@@sh0ts420 i mean it wasnt even a joke back then that was quite litterally the idea, the whole point of this video is null because nobody was trying to be a pro surfer when they did this lmao
This video creates a very abstract funny feeling since it goes like "And in the middle of this drama which eventually led to his downfall he almost beats a difficult tier 2 surf map". So disconnected but it makes so much sense
@@plummeted Ritual making Leafy's life worse, while Mr.Darkness gets the opposite. Both became equally fat throughout the years, coincidentally, their social media activities abruptly ended in 2023.
I wouldn't blame drugs alone. Parkinsons and many neurological conditions are exacerbated by stress, PTSD can develop from a singular traumatizing event so I think the controversy coinciding with a crisis of identity is the main kicker but if he was taking stimulants that certainly would have made things a lot worse. Don't let the elites diagnose you with ADHD (Amount of attentenion we want to you pay; to the things we want you to do, deficit of what we have come to expect from and believe we need from you, hyper-active in relation to how calm we'd prefer you to be, disorder in accordance with what threatens the order we maintain) and put you on dexamphetamine just because your job sucks and your rent is expensive.
Leafy's videos got me into surfing as well. I remember when i looked up to him as a pro, because he made it look so effortless and casual. But i've dispelled that illusion, as since then i've completed several t6 maps and countless t5s. I never would have guessed how high the ceiling went past leafy.
Honestly he was getting pretty good I think the problem was all the drugs he started doing when he got banned. I hope this video gets big I love the idea
@plummeted if i remember right, he smoked weed, drank alcohol, did adderall (ik its a pill but a lot of gamers/content creators were on the addy wave then) and was a pill head (i dont remember the pills he took but id assume its the more "basic" pills like oxys, hydros, xanz, ect.). i also believe there was speculation that he did meth and coke at some point too but was never 100% proven edit: its been like 6/7 years since i actually watched leafy so take some of this with a grain of salt but i can 100% say he smoked weed and drank heavily
Star is definitely T1 he has not beaten the bananalands map. in all seriousness, has Star even played on jump servers before? like Tempus or Jump Academy?
Not gonna lie, this was my favorite aspect of Leafy's channel. Sure, I watched for the commentary. But everyday I was primarily just watching for the vibe. He had a soothing voice, a nice aesthetic, and the gameplay was just satisfying to watch. Which, as addressed in the video, may have just been a predecessor to smooth brain Subway Surfer gameplay.
I never watched Leafy when I was younger, and that's probably why he fascinates me so much now that I'm older. It was this massive thing that I just never paid any attention to, and now I wonder, "Would I have actually enjoyed his content at the time?". I remember going to his channel in like 2019 before it was deleted and watching some of his old story videos and I kinda got what you described. His entire style was weirdly comforting, although I imagine it must've been different watching him when he was popular. Thank you for sharing :)
i swear i remember leafy making a surfing guide way back in the day, showing the commands and saying he liked linear maps, but kitsune was still his favorite
Even if you were just a surfer you couldn't avoid hearing/knowing about leafy, I remember joining one morning and everyone was hissing for hours, those were the days :')
I felt a lot of nostalgia when you perfectly recreated his outro ramblings. I also got into surf because of Leafy but I only ever play CSS combat surf every now and then. Great video!
Surfing is a byproduct of the physics in the Source Engine, so CSGO surf was not called that because of leafy, it was called that because they called it surfing in every previous iteration of the Counter Strike franchise. And the roblox version just copies that.
by the way, that "shaking" isnt directly from high sens, rather its from playing on a high sens with a slow mousepad. WIth something like a glass mousepad, high sens is much more playable, ive been able to maintain practically the same level of smoothness on 1.3-2 sens as I would have on .8
I used to watch leafy not for his personality solely to see the gameplay in the background that’s why I watch a ton of content creators that put background play then talks about stuff pretty relaxing
it's really weird hearing "CSGO surf" referred to as some sort of starting point for both surf maps and the start of its popularity when its been around for nearly 20 years before leafy posted lol
This is like giving a review of the performance Lincoln was shot at, like, yeah, I guess that's a valid thing to be paying attention to but *OH GREAT HEAVENS-*
Leafy vids legit made me fall asleep in high school that’s when I knew it was over, but the surf gameplay always looked super fun and interesting. Now I know it was beginner tier gameplay lmao
as an early leafy enjoyer i would attest that his earlier work was leauges better than just him hating for an hour without a single joke or hint of irony, ill forever miss the hacker series and kids who play csgo that was peak in 2016.
