The Brutal Downfall of Redmercy
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2023
- Redmercy was once at the top of the League of Legends youtube game, becoming one of the most subscribed-to and viewed channels in the community. Known for going from innovative series such as Did You Know and League of Myths to generic, clickbait content before eventually quitting RUclips altogether THIS is the story of Redmercy’s rapid rise and slow, painful fall from grace.
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Haha good video - I spent about a third of my life making league content and it was truly a ride I wouldn’t change for anything. But as all things, every thing must come to an end sadly and the tldr was what you said, I simply got burnt out. Playing and making videos of a game for 12 years would do that to you :( but truly a ride that changed my life
What an honor Mr Red 🙏 I watched you from middle school all the way to college, you were a huge part of my life as well as all the other fans that commented how nostalgic hearing about you again was. Truly loved your content especially the lore and fun fact videos. I was rooting so hard for you to reach challenger and I can confidently say I watched 90% of your Journey to Master and Grandmaster series from s6-8. While it’s bittersweet you moved on to bigger and better things thank you for the years of entertainment you gave 1M+ people. You’re a legend Redmercy. Thank you for making League that much more enjoyable :)
I hope to see you back at some point :)
Redmercy, I always watched you. You're cool youtuber. Maybe start other games. I'm sure you'll find something, some people watch you for your entertainments, informant way and personality.
I met Red in person and played in some custom league games against him. He was really cool in person and off stream , you don't find that often . Thank you .Dude is tall af irl tho .
Hey Red, it is amazing to see you doing well on other channel, I have a quick question, are you still playing League privately by any chance? In a sense, do you hate playing league currently or do you silently enjoy it from time to time if that makes sense?
Wow. Redmercy, PantsAreDragon, TobiasFate and Yassuo were the RUclipsrs I watched the most back in the days. This video just gave me so much nostalgia.
Same
PantsAreDragon is dogshet. Where's Trick in this list
@@mohammadazraazriazhar2170 kinda hate how you probably just heard his voice and said "next" man used to pump out good informational videos on jg
@@ajwoopie Nah, man is the generic clickbait bronze stomper nowadays
@@ajwoopie I recall he did something hypocritical and also just bullies nubs. He isn't a likeable person
People don't understand that when he gained success, it was in the early days of league, most what he was doing was a novelty, especially the did you know series, because people weren't knowledgeable about league, as they are now. Then the game scene changed, and he tried to adapt, but there was nothing but clickbaity stuff that everyone else is doing. So fans left him, not realizing that they learned so much from him, to the point that they didn't need him anymore
That’s a really good way of putting it. Probably why so many people are nostalgic when they think of Red
The problem is click baity stuff works. Everyone say they hate it but if you don't do it you get less views for the exact same video. I really don't blame creators for it. Foxtrot tried real hard to ask people to watch the vids that didn't have them and he simply wouldn't get the views unless he did so had to cave
You straight up have to click bait now, young people don't have the attention span or patience anymore, I don't blame anyone for thumbnails only outright lying titles.
I still remember the days when the "richboi redmercy" meme was prevalent. The good old times 😢🤧
DUDEEEEEEE
Bruh I feelsoldman
this triggered such a deep memory in my brain i actually laughed out loud when i read those 2 words
Wow I forgot all about this.
yeah xD
Arguably one of the most important league influencers. No one was as helpful as him for the new players in my opinion.
facts
lol
The only thing I learned from him is. How not to improve. Overrated and boring in every aspect
Man your content is so cool, I really like these type of videos and cant wait for the next one!
Keep it up!
Thank you :)
I think another factor that is important to add is not just Redmercy but many sucessful youtubers lost a lot in views purely due to the fact that viewership in general for LoL is dying and that has been very apparent in these last couple of years.
Redmercy was GOAT, motivated me to play Zed, his champ release and lore vids. YT stopped recommending him. Danm remember he was dbz fan, W. I wish him the best. We all high and lows but rise to conquer.
