How M3RKMUS1C's Career Died

Summary

The video explores the dramatic fall of MK music/Eric, a once-popular Call of Duty YouTuber. His channel's popularity plummeted due to a series of events starting with his sudden engagement to Karina, which his audience disapproved. The couple faced backlash, leading to Eric's hiatus. In 2020, ex-friends accused him of cutting ties without explanation. The channel's decline is attributed to stale content and the loss of his charismatic friends, who were key to his former success.

Takeaways

• 🎮 MK music/Eric was a popular Call of Duty YouTuber with up to 2 million views per video at his peak.
• 👥 Eric's channel thrived due to his engaging personality, editing skills, and the chemistry with his crew members.
• 📉 In 2018, Eric's channel began to decline after he introduced his girlfriend Karina to his audience, leading to a drop in views.
• 💔 The audience's negative reaction to Karina and their quick engagement decision sparked controversy and criticism.
• 💬 Eric defended his relationship with Karina in a video titled 'reacting to toxic comments', addressing the hate they received.
• 🚫 In response to the backlash, Eric took a break from YouTube in May, citing mental, physical, and creative exhaustion.
• 🗣️ In 2020, Eric's ex-friends accused him and Karina of unfollowing and blocking them without explanation, leading to further drama.
• 💔 Karina responded to the accusations on Twitter, denying the lies but confirming that the best man was changed from Andrew to her brother.
• 📉 Eric's channel continued to decline as he removed videos featuring his ex-friends and failed to adapt his content to changing trends.
• 🔄 The stagnation in content variety and format, along with the controversy, contributed to the downfall of Eric's YouTube career.

Q & A

What was the peak popularity of MK music/Eric's Call of Duty channel?

At his peak, MK music/Eric's Call of Duty channel was receiving 2 million views per video.

What contributed to the initial popularity of Eric's channel?

The initial popularity of Eric's channel was due to his personality, editing skills, and the chemistry among his crew members, which included Mark Rampage, Andrew, She, Knives, Omar, and others.

What event in 2018 marked the beginning of Eric's downfall?

The downfall began in 2018 when Eric uploaded a video titled 'meet my girlfriend Karina' on January 30th, where he discussed meeting a girl on Snapchat and his plans to visit her.

How did Eric's audience react to the news of his engagement and his girlfriend moving in?

Many viewers disagreed with Eric's decision to marry Karina after only knowing her for a couple of months, with some expressing their disapproval in the comments.

What was the title of the video where Eric addressed the negative comments about his girlfriend?

Eric addressed the negative comments in a video titled 'reacting to toxic comments'.

Why did Eric decide to take a break from YouTube in May?

Eric decided to take a break from YouTube due to being mentally, physically, and creatively exhausted from prioritizing YouTube over other aspects of his life.

What did Eric's ex-friends reveal on Twitter about their relationship with him in 2020?

In 2020, Eric's ex-friends revealed on Twitter that they had been unfollowed and blocked by Eric and his girlfriend Karina on all platforms, and that they were no longer involved in his videos or life.

What was the reason given by Karina for blocking Ben?

Karina stated that Ben was blocked because he did not publicly support their relationship.

How did Eric respond to the drama involving his ex-friends?

Eric did not directly respond to the tweets from his ex-friends, but he started removing videos featuring them and retitled others to exclude their names.

What is believed to be the main reason for the decline of Eric's YouTube career?

The main reason for the decline of Eric's YouTube career is believed to be a combination of his friends no longer being featured in his videos and the stagnation in his content format and focus on the declining Call of Duty series.

