The Impossible Downfall of Stampy (2006 - 2020)

hello this is dumpy and welcome to a vlog [Music] right behind you mate and so then you land down on that cut or do I missed it I missed the second cloud it doesn't matter I just need to make sure I land in the water I can't even see though [Music] stampylonghead nine point three four million subscribers 50,000 views per video a Creator who popped hard in the early days of YouTube and was slowly forgotten as the YouTube landscape evolved but how did it happen how did stampy go from getting millions of views per video in 2013 2014 2015 to barely being able to pull a hundred thousand views in recent times was it the lack of innovation on the channel or the fact that his passion just fell out of creating video game content over time one thing is minecraft for me kind of just it isn't the same as what it used to be basically and if I'm not having fun playing I'm not gonna play it this video will cover the rise and fall of stampylonghead which begins in the year of 2006 just one year after the initial launch of YouTube the original Stanford channel stampylongnose was created on the 4th of august 2006 only 8 months after the official launch of YouTube in December 2005 the name stampylongnose came from an animation that stampy created when he was younger where there was a character named stampylonghead I got the name from a character and an animation I'd made who'd stampylonghead when Stephie first began YouTube at the age of 15 he was very similar to a lot of the other creators at the time creating low-quality far from impressive videos just for the fun of it these videos in the beginning were all IRL skits and just general mucking around this eventually transitioned into claymation and stop-motion spray this initial channel stampylongnose was stampy's main focus for 5 years while at university undoing bar work he would upload videos on the channel for fun but never any monetary reasons it was never a business plan of mine I did it as a hobby for years without any thought whatsoever of doing it as a job it was only when it started to become popular where like I saw that there was an opportunity here stampy explained that he didn't have much time to create and edit videos for the stampylongnose channel and he wished that he could create a new channel and just do lore effort let's play videos so for this reason on the 29th of July 2011 but now popular stampylonghead channel was created however stampy didn't upload his first view on the channel for a whole year following the creation but on the 2nd of July 2012 he uploaded this first let's play video of the game journey hello this is stampylongnose and welcome to a let's play of the PlayStation Network game called journey and as many of the comments say a legend was born [Music] stampy uploaded various games on the channel such as call of duty black box hello stampylongnose here bringing you a call of duty black ops gameplay this is a super quick freefall on the map new town and halo it could be a case of next kill wins there's only 7 seconds left all players on 23 kills if it's a draw we're gonna go into a rematch stampy continued to play and upload videos of these variety games until he eventually found a new game that he would come to love and gain mass popularity from a game that was taking the world by storm both socially and on the YouTube platform stampy found the game minecraft in May 2012 six months after it was officially released in November 2011 stampede downloaded minecraft as he said his friends were playing it on xbox and was completely addicted only three days later it probably took me about three days before I was completely addicted to Minecraft and minecraft is where stampy really started to blow up on YouTube instead of getting twenty views per video I started getting 50 then a hundred then 200 stampy enjoyed minecraft because he had the ability to do whatever he wanted in the game which gave him a freedom kind of mind frame that translated it to chilled out light-hearted commentary videos it's just the way you can do whatever you want in it it's not there's no story you just your place like playing with Lego your your just playing in your own world and it's amazing and I love it Stan DB came so successful when creating minecraft content because what he did was take a game that already had a young target audience minecraft and added commentary that perfectly suited the audience of the game he made minecraft YouTube videos that almost felt like a kid shot and at the time there weren't that many youtubers that had the ability to be as engaging as stamping like a play school or kids show hosts talking over a Minecraft video I guess I just make everything just a bit bigger and brighter than it normally is I come up with stories within the game I give people lots of ideas for things they can play with their friends and I just talk about the things that however making videos for a younger audience began to restrict stampy as well he had to stop playing games that were targeted at a mature audience and also became family-friendly I soon noticed that a lot of children where we're watching and as soon as I noticed that I did like an immediate swift Stampede continued to upload minecraft videos throughout 2012 growing slowly from the start of the year all the way until the end which brings us to the year of 2013 now 2013 was a very notorious and significant year for the uprise of stamp stamp you begin to collaborate with other minecraft content creators at the time such as ballistic squid beginning in 2013 anyway here's someone they're stuck in a house ninja boy stampy also introduced the