Do Brofresco next. Guy just dipped and never said a word 😂
Redmercy was one of the first RUclipsrs I picked up when I started playing league and his content was the one I enjoyed the most. I gradually stopped watching him when the Journey to Masters series began, but I am very grateful for all the content he brought us. I have nothing to criticize him for, as I don't want to disrespect anything he did, even if he intended to clickbait people with content below his standards. Thank you Redmercy for the amazing times and I hope you will find happiness in whatever you're doing now.
Redmercy is considered by many to be one of the the Founding Fathers of League of Legends Online Content Creation. He’s historically and classically one of the greatest content creators period. Almost all other big names today stand in his shadow and on the foundations of what he pioneered first; he’s the personification of a great era itself. His technique was professional, he had class, he had charisma, he was able to act as this effective conduit between what Riot was hoping for and what the player base aspired to. Throughout his career, no matter the views, he conducted himself with honor…
For me Red and Siv HD were a OG duo that helped many people in league. Red was teaching people stuff about game and how to get better at game while Siv was showing people how to have fun playing league and showing us fun builds and off meta picks which was a perfect balance for both people that played the game to climb or for fun only. Enjoyed them both back in the day and still feel sad and nostalgic missing their olfld content
@@markogagic4091a little late here, i remmeber watching red everyday back in middle school. My favorite youtuber and game back then. I still play league but it’s really unfun. Im now in college and so are a lot of my friends who did play. I miss the old days man
Good content
Keep it up
Its a slow journey but i hope its worth in the end
Personally I think he's drop is due to him not being a challenger level player. Nowadays the only League content that thrives are high elo gameplay (Bauss, Druttut, Tyler1), documentaries (Exil), gameplay analysis (midbeast, LS), and league news (Rival). The content he settled on making was high elo gameplay but it wasn't high enough for people to bother watching.
If he stuck to his lore and other types of videos he might still be around. But they take considerably more effort to produce. It’s crazy to think even though he was top .001% he still wasn’t “high enough” for high elo gameplay.
@@LoLAthlete it do be like that. Unless you're challenger or consistently above Masters, your opinions don't matter and your gameplay isn't worth watching. Imo casual league died when Dunkey left the game
Rav is pretty shit at the game, he gets views because his content is good.
@@psy_99 for me it ultimately died when sp4zie stopped, but i guess most of my friends stopped playing aswell..
nah i doubt it dont think people left him for not begin challenger. look at RAV and sliver player, yet he become popular
Honestly, this just puts what T1 does in perspective. How he still manages to stay sane playing the same game 12hours every day for the past 10+ years over and over again, all the while keeping a steady viewership count. Guy is just built different.
i loved watching the journey to masters episodes, they were the least click bait and most enjoyable imo im kinda sad he stoped with those
holy the nostalgia, man lol content was so good back in the day
Some people dont understand that not everybody can copycat the clickbaity scummy type of content. If youve built an audience whos there for educational and thought through stuff they will become angry at stupid clickbaits etc and wont identify with the channel anymore. This style of content only works for... a special kind of audience.
a bunch of zoomers i suppose
Anklespanking was truly the first LoL youtuber I watched. But yeah
Redmercy, Brofresco, old Content Trick, oh and let’s not forget we used to be able to spectate high Elo games.
Def alongside Sykkuno and CoolstoryJoe
@@BlizzardWind99 Don’t remember Sykkuno, CoolstoryJoe was awesome.
Him and a Morg Main streamer I used to watch, InvaderZive
Redmercy was actually one of the few League content creator who I got a chance to play with in Season 1 and even had him in my friend list! He was an Akali main at that time and he tried to carry our asses 5v1ing the whole game while the rest of us was just inting not knowing how to play the game, unfortunately we were too heavy and lost but an unforgettable game nonetheless ❤
I miss watching these guys when I was younger, I feel so nostalgic.
