The Many Disappearances of the COD Zombies Community
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Cinematic Shots Credit 🎥: TheSmithPlays, Wheezy
All People Mentioned 🔥 :
TheRelaxingEnd: / @therelaxingend
ToProForuGames (Atom): / @toproforugames
LonelyMailbox (Jack): / @lonelymailbox
Chucky: / @chucky
Novera: / @noverahd
Wilbo: / @wilbohdz
Azura: RIP Azura :(
NGTZombies: / @ngtzombies
🎵MUSIC (In Order)🎵:
HOME - Before The Night
HOME - Head First
Baba is You OST - Fruit On Grass
Baba is You OST - Water is Sink
Baba is You OST - Box Has Key
JustinBeats - M Y S T E R Y
Baba is You OST - Lava is Hot
Chris Doerksen - Perspective
Baba is You OST - Cog is Push
Eddie Rohosy - Night Ride
Krptic Unknown - This Never Happened (Outro)
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🚨IMPORTANT INFORMATION 🚨
I reached out to MrTLexify (a member of the zombies community for a multitude of years) asking if he knew anything of the whereabouts of some of the people and here are some updates:
ToProForuGames - Atom is living in Canada still and he made a prominent undisclosed Fortnite channel that is doing really well.
LonelyMailbox - Jack lives in LA now with all of the Zombie guys. He works for a prominent Rap channel on RUclips, however Lex wasn't even sure which one.
Azura - Azura is currently a police officer in the UK working full time with a girlfriend.
Thanks again to MrTLexify for giving me some background information on some of these people, if you guys haven't already make sure you sub to this man 💙
Glad to hear their doing well
why does Lexify act Restarted and automatic on streams?
Great to hear everyones doing well
@@kisameh420 and steals content aswell as false flags critiques
@@TwoStepCowboysfucking hate lex ngl
Man I remember when YOTESLAYA, Syndicate, ChristianR87, TheRelaxingEnd, and ThatGuyWhoCamps were the GOAT zombies players. RIP YOTESLAYA
crazy to see some of these names, Syndicate has a kid now its crazy, i still remember the YOTESLAYA death announcement thinking it was fake till i saw the news
@@JD3Z yup, WickedShrapnel posted about it and I couldn’t believe it. I had just seen YOTE’s Ascension round 100 video where he defended all the perks in hopes of getting quick revive again the day before. Tough day for the zombies community.
Rest in peace Yote. I’ve got his logo and name as the paint job on the side of my KN 44 on BO3. It’s only fair since he taught me how to run trains.
YOTESLAYA was the goat. RIP
Custom WAW ZOMBIES FROM YOTESLAYA WAS THE BEST
Man 2015-2017 was just the utter peak of cod zombies. A lot of these zombies RUclipsrs were literally apart of my childhood. It’s so sad to see my favorite content creators just leave or disappear.
I hope BO6 will be good… but the old key developers are missing for this to happen
@@smugplushYeah exactly, Lex was always my favourite and even though he mainly focuses on react content now i still enjoy his videos, but god can i admit it is incredibly lazy.
No lie!! I was jus talking abt this. I hope BO6 is like Bo3 zombies imo bo3 changed zombies. Doing Easter eggs and boss fights definitely added fun and the utter adrenaline after seeing the end cutscenes for the first time was peak
I wish some of the people I grew up watching stopped uploading rather than turning into what they are now
@@flatlinedatredline broooo no cap
I actually ran into LonelyMailbox in Little Italy in NYC years ago my friend and I scared the shit outta him because we're 2 kinda big Italian dudes yelling his name out in Little Italy so his first thoughts were probably not good.
Dude that is awesome u got to meet him tho
good job lol
Nice
The Z house era is by far one of my favorite core memories in my life. Summer of 2016 was amazing waking up to new uploads every morning by them and overall having a blast during the bo3 dlc season. Still have the original z house hoodie in my closet. ✊💯
NGT zombies hit me different when i came up wow
Ngtzombies got arrogant thats why they failed
@@suje809 Ngtzombies is literally better than every cod player in this video put together, they laid the foundation before people even knew what “training” meant
Rest in peace, Yoteslaya.
