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- Excerpts related to GenerikB's undisclosed advertising from https://medium.com/@stevetheclimber/a-history-of-mindcrack-the-first-10-years-896d3a835c69
- On January 28th 2014 GenerikB put out a video where he toured the EpicCloudMC server which caused viewers to speculate that he was paid to do it, something that would’ve been illegal to not disclose and would come up throughout the year. In mid-February the B-Team made 3 episodes on EpicCloud’s prison server, a server which had perks costing hundreds and even thousands of dollars clearly targeted at children with access to their parents’ money. They would be followed up in March through July with 3 more episodes on another EpicCloud server, 3 episodes from the MinecraftParty server, and 3 more episodes just of BdoubleO and two friends on the MinecraftParty server, raising suspicions on sponsored videos and advertising pay to win servers targeted at children. Much later on BdoubleO deleted the EpicCloud videos.
- On May 1st the B-Team released the first of 21 episodes on the MMORPG server WynnCraft, which was their first definite series involving illegally undisclosed payments, as much later on BdoubleO added text to the descriptions saying they were sponsored. The B-Team’s shady operations continued on May 24th with the first of 3 episodes played on the GTAverse server, a new server that started just to make money and that would shut down within months having unfulfilled payments. On August 6th the B-Team started yet another shady series on the MafiaCraft server with 6 episodes and a livestream, during which they talked about how good of a deal the paid benefits on the server were, with strong evidence it was an illegally undisclosed sponsored advertisement and viewers even speculating that they were an owner for the server, and calling them out for supporting a server going against the updated EULA. Much later on BdoubleO would delete the MafiaCraft and GTAverse videos.
- On August 20th the B-Team released a new video promoting the MineBrawl Sky Wars server, and the next day a screenshot was posted to the subreddit showing the MineBrawl server owner saying he had paid both of them $2,100 per episode which caused a lot of backlash from fans wanting transparency and condemning their support of pay to win servers that target children and break the EULA’s terms.
- Mostly based on Guude's messages:
- Well before this point Guude had found out about the non-disclosed sponsored videos the B-Team were making and confronted them about it, but it just led to an internal conflict that deepened when he told the group about the videos. Many Mindcrackers were worried the group would face legal issues because of the illegal videos being made and that advertising the servers with overpriced benefits targeted at children would damage the rest of the group’s image, and so they started figuring out a way for the two to leave when they wouldn’t stop making the undisclosed sponsored videos. Nobody in the group wanted to outright kick them out and reveal what they had been doing as it would just cause a lot of negativity and Mindcrack would receive a ton of backlash and drama, and so they started work on trademarking Mindcrack to legally define who the members were and serve as a way out for the B-Team, as well as helping protect the group from situations like the MogMiner incident where other servers had been taking advantage of the Mindcrack name. The group filed the trademark a few months after the $2,100 info came out and it would be announced in early 2015.
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