In 2011, a German content creator began his career on YouTube, but it was not as unintended as initially suspected. It had been planned for some time, and the former YouTuber and Twitch streamer Ungespielt, known as “Unge,” was involved.
Who is it about? YouTuber Felix “Rotpilz” has over 620,000 subscribers on YouTube. He started his YouTube channel about 12 years ago with content related to the game Minecraft, around the time when other German YouTubers were also experiencing their first hype, such as Felix “Dner” from der Laden or Simon “Ungespielt” Unge.
Rotpilz was able to achieve a rocket start with his channel. It seemed coincidental at the time, but after a 3-year YouTube break, the YouTuber now clarifies the story behind his success in his latest video.
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“No one ever questioned it”
This is how Rotpilz became known through Unge: Rotpilz had early connections to the YouTuber Ungespielt. Unge built his YouTube career in the 2010s and primarily played Minecraft. Rotpilz got connected with Unge through the YouTuber “Justin” and became friends with him.
Rotpilz himself also had a channel back then: “FelixHardyGames.” However, it was not very successful, and Unge saw an opportunity to give his buddy a proper boost in reach.
In his then Minecraft project “MEGAPROJEKT,” Unge played together with other YouTubers. In his Minecraft house, there was a red mushroom that he had set up as decoration, but it quickly became a kind of character of its own.
In one of his videos, Unge posed the following challenge to his viewers: Whoever created a YouTube channel named “Rotpilz” first would be subscribed to by the YouTuber. That person would also be allowed to participate in the project.
However, the channel had already been created together by Felix and Unge, so no one could be faster. Felix started creating his own Minecraft content with his YouTube account Rotpilz. His first video was a commentless Minecraft gameplay aiming to create an exciting build-up.
Rotpilz himself says today: “How could a hype possibly emerge from that back then?” (Source: YouTube).
This is how things progressed with Unge and Rotpilz: Eventually, Rotpilz streamed live himself and was on a server with Unge and other YouTubers. He intended to intentionally irritate other players and repeatedly killed Unge in Minecraft.
Unge pretended to be annoyed, but the encounter was not coincidental; it was completely planned. Eventually, Rotpilz “revealed” himself as Rotpilz, and Unge played surprised. Rotpilz said about this:
“I took the video offline a long time ago because it’s the worst acting ever. I have no idea why people bought it back then. No one ever questioned it.”
(Source: YouTube)
You can watch the video here on YouTube:
Just a month later, Rotpilz already had over 30,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and went to gamescom to sign autographs. After that, more Minecraft projects followed, such as Minecraft Hero or Craftattack, of which Rotpilz is one of the founding members.
Rotpilz has now announced his comeback and wants to produce content again in the future. The German YouTuber Julien Bam, on the other hand, has declared the work on one of his YouTube channels finished, so he can finally take care of other things in his life: After over 5 years, YouTuber Julien Bam ends his biggest project, can finally take care of his pool