youtuber l fillet into his videos firstly as a collaboration hello Lee are you ok don't know hailey layin stampy appear to have a really good bond and Lee would feature in many of Stevie's videos which is very important to remember for when we cover the downfall section on this video stampy's channel was also completely deleted in December 2013 following false reports relating to breaking YouTube's Community Guidelines this deletion resulted in mass campaigns from his fans and even the creator of Minecraft which was an attempt to get stamp his channel back online with multiple videos and even a save stampy hashtag thankfully on the same day stampy's channel was reinstated the deletion of stampy's channel actually proved to be a positive form considering it was only gone for one day and he got a load of free publicity from the situation because of this along with a very strong year in 2013 Stamper hit 1 million subscribers in January 2014 which was obviously an amazing feat considering he had only started the channel 2.5 years previously in July 2011 however 1 million subscribers was just the start of the journey for stampede as 2014 would prove to be an absolutely monumental year for the channel if you saw it stamp these videos buying most viewed pretty much every single video at the table is from 2013 dozen forty with his notorious videos including Minecraft school day 26 million views as well as ocean adventures with 49 million views which both came out in 2014 stampy went from 1 million subscribers in January 2014 although out to 5 million subscribers in February 2015 approximately 1 million subscribers every three months in 2014 however despite hitting 5 million subscribers in 2015 this will also be the same year where the downfall will begin for stampede why is a drum learn nation I'm your host killer keemstar let's carry into the news let's start with stampy Kent stampy cat is a popular popular kid-friendly youtuber and stampy cat also has a good friend known as L for lead now recently Li removed his Twitter account and disabled comments on his YouTube videos and this is why an article came out yesterday titled the Irvine minecraft pervert terrorized his surrogate aunt in sick Facebook campaign there's always some sort of drama a lot of reporting these down for videos is in there boys in 2015 accusations began springing up one of stampy's main collaborators alpha Lee Lee Carson aka el Polly was one of the main stars on stampy's channel he'd been accused of sending lewd photos to females as well as other accusations along similar lines turns out Lee Carson wasn't really the kid-friendly youtuber that was initially portrayed on stampy's Channel now it seems as though a lot of the accusations with PSA and not completely accurate regardless all filiz reputation fell off a cliff following the articles and videos on him this resulted in alpha Lee leading stampy's Walden channel because he didn't want to tarnish stand his reputation the reason I left stamp is why was obviously because I didn't want to get him a bad reputation I don't want to see hadn't done bad I want it as a success as achievement to still go well because that was the main thing I wanted to see stop it as there's you know be successful since stamp II had a very young audience at the time most of stampy's audience didn't really understand the seriousness of the allegations before L Polly left stampy's world stamp II was getting around 4 million views per video when Lee left stampy's average views dropped to around 1 million per video a drop of around 75 percent dear stampy I'm afraid to tell you that I am leaving I have been your number one helper for years but I feel like you no longer need me I am going to travel across the world looking for people that need help I will also try and track down hit the target so you and your dogs will be safe thanks for all the fun Lieber I left you a present in the in the chest you're leaving lis bear following this what seemed to happen in 2015 was the motivation just seemed to dry up the stamping the 75 percent drop in views would have taken a toll on his desire to make content considering it would have felt like fighting a sinking battle on top of this it's possible that he might have completed some of the goals he set for himself for the channel such as 5 million subscribers these might have been the reasons for why Stimpy began to pursue other entrepreneurial endeavors in 2015 such as his first book which was titled stampy's lovely book published in October 2015 this was accompanied by a spin-off professionally produced educational youtube channel called one request in april 2015 hello this is stamping and welcome to my new channel one request however while these might have been in addition to his personal achievements there were a detriment to his main YouTube channel stampylonghead given that producing this alternative content gave him less time to post content on the main channel so from 2015 the uploads began to slow down a little bit on top of this posting alternative content in 2015 might have given off the indication that stampy had a lower desire to play Minecraft and make videos which usually proves to be a detriment to the goodwill of a youtube channel regardless the views on his videos began to dwindle from 2015 which continued all the way up until 2017 on the 12th of March 2017 stampy released a video called is my channel die discussing the drop in views between 2015 and 2017 and that is whether my channel is dying a lot of people have been saying that my views have been dropping a lot it's nothing like it used to be and you know gradually my channels going to to fade away