This was incredibly well done. Every time I see video's like this, I always look back to the old servers I used to practically live in, day in and out, as a teen on TF2, and every time I think that. Just imagine, all the people that would of once played on it, the RP server live and vibrant, a T-Pose heavy sliding around as a hitman, or a spy whose trying to sell you illegal baguette's. Anything like that. The servers that are kept up for the sake of it, and the people that still, to this day, will hold get togethers no matter how big or small, to just at least try to grab hold of those old days for even a few fleeting moments. We all have stories, and if only every server like those could just talk, only god knows what cool, funny, or downright TF2-ish shenanigans, it would tell. A single, vibing, server owner on their own, just playing some music and relaxing in dreamscapes, welcoming in anyone who would like to have a bit of fun for the hour or two, before they take off once more. Makes you think of all the things you've experienced over the years, and maybe the server or two that you used to love, now but a distant, but sweet, memory of maybe better years. And how, empty servers like that, are the same for goodness knows how many others. Their exactly like time capsules, unwilling to speak, but more than willing to let in just one more player if not for the day. I love this stuff, I truly do. Makes me evermore proud to of played this game for so long, and happy to be part of the community.
Will never forget the server I used to live in, at least 6 hours a day back when I was a teen. All the friends, joke, disputes, drama and laughs. It feels so weird that those moments are gone forever, it feels like I can just go to the pc and join, but it has been 5 years since it closed.
Very nostalgic, I used to play on a trade server w a bunch of ppl where I went from taking an insta pic of my first strange enforcer I bought for 55 cents, to getting my first set of professional kill streaks, I would duel the annoying ppl on voice chat and trolls and would always win bc I played all the time as a teen, (tons of practice w noobs), and I had added all the regulars as friends and we’d get together to play mvm. I was like 15, and they were all probably my ages or slightly older but I’ll always remember it vividly and fondly. i probably got my personality from ppl there lol
shit you got me reminiscing, but yea. I had a really dingy laptop that I used Chris maxframes to play, so I got gud Lenny face (I even had this key bind 🤦♂️”
I don't know what it is, but source maps that are empty kinda like Gmod community maps feels so, weird, nostalgic and scary even, like you'd obviously know it's tons of fun when people are around but when you're alone in there it's just....surreal
I think it's kinda because your brain connects these source maps with fun,loud,chaotic experiences and when they are empty your brain feels like something is off.
Not gonna lie, this sounds like a pretty interesting writing prompt for some fictional deity who has been forgotten and has gradually become isolated due to nobody interacting with it. Not angry or anything when people DO arrive, just sorta vibing in their own reality and then being surprised when anyone turns up.
he's quite the personality from what i've seen about him. from very experienced trader to banned from a server for extreme reasons. all this comes back to his fever dream of maps that he lives in
3:14 for anyone wondering, that's based on "The enigma of Amigara fault", a short story by Junji Ito (the dude that made the scary spiral manga) and it's basically about a mountain that got "cut open" in two and those humanoid shapes appeared on the wall of it, and people who look at them feel the urge to get inside and get lost deep into the mountain's tight holes
To give more info, the holes were all in the shapes of different people, and when someone finds their hole, they come with an ever growing urge to fit inside in it, front first. Once in they would slowly get sucked inside and, in the complete dark, would lose all sense of space and time. At the end of the story another cut would open in another mountain (shown in the video after that), where similar holes would be discovered, albeit not human shapen, but very twisted, and the last scene is something coming out of these new holes (presumably the ones who entered from the other side)
As a final context, it became popular in 4chan's /a/ because it became a meme. It showed one of the nerdier looking people entering a human hole in the mountain while screaming "This hole! It was made for me!" while underneath is captioned 4chan. Because we know this place is a shithole, and it was made for us.
And the curious thing is there are countless more of them made over the last two decades or so. So many time capsules, internet archeologists are probably having a fun time with all these digital leftovers
Definitely, and there's a huge impact on the lonely feeling if its made to feel lonely, or if its actually forgotten (like the empty source map phenomena)
Very glad RU-vid recommended this. Very good quality video that was definitely entertaining. Keep it up, man, and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
The trade_delirium map has many references to the cult classic movie "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Really cool seeing this sort of stuff in a TF2 map!
