The fact that he made kayrina’s brother his best man over his longtime friend speaks volumes to the control that this woman has over him…it’s a damn shame
@@kachow2143 it’s crazy cause I also stopped watching him when she started showing up. Maybe I contributed but his videos now are not the same it’s empty and lonely.
Sounds like what happened to any relationships when anyone got with Illuminate, a manipulative individual who never cared about her partners and deserved all the backlash she got.
Yea, it's actually funny this became a big thing. I remember seeing the first video on my feed and then seeing the toxic comments video, and along with some ppl making racist videos against his gf. Yt a few years back was wild AF
Shit. This guy brought me out of one of the worst depressive episodes I've had in my life. Like, go to the hospital in isolation levels of bad. His videos were a highlight of my day and I genuinely enjoyed them. Yeah their pretty much... samey, but back then some form of consistency and unchanging stability is what I needed in some way. I moved on before this ever started happening or was even mentioned, but to look back and try to see someone that aided me in my worst time just... wreck and fall like this, it hurts. Hope wherever his creative work takes him, its up from where he is right now.
easiest bag of her life. says 4 words to a man and then gets married to him. make no mistake, she's the reason his career died. not really because of her, but because of him. purposely distancing your day 1's after getting into a relationship, then eventually blocking them? dudes like this show their colors in the end; snakes. i've been on the receiving end of that before. i know how it is.
M3RKMUS1C used to be like, S tier level youtuber, his older content was absolutely goated. But this BS that he did with all his friends really killed it man, such a disappointment
I loved watching his gun game videos back in like 2014/2015. I stopped because my interests changed over time, and I had no idea any of this was happening. Depressing indeed.
My own theory is that Kayrina took over his life; She seems like the type to do that kind of thing. You can tell by the way he was talking about her in his initial video that he was absolutely infatuated with her, as evident by the proposal two months later. She probably took advantage of this and told him to cut out everyone else from his life (as he mentions changes in priorities) and he of course listened because she has him wrapped around her finger tightly.
This guy wasn’t anyone’s friend he was using them while putting on a fake smile pretending to be their friend until he had no more use for them then he discarded them. It’s also possible that his girlfriend was just trying to completely take over his life & convinced him to cut all of his friends out of his life. & being the lonely vulnerable manipulatible online influencer that he is she’s completely gotten her nail hook’s right into his head & has convinced him to cut ties with everyone he knows that isn’t apart of his family..
@@bradleysublettsome ugly one too. No offense but like cmon dude. If ur gonna cut off all ur friends for a girl then atleast make sure she’s attractive
Shows how some pussy out there can change people for the worse. If your "girlfriend" is controlling your life and career then you need to get away and cut ties with her. The same should be said to idubbbz.
This is exactly like what happened with Idubbz and I personally knew a friend who as soon as he got into a relationship he stopped talking to everybody and it seemed like the chick was controlling everything in his life.
Recently happened to some friend I know who he and I would just share funny post to each other on instagram, and he recently got a gf and I noticed he blocked me on ig for some reason lol. I don't use social media or IG chronically besides messaging so I'm not really taking it personally because I'm just use to being f***ed over at this point by anyone lol
Even as a dude who never played much CoD or shooters in general when I was younger, i loved his channel. Enjoyed his chemistry with the others and enjoyed kind of over the top content creators back then. Probably 2014-2017. Crazy to see how far hes fallen, never heard about all this mess.
In Highschool I watched his stuff everyday more or less. I’m at uni now and my own person. While it’s sad and genuinely unsettling to see this, it’s actually a good lesson for the young guys who grew up watching Eric, to keep your friends close, be there for them and be mature with people you bring into your life. For me personally, if someone like Erik’s fiancée tries to inject themselves into my life, I know what it could possibly end up looking like. Something good to take from this sad outcome.
