long as they contribute. People could run off and set up a claim(a territory which costs 10k), but most eventually get gobbled up by bigger groups if they don't get enough support. It's more competition that does that, because what nation would you rather join? A nation made up of dirt huts or a nation with amazing builds? Most would join the latter so those would survive while the former would collapse. Also eventually a builder would come along and fix things up.
great vid dawg, I kinda just forgot about this trend until recently, made me want to participate one but…. Well since it’s (mostly) dead none are active. I assume it got stale, a few channels still do it but they take like months to post, I doubt these videos will shine again, still entertaining though
It did start years ago. In the Netherlands our youth (when I was like 6/7) There where a series of A called Minecraft civilization. it's called: "The Kingdom Dusdavid"
@@skyboimc Yes Spoke's original video on it was made over 3 years ago while magicgums was 2 years ago. Spoke's allowed people to team with whoever they wanted and elect team leaders and the videos had everyone in one specific biome
@@royalistproductions The reason nobody talks about Spoke's videos is because they had nothing to do with the heavy wave of civilization videos. As someone who watched and even participated in his events, they were structured very differently from MagicGum, Ish, SpeedSilver, and even Sword. Spoke's events had no influence outside of his channel really and the civilization video surge only popped up because of MagicGum's vid which is why they all incorporate elements of his original vid and none from Spoke's.
Fantastic lil history video. I got really into MindOfNeo's event videos for the plotlines and interesting custom mods, but the format and hashtags definitely baffled me since those events were less of a civilization and more of a battle royale. Now i know what sprung up my new favorite video genre 😂
@@CoolPotatoBuilds parkour civilization isn't an actual civilization video. It's basically just a battle shonen made by a guy who's cracked at Minecraft parkour
This video isn’t fully correct (as far as I know) SpokeisHere actually uploaded a civilization video months prior to MagicGum. (Spoke: APR. 30TH. 2021) (MGum: AUG. 9TH. 2021). However while spoke (as far as I know) made the genre, MagicGum was the one who really pushed it and made it as popular as it is. So I’d say both deserve partial credit in their own categories. (I will note that Magic didn’t make his video because of Spoke, he just uploaded after Spoke making it the “first” irrelevant.)
When I saw this, I was like 'Well this should be interesting, being that one of my favorite videos of all time (Trust Ive watched this many times) is ish's 1000 Player Experiment.' and being that you mentioned him, that just made me happy.
It was crazy being an ish13c fan like 8 years ago when he had around 30k subscribers and then not watching him for so long and seeing him suddenly blow up
PATREON: patreon.com/skyboimc
for everyone saying "actually..... spoke was first ☝☝"
1. no he wasn't, he got it from wilbur soot
2. that didn't impact the wider trend, which is what this video's about
NO
ITS MINE
being a GD (geometry dash) player, I have to say this:
PROMO MUSIC IS GLORIOUS FORTRESS!!!!!!!!
alright act like you never saw this and good day sir
Love yore vids
@@skyboimc didn't toycat do this with communism
Ish’s 1000 player civilization was awesome, that had such a great storyline that the players made
One of the best videos put on TH-cam
kinda scripted though
@@IlPiccoloGato Yeah. But it is pretty obvious sort of.
@@mariustan9275 yup, still goated vid though
@@IlPiccoloGato True. But it was still entertaining
Everyone ask MagicGum for thumbnail advice :)
@@ish SO TRUE! I still pester him today about my thumbnails
I'm glad you removed the red line in the middle.
@MagicGum a red line would have been a CRAZY take lmao
Ask McYum
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@MagicGum we allll know what happened there in their technological advancement institution when venzai was in charge 💀
Magic gum I just watched ishs prison vid and younwere in it
100 skybois simulate video essays
talk about early😭
Talk about mediocre timing 😭
LOL
@@PierceTRV wait how your 4 days early how??
@@partyzombie6211If you watched the patreon segment of the video, he said that people who are members get access to a part of his discord server which allows you to watch videos early
Can’t believe my legacy was reduced to “Just another player.” Damn me and Ize carried the early events.
