Rusherpocalypse

The Rusherpocalypse
TheCampingRusher's first video about "the oldest server" in Minecraft SMP - TheCampingRusher Video 1
About
Epicenter	Server-wide
Event Date	1&3 June 2016

Note: MCO was not the server that TheCampingRusher (aka Rusher) was playing on!

A YouTuber named TheCampingRusher posted two videos on his channel that showcased the 2b2t Minecraft server, claiming that it was "the oldest server in Minecraft" when in fact it is the fourth. The first video was released on the 1st of June 2016, and in the video description TheCampingRusher claimed that he'd been playing on the server shown in the video for 5 years.

At the time of writing, MinecraftOnline is almost 6 years old, having been launched within an hour of the official launch of Minecraft SMP by Notch on the 4th of August, 2010.

Members of MinecraftOnline looking through the comments on the video page saw that TheCampingRusher had originally posted the address to the server he was playing on, namely 2b2t, in the video description, but as users began to overload it he removed the address. But clever players simply searched for "the oldest Minecraft SMP server" and of course they came to find MinecraftOnline.

The release of the first video did increase new player traffic a bit, creating waves of 3-4 of them every hour or so. It was the release of the second video, on the 3rd of June 2016, that the volume of new users increased dramatically. The viewing numbers for the two main images went over 2 million, and a lot of those people came on the server to see things for themselves, fight with TheCampingRusher, or to grief as much as possible, since they were under the impression that client modifications and griefing were allowed.

The view count of the two videos keeps increasing (first video 1,230,584 views -second has 395,953 at the time of publishing) which helps more people find the MinecraftOnline server. A number of these new players have decided to stay on MinecraftOnline and become part of the community.