What Happened to the Founder of Hermitcraft? - The Story of GenerikB

Hermitcraft was founded in April 2012 by a Minecrafter named GenerikB. But what happened to him, and why did he leave the server for good?

Join me as we dive into the story of GenerikB.

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00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Background
01:13 - Early YouTube
02:01 - YouTube Community
02:33 - First Survival Lets Play
03:15 - Redstone Wars
03:53 - Hermitcraft Begins
05:34 - GenerikB Leaves Hermitcraft
06:33 - MindCrack
06:49 - The B Team Origins
07:54 - 2014 & 2015
09:02 - Attack of the B Team
09:51 - 2016 & HC Popularity
10:12 - Request to re-join Hermitcraft
11:54 - Is he gone for good?
12:34 - Conclusion

Music:
Scott Buckley - Artemis
Scott Buckley - Signal to Noise
Scott Buckley - Castles in the Sky
Scott Buckley - Within our Nature
Scott Buckley - Reverie
Kevin Macleod - Cipher

[sanautin]

I've always been a fan of Genny B, but honestly, if it wasn't for Xisuma there would be no Hermitcraft server today. X was the backbone of Season 1, and if not for him the server would have never seen a Season 2.

[SenketsuFi]

disappointing when the comment section has most of the facts..

[Mirtual]

Im surprised you didnt mention the time he pretended to be in hermitcraft on stream using mods only to be exposed by hermits on twitter. This was around 2-3 years ago, im pretty sure I have the vod lol

[richlearner]

So let me put another prospective-

GB for sure started HC with some still going players and others when he was denied Entry into mindcrack. Actually Hypno was the one who coined the name Hermitcraft. But when he was invited onto mindcrack after hc s1 was ending, he disbanded the group completely and left them on their own. This left a sour taste in their mouth. He wasn't the one who chose Xisuma the next owner, it was selected by the left group that X will lead the charge and frankly s2 was the real start of hc when mumbo, cleo and many others joined and it became mainstream. The group grew, many came and went and hc kept going. Mindcrack ended due to Gudde trying to make it a corporation while many members didn't agree with him. Some of them came to join hc after sometime. And during the time, he was also involved in some shady sponsorships and other controversies. During s5, he asked to rejoin the group but was denied on the basis of not fulfilling the group's base of requirements like making Minecraft vids constantly, playing Minecraft survival etc. He was asked to request again if he gets active on yt side again. But from my knowledge didn't contact them for two more seasons. Addressing this he made some reddit posts/comments, in which he and his fans formed the narrative that Xisuma has denied him personally bcz he doesn't wanna lose the server control while it's clear that HC works on an all member agreement system, bcz of this X got many negative comments towards him. During s7, he started a series on twitch with a duplicate pack of iskall's VH and claimed his own, it started yet another controversy between him and hermits. When s8 started, he constantly teased his return on twitter and even on the launch day, did a stream on a fake hc server with bots running the Minecraft chat impersonating hermits. Unknowingly the audience welcomed him with many subs, bits and donos. Later when hermits called him out on it, he stated that he donated the money gained to charity after hige backlash.

All this is from an outsider fan prospective, personally feels very off from these interactions.

[RubenDelight]

I feel like it’s relatively important to mention that the timing of HC and MC (MindCrack) was.. convenient. Hermitcraft was the small server and MindCrack was huge. GenerikB didn’t get bored of vanilla because he continued on MindCrack. He just didn’t want to do two vanilla SMPs at the same time. And chose the more popular one to stick with. Then MC died and he slowly stopped playing minecraft. His views had already gone down quite a bit and at HermitCraft’s peak growth at the time he asked to rejoin.

Its easy to presume many thought he just saw the dollar signs and felt he wasn’t as passionate about the server as much as he was about the attention.

Not saying this was the reason, but the optics aren’t on his side. I was a huge fan of him and even did some small things for him and bdubs back in the day so I really wished he was able to rejoin at the time. But I can understand why not everyone was down with it. His season 8?9? prank really sealed the deal tho of him every returning lol.

[skarm]

Based on this and the additional context from the comments it sounds like he decided to burn every single bridge in the youtube minecraft community

[Nodsaibot]

no treason at all, he ditched the "dying server" for much popular mindcrack, ALL members have to agree for someone to join and some didnt want him there

[steelrarebit]

Basically it boils down to he gambled and lost. He chose the wrong server thinking it would skyrocket and when the regret kicked in, it was too little too late.