#NotMyStarkiller Starkiller246 is where it's at frfr
sorryyyyyyy 😔
nah just another player
@@skyboimc I will never forgive you for this RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
@@Mindless0 StarKiller246 the goat!
Civilization events will forever stand at #1
No comment let me help you
When do you think MeatOfNeo is going to upload, like the next decade?
Sword upload plss!!❤❤
ayy
@@Bule-21 If you don’t know, his sword extra channel uploads pretty regularly
One thing I hate is how whenever one famous youtuber makes a video on a certain topic it all of a sudden becomes the most listed thing on youtube. It just shows how much greed and the lack of originality most youtubers have.
Thats human(actually not even just humans animals also do that) nature. In general people imitate other more successful things so they can also prosper
@a_balloon some do it cause they want to other's not so much your own fav yt doesn't have common sense to know that.
that’s just what’ll happen under capitalism
Facts
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I'm not usually interested in these kinds of Minecraft commentary videos, but dang, this is fire 🔥
HOLY SH** ITS MOLDY
@@MoldyGD wait why is what moldy
MOLDY?????
Bro came from the GD flipping world
I love it when I’m in one community and get jumpscared by someone in my other community
"You can do you one block jump for the chicken or you can attempt the one block vertical jump for the beef." 🗣🔥
“ No one goes for the beef “
@@Mystfordays "In parkour civilization it's safer to do the one block jump for the raw chicken"
She be jumping for my beef fr
PARKOUR CIVILIZATIONNNNNN RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Was apart of clownpierce's group in the first magicgum event, good times. still in his original "The Disciples Of Clownpierce" discord server.
Loved your take on this! you did a super nice tye between your comedy and the history.
I hope for another resurge of this minecraft niche. W video
YOU WERE? Ya learn something new everyday...
@@CornkerCreates CORNKER!!?
Yoo
I wanna add that ibxtoycat was one of the first pioneers to this "Minecraft experiment" format with his fanbase. He originally started minecraft social experiment ideas just like MagicGum 5 years ago, (3 years before MagicGum) with Minecraft realms and having his fan base sorta larping to the idea with his social experiments. This itself was more of a beta version of "Minecraft Civilizations", but his input did make me wonder and believe that he is one of the reasons why Civilization videos are so popular today even if people might not realize or remember. His Minecraft Communist Server Experiment is one of the most popular videos on his channel.
I completely forgot about those videos of his! He totally was the first!
Yeah wilbur too
But they're scripted so how is it an experiment?
I remember that one!
ibxtoycat did his first civilization video in 2018
Wilbur Soot did his first one in early 2020
And EarthMC has been a thing since 2016
MagicGum was far from the first one.
Clownpierce is in every thumnail now😂😂😂
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@@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo “My name is Jester Penetrate, and I penetrated your mother”
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I feel like a senior citizen watching this
@KhyberTheory yes you and mustang retirement party when
old person alert
@@toastyroll the retirement home is real nice
Kiwi you should just retire already
fun fact: this entire genre is pretty similar to a minecraft creepypasta(?) called "The Closed Map Experiment". this doesn't really add anything to the video but it is worth mentioning because they are both about experiments focusing on replicating human behavior in minecraft
jtoh xxs
nice documentary man! Thanks for the mention
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FANCY?!
FANCY IS ALSO HERE!!
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Yall could never have predicted the rise of gimmick civilizations, specially Parkour Civilization from Evbo. Theres gotta be a part 2
honestly at some point it'll happen
Scripted would be a better way to put it. Sure, there was some level of scripting in most of the others, but Parkour Civilization and the like are compeltely scripted.
@@Kozkaynnah it’s just a completely other channel ish marusK magic gum and whatever are one and the other are joofy,Joll and conk,evbo who then have happened to inspire a lot of other people
I was one of the original people that watched magicgum from his first theory videos to his SMP too!