Empty servers that resemble places of human congregation is what is known as a "liminal space". You can see them in real life such as recently abandoned malls or hospitals, anywhere that it is supposed to host people and _looks_ like it is clean enough to do, _but nobody is there._ The reason such a fear exists is IMO a double: For one, it heightens the senses as part of your mind keeps telling you to expect anyone to show up, while the other remind you that you're alone. The other one comes from that last realization, _feeling that you were left behind by everyone else and now you're alone forever._ It plays in our own fear of being abandoned by those we love and care about. The fear only heightens with background music or worse, _random human sounds or footsteps._ Keeps messing with your sense of reality. That's why I think the last server is the scariest one, not only there isn't anyone there, _it is forgotten so nobody else is going to show up._ And the feeling is worse when you read that there used to be people there, those that cared enough to spend enough time to "buy" a place of residence there, furnish it, and then emblazon their names into them forever. *Feel the pain.*
Well, it's definitely gonna be remembered again, if anyone who used to play on it, watched this video. And it's possible that the server started having people play on it again, soon after this video went up. So yeah, it was forgotten for a while. But I doubt it'll be forgotten again. Or at least not completely, since 15,000+ people were made aware of it's existence, when watching the video. Plus, people will occasionally return to this video every so often. So even if some people forgot about it again. They'd eventually be reminded of it again, after returning to this video at some point
Dice's Fun Room seemed so interesting, sorely saddened when I read the description. Wonder what he would've said if his server had gotten populated by your viewers. Edit: Description used to say the server disappeared so my comment became irrelevant and then relevant again by accident because of the new text lol
I've been playing TF2 from 2010 until now, and it makes me really, really happy to see a video like this. Do more of this kind of stuff and keep improving on it, it's honestly humble youtubers like you that keep this game alive. Thank you.
I just want the dodgeball servers back up, having swagged up pyros flexing their items and airblast skills was the only reason I kept playing for a long time
That 'game with round cat' is night in the woods, im seeing more referances to it these days, its really cool because its actually my favourite game ever basically.
@@reinweissritter yes it is. Unfortunatly. I dont know the ins and outs of it but alec was genuinley passionate about the game and his legacy lives on through it. The games message is literally about moving on. Its a tradgety that it happend but it is still considered a very good game.
@@reinweissritter has the story really warped that badly? alec's suicide had nothing to do with the nitw development. that stemmed from a different project he was on. and that was because he was outted as a serial abuser.
I've seen the first two (three) maps covered by Big Joey and Great Blue before, but it never gets old seeing someone else cover them as such maps are so bizarre that everyone reacts differently to them and will notice other details. Vibe of the second section is pretty cool but some of the stuff I've seen in it kills that and makes me worry about the map maker. Straight up source engine backrooms looking maps like the last are downright spooky.
At this point I've gotten over the creep that can come with Source sometimes and I just absorb the charm. I hope Source 2 can capture the same feelings and freedoms that Source did.
12:05 Holy shiet that is really neat, this entire trippy section are basically set pieces of the movie ''The Holy Mountain'' by Andrew Jodorowsky, I recommend it to anyone but I warn you, its one hell of a trip, im amazed that someone made this in tf2 and kudos to the server host for being a man of culture.
It's sad that 99% of the people here don't understand even half of the Desuroom memes. Also, the name is a meme in itself, there's an anime called Rozen Maiden where this character (the one anime girl with the green dress at the ground floor) spams "Desu" (hard to explain what it means but it's basically just a filler word outside of specific situations) the whole time and so it became a meme.
There used to be an abandoned server i constantly went on because it had a list of old creative custom maps. Only once did a single person other than me join. It's gone now. I miss that server, and the maps that it carried.
7:35 Considering that the map there (harbl_hotel) was originally made for Counter-Strike (Don't remember if it was Source or 1.6) back in Mid-Late 2006, so it's not unreasonable to say that map is actually older than them.
"Like I don't even know who these people are." -man staring at a picture of Masahiro Sakurai, the world renowned creator of Kirby and the Smash Bros series Edit: Good Lord I was not expecting to see Yellow Dice materialize somewhere outside of the hat community. Context for that guy, he did some real nasty stuff and used to hack in the hat in time online party mode and made a bunch of really gross/edgy/inappropriate mods. Last I heard he was the first person to ever receive a full scale online party ban.
@@parkeriv yeah he was bad news. He used to use this hacked client to stick himself onto other players to harass them, also used a text chat mod that was against the workshop terms. I've been told he said some... rather unsavory things through it, though I don't have the actual screenshots.