@@colonel1003 never subbed, just randomly had their videos recommended to me and watched a few of them, but had no idea about any of the things that were discussed in this video
I honestly think it just comes down to him not ever having a serious relationship before. The dude was in the honeymoon period and proposed like a dumbass
It's a damn shame. Subbed to his channel back in 2012, being his peak in 2013-2014. The chemistry that group had was something else. Erik, Mike, Jesse, Tina, Matt.. they were funny as fuck, but yeah, after all that, his channel literally went to shit. His solo content started being so dull
Yeah I stopped watching him when I first heard about how he treated his friends I really couldn't care less about his relationship that's none of my business but I won't support someone who treats their friends like literal shit
I watched his videos when I couldn’t afford an Xbox one but had a used 360. His bo3 on the Xbox 360 video made me love his vids and feel less shitty about being broke. Absolutely tragic to see his downfall
@@nd_kui1772 Basically, he uploaded a video where he sat down and let Kayrina put clown makeup on him just to play advanced warfare….to say the least, shit went WAYYY downhill from there lol It’s probably deleted because I can’t find the footage anywhere 🤦🏾♂️
It’s honesty sad how far down Erik has went over the recent years, surely it’s no coincidence that he meet someone who sought him out on Snapchat and within the short period of time that they were together, he decides to block all of his friends because of it, so surely it is no coincidence at all, and it’s most certainly connected, but it’s still sad to see, because even though he doesn’t talk about it, I feel like it might be one of those relationships were he just blindly follows whatever she says no matter how wrong or toxic it might be, or it may be the case of he scared to say something out of fear for himself or something else, whatever it may be, it’s sad to see what’s happened with him and his channel over the years and how he handled such things, hopefully we will eventually get a actual response from him other than just him ignoring everything about it outright, but I doubt we will get that
Tbh it sounds like she has a lot of control over him. I hate to be that person but if it was reversed people would be speculating about abuse. Its a common tactic for abusers to cut their partner off from family & friends & his blocking period for seemingly no reason is odd to say the least. The insistence that people defend his relationship also gives me abuse vibes. Maybe I'm wrong, hopefully I am but...yh
The worst thing Merk did to his friends is something that DID NOT have to happen. If he truly wanted to distance away from his friends like (for whatever weird reason) he would still keep in contact to some extent.
i was one of the many fans that got blocked by erik and kayrina because i called erik out for being a shit friend and kayrina out for basically controlling every aspect of his life, and that didn't sit well with me because they went from blocking their friends to blocking random fans across the world because of the actions they took. i watch him from time to time nowadays and i can confidently say that his videos are not what they used to be. the era from his og minecraft trolling videos all the way up to around infinite warfare was probably the funniest era he ever had. it's sad that we'll probably never get the whole crew back together, and it's also sad that he blocked the people that basically skyrocketed his channel but also fans who were calling him out for that behavior. great video man, keep it up
I walked into this video expecting to be a lazy piggyback off my video, seeing that the timing was weirdly coincidental. You exceeded my expectations and and took a different approach than what I did and I thank you for it. You could've easily just stolen my info and you didn't. You did your own research. Not saying I "pioneered" the topic, but you get what I mean. LOL. Thanks for the mention and I'd love to work with you sometime, if you'd be down. Thanks a lot and great work! 🎉
@@RaisinBranBoy Would love to know how/why it's weird. This video came out as mine was hitting the tail end of it's peak. Plus, I was literally mentioned in the beginning. It's weird to give kudos to a creator covering the same topic as you in a different and unique way? I think you're projecting ngl.
this is was we call in the industry, a dick move. blocking and shutting out your friends that helped you get you where you are in your career is never ok, especially without reason and over a girl you proposed to when you just met her not even a month. come on merk, you used to be cool.
It’s a shame, because he always had so many unique and reasonable opinions to share about every nook and cranny of every COD game, on top of having a very unique style of editing and really rapid-fire sense of humor. I used to love coming home from school and binge-watching his channel. But that was back in 2016.
I used to love his content. I used to watch him every day with my best friend. Even when we were kids, when he revealed that he proposed to his girlfriend only a month after they started dating (which was only mere weeks after he met her), my friend and I were both instantly skeptical saying stuff like "There's no way it's going to work out for him. She seems entirely overwhelmed by the whole thing." Who knew that the child fans knew the adult man was making a dumb decision.