I didn't watch Leafy when he was popular but I did go back and watch some of his story videos in like 2019 and I was surprised that they were actually quite good. There was a cozy vibe to them that I really don't think has been captured by anyone else that I've seen.
Leafy's videos always made me miss Jet Set/Grind Radio. Never owned it, but lots of nostalgia playing it in stores with that horrid, OG XBox controller that felt like holding a rounded stone.
Leafy was a youtuber who used to make videos about random stories of his life, but eventually he ran out of stories so he changed his content to talking about random TH-camrs, and his fans were infamous for sending absurd amounts of hate and threats to any youtuber he'd talk about. He got banned a few years ago, made a short comeback around 2019/2020, got banned again, and has kinda been gone from the internet for a while noe
@@daaaaaaannyhe’s around still. He’s just banned off everywhere so he had to resort to Rumble, where he mostly talks about his hatred for minorities lol
Surfing was huge in CS Source in like 2008-2010, at least when I played. Good to see it’s still a thing. Never heard of Leafy though. He certainly didn’t invent surfing.
He was one of the big TH-camrs of the ‘edge’ period of TH-cam just before the adpocalyspe that got TH-cam to where it was today. He was infamous for bullying and making fun of other TH-camrs in videos and getting involved in drama
@@latinaparfaitI don’t think anybody actually likes leafy, he’s a freaky weird dude nowadays, more like they both went down leafy in just a more spectacular fashion.
11:19 actually this gameplay is something Leafy paid someone for. The guys name is Corrin (?) here on TH-cam. Apparently leafy paid him 60 bucks for the gameplay the refunded the money after receiving the gameplay.
Last time I played CS was like 14 years ago but I remember watching Leafy and the surf maps always looked rly fun. Very interesting to see if he was good at all! :D Great video man lol
Watching Leafy's early content was a big shock for me as well. I went in expecting the toxicity that defined him in 2016 but he was just a chill, if slightly edgy, guy, and his videos had this weird cozy vibe to them that I don't think any other youtuber has captured. He really was a one-of-a-kind, and it's sad that his content got so shitty, because if not he could've become a really great youtuber today.
i was too young to have watched him at his prime but i watched some of his archived videos. imo his content was pretty solid when he wasnt going after people.
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c honestly if he just stuck to calling ppl out like keemstar/whitney wiscosin/ricegum/onision/etc. he would've made a longer lasting name for himself on youtube (as long as he didn't do any weird shit) but he would always fall into the edgy 2010s humour (roasting for the sake of roasting) by going after random children or alt people in between the good vids.
@@EnargeiaColonThree csgo and css are the names of the games, counter strike global offensive and counter strike source. Thats nothing to do with leafy
This video 100% didn't need to exist but I'm kind of glad it does. It means _anything_ could be made tomorrow. Anything is possible if people are reviewing leafy's surf skills.
The background footage before subway surfers
im fucking dead ong
@@sh0ts420no you are not!!
@@sh0ts420on jah
@@sh0ts420 i mean it wasnt even a joke back then that was quite litterally the idea, the whole point of this video is null because nobody was trying to be a pro surfer when they did this lmao
the children yearn for surfing
This video creates a very abstract funny feeling since it goes like "And in the middle of this drama which eventually led to his downfall he almost beats a difficult tier 2 surf map". So disconnected but it makes so much sense
Exactly why I clicked the video lol
I actually love it, it creates a parallel between the ramping up of Leafy’s surf skills and Leafy’s growing embroilment in drama
For me, it's when he calls a specific biff on a random CSGO surf map a "mistake we've all made at some point"
It's like making a video about Hitlers personal drug use during WW2.
