Exposing A $250,000 Minecraft Server

[@j2yd3nn]

As someone who used to mod melon as an admin alongside MadG and the rest of that amazing staff team, i can agree that hohos had always talked down to us for making simple mistakes and would violently lash out at us in staff meetings and in DMs because it would "ruin" his reputation for looking like a bad owner. i was always uncomfortable with the way he treated other staff and being highly inappropriate in VC. The most vulgar comments that came out of his mouth, racist things like saying the n word countless times, degrading shit towards other people. it was highly disgusting coming from someone who i thought was a good person and had a high rep to hold, so i resigned from the team because it was getting tiring from having to deal with the bullshit he put us through and im so glad i did 🙏 this was an amazing video caleb and tysm for helping bring light into the situation ❤

[@xomxrixh]

I was there as a mod during this time and can confirm this comment. I’m lucky to have met Jayden and the kind community she’s a part of. She’s one to trust about this

[@xomxrixh]

@@virelslolI still have screenshots of how I was treated as a mod by hohos and how no one stood up for me when I needed someone. If you want to join the game, let’s play ball

[@j2yd3nn]

@@virelslol​​⁠​⁠I'm sorry, were you a staff member? Because if not then why are you saying anything against my personal comment. You're entitled to your wrong opinion but I have multiple screenshots from what Nick has said to me, and have heard countless comments about me when I was a staff member and when I left. Not only that but there are multiple witnesses to his behavior against very few people who thinks he was justified for doing this.

[@ReddRobinn]

@@virelslol stfu 9 year old. hop off ur mums laptop

[@zohaibahmed9738]

@@virelslol how would you know its cap?

[@mavsharklive]

I love this style of editing, its like a SunnyV2+CoffeeZilla, but with CalebIsSalty's own twist.

[@romancatholicgameing]

Except hopefully without the controversial beliefs of SunnyV2

[@cryostice]

Couldn’t agree more

[@ThePenguinMan]

⁠@@romancatholicgameingcontroversial?

[@liminalityy_]

It's more like Brandon FM

[@ARCHIVED9610]

yeaaahaha

[@drfuntimez5977]

you sir absolutely smashed it out of the park when it comes to editing. This server was doomed from the start however. Pay to win is a cancerous practice that Mojang themselves banned via their TOS. its why Ytbers Like Duper Trooper, Salc1 and many others started making videos about taking these kinds of servers down. But, back to the video you made, this is a winning editing style you got here. a little tweaking of how you present each topic you cover and i think you will make it big. Keep on improving man.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Exposing A $250,000 Minecraft Server

[@shahkrown]

The P2W wasn't even really an issue (when it comes to "the downfall of the smp") It was just the lack of experience from the new owners, the lack of new updates and content and that one shitty og owner

[@notvixios]

editing is so clean i love it

[@pinonithisathian]

NOXVITOSSSSSS LES GOOOOOO I SUB YOU IM BIG FANNNNNNNNNNNNN

[@mythicgem2759]

I was also a sr mod on MelonSMP, and hohos was never short of a crazy flare.. i had worked with him years previously also on Chasecraft, avatarcraft, and minealong, he brought many servers down, and treated everyone disgustingly. i would always get accused of things because everyone wanted to believe him, and he had a thing where he would flirt with most of the females in the staff team, and even some out of it just to make himself better, i was removed because of "alligations:" of me starting a revolution against him, which led to my banning permanently. Im glad you made this video, it gives us justice!

[@mythicgem2759]

@@corruptioncookieofficial I was widely known as Sr-mod Gem, i changed my name frequently but it always had gem in it, idk the specific name i had back then.

[@Rh56]

Caleb’s videos NEVER disappoint 💪

[@akiidoki]

best pack maker

[@ronium23]

As a former Sr. Mod from MelonSMP, this is all very accurate. The community was amazing and I miss it so much. It was just sad to see Melon fall because of careless owners.

[@tsume9099]

REAL I MISS MY TIME THERE

[@NoActualUsername]

As a former active MelonSMP Player and a brother of someone who used to play Dream Fandom SMP, I am pleased that my friends can finally realize that I WASNT JOKING ABOUT DREAM FANDOM SMP.

[@I_Eat_Apple]

What was your ign

[@zachatherton1589]

I remember the good days on apple and mango before they all combined. I was friends with the richest on apple forget his name. And was married to zucchinibred

[@Gman222]

What was your brother ign?

[@doublefoe295]

Caleb is the one KZbinr who gets my whole watch retention

[@CalebIsSalty]

appreciate you :)

[@doublefoe295]

@@CalebIsSalty I’m here cause of you my friend!