Not only has he renamed old videos, he’s deleted many videos where he even so much talks to another girl, there was a cod ghosts gun game video where he spoke to a girl which is now deleted, and an advanced warfare one where he 1v1d a girl gamer, both great videos and now deleted.. shit like that proves it’s all kayrinas doing in my opinion
Kinda crazy I had completely forgotten that I used to watch this guy alongside watching theDooo, I don’t remember when or why I stopped I think I most likely forgot about him, never knew all this happen, what a shame
Yo this is just sad to hear never heard of him and I’m glad I haven’t because I don’t want to support someone who’s gonna just ghost his friends and be a jerk to them. But you Kluster your a w mans for making this video you’ve earn a subscription
This doesnt even scratch the surface of how and why I hate twitter so much, but ill never understand why these grown ass 'adults' cant just have these conversations in private like a normal human being, why do arguments like this keep needing to happen over their public twitter accounts infront of their entire public audience?!? Idgaf if you have a large following on some platform on the internet, a disagreement between you and your friends like this, does NOT need to sorted out while being broadcasted to the entire world. Might just be an age thing but this whole 'online personality' thing goes wayyy too far into peoples personal lives and ill never understand why people do this willingly
One hundred percent karyina is the reason. Sometimes the women you involve in your friend group can end it. I have had women that I dated and brought into the group and not more than three months in she causes a lot of drama and then wants to date my friends after we break up. While it isn’t a bad thing once we broke up it’s that fact it’s the day of. Meaning I made a mistake of dating a hoe. But even if that’s my mistake there’s just a reason guys only have friend group with guys only.
this one really hit hard. this dude legit forged my personality as a kid. it feels like his channel died with cod which also hurts cuz cod was my childhood. black ops 4 was the last one i even got past prestige 1 in so its been a while since i put time into it
Good vid. Been following Erik since like 2014, I miss the squad, especially tina. The team was really what made the channel for me as my interest in cod itself disappeared, so I've only recently watched him again starting from the rear end of 2023 since not doing so back in 2019. I still enjoy some of the content he makes, But Damn... what a falloff.
his career may have went down the toilet but if he did what was best for him and made him happy, and if he's still happy till this day then congrats to him. people tend to throw their happiness away for money or validation. even tho i think the friend situation is weird. no one is permanent not everyone in your life is meant to be there forever. hope erik made the best decision for him
I loved his infinite warfare videos. Continued then on, kind of slowed down watching his vids when he introduced kayrina. Even remember a video confronting haters of them both and got pretty emotional while doing it Didn’t know he had problems.
This was a grown man who acted like a middle school child, we loved it because we actually were middle school children at the time. The fact that someone like him would do some weirdo shit like this isn’t surprising at all.
at the end of the day whatever happened happened can’t change it, but it’s not really why his viewership dropped. people just grew up and his content isn’t for them anymore. i still watch his videos from time to time because of nostalgia
It was probably because of her as well that he changed the title of that video from ‘Tina’ to ‘It’. She wants him to fully fall out with his friends for good and to do that she’s manipulating him into saying awful things about them.
Kayrina was 1000% the downfall of his videos. Even though it looks like Erik changed titles, blocked friends, etc. I think Kayrina made him do it. She seemed so caught up in the internet hate and his friends "not publically supporting the relationship" that she made him block everyone who wasn't on her side. I think she also had a plan from the start to bag him for his money and fame on RUclips. Don't rush into a relationship kids. And don't marry fangirls.
I know it’s personal stuff but I really hope Erik addresses this in the future. It’s unlikely that he will but I hate how he just ignores everything related to this drama and acts like everything is fine when it’s clearly not. And honestly it just makes every recent video feel weird when comparing it to his older ones.
You say that yet he still pulls hundreds of thousands of views per video. Yeah his content switched up, yeah i miss the vids with his friends, but its still merk with his goofy funny personality. Bro still makes me laugh so im going to continue watching
The fact we saw him in real time get manipulated into all this makes me sad and a bit angry. He was doing so well for himself and he could still be doing it to this day but love. How love can ruin many many things
Idk, everyone loves getting into eriks personal life, while im over here still enjoying his vids, he plays with his friends and seems like his channel is doing well enough to support him financially. Doesnt seem like a dead career to me. Yall funny
Everytime I am sad I am not married I have to remind myself of people like Merk who get married to evil people and completely lose themselves for someone they think they love. When he is 40 and divorced I will not have pity for him.
Tina made him.. she was the glue that kept everything together, the day he pushed her away was the day we lost him. Tina was the heart and joy of that channel and to see her get refereed as an “IT”.. Tina was the lovable person we all adored. they were an idiotic duo of content. #TinaForever.