And the two people that died with him
Man I’m still crushed that Fantasticalgamer and Azura just vanished
Totally forgot YAW started out as NGT Zombies. I always look their channel up every year or so and it’s crazy that they upload every single day still.
I miss Azura the most, was such a funny guy to watch and its really sad most of his videos are gone
those days were peak
Bro he was like my fav RUclipsr he was so funny
He did cold war but deleted again
I think someone worth mentioning when discussing missing zombies RUclipsrs is Nixaru / Vixaria. They were one of my favorite zombies RUclipsrs back in 2017 - 2019, but then they left and nuked their entire channel. It’s sad, especially because of the world record history series they had, since those were some of my favorite zombies videos period.
Agreed, those videos were amazing
I was just about to comment on this. If I remember correctly they came out as trans and kinda went crazy? The last video I remember Vix uploading was them holding a baby doll in a wig and dress and just talking. They ended up deleting the video and not too long after deleted their channel. I was really hoping he’d talk about them but no
That ancient evil video was atrocious though
@@Lightagogo yeah, after they came out they had a meltdown online and ended up deleting the whole channel
@@Komani115 I won’t argue with you there 💀
Good video man. Feels melancholic revisiting the people we once used to watch and enjoy their content to no longer being a part of our lives.
Also I feel like Johnnyj25 should be mentioned. He made a BANGER video then just dipped
he runs a soccer channel now
R.i.p yoteslaya. Loved his borderlands videos and zombies
i miss the OG zombie youtubers. Smith Plays and his group, but now he has a minecraft channel he uploads consistently to as of 6-12 months ago, and a couple other channels, but bro hasn't played zombies in a few years, whereas tlexify still keeps adding to the community from custom map remakes of old maps, or informing us on new updates. It's really sad to see all the OGs leave, being replaced by their close friends who want to keep up, or by their fans that watched them years ago, trying to keep what they started. It's been 12 years since Vanoss did funny zombies clips from BO2 and almost 10 for BO3....
Pat has been uploading zombies lately, and he’s been putting a lot of time into making Pokémon romhacks on his Pokémon channel
SmithPlays has never been OG, he literally gained channel traction in like 2018
@@CodPatrolBro what? Dude was one of the biggest zombies channels during BO3. He also helped popularize challenge runs for zombies like the rainbow perk challenge with MrTLexify. Both of them were making content together in BO2. Even if you don’t consider him an OG, he was a big part of the community during 2014-2017. He was one of the first dudes to jump to Fortnite as it started growing. That’s why he built so much traction in 2018.
@@CodPatrol as someone who watched him and lex doing top 5s and challenges and making zombies content since 2013, he’s an OG. He was relevant long before 2018 and was one of the reasons zhouse was so well received, he and lex had the biggest subscriber groups in the house. That’s how many people found out who the others were.
The relaxing ends transition was so weird but he’ll never be forgotten.
Great video! I actually forgot about a few of the channels mentioned. I personally really miss Spiderbite from NGT Zombies. I used to watch a lot of his custom zombies videos.
There is actually a couple things about NGT that I just recently found, if you want to know more about SpiderBite and NGT specifically I believe there is a video going in depth on just him 👍
Great video. This is nostalgic. I was fortunate enough to create content from 2015-2018 at the height of zombies, was in Contact with Azura when he had 1k subs and saw the rise of his channel, got a shoutout from TheSmithPlays on his smithsquad podcast. Great memories.
God, I miss Jack (LonelyMailbox). I miss his music too.
I would look out for a release sometime this year 👀
It's a shame you missed one of the biggest influences of zombies. Radaustin27. His video about the story and timeline connected dots that I've never seen anyone do before. His videos expanded the lore because he saw things that others couldn't. Everytime he would post a storyline or timeline video other RUclipsrs would use his new theories and connections in their future videos. Truly a man before his time. Too bad the story drove him crazy before the reset happened.
I was literally thinking about doing a video on this. Thank you for doing this, I've been thinking about Adam and Jack lately.