Yeah.. unfortunately it was a fail. Despite how much of a mess it was, it is still THE favorite smp I have ever played on. I have tried finding another SMP over the years to find the same vibe I've gotten from his trapped smp to no avail. The fact that mobs could actually kill you. The fact that death have real consequences. The sense of danger and the importance of allies. Trust and betrayal, allies and enemies... There is a friend that I still actively talk to till this date I met through that smp! It will forever have a special place in my heart. We often talk back about it and documents everything we can find about it.
Due to it being a fail, its history is pretty much erased off the internet, and nobody knew what happened in it aside from the participants. I'm so glad you made this video!
I met my group on magic's discord then we stuck together throughout the whole smp. The hiding type with underground bases. Nothing can ever replicate the feeling of having clown's streams on the backgroud while panicking, calling the whole team on at 2am because clown raided our base. Checking his and vandrayk's cords live, if we are ever getting close to him.
NOTHING. Can ever replicate the feeling when one of our most trusted member for 1 month turned out to be CLOWN's friend and spy, and the one that's been ratting out our cords the whole time. Clown made a video on that entire situation that I would kill to watch again. It is privated after he joined lifesteal (very fair as the quality doesn't catch up at all). Clown blew up shortly after that, very deserved from his sheer pvp skills.
If only there is a way to see old vods from magic's and clown's streams.
After claiming blocks became a thing the server died down a lot. Despite our trapping strategies we still got bullied hard by clown and kings of the end.
I wasn't lucky enough to get into the later events magic made. I've witnessed my friend participate in some tho. Was really fun to watch as well.
I've never participated in Ish's events. However, his content is the only other that reminded me of magic's. It is a lot more storytelling focused as you said, makes them easy to attach to and pick a team to root for!
Apologies for wall of text haha. Me and my friend as two nerds has been trying to document as much things from the trapped smp as possible. I really shocked to see a 2024 video to talk about it.
I still haven't given up on civilization videos (that's why I'm here, obviously). Maybe one day someone can be as great as those two had done...
Wow you should ask Clownpierce directly to see if the vods are still there!!
@@AddingAUsername after so many years I dont want to bother a big name like him now haha
@@NightmarelizedDina Fair, but what's the worst that could happen? Best case scenario you get the vods back, worst case scenario you get ignored. And it seems like you have plenty of evidence to back up your case for getting in touch with him.
guess you arent friends with clowns friend now are you just had to deal with a friend sellingu s out to a youtuber he aint a friend no more
The funniest thing about the SMP to me is how we went through like 5 months of planning for the server to be taken offline after 3 months. For me, the mobs were kind of a pain point in my experience with the SMP, as I really focused down on the faction aspect of the server, and although I was fine with the death ban, it was made worse when you didn't have any idea of what the plug-in mobs could do mechanically.
I still wish I was able to get some more hours in before it was shutdown though, I miss running EON, making textures for the server's pack and I miss Magic's community being active.
You're right in saying that Ish changed the game when it comes to Minecraft Civilization Events but I believe that him and MARCUSK are the currently the top Civ Creators on the platform. I've played in many MARCUSK Events and frankly they're some of the most fun I've had playing Minecraft and the videos never fail to come out great. Both Ish and MARCUSK both focus on the narrative and plot which makes it feel like I'm watching a movie!
Okay, but Evbo did a 360
That's pretty revolutionary
Watching my face in the thumbnail at 10:56 hit me like a flashbang lmao, Skip's video actually did insane numbers for his first ever video, he cooked HARD, but as you said, obviously wouldn't hit 2022 levels of numbers, despite the actual event being hosted in late 2022/early 2023
Edit: Also amazing video! Was such a fun watch being part of the community and having played in nearly all of the events shown off here :)
Ish’s 1000 player civilization vid was genuinely the greatest
I really like the idea of someone tracking the events that led up to these videos. Sure it's silly little Minecraft stuff but it's very cool that someone could wonder what led up to these and find your video as an answer. Good job!