Not one of my favorite RUclipsrs but I’ve probably taken the most influence from him mainly from his editing/commentary style shame to see how much he’s fallen just cause he couldn’t balance relationships and work
This is CRAZY to me cause I’ve been watching his videos every so often. But it’s fucking nuts I haven’t heard of any of that drama with his girl. I remember watching the video about him going to meet his now wife I guess. And to hear all this other shit is just crazy to me ☠️
This is a clear situation of her brainwashing him. He’s a good dude & she’s probably the first relationship he’s ever had hence why he proposed after 2 months. She wants control, I’m sure she convinced him his friends were no good for him. I know she plays video games to, maybe she was jealous of the time Merk spent playin with his friends? Idk but he’s a good dude, such a shame.
You know his channel is doing poorly when you aren’t even averaging 2% corresponding to the number of subscribers. 4.07 million subs to only getting like 70k views is pisspoor.
Telling hackers to not scam kids to being the sad scammed kid himself poor lad I was a fan as a kid now I can't bare to look at the state of his channel
I'm pretty sure he announced he was going to be a dad but there's not been a video about it since and it don't even look like he's got a child as there would be alot of child stuff around his work area
wow merks a cuc for his woman marrying her after 2 months man she musta been in his head cause only woman wanna isolate you from your friends like that and tell you if oh were better off without them but they helped contribute to his success she even told twitter why merks friend cant be the best man at his wedding because her brother had stroke i get it thats pretty bad but i didn't know that makes you entitled personally i don't care but that crazy
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The fact that he made kayrina’s brother his best man over his longtime friend speaks volumes to the control that this woman has over him…it’s a damn shame
Or even his own brother
And then Kayrina tried to use the whole "my brother had a stroke, feel sorry for him" move and that's just infuriating
I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be watching a M3RKMUS1C downfall video.
Me too dude me too
@@kachow2143 it’s crazy cause I also stopped watching him when she started showing up. Maybe I contributed but his videos now are not the same it’s empty and lonely.
@@imicca no he's not lmao
same bro
@@imiccaThat's some bad copium bro
You date and immediately prepose to a fangirl you met online then your career goes down the toilet
REAL
Reminds me of another channel
which is sad cause its none of our business
🤨@@WhatWhatThats
He’s LITERALLY still one of THE biggest cod RUclipsrs on earth in terms of views
i knew merk's channel died when he got with his gf but damn i didnt know it got THAT bad to where he dropped all his friends
Sounds like what happened to any relationships when anyone got with Illuminate, a manipulative individual who never cared about her partners and deserved all the backlash she got.
Yea, it's actually funny this became a big thing. I remember seeing the first video on my feed and then seeing the toxic comments video, and along with some ppl making racist videos against his gf. Yt a few years back was wild AF
@@Spartan_Rage7can’t lie she do look like sponges mom XD… that’s sponge bob mom bro
He’s LITERALLY still one of THE biggest cod RUclipsrs on earth in terms of views
Calling tina "it" made my fucking blood boil. Erik is pathetic
You and me both, Tina was one of my favorite personalities on his channel.
Erik became the very thing he swore to destroy.
i believe people discovered that its a very high chance that it was his wife
@KingDame shut up bro ☝️🤓
@@Arnosticyour mother join. I love when she said that when they are playing Chinese cod.
Shit. This guy brought me out of one of the worst depressive episodes I've had in my life. Like, go to the hospital in isolation levels of bad. His videos were a highlight of my day and I genuinely enjoyed them. Yeah their pretty much... samey, but back then some form of consistency and unchanging stability is what I needed in some way. I moved on before this ever started happening or was even mentioned, but to look back and try to see someone that aided me in my worst time just... wreck and fall like this, it hurts. Hope wherever his creative work takes him, its up from where he is right now.
I understand wholeheartedly what you went through and what he brought to you.
im proud to see you standing brother
Man we were all in middle school 🤣
@@benjamingoodnight1025 I had a friend named Ben who also enjoyed Merks content.
How does watching cod meme videos help you? if only it were that simple.
damn that whole kayrina drama feels like it was yesterday lmao
easiest bag of her life. says 4 words to a man and then gets married to him. make no mistake, she's the reason his career died. not really because of her, but because of him. purposely distancing your day 1's after getting into a relationship, then eventually blocking them? dudes like this show their colors in the end; snakes. i've been on the receiving end of that before. i know how it is.