@@JH0207 the more insane you are at something, the more insane you are mentally
Still can't believe that the MrBlackDarkness666 curse actually worked
you fool
bruh fr
Thing about curses if they are real, prepare to suffer the same punishment tenfold.
What was his curse again? I forgot
@@plummeted
Ritual making Leafy's life worse, while Mr.Darkness gets the opposite.
Both became equally fat throughout the years, coincidentally, their social media activities abruptly ended in 2023.
leafy was doing hella drugs around 2020 too so that probably contributes to the Parkinson's shakes
yup... i INSTANTLY thought "well, he is on drugs"
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idk.... ive gotten a new mouse / had my settings wiped
and that DOES fuck with your aim!!!
I always thought everyone knew about it with how fast he spoke compared to his earlier videos lol
I wouldn't blame drugs alone. Parkinsons and many neurological conditions are exacerbated by stress, PTSD can develop from a singular traumatizing event so I think the controversy coinciding with a crisis of identity is the main kicker but if he was taking stimulants that certainly would have made things a lot worse. Don't let the elites diagnose you with ADHD (Amount of attentenion we want to you pay; to the things we want you to do, deficit of what we have come to expect from and believe we need from you, hyper-active in relation to how calm we'd prefer you to be, disorder in accordance with what threatens the order we maintain) and put you on dexamphetamine just because your job sucks and your rent is expensive.
He also just has Partisans…
what was he doing regularly besides like adderall and weed lmao
Leafy's videos got me into surfing as well. I remember when i looked up to him as a pro, because he made it look so effortless and casual. But i've dispelled that illusion, as since then i've completed several t6 maps and countless t5s. I never would have guessed how high the ceiling went past leafy.
I tried surfing after I saw leafy doing it way back in the day and I failed miserably lol. But granted I was around 12 or 13
@@user-uo8ny1kj4csame, doing it with an old hp laptop didn't help much either
try tf2 rocket jumping, I always wondered why surfing got the limelight instead
@@DUNC8888easier to get into it
I'm like you but I gave up when I cleared my first t2
Honestly he was getting pretty good I think the problem was all the drugs he started doing when he got banned. I hope this video gets big I love the idea
what was he on? benzos?
@@nuclear7622 if you watched his content, he talk about using a multiple drugs.
@@sabishname some. I did not watch the content
@@plummeted molly adderall xans shrooms weed
@plummeted if i remember right, he smoked weed, drank alcohol, did adderall (ik its a pill but a lot of gamers/content creators were on the addy wave then) and was a pill head (i dont remember the pills he took but id assume its the more "basic" pills like oxys, hydros, xanz, ect.). i also believe there was speculation that he did meth and coke at some point too but was never 100% proven
edit: its been like 6/7 years since i actually watched leafy so take some of this with a grain of salt but i can 100% say he smoked weed and drank heavily
Next video title: was STAR_ really a good rocket jumper?
Yea, I'd say he was above average, but the skill ceiling is just insane, I don't think even he would argue he was anywhere near the top 20%
Star is definitely T1 he has not beaten the bananalands map. in all seriousness, has Star even played on jump servers before? like Tempus or Jump Academy?
nah not really, not that he was bad, but I don't think anyone would call him good
he's got to be at least t3+
@@obsidiancrow450 I agree, probably tier 3 but tier 4 possibmy if he improved a lot over time
this is proof that cs surf will make anyone toxic 😔
im pretty sure all the drugs he did made him that way
@@ggolden its a joke dude
@@Moli05 some might genuinely think that doe
@@ggoldenretards maybe
@@ggolden all it was, was funny content wasnt even "toxic" society gone too woke
Not gonna lie, this was my favorite aspect of Leafy's channel. Sure, I watched for the commentary. But everyday I was primarily just watching for the vibe. He had a soothing voice, a nice aesthetic, and the gameplay was just satisfying to watch. Which, as addressed in the video, may have just been a predecessor to smooth brain Subway Surfer gameplay.