I think the game in general was more fun because all of us were still trying to learn it, the builds, the macro, learning how to play each champion and maybe 1 trick one that you actually connected the most.
I miss all those fun builds that existed in the past like Old AP Tristana, AP Sion, man those were the days where league was actually fun.
Also, watching all of those youtubers making fun and cool content was pretty entertaining.
AP Trist midlane was the bomb!
My favorite old niche build was definitely AD Malzahar tho👀
I miss AP attack speed Gnar
Richboy was pretty fun to watch from 2013, sad that its over
Richboy Redmercy memes were peak. Totally forgot about them tbh
I used to watch every new video from UberDanger, he wasn't really that popular compared to other League content creator at the time but his editting and humour is godlike. He's the one who inspired me to play Darius for 6 whole seasons (started picking him up in s5, dropped him in s11). His Full AD/AP videos were so fkin good back in the days
Helicopter Jax, dubstep ignite and a bunch of hentai flashes
@@gaylosbernandez579 one of his recent vids, the cosplay contest, made me have stomachache lmao
He really got screwed over by demonetization. Very sad he was the best league of legends content creator
Ubers uploads after he left league have been top notch as well
@@slapthedidgyr9769 yeah unfortunately i'm not really interested in those games but watching him talking about monitizations and stuff was pretty harsh
Redmercy is the living example of commplacency as a creator I feel like. His content was good, then he stopped caring and started uploading junk when he realized it would take far less effort for the amount of profit. Although I guess in his case, he made a substantial amount of money so I wouldn't be surprised if he's set for life.
Hey brother I love your content. One of my RUclips inspirations no cap. So honored :) and I 100% agree his content got so repetitive and stale and as soon as the views dried up and he wasn’t making bank anymore he just quit. Then started making complete barebones content hoping his name would carry him.
@@LoLAthlete It's a path I think most youtubers inevitably fall into. My guess is that he got a really OP sponsor that paid lots so he didn't need to worry about views and just go for meeting the bare minimum.
He also had the exclusive streaming deal with Facebook. One can only speculate how much his contract was worth but considering it’s when twitch “competitors” were shelling out loads of money for exclusivity deals, I can imagine it would’ve been a pretty penny. Most of his RUclips videos by the end of it were glorified stream highlights. Especially when it was 99% journey to masters since they were all taken from his Facebook streams.
hes set for the next 10 lives lol
When I was quitting league I made a lengthy video explaining that most RUclipsrs are popular BECAUSE the game is popular, once game got boring, they all(including me) fell off.
Only if you are very unique and personality based channel, will you keep going strong-ish, anything else, you sink with the ship.
You simply have to be a unique personality, let people in your personal life so they connect with you and be extremely versatile(variety content).
It makes sense that when a game is at its peak it’s easier to stay relevant. I would say especially in NA league’s peak at least for viewership and reputation was 2014-18. After that it slowly started shifting more to a PvP game and the RUclips scene wasn’t innovating as much. Now League is growing almost everywhere in the world except for NA, even CBLOL pulled more viewers for their playoffs than the LCS did this split
Trick2g
You deserve so many more subs. The nostalgia is so real!
Praying that I never get a video about me on this channel 🙏
After that sick 5 man ult at Twitch rivals I think you’re safe 👀
Nice video bro, you should cover brofresco if you can, would be fun to watch
Thank you bro I appreciate it! I’m definitely cooking up a lot of videos in the kitchen. Mainly all RUclipsrs I watched in the past. Definitely will make one about Brofesco
@@LoLAthlete what do you think of Pianta? For me personally he is the only LOL YTber that makes me feel like he hasn't changed in all the years od videos
i love this type of videos you are making, keep it up!. By the way, can you talk about the case of "Phylol"? I don't know what happened to him or he just dissapeared, also i would like to see the case of brofresco, just ideas, but in any case, keep this type of content man.