Community servers are truly abstract. I never really understood the concept of friendlies in TF2. It's funny to conga once in a while but doing this stuff longer term gets boring very quickly for me, yet there are people that spend countless hours alone in a server doing absolutely nothing but kazotsky in a corner of a map. I used to hop on jailbreak servers once a day or two and there would aleays be this almost dead server with little to no players and there was this guy who had almost always like around 9-11 hours in this server and he wasn't even afk 95% of the time. I once played with him on a weekend and I logged off after quite some time saying that I need to go to bed as it was 4 AM and he said that he will play for a couple more hours. No we were not from different time zones. We were both from middle EU and I don't know if he still plays on this server or even plays TF2. The legends say that he still plays on it till this day. Anyways this video brought some old memories back and I really liked it.
@@tophonator great! looking foward to it, Ive been thirsting for some good content on youtube, but none of the other youtubers I watch seem to be uploading as consistently anymore, keep up the good work!
@@catmaksimus Right? He feels like that odd kid you meet when visiting your aunt in her remote village, become best friends for a day and never hear of them again.
He was super interesting, wherever I'd be he would just come and find me and play around, but I see what you mean! It is quite daunting just finding him alone there
Dice's server seems like an absolute banger. I liked the fact that at first you couldn't tell if he was an NPC or a bot, or really just a guy who spends all his time there waiting for people to spook them, but is actually pretty chill.
@@tophonator I hope someday the newer generation get to experience this all over again, then they can get together and discuss their memories about games
@@tappajaav yea but it won't be the same, like if we all started watching old PewDiePie, we would be able to have that feeling of nostalgia, but since I never had played gmod when I was younger I won't feel that nostalgia
Almost 2 years ago there was a server I played on. It was a 2fort server, and I can't remember the original name because it got remade and was renamed to Cabin5. There used to be a few people I consistently met on it, and we always argued but in a funny way. There was also a Discord server briefly but it got shut down. Then one day the server disappeared without a trace. I miss it but I still have some clips from it and I'll always remember it.
This was a great videos. Stuff like this reminds you just how big the Internet is with millions upon millions of communities with their own history and culture. Some are lost to time-artifacts of an Internet long past but some are still around. Here’s hoping this video gives life to some old communities!
That second map in Dice's Fun Server section (I forgot it's name) is actually a recreation of the film 'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Very cool film, very trippy, very good watch.
I always love source map exploration videos. Something about them is always so calming yet at the same time unnerving. No matter what background music you put, no matter how often you talk it always seems so quiet.
Gotta say, the effort that some of these servers have in them is incredible. I am glad the 4Chan one died down a little bit though... considering it's 4Chan.
This is amazing! I occasionally dipped into these custom servers back in the day and while some where tame, some full recreations of other games and others just utterly bizzare for the heck of it they all are amazing and showed how creative and weird or community was back in the day.😊 thank you.
I find the stuff mad interesting because these old maps of like the mid 2000s just give off this vibe. this was some kids prized possession they showed this friends saying “look at this map I made this is awesome” and now it’s lost to time. That kid is probably now an adult. Its a surreal look back at the way Internet culture was before.
11:25 Got to know that map thanks to "Wolves Den" server, they still run it from time to time. To this date I still don't get what's up with the glaceons in it, but that is also a testament of the genius madness behind it's creation.
when i saw the thumbnail when I glanced (why did i use glanced lmao) at the black (no racism) guy I thought it waas James Elliot from Murder Drones (youtube indie show) lmao
I once stumbled across an empty server, late at night titled "The shit shack". It was a poorly lit enclosed KOTH map which had some mildly explicit images plastered onto every wall. Wasn't too bad but still made me a lil' uneasy.
fun fact! 3:17 to 3:25 is a reference to a very creepy comic called "Enigma of Amigara Fault", i don't recommend reading this comic if you get scared easily, it will absolutely give you nightmares if you read it, but still, the comic is really good.
I think youtube mobile app deleted my own comment for no fucking reason so I'll repeat what I said in my other comment that I cant find even though I made it 1 minute ago: it became empty because to do anything there has to be a Cop player online and on the Cop team doing Cop things, and if you die or get arrested you lose all of your very expensive guns so it felt pointless to a lot of players and they quit going to the server