I never watched Leafy when I was younger, and that's probably why he fascinates me so much now that I'm older. It was this massive thing that I just never paid any attention to, and now I wonder, "Would I have actually enjoyed his content at the time?". I remember going to his channel in like 2019 before it was deleted and watching some of his old story videos and I kinda got what you described. His entire style was weirdly comforting, although I imagine it must've been different watching him when he was popular. Thank you for sharing :)
i swear i remember leafy making a surfing guide way back in the day, showing the commands and saying he liked linear maps, but kitsune was still his favorite
He’s the reason kitsunes my favourite map.
@@SnivTensame here
he's the reason kitsune is iconic imo
this video has a re-upload in a channel called: LeafyIsHere Archive
He did make that video
what an unique way of looking at leafy's videos. Never i would think of his surfing skills since it was just a background filler
This is the type of out of the box vide TH-cam will recommend you in 7 years
@@JACK80757 "who the hell is leafy?" - everyone in 7 years
not gonna lie it was Leafy and Luna that both introduced me to surf
I hadn't even thought about that Luna guy for 6+ years, damn. I used to watch him constantly, lol
Two TH-cam legends.
looking back that luna mf was lying out his ass
Luna, Leafy, Xcodeh, Pyro, Idubbz, and H3H3 was my whole world my freshman year of high school
@@PlayBoyTexan69same, glad we were able to experience peak youtube era
this is such a niche video actually, only people that followed 2014-2017 youtube trends know whats up
Even if you were just a surfer you couldn't avoid hearing/knowing about leafy, I remember joining one morning and everyone was hissing for hours, those were the days :')
not really leafy was huge
zoomer dont know what niche means
@@GODber777 kiss me and feed me grapes ^^
it was crazy with ppl spamming "kys" in every comment 😭
I felt a lot of nostalgia when you perfectly recreated his outro ramblings. I also got into surf because of Leafy but I only ever play CSS combat surf every now and then. Great video!
Levi said Leafy was the reason he started surfing
that's actualy crazy
who tf is levi
@@quillian6997 a surfer
@@quillian6997the jeans brand
The best surfer in the world @@quillian6997
I still have him added on steam 💀
Same bro
leafy?
@@Detz4a yes, he was on stream adding random people to play CS, and I was one of the people he added
@@hippo_masterdoes he ever play?
Yeah, he added me on fortnite, he plays it every now and then. But I don’t think he’s been on in a while. Hopes he’s doing well.
Surfing is a byproduct of the physics in the Source Engine, so CSGO surf was not called that because of leafy, it was called that because they called it surfing in every previous iteration of the Counter Strike franchise. And the roblox version just copies that.
this is probably the best video about leafy beside Emp video
Joon the king and TwoMad made pretty good videos
And content cop
@@jcktmn content cop aged badly due to idubbbz
This is an extremly niche video topic and I'm here for it lol 😂
by the way, that "shaking" isnt directly from high sens, rather its from playing on a high sens with a slow mousepad. WIth something like a glass mousepad, high sens is much more playable, ive been able to maintain practically the same level of smoothness on 1.3-2 sens as I would have on .8
and the adderall shakes could be a factor
I kinda miss that youtube energy 8 years ago, after 2017 youtube would never feel the same
Agreed. YT went corporate and never looked back.
I used to watch leafy not for his personality solely to see the gameplay in the background that’s why I watch a ton of content creators that put background play then talks about stuff pretty relaxing
Finally someone is answering the big questions
Leafy got me into surf when I was like 13 in 2015 wasn’t allowed csgo so played it on TF2
Why weren't you allowed on CS:GO?
kinda sad to think about how kids like you were watching leafy
I think TF2 surfing feels better than CSGO surfing anyway
@@kalui96 leafy wasn't always a drug head asshole.
it's really weird hearing "CSGO surf" referred to as some sort of starting point for both surf maps and the start of its popularity when its been around for nearly 20 years before leafy posted lol
This is like giving a review of the performance Lincoln was shot at, like, yeah, I guess that's a valid thing to be paying attention to but *OH GREAT HEAVENS-*
great editing and quality, super good upload
Now do a video about how good McSkillet was at driving
that's fucking wild
no he wasn't
I'm going to hell for laughing
This is an amazing video, you're bound to get at least 200k here
Prediction of the century
im somewhat of a t1 enjoyer myself
imagine running anything lower than a T4 🤧
@@kuromiata I see you have no taste
@@kuromiata that's called touching grass
@@kuromiata the vast majority of ppl never even hit t3, i myself only beat one after a couple years of casual surfing
most obscure topic out there, good stuff, good stuff...