I remember when ROFLWAFFLES and JD Dalek were just youngins in our CoDZ forum board. When Carbonfibah MINUS STL (admins) and others were still around. Now the CODZ - name is a shell of its former self.
Back when we were one of first sites to solve Easter eggs and then RUclips channels started to blow up on said Easter eggs and we couldn’t keep up after every map release.
Forgot too JD2020 would hang out in the shadows in our forums and look at our theories .
Carbonfibah getting to go to the Blacktops event at the hotel with the whole GKNOVA zombies era started
I hope someone sees this and remembers!!
What I missed the most was the OG zombie glitching community.
From what I remember IcyFTL, PHDGlitchers and Ultimateman showed many knife lunge glitches from Bo1 to bo3. Their channels have now been hacked, deleted or dead. Z CerealGlitchers and ChaddermanHD are probably the main modern glitchers nowadays
Azura will occasionally play be in his friend’s videos playing with them like mrtlexify or Tim Hansen. But has no desire to upload himself. He’s still alive though which is nice to know
He will always be my favourite zombies RUclipsr maybe favourite RUclipsr. Only one I’ve ever had notifications on for and would watch as soon as they uploaded
NoveraHD actually did glitching videos to start off and so did his brother Chucky. I used to post glitching videos with these guys way back in the early days. Crazy to see where these guys are at now. Nothing but love for them ❤
Does anyone remember dave the rave? He seemed to have disappeared and never returned, he had some good videos on his channel
👍
I remember him stopping content after BO3 came out due to a combination of a dissatisfaction with the direction the game was going and ongoing health issues. He did start up another channel (don’t remember the name) and did GTA Online content with some friends and lets plays with his girlfriend for a couple years at least
Dave the rave hahaha that’s unlocked a memory
yall boys remember laggin24x
Yeah he didnt really upload for years now but his name pops up once in a while , especially in the lst Zombies for Charity event where Teams of 4 competed in all easter eggs who finished the fastest
GAM3VIDZ was the best back in the day those quad live comms were my favorite I’ll go back and see them again every once in a while
best one to hear was chucky, i had no clue he started working for the mr beast crew after zhouse 2, that's dope as hell. bro made it big
YAW with 10k+ videos is insane... I started watching 8 years ago and theyre still going
Bro you mentioning Gunns and Meatwagon gave me Vietnam flashbacks. Those dudes were my childhood. YAW had everything from OG rust, every type of zombie game under the sun, Minecraft mods.
Great video. Azura was always my favorite and he will never be forgotten 😢
YAW was a childhood RUclipsr when they still played custom cod WAW and I still watch them now
I know we all know why he is gone but I think I should mention him
We all miss Yoteslaya(I was too young to know him but after watching his videos, I miss him so much…)
Yoooo meaty and gunns were such goats, I grew up watching them every night as a kid, watching their old world at war modded maps at midnight was such a vibe, they were the reason I got a gaming laptop to play community maps in B03 zombies
Regarding azura, MrTlexify did a boogie boys reunion stream a while back (not too long ago) where azura stated he's now working in law enforcement, but couldn't say too much on the matter for legal purposes
I was going to edit my comment, but oh well.
Drrpy I am super blessed that you addressed us with what happened to Mailbox, Azura, NGT zombies, Wilbo, and other creators and I know how it feels and we all wanted to go back in time to see the success in 2015 to 2017.
Trust you’re not alone with this pain, we feel your pain including me.
We need a part 2 of this! I’d love to hear about some more zombies RUclipsrs like RadAustin27
So crazy seeing documentary style videos about these guys from my childhood and early teenage years
I'd love to see a more extensive dive into Yaw, i miss ngt. Yaw is the most consistant zombies channel ever, been watching since the start. Gunns's knife only nuke was impressive at the time, what a time lol
I remember watching yaw back then love that they still making content
The relaxing truth blew me away starting as a cod zombies player and turning into an unboxer😂
Should’ve gave a shoutout to Yoteslaya, that dude was a freaking legend. RIP 🙏🏻
Real ones remember YOTESLAYA
Idk if he would have been proud of BL3
damn. I remember when twitch was just starting up as justinTV and there wasn't any way to stream zombies and spiderbite made a website for NGTZombies so he could stream day 1 releases with hypermole, suleyblack, mankiller, axel/akita, and all the other NGT guys. It was a weird era where COD zombies was being frontlined by the greats like Syndicate and yoteslaya. Its crazy to think that NGTZombies was a spinoff channel for nextgentactics. Then we had NGTMinecraft too. GOD DAMN I feel old.