Phylol and Foxdrop. Yeah I used to watch them
Yeah wtf havent heard of Foxdrop in yearrrs what happened? I use to watch his smurf series I think he was one of the first to do Unranked to diamond, well him or Huzzy to showcase its possible to climb. I completely forgot abt that guy
He completely stopped playing League when Lost Ark came out and so did I after playing it for 12 years straight. Haven't touched LoL since LOA
This video captured all my sentiments with red. Suggestion: SivHD maybe?
Thanks man! That’s exactly what I try to do with these videos. Lots of former league RUclipsrs to talk about
Dammit,my childhood league content creators died one after the other,redmercy,brofresco, professor akali,bunnyfufu,yassuo,llstylish, even the ones that remain like pants are dragon,trick2G ,t1 etc.-they all feel like they dont enjoy the game as much as the old days and who could blame them,hell ,trick became a father and t1 doesnt scream anymore.it just hurts me
Agree with all but T1. I think the only reason he mellowed out is simply from growing older. But he is still addicted as ever. He isn’t like the other guys, because he can make way more streaming variety but he still chooses to play league every single day. He’s even playing right now off stream as I’m typing this. Truly built different.
Brofresco just randomly disappeared
Even Sykunno started as a League RUclipsr
@@Intoboom126 the guy is hardstuck masters in EU KEKW
Trick is washed up. Tyler is a 5 role na challenger who is hardstuck master in korea and euw(eu>na) but hes still playing constantly and is fun to watch.
The "hey guys, what is up....." intro Is burned into my brain
Please do one about anklespankin. Only OGs know him.
Dude him and CaptainMonk were my childhood. Still remember when Ankle helped put AcroMorph on before he stopped uploading
@@LoLAthlete Same lols. Learned a lot by watching him.
Yo I actually played an aram with him maybe like a year ago lmao my friends knew him I had no idea who he was. He literally 1v5 stomped us with samira lmao
@@matarina649 gg to you and your friends!
I still remember his theories on League when we all used to care about the game's lore. Now, I don't even know which champion is from or what their lore is.
What League of Legends personality do you want me to cover next? Let me know :)
Boom waddup guy and his downfall into the pits of bronze 874 mentality
Shaclone?
Voyboy
brofresco?
doctor ututt
Redmercy was the first league RUclipsr I watched when I first started league back in 2012
Basically he appealed to an audience that had no content which quickly became saturated as more players joined and redmercy couldn’t find a niche of his own with the generalized content he had it didn’t fill any niche other RUclipsrs didn’t do even at his times. Without exceptional skills in other roles he was mostly an otp who clickbaited before people realized how annoying it is.
A Voyboy video would farm a lot a views. The comment section alone would 3x your other videos. I've never seen so many people hate and support someone at the same time. Community was so divided about him when he left
Great video! Keep up man 😅
Redmercy is good. Redmercy was REALLY good, to the point where sometimes when he lost it's simply just how the cookie crumbled, and not because he made any mistakes. I enjoyed watching his videos so much. Just high level play, no BS. I think he still streams on Twitch, but I don't know if he still plays League there.
I used to watch all these guys and have played league on and off for more than ten years. Apart from drama the biggest trend I'm seeing is these successful streamers/youtubers getting burnt out or taking breaks which end up killing their channel. It's kinda sad when you think about it, I've had years where I don't play league and then I come back to it ... years where I may only play a couple months and have a league fix and then get my desired rank and take breaks.
In the content space there's not really the option to take breaks, you just become irrelevant .. people forget about you. I think it's important to always diversify your content because any game is gonna get stale and boring after years and years of playing it. I also think it shows that when you're successful in this space you don't know when you're gonna lose it. You have to always be ahead of the curve and in tune with almost like the content meta. So really you should save as much as you can because it's truly a dream job.