Outlines

00:00

📉 The Downfall of MK Music's Popularity

MK Music, a Call of Duty YouTuber, experienced a significant drop in viewership from 2 million views per video to barely reaching 100,000. His channel's initial popularity was attributed to his charismatic personality, engaging editing, and a close-knit crew featuring members like Mark Rampage, Andrew, and Omar. However, by 2024, these crew members were absent from his videos. The decline began in 2018 when MK Music uploaded a video introducing his girlfriend Karina, whom he met on Snapchat. He excitedly shared his plans to visit her in Washington and expressed his readiness to commit to her. Despite some fans disapproving of their rapid engagement, MK Music defended their relationship in subsequent videos. The situation escalated when he addressed toxic comments about Karina in a video, reacting negatively to the hate they received. This led to a backlash from his audience, who disliked the new content featuring Karina. The channel's dynamics changed, and the original crew's absence, along with the audience's disapproval of the new direction, contributed to the downfall in views.

05:01

💔 The Fading Friendships and Growing Distance

In September 2020, several of MK Music's former friends, including Merk Rampage, Andrew, and Ben, took to Twitter to express their side of the story regarding their estrangement from MK Music and his girlfriend Karina. They revealed that they had been unfollowed and blocked on all platforms without explanation, making it difficult to communicate. Merk Rampage expressed disappointment, having supported MK Music for years, while Andrew shared his hurt over being excluded from the wedding party despite initial invitations. Ben was particularly upset, feeling that MK Music had changed after getting engaged and that he was blocked for not publicly supporting MK Music and Karina's relationship. Karina responded on Twitter, denying the accusations but inadvertently confirming that there was a change in the best man plans. The situation highlighted a growing distance between MK Music and his friends, with MK Music removing videos featuring them and re-titling others to exclude their names. The paragraph suggests that the friendships had naturally faded due to busy lives, but the mutual unfollowing and blocking remain unexplained.

10:02

📉 Stagnation and Decline in Content

The final paragraph discusses the factors contributing to the decline of MK Music's YouTube career. One significant factor was the absence of his friends, who had previously contributed to the engaging banter and chemistry in his videos. The paragraph also points out that MK Music had been uploading the same type of content for years, which failed to evolve with the changing interests of his audience. As the Call of Duty series' popularity waned, his channel suffered. Additionally, he was criticized for using outdated content formats and thumbnails, and for making videos on older games like Advanced Warfare, which did not resonate with the current YouTube audience. The paragraph concludes that to succeed on YouTube, content must adapt to current trends, or it will become outdated and lose its appeal.

Keywords

💡MK music/ Eric

MK music/ Eric refers to a YouTuber who was known for his Call of Duty content. The channel experienced a significant decline in viewership, which is the central theme of the video. The script explores the factors contributing to this downfall, such as changes in content and personal relationships.

💡Call of Duty

Call of Duty is a popular first-person shooter video game franchise that serves as the main content focus for MK music/ Eric's channel. The decline in the series' popularity is suggested as a contributing factor to the channel's downfall, as viewership preferences shift.

💡Personality

Personality, in this context, refers to the unique characteristics and charm that MK music/ Eric and his crew brought to their videos, which initially contributed to the channel's popularity. The script implies that changes in Eric's personal life may have affected this aspect of his content.

💡Crew

Crew refers to the group of individuals who regularly appeared alongside MK music/ Eric in his videos, contributing to the chemistry and entertainment value. The departure of these crew members is highlighted as a pivotal moment in the channel's decline.

💡Downfall

Downfall, in the context of the video, describes the significant decrease in MK music/ Eric's channel viewership and engagement. The script explores various factors that led to this downfall, including personal decisions and changes in content strategy.

💡Girlfriend Karina

Girlfriend Karina is a central figure in the narrative of Eric's channel's downfall. The script discusses how her introduction into Eric's life and content led to a shift in audience reception and is a key point of contention.

💡Engagement

Engagement, in the context of YouTube, refers to the level of interaction and interest from the audience. The script suggests that the change in content focus to include Karina led to decreased engagement, as measured by likes and comments.

💡Toxic Comments

Toxic Comments are negative and harmful remarks that Eric and Karina received, as detailed in the script. The video addresses how these comments affected them and were a point of contention in the channel's narrative.

💡Drama

Drama, in this context, refers to the series of public disputes and falling-outs that occurred between Eric and his former friends, as described in the script. This drama is presented as a significant factor in the channel's decline.