Relaxing end and IIsteveII well always have my heart.
A big one for me back in the day was ThatGuyWhoCamps
Great vid man! Id love to see a part two with the ppl being mentioned in the comments
as an Australian I loved wilbo in 2016 when I was 12, really the only Aussie zombies RUclipsr I know. Was devastated when he quit 😭.Hope bo6 zombies is done well and we see new zombies RUclipsrs rise up
NGT was my favorite channel. The vids they made were just pure fun.
I love the use of baba is you's soundtrack in these videos lmao
I remember spudley left and said he was not going to be doing zombies content anymore and then like a year or two later I get a notification stating he's in a live stream for custom zombies match it's like wait what I was so happy though
1:34 actually RelaxingEnd uploaded his first video was back in December 31st 2010 when reaching Round 60 on Kino with his friend
All thought he wasn’t a zombies RUclipsr per se, ThatGuyWhoCamps was a really popular channel back in the day. He has a series called “zombies with randoms” which was loved by fans. He was mainly known for his MP gameplays.
He disappeared one day in 2013 after COD Ghosts came out and didn’t come back until 2020. He went on an uploading spree for a few weeks but has officially disappeared again.
It’s a shame, used to absolutely love Jeff’s videos
Brother got that ElMaxo thumbnail bar for bar
Damn. I know that sometimes Zombies can get boring when you did too much content, but it's still sad to see some youtubers quit zombies. I wish I played old COD Zombies when it was on huge peak.
Woah. It's almost like they started doing something else....
im so glad yaw has always still uploaded oooof rippp
It’s truly sad that I grew up watching all these people and now there gone off the internet well some
Man I remember playing and talking to Toproforugames back in BO2, good guy
It sucks to see many of these people go. I hope they’re doing good in life, wherever they are. And I truly hope BO6 will be the saving grace the ZM community has been praying for!
another one that dissapeared out of nowhere was someone called franky8 he did so many useful custom zombies guides
There’s also In2itScott, he played a bit of cold war, he was used to grind high round on FBZ, then completely disappeared
Chucky working for Mr Beast is just so insane. I remember finding out about it and it blew my mind. He was always super analytical though so it just makes sense. Back in the day I had become good friends with him from just interacting with him on Twitter and YT to the point where we started playing together (in which he would occasionally invite me to Xbox parties with NoahJ456). I doubt he would even remember me now though.
It's crazy though that nobody is mentioning people like OGZxFTW, TehLaz0r, Caspahz, CheatLikeAChamp 🤔. I can't be that old, right? Right!? There are so many others too that I can't think of right now, but every day after school I would come home and immediately go on YT to see what new glitches have been posted. That era of the Internet was just such a special time that can never be found again today.
no mention of nixaru on here is crazy. i remember him making the best and most in depth world record history videos way before cruppz
Map monkeys was super useful back then and there goes a lot of forgotten pioneers of the zombies community, I only know glitchingqueen is still active to this day
YAW will continue to be my go to zombies channel
This is a video I did not know I needed in my life but as soon as I saw the title it had my interest, solid vid man!
Nixaru/Vizaru deleted her channel sometime after bo4. I’m pretty sure she used to do world record videos.
She did a lot of commentary too
Lets be real, half of these youtubers would have never have any success withour Lex
Uh tbh not really, almost half of the people on this list are not affliated with Lex whatsoever, I could maybe see the argument that Lex grew zombies as a whole potentially, but he really didn't stunt the growth of some of these individual channels (NGT, Wilbo, RelaxingEnd, etc)
@Drrpy u see the key wording there don't u, I said half were brought up by mrtlexify, u say less then half of them were not, we have not disagreed yet
Should’ve included PlayTheGame
The end of Zhouse and the end of Cleystar hurt the most.