M3RKMUS1C used to be like, S tier level youtuber, his older content was absolutely goated. But this BS that he did with all his friends really killed it man, such a disappointment
I left before all of this drama... this is just depressing.
I loved watching his gun game videos back in like 2014/2015. I stopped because my interests changed over time, and I had no idea any of this was happening. Depressing indeed.
The gang's all here
My own theory is that Kayrina took over his life; She seems like the type to do that kind of thing.
You can tell by the way he was talking about her in his initial video that he was absolutely infatuated with her, as evident by the proposal two months later.
She probably took advantage of this and told him to cut out everyone else from his life (as he mentions changes in priorities) and he of course listened because she has him wrapped around her finger tightly.
Right and the annoying play voice, I haven’t seen his vids since WW2 so I’m not sure if it’s changed but you can just tell
This guy wasn’t anyone’s friend he was using them while putting on a fake smile pretending to be their friend until he had no more use for them then he discarded them.
It’s also possible that his girlfriend was just trying to completely take over his life & convinced him to cut all of his friends out of his life. & being the lonely vulnerable manipulatible online influencer that he is she’s completely gotten her nail hook’s right into his head & has convinced him to cut ties with everyone he knows that isn’t apart of his family..
yep, dude sold out for Pussy
yep, dude sold out for Pussy
yep, dude sold out for vagina, considering he wouldnt get any if he didnt LOL
@@bradleysublettsome ugly one too. No offense but like cmon dude. If ur gonna cut off all ur friends for a girl then atleast make sure she’s attractive
Shows how some pussy out there can change people for the worse. If your "girlfriend" is controlling your life and career then you need to get away and cut ties with her. The same should be said to idubbbz.
This is exactly like what happened with Idubbz and I personally knew a friend who as soon as he got into a relationship he stopped talking to everybody and it seemed like the chick was controlling everything in his life.
Happens more often than people think
Recently happened to some friend I know who he and I would just share funny post to each other on instagram, and he recently got a gf and I noticed he blocked me on ig for some reason lol. I don't use social media or IG chronically besides messaging so I'm not really taking it personally because I'm just use to being f***ed over at this point by anyone lol
Even as a dude who never played much CoD or shooters in general when I was younger, i loved his channel. Enjoyed his chemistry with the others and enjoyed kind of over the top content creators back then. Probably 2014-2017. Crazy to see how far hes fallen, never heard about all this mess.
In Highschool I watched his stuff everyday more or less. I’m at uni now and my own person. While it’s sad and genuinely unsettling to see this, it’s actually a good lesson for the young guys who grew up watching Eric, to keep your friends close, be there for them and be mature with people you bring into your life. For me personally, if someone like Erik’s fiancée tries to inject themselves into my life, I know what it could possibly end up looking like. Something good to take from this sad outcome.
I legit just discovered M3rk's channel a few days ago and now this gets recommended to me....
Did you sub? Are still subbed?
@@colonel1003 never subbed, just randomly had their videos recommended to me and watched a few of them, but had no idea about any of the things that were discussed in this video
@@social_exe oh
do what u want it aint that deep
@@rxvz663 didn't say nor imply that it was "that deep" my guy
His gf must've wanted to block all of Erik's friends since the beginning. Her idea, she kinda deserves it
I honestly think it just comes down to him not ever having a serious relationship before. The dude was in the honeymoon period and proposed like a dumbass
It's a damn shame. Subbed to his channel back in 2012, being his peak in 2013-2014. The chemistry that group had was something else. Erik, Mike, Jesse, Tina, Matt.. they were funny as fuck, but yeah, after all that, his channel literally went to shit. His solo content started being so dull
Bro broke the bro code in so many ways bruhhh
his “the brecci is back” video felt like an old video of his, felt nostalgic.
Now I Abhor it to my core.
Yea he has certain videos that do
Yeah I stopped watching him when I first heard about how he treated his friends I really couldn't care less about his relationship that's none of my business but I won't support someone who treats their friends like literal shit
I watched his videos when I couldn’t afford an Xbox one but had a used 360. His bo3 on the Xbox 360 video made me love his vids and feel less shitty about being broke.