Leafy vids legit made me fall asleep in high school that’s when I knew it was over, but the surf gameplay always looked super fun and interesting. Now I know it was beginner tier gameplay lmao
as an early leafy enjoyer i would attest that his earlier work was leauges better than just him hating for an hour without a single joke or hint of irony, ill forever miss the hacker series and kids who play csgo that was peak in 2016.
I didn't watch Leafy when he was popular but I did go back and watch some of his story videos in like 2019 and I was surprised that they were actually quite good. There was a cozy vibe to them that I really don't think has been captured by anyone else that I've seen.
Love to see your uploads repster
"a game that because of him became known as csgo surf" try to not be a hidden leafy fan: challenge impossible
love this type of content
A video about the history of leafy disguised as a surf video, well played
Leafy's videos always made me miss Jet Set/Grind Radio. Never owned it, but lots of nostalgia playing it in stores with that horrid, OG XBox controller that felt like holding a rounded stone.
Love seeing obscure topics like this. Hope this vid does well
Love this video. I do miss watching leafy surf and rant about youtube drama.
Great video man, kept me interested throughout
The reason why he looks so good at 11:00 is because it wasn't his gameplay. It was his friend Corrin's surfing the guy he was on Steam messages with.
i liked this video more than i thought i would, i have no idea who leafy is as a more oldhead chronically online person
Leafy was a youtuber who used to make videos about random stories of his life, but eventually he ran out of stories so he changed his content to talking about random TH-camrs, and his fans were infamous for sending absurd amounts of hate and threats to any youtuber he'd talk about. He got banned a few years ago, made a short comeback around 2019/2020, got banned again, and has kinda been gone from the internet for a while noe
@@daaaaaaannyhe’s around still. He’s just banned off everywhere so he had to resort to Rumble, where he mostly talks about his hatred for minorities lol
@@daaaaaaanny That's not what happened 😂
Good video, I miss him. His return run where he just talked about market stuff was so cozy.
why am i watching this
Surfing was huge in CS Source in like 2008-2010, at least when I played. Good to see it’s still a thing.
Never heard of Leafy though. He certainly didn’t invent surfing.
He was one of the big TH-camrs of the ‘edge’ period of TH-cam just before the adpocalyspe that got TH-cam to where it was today. He was infamous for bullying and making fun of other TH-camrs in videos and getting involved in drama
@@Viper-dz2kwi still find it funny that idubbbz got the bad ending, and everybody switched back to liking leafy.
@@latinaparfaitI don’t think anybody actually likes leafy, he’s a freaky weird dude nowadays, more like they both went down leafy in just a more spectacular fashion.
@@Viper-dz2kw he had insane support when he came back both times other than the people on twitter who cry about everything and the twitch babies.
@@Viper-dz2kw aka pokemane, Xqc and destiny.
Leafy's inclusion in this examination is possibly the only significant contribution he gave to TH-cam
Great video. You're a madman for suffering through 600 leafy videos. It was worth it
I greatly appreciate your love of Source engine movement. This channel is so underrated.
Is bro gonna test McSkillets driving skills next?
I saw the thumbnail and the title and I was like “idk ask repster” and I didn’t know u were the one who posted it lmao
i miss leafys new content on rumble, shit was fire.
im not really into surf or leafy but your video was really enjoyable and i like it. Great job !
How did I get to this corner of the internet
11:19 actually this gameplay is something Leafy paid someone for. The guys name is Corrin (?) here on TH-cam. Apparently leafy paid him 60 bucks for the gameplay the refunded the money after receiving the gameplay.
I always thought that was just random gameplay content. Didn’t know it was him lol
Yo, you fixed your mic. Sounds a lot better, great video repster!