💡Content Adaptation

Content Adaptation refers to the need for YouTubers to evolve and change their content to maintain viewer interest. The script suggests that Eric's failure to adapt his content was a reason for the channel's decline.

💡Unfollowed and Blocked

Unfollowed and Blocked are actions taken by Eric and Karina against their former friends, as detailed in the script. This action is part of the narrative of the falling out and the subsequent drama that unfolded.

Highlights

MK music/Eric was a popular Call of Duty YouTuber with 2 million views per video at his peak.

Eric's channel was popular due to his personality, editing, and crew chemistry.

In 2018, Eric's channel began to decline after he introduced his girlfriend Karina to his audience.

Eric's audience disagreed with his decision to marry Karina after only knowing her for a couple of months.

Eric responded to criticism by defending his relationship with Karina.

Despite the backlash, Eric continued to upload videos with Karina, which were heavily disliked.

Eric addressed the hate he and Karina received in a video titled 'reacting to toxic comments'.

In 2020, Eric's ex-friends claimed they were unfollowed and blocked by Eric and Karina without explanation.

Merk Rampage, one of Eric's ex-friends, expressed disappointment over being cut off.

Andrew, another ex-friend, mentioned being asked to be best man but later replaced by Karina's brother.

Ben, an ex-friend, was angry at being blocked for not publicly supporting Eric and Karina's relationship.

Karina responded to the ex-friends' claims on Twitter, denying any wrongdoing.

Eric removed videos featuring his ex-friends and retitled others to exclude their names.

The decline in Eric's channel's popularity is attributed to the absence of his friends and repetitive content.

Call of Duty's waning popularity and Eric's unchanged video format contributed to his channel's downfall.

Eric's content became stale as he continued to make videos on old games and used the same thumbnail style.

Transcripts

[Music]