this is an amazing video, as a member of the community. you my friend have nailed all the aspects of it and i was bewildered to find you didnt have atleast 1 million subs my friend. you are destined for greatness
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@ReubenEditZ 🤖
my favourite civ videos are ibxtoycat’s experiments with different political ideas, they’re very interesting and a precursor to the whole civ events that wasn’t mentioned here
same, toycat does it with small mc villages, which makes it easier to understand
yeah hes the real og civilisation guy
You beat me to it! Great video man I enjoyed it. And Yes sadly the golden age has ended, but I still have hope for a new generation...
oopsss were you working on a video like this?
@skyboimc not quite lmao, I just make analysis video regarding civ content lol
I personally think the peak of Minecraft civilization videos was the one made by "I go by lots of names".
YOOOOOOOOOOOO HE GET'S IT!!!!!
Facts, his is a total madness but the best one by far
I just love the constant arm race they had
I don't think he had any actual direct influence on the rise of Civilization videos, but I want to throw in an honorable mention of ibxtoycat. His "Realm Experiment" videos were kind of a prototype version of these civ events, and he did them years before MagicGum started the ball rolling with this trend.
A somewhat interesting anecdote, I've been supremely interested in this genre/concept for over a decade. I always had big ideas about it, but being a random nobody, I obviously didn't have the resources to make anything happen myself. That's how I found ibxtoycat's videos, and also how I found Ish's first civilization video. Like a month or so after Ish posted his first civ video, right as it was just starting to catch on but still only had a handful thousand views, I actually found it by specifically searching for a Minecraft civilization video, when the genre didn't even really exist yet.
same here. rtgames earth server also had slightly similar vibes imo
ill also add stoneworks made the Rathnir sever about a year before magic gum
@kringle7804 That's worth noting, although to my mind, it's a bit too different from the premise of civilization experiments/events.
The key features of civ events to me are the fact that they don't have any kind of land claiming plugins, and the fact that they're hardcore, where everyone only has one life. Those are the major distinctions that make a civ event unique and give it the actual civilization feel. Stoneworks is much more so just a regular old survival multiplayer server with a roleplay focus, and those kinds of things have been around for much longer than civ events.
5:45 ain’t no way he asked the dude 🤣🤣🤣that’s hilarious
Nice video man this was dope to see the progression of civ events!! I've played in so many of these and I can't believe you even mentioned Trapped SMP that was so long ago and only lasted for a few weeks XDD! GREAT VIDEOOOO
Very entertaining video! Good job bro
4:05 mad respect for blessing my ears with that majestic melody.
The subscribe button glowed when you said it, I replayed it just in case I was tripping and it did it again. Great video, and mabye a cool subtle new feature that compels me to subscribe
Last time you gave a date I swear almost every person in the SpeedSilver Discord started saying the next video was then, actually kinda funny now that I think of it! *but i saw in skybois video it was gonna be then-* anyways! lovely video :D
DID THEY ACTUALLY LMAO
@@skyboimc oh believe me, they all did (can't show cuz most of the channels are gone now but oh they did)
And that's how we got "I survived in Parkour civilisation (full movie)"
4:40 throwing shade. I like it
This video is only gonna be Ish, sword4000, and Sipover.
@@maryellenstarmer6107 what
@@maryellenstarmer6107 dont you see speedsilver and sword4000 though?
i go by many names?
@@SilveryChris_damn it, I forgot about sword4000.
sword4000 sucks tbh
I'm so glad Civilization events came to minecraft, I have probably played thousands over the course of like a year and a half
Cant believe clownpierce is the parkour villain
I love the way you mentioned clownpeicre at the beginning and I love the Australia thing! Great vid btw
This shows how good innovation is for really anything
I can't believe that I was one of the before 10K people. At least i think, I watched so many of your videos and you're doing great! Keep the good work up!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I remember way before this i had a similar idea of people doing civilization videos of minecraft but got immediatley annoyed when there was nothing like that in TH-cam then like 5 months later it was everywhere
Thank you for making this video. I was curious to see what the history behind this somewhat shortlived trend was. I keep coming back to these videos like once a year. Honestly I keep rewatching Ish's videos the most. The storytelling and cinematography are great and I keep wondering when another one is coming out.