I miss QknightZ. Use to watch his streams all the time back in the bo3 days. Such a good dude who was really entertaining.
I was surprised Syndicate wasn't on here. Mostly just a case of growing up, I think.
One guy alot of people dont know, is ZombieWho. He made one of the best zombies documentaries ever and plenty of other good video essays, yet him and all of his content just disappeared, like i cant find it anywhere online, dude got assassinated or something lol. Update: he changed his channel into "ZombieReborn", then deleted it and is now a dark souls youtuber by the name "ChaosSoul", but unfortunately all of his zombies content seems to still be gone and no longer on the web :(
My favorite ducky is back. They may not be around the community anymore but I'm very happy you're still keeping this community alive
saying in the year of 2016 instead of just saying in 2016 is crazy
Only real ones remember ZombieProNYC
Matomaster21 also quit producing content... He was one of the best zombies players in the world back in the day!
Classic Matomaster21
solid video
I think Drrpy missed on maybe the reason why NGTzombies didn't continue as NGTzombie was one of the many channels that spiderbite uploaded/managed, another being nextgentactics and i believe he had more than 3 channels where he was uploading and believe that he experience burn out and focused more on his family and talked about it in one of the returning videos
Amazing content dude can’t wait for the e next vid
Appreciate it homie 💙
You forgot to talk about JFK gamer
shoutout jfk gamer
115 movie incident
@@Gabriel-ki7uj I know but I just wanted him to talk about it
Tell say the truth as a speed runner myself 7yrs ago cod had it going, zombies was a game mode every year or 2 and its was the same story but it stop so you can only play and perfect so many maps until its boring and repetitive alot of these ppl went on ti have families like its about life really
Teh Birdz were my jam back in the day
Relaxing end took the end of good times and turned them into something good! 9.4million Subs n man I love watching the unboxing videos they are very satisfying
I remember when Radaustin was interviewed at the Bo4 reveal event and he said..
"OOOH its gonna be a goood year."
Now my boy is completley gone 😭😭😭
i miss bo3.
Yoteslaya was my favorite zombies RUclipsr growing up
the electronic gems playlist slaps
RIP Yoteslaya
jack now works in a music label i believe
cool vid. remember watching some of these guys as a teenager
Azura will occasionally play with his zombie RUclipsr fire Ds like mrtlexify or Tim Hansen. He’s still around but has no desire to upload. Phil is not dead :)
Do you know what videos of theirs that he is in
@@zachedwards5911 Ik for Tim Hansen he’s in his revisiting zombies chronicles videos. He appeared in mrtlexify’s ix round 100. Also he appeared in a boogie boy’s reunion stream on jcbackfire’s channel. He’ll occasionally pop in on videos but not too often
Remember the JFKGamer? What happened to him
Azura was kind of like Tim Hansen… before we got Tim Hansen. Very similar content but Tim is more natural in his attitude. Also I know you reached out to Lex but I’m pretty sure Azura was on a Lex stream on either BO2 or BO3 in 2022 or around that time.
Waiting for nixaru to be mentioned
VERY controversial lolll
Am I the only one that remembers PlayTheGameCentral?
Does anyone remember pack puncher? Haven’t heard of him since like 2018 he moved to Fortnite then disappeared thesmithplays that’s a sad end matt who knows where he is lex I think is at that burned out stage waffles will never not be entertaining NoahJ456 was amazing dalek was always a meme Tim was a late bloomer but I’m happy for him rabbit still does stuff from time to time and so many more I was 8 when WAW came out watching this community be created being there since the beginning was something else I’m now about to be 24 and now in the military me and the boys that are in with me still talk about the golden years the legendary 2016 summer I’ve done enough rambling I’m tired just like everyone is in the community when it finally is time to say goodbye to this chapter in gaming a whole piece will be taken from all of us
i love the duck. great video 🎉❤