Absolutely tragic to see his downfall
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the clown video 💀 I felt like that was the moment when shit really hit the fan LMAO
What’s the clown vid? 💀
@@nd_kui1772 Basically, he uploaded a video where he sat down and let Kayrina put clown makeup on him just to play advanced warfare….to say the least, shit went WAYYY downhill from there lol
It’s probably deleted because I can’t find the footage anywhere 🤦🏾♂️
@@nd_kui1772I’m pretty sure it’s the video where she does clown makeup on him
the clown vid?
his friends made his videos so much better so sad to see him fall
"The former RUclipsr, Eight Thoughts" lmao
😂😂😂
It’s honesty sad how far down Erik has went over the recent years, surely it’s no coincidence that he meet someone who sought him out on Snapchat and within the short period of time that they were together, he decides to block all of his friends because of it, so surely it is no coincidence at all, and it’s most certainly connected, but it’s still sad to see, because even though he doesn’t talk about it, I feel like it might be one of those relationships were he just blindly follows whatever she says no matter how wrong or toxic it might be, or it may be the case of he scared to say something out of fear for himself or something else, whatever it may be, it’s sad to see what’s happened with him and his channel over the years and how he handled such things, hopefully we will eventually get a actual response from him other than just him ignoring everything about it outright, but I doubt we will get that
Tbh it sounds like she has a lot of control over him. I hate to be that person but if it was reversed people would be speculating about abuse. Its a common tactic for abusers to cut their partner off from family & friends & his blocking period for seemingly no reason is odd to say the least.
The insistence that people defend his relationship also gives me abuse vibes. Maybe I'm wrong, hopefully I am but...yh
The worst thing Merk did to his friends is something that DID NOT have to happen. If he truly wanted to distance away from his friends like (for whatever weird reason) he would still keep in contact to some extent.
Rip eight thoughts I can still hear your ghost sometimes
i was one of the many fans that got blocked by erik and kayrina because i called erik out for being a shit friend and kayrina out for basically controlling every aspect of his life, and that didn't sit well with me because they went from blocking their friends to blocking random fans across the world because of the actions they took. i watch him from time to time nowadays and i can confidently say that his videos are not what they used to be. the era from his og minecraft trolling videos all the way up to around infinite warfare was probably the funniest era he ever had. it's sad that we'll probably never get the whole crew back together, and it's also sad that he blocked the people that basically skyrocketed his channel but also fans who were calling him out for that behavior. great video man, keep it up
its a damn shame
I walked into this video expecting to be a lazy piggyback off my video, seeing that the timing was weirdly coincidental.
You exceeded my expectations and and took a different approach than what I did and I thank you for it. You could've easily just stolen my info and you didn't. You did your own research. Not saying I "pioneered" the topic, but you get what I mean. LOL.
Thanks for the mention and I'd love to work with you sometime, if you'd be down.
Thanks a lot and great work! 🎉
Weird comment bro ngl
@@RaisinBranBoy Would love to know how/why it's weird. This video came out as mine was hitting the tail end of it's peak. Plus, I was literally mentioned in the beginning.
It's weird to give kudos to a creator covering the same topic as you in a different and unique way? I think you're projecting ngl.
this is was we call in the industry, a dick move. blocking and shutting out your friends that helped you get you where you are in your career is never ok, especially without reason and over a girl you proposed to when you just met her not even a month. come on merk, you used to be cool.
It’s a shame, because he always had so many unique and reasonable opinions to share about every nook and cranny of every COD game, on top of having a very unique style of editing and really rapid-fire sense of humor. I used to love coming home from school and binge-watching his channel. But that was back in 2016.
the OG simp
The OD simp
I used to love his content. I used to watch him every day with my best friend. Even when we were kids, when he revealed that he proposed to his girlfriend only a month after they started dating (which was only mere weeks after he met her), my friend and I were both instantly skeptical saying stuff like "There's no way it's going to work out for him. She seems entirely overwhelmed by the whole thing."
Who knew that the child fans knew the adult man was making a dumb decision.