I miss the good days man
would love to see a Luna version of this!
i miss surfing on full servers w bros
Unexpected content from the YT feed, but damn very nicely made
Loving this surf content, just found your channel. Keep it up!
Counter Strike 2 : Surf, one of the most essential background template for commentary channels video...
Surfing has always been a casual relaxation activity for me, and I imagine it was the same for leafy.
love how his skill level mirrors his career at the time
R.I.P. leafy. One of the greatest to ever walk this platform. Reptilian gang for life.
Hisssssss remember that? Lol
transition at 11:20, i see the vision. that was smooth
as a bhopper this is the first vid i actually learned anything about surf
Thank you for making this.
came here from ohne pixel great stuff man keep producing bangers like this!
6:02 teacher noise lmao
oh shit you're right
what does that mean
@@ultimaoculis6389jerma985
@@ultimaoculis6389 youtube "jerma - teacher noise" lol
@@ultimaoculis6389 th-cam.com/video/dpTte1scAm0/w-d-xo.html
such a weird topic for a video
i love it
he still hops on every once and a while - friends list
Last time I played CS was like 14 years ago but I remember watching Leafy and the surf maps always looked rly fun. Very interesting to see if he was good at all! :D
Great video man lol
back in 2017-2020 I was playing on super high mouse sens, 1600 dpi and never moved the original settings, somehow beating tier 3-4 maps consistently
now this is the content we need
I gotta give it to you, this was an amazing excuse to binge watch leafy 👍
you should also consider what the server settings are, casual non skillsurf server usually set sv_airaccelerate pretty high
You should analyze Luna next, he's who comes to mind when thinking about Surf aside from Leafy
can't believe it's been 4 years since his youtube return
Watching Leafy's early content was a big shock for me as well. I went in expecting the toxicity that defined him in 2016 but he was just a chill, if slightly edgy, guy, and his videos had this weird cozy vibe to them that I don't think any other youtuber has captured. He really was a one-of-a-kind, and it's sad that his content got so shitty, because if not he could've become a really great youtuber today.
Oh what like idubbbz? Lmfao. Leafy did become a great youtuber, he was fucking hilarious.
Surf_sky_2...WHERE MAH OLDHEADS AT?!?!
typa stuff I watch at 4 am on a school night
leafy mentioned once or twice that he had someone else surf sometimes
i was too young to have watched him at his prime but i watched some of his archived videos. imo his content was pretty solid when he wasnt going after people.
he did go after some people who deserved it honestly. Like keemstar but yeah I see your point
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c honestly if he just stuck to calling ppl out like keemstar/whitney wiscosin/ricegum/onision/etc. he would've made a longer lasting name for himself on youtube (as long as he didn't do any weird shit) but he would always fall into the edgy 2010s humour (roasting for the sake of roasting) by going after random children or alt people in between the good vids.
this is an insane video idea
"a game that because of him, became known as csgo surf" ??????????????????
i think it was css surf before, it i dont play and im not defending anyone here so :/
@@EnargeiaColonThree csgo and css are the names of the games, counter strike global offensive and counter strike source. Thats nothing to do with leafy
Delusional was one of my favorite maps back in the day. Like I really enjoyed that and then whichever the fruit map was
I miss this guy. Hope he's doing okay.
He streams on kick, and not doing well, he is a junkie now and takes a lot of fentynl
I love this video xD absolutely genius.
leafy had THE music and THE gameplay back then
He admitted to paying people for their surfing footage for TH-cam forever ago
Sauce?
ohh I didn't know he actually admitted it, I felt cool thinking I had the insider knowledge lol
I've gotten into surfing very recently and I'm really glad to have found your videos, they're perfect to have on in the background as I surf
This video 100% didn't need to exist but I'm kind of glad it does. It means _anything_ could be made tomorrow. Anything is possible if people are reviewing leafy's surf skills.
good question. thanks for making this video
These videos are always good. Bring back the top surfer videos
now this is a niche yt video doc, love this website so much
this vid is an instant classic no doubt about it
Love the content!
I just saw ohne's reaction, W video!