He was a pioneer on what the rest of the community of what was doing,I think folks memes on the thumbnail.I think out of the rest of the creators he was more legit and I still love nightblue,but wish no thing but the best for redmercy and his family
Him and boxbox single-handedly made me so excited about league. Good times
Well, I remember back in the old days I was watching RedMercy like crazy.
I hope everything is well with him other wise!
I remember brofesco around the season 5 era of league.
The state of League as a game and the content made from League kinda intertwines. As league becomes more interested as an eSport and less welcoming to casual play, the creators just end up gravitating to more clickbaity titles and focus on climbing the ranks.
RedMercy when I started playing League was the person I gravitated towards quite a lot. I learned to play assassins because of him. I learned how to play Zed properly and the hybrid damage Ekko build was my favorite thing to screw with when he came out. League just sucks in general now. Red did nothing wrong he just followed where League took him. League now is a game that is a shell of its former self as do most of the creators that still make content from League.
Siv HD was the best League content creator and to this day he still is and Red was in my top 3 favs. He was one of a kind and i enjoyed watching him every day. Even tho people complained about his clickbait titles and thumbnails but thats just how marketing works like in any other business.. you need to beat ur competition and give people the reason to click on ur video, cus there was a lot of creators nowdays and it wasnt easy to stay consistent and get people to watch exactly your video. So from a business perspective thats totally fine, why would i hate him for doing it cus he was doing that for living and on top of that every single content creator does the same thing but no one hates them.. im super sad to see him gone but hopefully he will come back in the future if league produces enough of new content that can increase his interest in the game again
New champs and skins just don’t have the same hype as they used to. They just be pumping out new shit every other week. Redmercy videos always had that hype factor because the newer skins and champs at the time were so cool.
Watched red mercy religiously everyday back in middle school
Damn. Red is still my fav LOL RUclipsr. Forever!
Oh how much I’m gunna miss the great 2015 to 2019 era
6:32 that's some werid Diamond 2 emblem btw. Nice vid tho xD
You forgot the worst part. Not only did he stop uploading on Redmercy, but he's switched to making daily updates on the price of TSLA stock on another channel, called "TheTeslaGuy".
thanks for making this video
Thanks for watching it :)
Reminds me of the time dunkey would almost exclusively make LoL vids
Mah boi!, I will miss richboi redmercy. He is still uploading though with his new yt channel 'TheTeslaGuy'.
the sunnyv2 thumbnails - I hope you don't become as ignorant as him but I enjoy your content, keep it up :)
Take your own advice. Im sure youre being petty over SunnyV2s latest video, but you show yourself to be ignorant. Anyone with half a braincell can see that SunnyV2 is typically unbiased in the format of his videos. He shed light on a situation thats perceived in a negative light but because youre caught up in your own feelings you cant see that. The fact that you brought him up in this video only reinforces how butthurt you are. Grow up and stop taking life too seriously.
Sunny is great you’re smoking dust
Redmercy got hit by all them Qs PRRRR
He wasnt making news fast enough😢
League of legends make your brain rot. congratulations to him for overcoming this cancer
bro remember when you need to watch redmercy everytime there's a new change in lol
I used to watch almost all of redmercy’s videos, but stopped completely once the clickbaity nightblue style videos started becoming more popular on his channel. So, your video is accurate based on my own experiences at least.
A lot of the league youtuber I watched... they all seemed to have quit or stop making content. Pants and Trick is the only one I watch now. Sometimes I watch T1 and the baus but he just ints 😆 and macro is insane. I honestly feel like league content creator has fallen off as time goes by but at the same time RUclips notification for new video upload is trash. Sometimes you get it sometimes you do and sometimes you magically become unsubscribed.
I'm sure he's not complaining after that facebook money. iirc he signed an exclusive streaming deal with them long-term for a high $ amount
Hell, i remember my last video i watched of him was when he was flexin a car he bought. I was like yep over this.
i remember the last video that ive seen from him, it was when yone was new i think
I think the consistent theme in all these league downfall videos is how league itself got worse each year
I miss redmercy 😩
Can you do a video on pawnce? Hes an og youtuber that deserves more credit!