Not only has he renamed old videos, he’s deleted many videos where he even so much talks to another girl, there was a cod ghosts gun game video where he spoke to a girl which is now deleted, and an advanced warfare one where he 1v1d a girl gamer, both great videos and now deleted.. shit like that proves it’s all kayrinas doing in my opinion
His wife is the problem his brainwashed
It breaks my heart honestly
I just remembered him out of no where today and it made me sad again
Kinda crazy I had completely forgotten that I used to watch this guy alongside watching theDooo, I don’t remember when or why I stopped I think I most likely forgot about him, never knew all this happen, what a shame
Yo this is just sad to hear never heard of him and I’m glad I haven’t because I don’t want to support someone who’s gonna just ghost his friends and be a jerk to them. But you Kluster your a w mans for making this video you’ve earn a subscription
This doesnt even scratch the surface of how and why I hate twitter so much, but ill never understand why these grown ass 'adults' cant just have these conversations in private like a normal human being, why do arguments like this keep needing to happen over their public twitter accounts infront of their entire public audience?!? Idgaf if you have a large following on some platform on the internet, a disagreement between you and your friends like this, does NOT need to sorted out while being broadcasted to the entire world. Might just be an age thing but this whole 'online personality' thing goes wayyy too far into peoples personal lives and ill never understand why people do this willingly
One hundred percent karyina is the reason. Sometimes the women you involve in your friend group can end it. I have had women that I dated and brought into the group and not more than three months in she causes a lot of drama and then wants to date my friends after we break up. While it isn’t a bad thing once we broke up it’s that fact it’s the day of. Meaning I made a mistake of dating a hoe. But even if that’s my mistake there’s just a reason guys only have friend group with guys only.
Bro I’ve legit binged your content 😮
Honestly, it's sad to see someone who brought so much joy to others fall from grace. Hope he finds his way back.
this one really hit hard. this dude legit forged my personality as a kid. it feels like his channel died with cod which also hurts cuz cod was my childhood. black ops 4 was the last one i even got past prestige 1 in so its been a while since i put time into it
Good vid. Been following Erik since like 2014, I miss the squad, especially tina. The team was really what made the channel for me as my interest in cod itself disappeared, so I've only recently watched him again starting from the rear end of 2023 since not doing so back in 2019. I still enjoy some of the content he makes, But Damn... what a falloff.
“dont take al my candles men”
Dude went from a 4 man feed god, to a cold blooded simp..
I miss the old Erik 🙁
it’s sad, merk and his crew were up there with the vanoss crew and kyr speedy and his friends for me
Yep his vids back then were so good and funny asf
his career may have went down the toilet but if he did what was best for him and made him happy, and if he's still happy till this day then congrats to him. people tend to throw their happiness away for money or validation. even tho i think the friend situation is weird. no one is permanent not everyone in your life is meant to be there forever. hope erik made the best decision for him
8:45 SWAPPING OUT SOMEBODY’S NAME FOR “it” IS CRAZY😭😭😭
I still watch Merck all the time, he isnt completely dead
I loved his infinite warfare videos. Continued then on, kind of slowed down watching his vids when he introduced kayrina. Even remember a video confronting haters of them both and got pretty emotional while doing it
Didn’t know he had problems.
This was a grown man who acted like a middle school child, we loved it because we actually were middle school children at the time. The fact that someone like him would do some weirdo shit like this isn’t surprising at all.
It's sad to see how crazy he's become
His Minecraft videos were my childhood. So sad to see him go like this.
Thank you I've been waiting for so many people to do this video I love you so much I just subscribed and I will be watching your videos forever now
at the end of the day whatever happened happened can’t change it, but it’s not really why his viewership dropped. people just grew up and his content isn’t for them anymore. i still watch his videos from time to time because of nostalgia
I loved his content but his personality took a nose dive when he met this girl she’s the worst thing that ever happened to him
RIP good old Days..
Aw man I used to love watching him haven’t kept track of him for a while. Gonna hurt seeing what happened to him.
Kayrina, the succubus
his wife began the downfall
His gf is the reason for his downfall.. i guarantee she manipulated him to block all his friends on everything and never looked back
It was probably because of her as well that he changed the title of that video from ‘Tina’ to ‘It’. She wants him to fully fall out with his friends for good and to do that she’s manipulating him into saying awful things about them.
i still really enjoy his content. great video tho! you deserve more subs
Dude. I love merkmusic. But I can’t watch his new videos now 😭
I know, they’re so boring. I’d have more fun watching Spider-Man: Lotus 😂
One of my all time greats. I hope to adapt his style one day, this dude changed the game
his videos entertain me sometimes but it definitely isn't the same as it was, i'm still disappointed in what he's done
Kayrina was 1000% the downfall of his videos. Even though it looks like Erik changed titles, blocked friends, etc. I think Kayrina made him do it. She seemed so caught up in the internet hate and his friends "not publically supporting the relationship" that she made him block everyone who wasn't on her side. I think she also had a plan from the start to bag him for his money and fame on RUclips.