so if you've clicked on this video you

would know who MK music/ Eric is a Call

of Duty Channel who at his Peak was

receiving 2 million views per video to

now unable to scratch even 100,000 views

a video but what caused this downfall to

happen but before we move on to that

segment what made Eric's channel so

popular in the first place well as brain

food broke it down it was his

personality editing and crew now Eric's

crew held many members Mark Rampage

Andrew she knives Omar and many more all

these people had great chemistry with

one another ultimately making Eric's

videos more engaging and entertaining

however as of 2024 none of these people

have been seen on Eric's channel so why

is that the case well the downfall

initially started in the year 2018 on

January 30th 2018 Eric uploaded a video

titled meet my girlfriend Karina onto

his channel he explained to his audience

how he had met a girl through snapchat

that he started eating so I added this

person back and then I got a message

from her saying hey guess what and

obviously I replied back saying what and

then she said chicken butt and it was

super corny but it was interesting to me

for whatever reason it was enough to get

my attention at that point I was

intrigued and I kept messaging her and

it got to a point where we were just

messaging each other back and forth and

getting to know each other better and as

we were messaging back and forth I could

tell that we were really clicking and I

wanted to actually talk to this girl

Eric then explained how in the video he

was going to fly out to Washington to

see her as they both live in different

states which is why when you're seeing

this video on the 30th on a Tuesday I'm

going to be out in Washington meeting

her for the first time words can't even

describe how excited I am to actually be

able to meet her and spend time with her

and without necessarily getting too

specific let's just say that I'm ready

to commit to her and that she's my

future the next video Eric uploaded was

titled the future where he essentially

talked about the future of his life and

channel however what caught everyone's

attention was when he announced that he

proposed to his girlfriend and that she

had moved in with him and if you don't

follow me on Twitter or you just happen

to miss yesterday's video I actually

proposed to her and she's now living

here but yeah things are going extremely

well I'm actually really happy with how

everything has been going after this

statement people started commenting on

how they disagreed with Eric's decision

to marry her as the two had only known

each other for a couple months love is

supposed to grow over time has an online

relationship for two months proposes

honestly Mark I'm happy for you and she

seems like a nice girl but getting

married 2 months into a relationship is

insane I understand that you have

feelings for her and she's probably a

great person but you should take time to

consider that marriage is a serious

thing and sometimes it's not as easy as

just getting a divorce and boom over

some channels even went as far as to

make videos on Eric such as the former

YouTuber eight fors nevertheless Eric

began to upload videos with his

girlfriend however the videos were

heavily disliked because a part of his

audience either did not like this new

content or Karina personally now two

months after he had announced his

relationship with Karina Eric would

upload a video titled reacting to toxic

comments where he addressed the hate he

and his girlfriend were receiving in

videos the whole reason I'm bringing

this up in the first place is because

some of the [ __ ] that I've been seeing

in my comment section has been extremely

hurtful and hateful and just downright

wrong just because some of you guys

don't like my fiance or you don't think

that she's funny doesn't mean that you

have to say some of the [ __ ] that you've

been saying I don't personally see the

problem with doing videos with her every

so often and I'm still doing solo videos

and still doing videos with my friends I

don't feel like she's really being given

a chance in the first place and that

she's just kind of being shot down right

from the start yeah it's pretty unfair

Eric had even responded to channels

making videos on the situation in twit

longers such as eight FS the people that

actually support me love me or care

about me are Karina my family my friends

and the fans who aren't blindly

believing what eight FS is saying do you

really think he knows best that he

somehow has a better grasp of our

relationship than the two people

actually in it of course not this just

his way of exploiting and growing on

YouTube which is disgusting and

upsetting it's even more disappointing

because he used to have an old Channel

where he made actual content based

around his actual personality and

gameplay but now he stooped to a level

lower than dur eight FS if you actually

care have a shred of respect or want to

show that you're the mature adult here

take down the videos you've made about

us you think it's funny to lie about

other people in YouTube videos and

profit and grow off of it but you're

hurting people that don't deserve it I

don't actually expect you to do it but

you never know it's the least I can do

for Karina since it's been affecting her

the worst several months after this

drama had ended Eric announced in May

that he was taking a break from YouTube

mentally physically and creatively I

need this break for quite some time now

I've given YouTube priority over a

number of things in my life I've turned

down plans with friends I've turned down

plans with family over many years I've

sacrificed many hours to do YouTube

instead of doing other things in my life

and to be honest I'm kind of tired of

YouTube taking control of my life

however this was not the last of the

drama in 2020 2 years after the

controversy Eric's audience started to

question why his friends were no longer

present in his videos well in September

2020 several of Eric's ex-friends came

out on Twitter explaining what had

happened the first being Merk Rampage

even to this day people are still asking

where I am in Eric's videos the fact of

the matter is a few weeks ago Omar

Andrew and I had noticed that he and his

girlfriend had unfollowed all of us and

block SL unblocked to stop us from

following them this removal was done on