[wiredcoffee]

That thumbnail lost you a subscriber. There is no betrayal Generikb gave hermitcraft its name but not its identity.

[sammystuffies]

To shed some more light on this: around the time of hc season 6 he clickbaited his viewers on twitch by saying he returned to hermitcraft and had some bots of the hermits names to log into “hermitcraft” also using it to get bits, donations, and subs. After the stream he claimed it was a joke, the hermits rightfully called him out.

I am not siding with anyone, only giving some info that was left out.

[worstedwoolens]

Guude has always maintained that Genny and Bdubs’ undisclosed advertising stunt was what led him to turn Mindcrack into a registered business so he would have legal leverage to prevent situations like that. The paperwork that came with that drove Etho among others away from the server and the B-Team were removed from the group. That mass exodus of some of their most popular creators killed Mindcrack.

With that context, it’s easier to see why the hermits would be wary of the guy.

As for Bdubs, he rejoined Hermitcraft in Season 5 as part of the New Hermit Order arc with Etho, Doc, and Beef and it seems like they were a bit of a package deal there. Not to mention he always had his building series and really cleaned up his brand after Mindcrack.

[mocinina]

12:05 You forgot to mention he streamed from "The hermitcraft server". He set up bots impersonating the hermits, some hermits he never interacted.

[german_novotiable]

He did not create the most popular smp, he founded it and then abandoned it while it was unpopular. Xisuma and others made it popular, especially after Grian joined it.
Tbh it is not even appropriate to call him the founder, all other players from s1 are founders as well, cuz it's literally called smp.

[visovec]

I remember watching Mindcrack starting somewhere in the middle of season two. Generik was genuinely terrible from the first time I started watching. Calling Bdub's fans 'stalkers' and 'psychos' because they were excited when Bdubs told him about his wife's pregnancy and calling Etho, Pause and Beef's fans 'cringey' or 'weird' (which, at the time, was considered okay but eventually became less okay when it grew more constant). Whenever he played on PlayMindcrack (their old minigame server) he would cheat or say not-very-nice things in chat. I only ever played with him once and it put me off playing for a long time.
He was also one of the only MindCrack boys to tell fans to 'stop crying' when both PlayMindCrack and the actual MindCrack server went down permanently. I also remember, back around 2012/2013, he had a bunch of people ticked off at him because of racist comments and some people saying he'd gone 'the PauseUnPause route', but I'm not sure many people actually believed the second one.

[Xehxna]

my understanding is they didn't like his rejoining hermitcraft prank, another thing is i watch his twitch streams and he isn't really family friendly or one to make content only livestream he likes to do his own thing and not really play with others, that would disrupt the peaceful friendly family friendly atmosphere the current hermits have at the moment.

[hrakss]

Everyone is speculating on what happened. Ill tell you what really happened. While on mindcrack Generikb and bdubs accepted a sponser for a mafia game to promote, but didnt disclose that they were sponsored on camera. Kinda shitty right? Thats what Guude thought as well so he decided to draft a contract that would hold mindcrackers accountable by having their identity public, and signing to uphold ideals like disclosing sponsors.

Generikb, and bdubs both left after this, as was the intention, but so did other creators like etho who didnt want their name public. All these ppl leaving left the server without its large names, so it would eventually die.
Bdubs apologized for his actions, and was accepted into hermitcraft. Generik did not. Generik was additionally also not allowed in bc he wasent consistently uploading mc.
Idk if you've seen any of gennys streams but his community is toxic, and he clearly hasent let go. Guude tried to keep all of this on the down-low and took the blame for mindcrack ending.
This is all info ive gathered over the years, and directly from Guudeboulderfists comments.

I would love to hear your response to this info jamseyjam

[Gkenie]

I remembered generikb. He was my childhood. Many years later, I tried to remember his name/channel and look for the videos and I could find nothing new.
Anyone else remember his RV?

[DJPez]

My guess for at least one of the reasons he may have been denied would be that weird sponsored controversy that he and bdubs had

[cyndrigaming]

Today i learned...

Bdubs is secretly an eldritch being who does not age

[allinory]

What's funny is that I turned to comments, and nearly every single one names a completely different theory on why the man's been denied joining hermitcraft back...