Can you please do one of these for brofresco!??
Totally deserved. He's the first channel I ever went out of my way to block from recommendations.
Clickbait garbarge, that was often just blatantly uninformed and false.
Can you do a video about Brofresco or Nicktron please?
I ran into Redmercy irl once but I didn't stop him or anything I was just starstruck and didn't wanna be annoying lmao
I think its viewership droppimg in general because the game gets harder and harder to satisfy the pro scene while making it unappealing for casual players who dont care about competetive and esport. After season 3 the game was pushed so hard for competetive, point and click abilities slowly removed, laning phase sped up, sustain reduced that the game became only interesting for people who constantly try to improve and keep up with current meta.
We really need season 2 or 3 league back
wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
Ahh Redmercy, SRO, NightBlue3,Dunkey, were my mainnn guys
Can you make a video about Siv HD? I know he still streams and uploads but its not the same like his old days and content isnt as funny and entertaining and its cus of the state of the game how riot made it tryhard only game where you cant really have pure fun only. I really enjoy your content and hope to see more 😊
We just grew old.
Music choice for this video is great and accurate to a majority of League montages 🤌
Nightblue3 yassuo bunnyfufuu and redmercy were my league content providers , out of which i just watch nightblue currently.
Forgot to mention Brofresco
Trick2G the GOAT, truly enduring the test of time. The BOOM forever
Huh always wondered what happened to him.
I still associate the Shurima shuffle to this guy.
Surely he does a rise of rav video
This guy inspired me to start my edgelord phase and main Zed/Talon
do next video about Brofresco
That just the nature of playing one game, and in a platform such as youtube. League has way less players than before way ahead of its prime, and ever since the boom in Twitch people are more interested watching live in twitch than replays in youtube. Take tyler1 as an example, the most famous LoL content creator youtube videos are just shy of a hundred thousand views per video but in terms of live viewership he still doing well.
nothing lasts forever anyway.
I think everyone just dropped their videos and moved on, nothing special, good video though brought me some nostalgia. I loved redmercy and his zed was clean
It's honestly quite disappointing how simply reading the fandom page became the most popular series on his channel.
I totally forgot about this guy, maybe thats why. He was first with the leaks, good times 😂
You should highlight that he has a new channel called theteslaguy. I think he's focusing his content there.
When I mean content, it's the weird stocks/crypto content
His content on that channel is even more lazy tbh. He doesn't even bother to change his thumbnail or even have a description in his channel bio
I’ll be honest I didn’t even know about that channel until people pointed it out in the comments
You have at charge in Aaron Mcgowen
Red Mercy looks like TheTeslaGuy
this guy actually just moved on into finance, specifically tesla stock technical analysis. i actually didn't know that he even played lol, i found out about him through tesla stock vids
Tbh honest red was probably one of the biggest inspiration for my current username, I really used to enjoy his content, but when the click bait videos era came it turned me off.
there just arent people looking for league content like taht
Anklespankin & Coolstoryjoe the ogs
Damn.. Redmercy, Yassuo and that Akali dude are people who I haven't heard of in a long time they just became so clickbait, and pretty much just boring
Professor Akali lmao. I’ll definitely make a video on him at some point
What happened to madlife/mar1n/insec next. They are the people who inspired countless generations of lol players. Madlife was absolutely legendary, i still remember when his team MiG was called "madlife is god" by fans. Mar1n season 5 worlds mvp!!!!!! 28-0 maokai during regular season. The guy carried faker! Last i checked he was a coach in a "survival show" where aspiring lol players go for a chance to debut in lck. It was really nostalgic to watch the 2022 lck spring finals ceremony with all the old players.
MaRin was most recently the head coach for Team Liquid. Although he only lasted one split and then left :/