into non-existence or its die basically no one's gonna be watched and they explained that he didn't really care that he had a lot of news because he was still loving making videos I really don't care very much like um nothing's changed it's like nothing's James from from when you know I was getting more views I make videos in the the exact same way stampedin states towards the end of the video that he has no intention of changing his style or the way he creates his videos what am I gonna do about it that's kind of dead there next question my views are dropping I'm not really gonna do anything like as I can have said you know I don't I don't really care that much however this lack of innovation might not have been the smartest play for stampy considering his views would only continue to dwindle from here stampy then announced on the 6th of August 18 that his lovely world series the series that blew him up to famine was getting millions of views from 2013 to 2015 was going to go from 2 uploads per week to 1 upload a strong articulation for the drop in stamp his motivation lovely world for pretty much the first time since I started doing it is gonna be going down to only one video a week stampy explained that he didn't really enjoy playing minecraft anymore which was a bit of a blow to his fans that had supported his minecraft series over the years there's one or two reasons that I've kind of decided to do this one thing is minecraft for me kind of just it isn't the same as what it used to be and if I'm not having fun playing I'm not gonna play it stampy also outlined that he was originally doing one video per day which went down a three per week then eventually down a to per week which was another sign of the slow decline of his channel and motivation kind of gradually doing less and that's minecraft of course you know back in the day you still do a Minecraft video every single day at the moment it was three videos a week that's gonna be going down to two so following the announcement that he would be dropping his weekly videos from two to one he then announced in Christmas 2018 that he will be completely stopping minecraft and general gaming uploads in order to focus on writing his book if you haven't heard I am taking a break at the moment from doing minecraft videos as well as just most gaming videos on my channel the main reason for that is because I am trying to write a book and basically I needed it a little bit more time and I have leaking a lot of videos over the the last six years and kind of thought that I earned a little bit of a break anyway he then signs off the video by saying that he apologizes for the lack of uploads and that once he's finished writing he'll get right back to where he left off I will be returning at some point probably next year to kind of continue where we left up to Kari will play Minecraft as well as yes some other games on my channel but however this doesn't always work on youtubers intended it's not like a music artist where you can take two years off to write an album comeback and still be relevant if you take two years off on youtube and try to pick back up from where you were you'll probably find out that you've been forgotten about pretty quickly then 2019 proved to be a far from political year for stampy only posting a total of 10 Minecraft videos for the year with a few live streams thrown in however there was something like Connacht that happened in 2019 which is integral to the story stand be released a second version of the my lovely world series called my lovely a world which began with two videos an introduction and a tour of his world gaining 700,000 and 1.1 million views respectively could this be the return of stampy and his minecraft glory well as it turned out not really that solid if you count around the million mark wouldn't really last very long the second episode got 400,000 views the third episode got 300,000 views by episode 6 that wasn't cracking 200,000 views and by episode 17 it wasn't even cracking 150,000 views quite a long fall from his 4 million per episode back in 2014 then within the last few months stampy's transition to doing almost solely live stream content which only get around 50 to 100k views a representation of the sign at the times for stampede so then it creates the closing argument why did stampy's channel drop from 10 million views to 50,000 views in recent times I think this comment sums it up perfectly his channel didn't die we all just grew up and not only his audience stampy himself growth stampy's now 29 years old turning 30 this year he's at an age now where the desire to play kids game is difficult to maintain we've basically just observed a slow drop in motivation over time for stamping this slow dropping motivation reflects in his desire to make content as well as the energy hipot raised within his videos regardless sampie has a special spot in a lot of our hearts and I'm sure he has big things planned for the rest of his life he's not like some of the other youtubers we reviewed here where you can't really see them having much of a future regardless my thoughts would be that stampy's YouTube endeavors are coming to an end and he'll move on to bigger and better projects ooh so stabby from everyone watching this video best of luck man thanks for the nostalgia old pal I think you deserve whatever good things come to you in the future [Music]

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Rating: 4.9457822 out of 5

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Id: CcFPcUj-Ivo

Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 03 2020

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