Don't rush into a relationship kids. And don't marry fangirls.
It’s was his videos and his personality during the videos were shit
The Fallen Floridian Man, Erik of M3RKMUSIC
I remember all of this playing out when I was subscribed to him it was truly unfortunate 😔
I know it’s personal stuff but I really hope Erik addresses this in the future. It’s unlikely that he will but I hate how he just ignores everything related to this drama and acts like everything is fine when it’s clearly not. And honestly it just makes every recent video feel weird when comparing it to his older ones.
You say that yet he still pulls hundreds of thousands of views per video. Yeah his content switched up, yeah i miss the vids with his friends, but its still merk with his goofy funny personality. Bro still makes me laugh so im going to continue watching
its just so sad seeing Eriks channel go down the drain man.
The fact we saw him in real time get manipulated into all this makes me sad and a bit angry. He was doing so well for himself and he could still be doing it to this day but love. How love can ruin many many things
She doesn’t love him, she loves being able to control him so easily
Idk, everyone loves getting into eriks personal life, while im over here still enjoying his vids, he plays with his friends and seems like his channel is doing well enough to support him financially. Doesnt seem like a dead career to me. Yall funny
Everytime I am sad I am not married I have to remind myself of people like Merk who get married to evil people and completely lose themselves for someone they think they love.
When he is 40 and divorced I will not have pity for him.
Tina made him.. she was the glue that kept everything together, the day he pushed her away was the day we lost him. Tina was the heart and joy of that channel and to see her get refereed as an “IT”.. Tina was the lovable person we all adored. they were an idiotic duo of content. #TinaForever.
Bro got married the same day he met her irl 😂
Not one of my favorite RUclipsrs but I’ve probably taken the most influence from him mainly from his editing/commentary style shame to see how much he’s fallen just cause he couldn’t balance relationships and work
M3RK was literally the only cod RUclipsr I watched.
That had to be his first latina or exotic female. Know way you got trapped like that 😂
shame i loved his cod 4 remastered vids they even got like 400k per upload it was crazy
This is CRAZY to me cause I’ve been watching his videos every so often. But it’s fucking nuts I haven’t heard of any of that drama with his girl. I remember watching the video about him going to meet his now wife I guess. And to hear all this other shit is just crazy to me ☠️
Can't believe this happened bro
crazy how after that break he never came back the same
I haven't watched yet but it died when he got married
Bro got got by the chicken butt.
This is a clear situation of her brainwashing him. He’s a good dude & she’s probably the first relationship he’s ever had hence why he proposed after 2 months. She wants control, I’m sure she convinced him his friends were no good for him. I know she plays video games to, maybe she was jealous of the time Merk spent playin with his friends? Idk but he’s a good dude, such a shame.
The fact that he publicly got upset about rude comments is just what a silly billy does.
Erik became the thing he said to destroy😢
Damnnn wasn't expecting this
You know his channel is doing poorly when you aren’t even averaging 2% corresponding to the number of subscribers. 4.07 million subs to only getting like 70k views is pisspoor.
It was just so bizzare to me why he even felt the need to make a video showing off his new girlfriend in the first place, keep that shit private
Telling hackers to not scam kids to being the sad scammed kid himself poor lad I was a fan as a kid now I can't bare to look at the state of his channel
Dude same. Started watching him since his R70 Ajax video in bo3. Cant stand his stale personality in his videos now
I'm pretty sure he announced he was going to be a dad but there's not been a video about it since and it don't even look like he's got a child as there would be alot of child stuff around his work area
He reminds me of KYRSP33DY and his crew. They used to rule RUclips around the time of GTA4 and now they’re all gone or haven’t moved on at all
bro broke the bro code and thats unforgivable
Wishing the worst for his marriage, so he'll come crawling back.
wow merks a cuc for his woman marrying her after 2 months man she musta been in his head cause only woman wanna isolate you from your friends like that and tell you if oh were better off without them but they helped contribute to his success she even told twitter why merks friend cant be the best man at his wedding because her brother had stroke i get it thats pretty bad but i didn't know that makes you entitled personally i don't care but that crazy
Reminds me of another content creator that got a girlfriend then fallen off right after that