But man, I didn't consider that a lot of Ish's repeat participants are friends, but it makes sense. Not that I view that as rigging the experiment really, but in a way it is kind of necessary, especially if you have 1000 people and most of them would either do their own thing or troll relentlessly unless shown something interesting they could do instead.
I know these are a lot of work to do, but I kind of hope they keep happening in some form or another. The storyline of Ish's previous civilization experiment was massive enough that some other participants felt compelled to tell their own perspectives and as someone in one of those videos said, this is exactly how civilizations, history, oral traditions form.
Like if Ish ever does another one, I have an expectation that there will be a Sultanate at the very least and there will always be individuals that seek to obtain power by any means.
3:06 of course it would work Australia is hell on earth
Ur legend for covering this brings back memories
0:23 i just watched that VP debate today, i was destined to see this video
Before 100k subs club, hell yeah!
I think your content is actually really unique in the way you show it. No one else really has these eye catching thumbnails, or cool cutaways, or even humor. I think you got 500k in the bag, keep going man, you got this.
can't wait for this one 🔥🔥
just wait
I just stumbled across Civilisation videos yesterday with a video from Ish. Now I’m diving deep into the entire civilisation community and I love every second! Only few videos Menage to keep me that occupied with eyes on the screen constantly.
4:10 Bros hitting that nastolgia music right there. Real chads back in the day know Age of War.
The music is like halo, you may not have played the game, but you know the iconic music
Congrats on 100K!
Where does stoneworks fit into this 🤔
Also, great video! Been a fan of Magic's since a bit before the first Trapped SMP launched and man, there was a lot of politics and spying just in discord before any minecraft event even started. Wish there was a video just on the discord politics lol. Never expected Magic to blow up this big and I'm really proud of him!
@AmeDayo stoneworks inspired magic a little, it was too rule ridden to be a true social experiment however and didn't allow for thoughts experiments to properly evolve
The discord politics were fun, I wish we got a second server so I can put everything I did into effect. Back when we thought there was a high possibility for a second server, me and Alu set up an information gathering network, 2-3 puppet factions and alt accounts to control them, even the ones that had a democratic focus.
And then nothing happened, but hey, details.
Amazing video my guy! Honestly such a great documentary about the history of the civ genre for minecraft in general. And while I agree ish is the last of the main 3 making the civilization genre who knows where even he'll take his channel after his next video lol He could continue with civilization events or move on with different ones but that's just my take being part of the community as well lol.
@@DaHouse_Panda MY GOAT IN THE COMMENTS LIKE THIS??
@@Mindless0Yo mindless?!
@@V0RTA ANOTHER GOAT???
I feel like I should mention IHasName. He's another youtuber who's videos mostly focus on the Origins mod. If you don't know, the Origins mod allows you pick from one of nine backstories, or "origins," which grant you various abilities and debuffs depending on what you pick. His three most recent videos follow the civilization format, with two of them utilizing the Origins mod.
I used to play in his server a lot with his origin evolution mod and he deleted the server or make a races server that never came to fruition
Ive met SO many amazing people in this community. I'm just a mere event artist like i make ALOT ALOT of art from these events that i myself have played or watched people play. But ever since i joined this community ive been happier as a person and even improved my artstyle by 10x more.
My adrenaline absolutely SPIKES thru the roof during these events when i play myself. And while i hate it i also weirdly love it. Because it gives u a new view of things.
Despite meeting so many great people in this community it also comes with down sides. Some creators within it can be Rude or fake asf once u get to know them. Or just blind at the fact their viewers are literal children.