all platforms Xbox PlayStation steam

Discord even origin on PC making it

difficult to reach out I tried sending

an email to the one I have asking what

the reason was and got no reply it's a

damn shame helped and supported him

personally and his channel for many many

years it's the same with Andrew and Omar

if not more so oh well we had fun don't

read these tweets and be upset even

though this has happened I still wish

nothing but prosperity for Eric I grew

up talking to him every day and he's the

reason you all even know of my account

anyway Mark music I wish you the best in

life and I hope your wedding is

absolutely beautiful and everything you

want it to be the next person that came

out on Twitter was Andrew a few weeks

and months went by and we were all now

living in the era of a global pandemic I

had talked to Eric Karina in a little

while and I opened up this Twitter

account for the first time in ages to

send them a DM in our private group chat

I wish them all well and told them we

needed to catch up sometime soon since

we hadn't really talked let alone played

games and quite some time that never

happened though a few weeks later I

tried sending Eric a text as a hurricane

was approaching Florida I never got a

reply from that text and kind of brushed

it off and chalked it up to him being

busy then like I said a few weeks later

I noticed that they had unfollowed all

of us and essentially cast out of their

lives I was stunned and upset Andrew

also stated that when Eric and Karina

were planning their wedding Eric had

initially asked Andrew to be his best

man but later on changed his mind and

made Karina's brother his best man which

ended up hurting Andrew now next person

who also came out on Twitter was Ben and

by looking at his tweets he was the

angriest out of all of them with all my

Friends making statements I just wanted

to speak my mind I wasn't friends with

Eric as long as Mike Omar or Andrew but

I felt like we got along well for the

most part after he got engaged he just

became a different person I hoped it was

just a phase we stopped talking after a

while and eventually arm followed the

night Eric blocked me Karina tweeted

saying that we were trying to break up

the friend group that infuriated me and

I had tried to be supportive but when

all this drama happened I distanced

myself I later heard that the reason I

was blocked was because I wasn't

publicly supporting their relationship

which made me even angrier so according

to Eric and Karina I had to defend them

while things in my life were going to

[ __ ] I had enough at that point now

after all these tweets came out Eric

never responded to them however Karina

did on Twitter I really thought some

people were actually better than they

portray themselves to be but then

they're out there really lying through

their teeth and making some really false

ass claims about my family and my life

thanks friends look I don't want any

beef with people sh happens but lying

isn't okay making stuff up about who's

best man or not isn't okay okay my

brother had a stroke last year and plans

changed okay nothing was done to hurt

anybody intentionally now what Karina

doesn't elaborate on is what Eric's

friends actually lied about she stated

they made false claims about her family

and life even though that's not what

they did Karina stated that Andrew lied

about who was going to be the best man

at the wedding but then went on to

contradict herself in the same tweet by

confirming that the best man did change

from Andrew to Karina's brother so from

all the tweets I've read what

essentially happened was Eric and all of

his friends grew apart and stopped

talking talking as each of their lives

became busier however for some reason

Eric and Karina decided to remove and

block all of them and to this day n

Knows Why although Ben did mention the

reason he was blocked was apparently he

did not publicly support the

relationship that doesn't make any sense

to me because why would they block their

friends for not publicly supporting Eric

and Karina's relationship 2 years after

the drama maybe that was one of the

reasons and if that was one reason why

and that's beyond stupid why do your

friends have to get involved in drama

that has nothing to do with them anyway

way after all of Eric's ex-friends came

out on Twitter Eric started to remove

his videos with them on the channel one

series Eric had on his channel was

called [ __ ] someone says which was a

compilation of iconic quotes spoken by

each of his friends the two videos he

ended up removing were videos of Mark

Rampage and Andrew Eric also started to

retitle videos that included his

ex-friends names one video on his second

Channel playing Mortal Kombat was titled

Tina farted on me later on being

retitled to it farted on me what I find

funny about this is in Eric's response

video to the hate his girlfriend had

received he was angry about the fact

people were referring to his girlfriend

as a thing slob this person said ew the

thing is back it's obviously

disrespectful and just rude but it's not

even creative in the slightest like I

really don't get how the [ __ ] it has

that many thumbs up it's just weird

however he does the exact same thing to

his ex-friends Eric also went on to

delete any donations that mentioned his

ex-friends or the drama in live streams

so what caused the death of MC music's

career well there are several factors

one of the reasons I believe because his

friends with whom he had great banter

and chemistry in videos were no longer

being featured and to this day we'll

never know why I mean you can try asking

Eric yourself but he'll just delete your

message however the main reason I

believe his career has made its demise

is because he has been uploading the

same type of content for years for

example Eric is a Call of Duty Channel

and for the last few years the Call of

Duty Series has died meaning no one

cares about the games anymore and would

prefer to watch something else on

YouTube not only that but Eric has stuck

to the same video format since 2016 I

mean you can see in his his thumbnails

he still uses the same thumbnail style

and format from several years ago he

even makes videos on Old Cod games such

as advanced Warfare a game that came out

a decade ago now and we all know on

YouTube your content must change and

adapt to current times or it will become

old and

[Music]

stale