MagicGum

MagicGum is an American YouTuber who uploads educational videos revolved around Minecraft. He focuses on Minecraft storytelling and does civilization videos and events in Minecraft. He is growing at a rapid rate and has a pretty decently sized fan base. Most of this fanbase is on his discord, where he sometimes speaks to the community, announces, hosts events and is planning the Upcoming Server. Little is known about his real life, the fans only know about the persona he creates online. He also makes videos based on the concept of Humanity in Minecraft and AI hiveminds in Minecraft.
==Content==
He uploads videos educational Minecraft videos. Initially, he uploaded only informative videos revolved around the game about certain topics, but after that, he started applying real-world concepts in Minecraft, which means he fuses Minecraft physics and mechanics with real-world logic and history. As of July 2021, these videos include "How Would Societies Develop in Minecraft?", "How Would Humanity Evolve in Minecraft?", and "History of Humans in Minecraft".
He has a shorts channel where he uploads short, comedic Minecraft clips.
== History ==
===2020===
MagicGum uploaded his first video, The Story of Zentrela: The One-Person Minecraft MMO, on the 5th of November, 2020; the video covered Zentrela, an MMO Minecraft server likened to fantasy server WynnCraft. He uploaded three more videos that November: How Mojang Really Wanted Us to Use Redstone, How Artificial Intelligence Beats Minecraft, and What If Everyone Was Trapped in Minecraft?, which became the most-watched video on the channel in weeks. Two more videos—30 Minecraft Players VS AI Hivemind and How Would Societies Develop in Minecraft?—were released that December, the former being MagicGum's first event video.
=== 2021 ===
The pace of uploads slowed in 2021; the year's first two videos, 100 Minecraft Players VS Death Island and How Would Humanity Evolve in Minecraft?, premiered in January and February but were only followed in June by History of Humans in Minecraft. By this time, MagicGum's channel was regularly earning millions of views on its videos. The subsequent upload, 100 Players Simulate Civilization in Minecraft, was uploaded on the 9th of August, 2021, and by mid-September had earned seven million views.
== Events ==
MagicGum periodically organizes streamed events for his videos using patrons and subscribers as participants.
=== 2020 ===
*30 Minecraft Players VS AI Hivemind (December), in which thirty players fought off AI entities
=== 2021 ===
*100 Minecraft Players VS Death Island (January), in which one hundred players fought off empowered enemies on an island
*100 Players Simulate Civilization in Minecraft (August), in which one hundred players were sectioned into warring factions
== Trapped SMP ==
The TrappedSMP was a whitelisted MagicGum Minecraft server opened on the 25th of February, 2021. The server contained custom mobs and dungeons and had a whitelist mandating that members must either be a channel member or be level five in the official Discord server. Channel members received priority queue, which skipped the wait that other players may have.
A prequel server was established by Deeply during the wait for the TrappedSMP to establish lore among several factions. TheRealMedusa hosted the server afterward at the IP address play.corruptedmc.me.
=== Daedalus ===
Daedalus was a guild that planned projects, usually near spawn, on the TrappedSMP. It was a guild under the executive leadership of amagicmuffin. It was founded on the 24th of December, 2020, and was registered in the Faction Assembly on the 26th of December. Hestia was its planned member base, and Persephone was its planned agricultural division. It stressed neutrality, collaboration, and friendliness.
=== Faction Assembly ===
The Faction Assembly was an official register of the factions of the TrappedSMP. Its first moderators included Corrupted_Flare, Dr. RTH, Watermelon and B3BBL3BROX.
=== Full list of factions ===
A list of factions, though not all legally registered, can be found below.
*Akatsuki, a mercenary clan
*Arka Empire, a safety-oriented empire
*Bee Republic, a peaceful beekeeping faction
*Brazilian Empire, a mining nation
*Brethren of the Coast, a pirate guild
*Brevistan Empire, a religious faction serving Lord Brevis
*Caroleanvs, a supremacist crusading society
*Coalition against Tyranny, an anti-globalist faction
*Crusader Gang, a clan of Death Island veterans
*Daedalus, a neutral engineering guild
*Dark Star Imperium, a gaming group that lost interest
*Dixie Militia, a militaristic libertarian faction
*Duck Union, a collectivist duck-worshipping society
*Everglow Economic Nation, a commerce-driven democracy
*Ex-Men, a faction of former faction leaders
*Eyes of the Nether, a lore-writing guild
*Ferrymen, a transportation and engineering organization
*Fish People, an aquatic society
*Inferno Legion, a mercenary organization and later faction
*Iridium, a raiding and griefing group
*Kings of the End, an End-based monarchy
*Kurgan Pirate Confederation, a band of pirate guilds
*Laughing Hands, nomadic anarchists
*Merchants' Guild, a neutral bulk trading organization
*National Library of Magicia, a collection of writers and historians
*Nexus Empire, an egalitarian haven
*Nomads, an anarcho-frontierist treasure-hunting group
*Oreton Alliance, a religious faction weaponizing iron golems
*Rye Bread Goods and Services
*Shook Sciences, a trading redstone-based society
*Skull Empire, a warmongering faction worshipping bones
*Skunskovian Empire, a freedom-based monarchy
*Subaquean Society, a peaceful underwater faction
*United Democratic Federation, a democratic alliance
*United Empires, a peacekeeping alliance
*United Socialist Confederation, a direct democracy
== Trivia ==
*A user named Corrupted_Flare helped develop the TrappedSMP texture pack and founded the Faction Assembly. 
*The winner of the Death Island event is ClownPierce, a user who played on the TrappedSMP. He became the leader of the Plains faction during the Civilization in Minecraft event.
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Category:Users who joined in 2012