It truely amazes me to see how far magic gum has come and many other youtubers in this community. I truely appreciate all their hard work and dedication they bring into these events. And the communities they build around their content
NO ONE jumps for the beef
This is a genuinely really well put-together video essay
I do have to say ive always been bothered by how later videos are no longer really experiments, since they force players down specific paths and events, instead of letting them create the situations
I absolutely love how SkyBoi insults JetStarFish meanwhile hes in the credits for voicing Ish 😂
I think it’s def sad that it ended so quickly but as he said it’s hard to add anything. I think the whole thing was a great experiment and I personally enjoyed it very much. I do really wish there was more to add but there doesn’t seem to be. Thank you MagicGum for the amazing video.
There's this other Minecraft civilization community that quite underrated deserves to be mentioned
Stoneworks
Organized cities
Actual politics
Wars with well planned tactics
Even religion
Having 10,000 wiki pages of server history, in the last 4 REAL LIFE YEARS. It's insane
It may be what MagicGum has been trying to replicate. Actually civilizations in Minecraft that act and function like a real nation. I genuinely wonder if he knows about it. He would probably love it
Its not just 4 islands with different biomes. (Which they actually made fun of lol) But an actual map with its own geography, each state, kingdom, empire having their own respective land and their own respective borders. The scale itself far massive than any civilization event anyone has ever made even combined. The thing is tho, they're not that we'll known despite the rise of Minecraft civilization. Unlike events that are filmed LIVE, various people having their own POVs and their own recorded footage, admins watching everything 24/7, in stoneworks, they do actual documents which is not as exciting. They also seem to limit their players more on creative freedom. They can still build great structures in their respective land and all but seem to take things more "seriously" in a sense. I personally don't know how it works since I don't know that much and only recently discovered them, but I think there's more restrictions that force players to socialize and work together, which makes sense to prevent divide and solo players causing havoc.
I honestly think you should cover a video about them. They kinda deserve it, as well as asking them how things work unlike in regular Minecraft civilization people can immediately be stacked as hell if put enough effort. Hope you see this
Is it in a Playlist on their channel?
As someone who plays on the server, people can do pretty much whatever they want (unless it's against the rules which aren't too restrictive, mostly about cheating and toxicity). There's nothing stopping me from making the town hall a dirt hut. Some groups also have varying degrees of freedoms. Some are more strict, while other let people do what they want as long as they contribute. People could run off and set up a claim(a territory which costs 10k), but most eventually get gobbled up by bigger groups if they don't get enough support. It's more competition that does that, because what nation would you rather join? A nation made up of dirt huts or a nation with amazing builds? Most would join the latter so those would survive while the former would collapse. Also eventually a builder would come along and fix things up.
YOOOOOO STONE WORKS seriusly know one knows it exists come on
@@WinterPains channel is called stone works ta da
@@LeoLau-ip9bv I know that, but that doesnt answer my question.
such a well edited video! Congtrats!
0:58 i remember being shouted out in one of his early videos
@@Lumberjack_king wow
@@ElectricoGamez thanks for subscribing (I don't upload anymore btw)
@@Lumberjack_king you're welcome
great vid dawg, I kinda just forgot about this trend until recently, made me want to participate one but…. Well since it’s (mostly) dead none are active. I assume it got stale, a few channels still do it but they take like months to post, I doubt these videos will shine again, still entertaining though
when is the 100k special
gonna be a while unfortunately
actually. changed my mind its the video after this one 👍👍
@@skyboimc nice
It did start years ago.
In the Netherlands our youth (when I was like 6/7) There where a series of A called Minecraft civilization.
it's called: "The Kingdom Dusdavid"
1:53 yo is that the Parkour Villain?
yo
W vid, i used to be crazy about mega walls back in the day so it makes sense that i would love the civ videos as well
Something that should be mentioned is thats spokes civilization videos predate magicgums.
really??
@@skyboimc Yes Spoke's original video on it was made over 3 years ago while magicgums was 2 years ago. Spoke's allowed people to team with whoever they wanted and elect team leaders and the videos had everyone in one specific biome
@@mars48379 it appears spoke's video was like 4 months before??? thats wild. thank you for telling me
Yea spoke predated him, but nobody ever talks about him
@@royalistproductions The reason nobody talks about Spoke's videos is because they had nothing to do with the heavy wave of civilization videos. As someone who watched and even participated in his events, they were structured very differently from MagicGum, Ish, SpeedSilver, and even Sword. Spoke's events had no influence outside of his channel really and the civilization video surge only popped up because of MagicGum's vid which is why they all incorporate elements of his original vid and none from Spoke's.
you know its a good day when skyboi finally posts
4:22 I've been observed oh no
nooo
Fantastic lil history video. I got really into MindOfNeo's event videos for the plotlines and interesting custom mods, but the format and hashtags definitely baffled me since those events were less of a civilization and more of a battle royale. Now i know what sprung up my new favorite video genre 😂
Bro forgot about parkour civilisation 💀
@@CoolPotatoBuilds parkour civilization isn't an actual civilization video. It's basically just a battle shonen made by a guy who's cracked at Minecraft parkour
@@CoolPotatoBuilds CHICKEN NUGGET OCER POTATO
We don’t talk about that
You know the videos bouta be crazy when Ize_ goes on the villain arc
11:41 nah that’s crazy
Waiting for the next addition to the series:
"Organs simulate successful passage of food"
The thumbail: STOMACH | BOWELS
This video isn’t fully correct (as far as I know) SpokeisHere actually uploaded a civilization video months prior to MagicGum. (Spoke: APR. 30TH. 2021) (MGum: AUG. 9TH. 2021). However while spoke (as far as I know) made the genre, MagicGum was the one who really pushed it and made it as popular as it is. So I’d say both deserve partial credit in their own categories.
(I will note that Magic didn’t make his video because of Spoke, he just uploaded after Spoke making it the “first” irrelevant.)
first video i saw on your channel and i'm gonna be honest it was 🔥🔥🔥 i'm gonna watch more
5:40 IS THAT DIV_Y NO WAY
Also the red stone video was insane and a must watch if u enjoy these
I can save the civilization genre of Minecraft videos
you got this
I’ve been in both magicgum and ish civilization events. Both are great and I enjoy how they represent their storytelling.
When we getting 100 Skyboi's build civilization?
When I saw this, I was like 'Well this should be interesting, being that one of my favorite videos of all time (Trust Ive watched this many times) is ish's 1000 Player Experiment.' and being that you mentioned him, that just made me happy.
All of this with Mister Beast aged so bad
Your videos are so godly ngl. Also it’s funny that you uploaded a civilization video the day I died in a civilization event lol
1:17 🤓☝
Bad idea
What really drew me into these civilization events is how they remind me of the old Dwarves vs Zombies events that PauseUnpause used to be a part of
Parkour Civ ahh vid coming lol
I came here expecting Civilization game series content. I learned more than I expected.
Yall obviously havent heard of Parkour Civilization 😭🙏
Well, it only became popular more recently, but yeah, gotta update this
Skyboi sent me back to the golden days of flash games with the music thanks homeslice
0:56 Trumpcraft
I got Flashbacks watching this Video good work
8:04 Does anyone know the music name?
Plants VS zombies mini game ost remix
Aka Loonboon
@@ihatesolareclipses Oh thanks!! I knew it sounded familiar lol
As someone who has participated in one of Silver’s civilization videos, it is a kind of crazy but very enjoyable experience
No way 😂 0:22
Bruh
I support his opinion they should be illegal
@@batochirenkhtushig3563 any particular reason why?
@@b0neless437 his mommy didn't love him enough, so he grew up worthless
skiboi I think that @Marcusk is also a booming star in this section,I'm appalled by his 1000 player island event with excellent stories
THE GEOMOETRY DASH SONGS BE GOING CRAZY 4:00
@Kerger112 fatrat*
It was crazy being an ish13c fan like 8 years ago when he had around 30k subscribers and then not watching him for so long and seeing him suddenly blow up