[@jeebee9320]

if he gets your whole watch retention then why did you comment this 2 minutes after it came out. You can't have watched the whole 13 minute video

[@lilravencane5673]

@@jeebee9320shut up fckin nerd

[@muraleedharan9485]

​@@jeebee9320 smart kid

[@ShinyTheoMate]

Me and my friend (who we literally used to upload together on this smp) would play often. every day, home from school, usually with another couple of friends. every second on melon was fun, until the server reset, making us lose everything. all our kits, our ranks, money we spent on the server. the owner & the mod team were terrible, not dealing with scams, and even abusing players more often than not.

[@MaffWorld]

video was made SOO WELL with insane sound design & vfx, great stuff dude you never fail to impress.

[@CalebIsSalty]

thank you :)

[@FailureManagement]

As a player who nearly wasted 1 year of my life playing grinding this server achieving ranks 70k+ coins (of course as a free player) i think i wasted a chunk of my time for nothing, it made me addicted and at last it left me in a sense of regret. As for the reason of why all of the players left / leave the server was its "MEGA" reset of all its 3 most active servers " watermelon, apple, mango ( server names)" so they rested them all trying to make it a unified server they hyped up the new server but the only mistake they made was take all the player items (op items ) all there coins just my 78k coins were well over 500$ there were people with 300k in watermelon so overall top 30 players of 3 server alone just coins value were above 70k in value irl. Well now at least i dont get addicted in time-consuming game with no real meaning

[@soggysorg]

i remember madG. never knew he quit. i spent $10 on melon and fell for the trap. thanks for making this video

[@toasty1816]

oh man I used to be such good friends with hoho's back in 2020 I think we are still friends on snap chat. Him and his whatever group of partners he could grasp his hands on for business opportunities then would like literally copy and paste the same server layout just rebranding the name of the server, and as soon as those servers would begin to fail he just found a new group of partners that could get him the money he wanted. Funny enough, he just used a bunch of ranks bought from a block game server to buy himself a few 6 figure rides... what a life tho frfr! I staffed a few servers he managed here and there then upon figuring out this information I slowly got out of touch with him :P

[@Jkingnick]

WOW THE EDITING IS ELITE! Such a great video and good job! Keep up the amazing work you do and congratulations on KZbin rank!

[@snipereye28]

The editing is = 🔥🔥🔥 Keep up the good work !

[@xFlxme]

how are you not at 100,000 subscribers already?! this content is 🔥

[@8d50]

Bro I see you on like every channel I’m subbed to

[@JREShortsClipsS]

I mean it's fire, it's legit mascot now🔥️🔥️🔥

[@Gman222]

Doubt you’re going to see this but great vid! I used to be a long time mod for Charlie back in 2019 for when he streamed Fortnite on KZbin and then transferred to DreamFandom SMP. Before it all went downhill he was a genuine kid making like 10k a month of KZbin and other stuff, he then found out how rich he could get off of Minecraft servers and rebranded to Melon smp, I got demoted to helper because I was supporting a sr. Mod to get paid because Charlie was making enough money and already paying other people. He got all mad at me and then finally banned me from the server. That was in like 2021 and I was kinda shocked but I will always remember the good old days back on Dream Fandom when everyone was friends because there was only a few of us. But yeah Great video, good job on the research, you only missed a little non important stuff.

[@Rh56]

We already know this is going to go crazy.

[@KudaXD]

Im pretty sure hohos is now at the FadeCloud network

[@kipto]

from an editor to another editor, i love your stuff so much man

[@KibhXD]

Being one of the richest players in MelonSMP, and the owner of /pw hell (an ocean monument made up of diamond and netherite)... I still remember the good old days.. While showing off my builds to other moderators and staff members- I remember hohos being the one who discouraged me.... I still remember those days when I recently bought the mystery sword (Sharp 10)... and showed it to my friends- and few days later... A god damn sharp 20, 25 and 50 swords were released. I still remember my broski dark_warrior from the server. Overall I had to quit cuz of the P2W stuff and after I rejoined an year later (April 2023)... The server went through a reset. Deleting my entire inventory and everything I did for the server. The thing that still remained was the rank I had (which I got donated for).... Thank your caleb for getting these old nostalgic memories back into my head. Good old days...

[@baltagelyte]

You're like the only channel I never skip any videos, I WATCH THEM ALL. 🔥🔥🔥, fr good job tho, love ur vids.

[@literally_brey]

As an extremely well recognized player on melon in 2022, I noticed the downfall of the server as the playerbase slowly shrank. I quit the server shortly before an event that I refer to as "the purge" took place. In the time of this event, many months of builds and hard work (including a famous hotel I had spent weeks building, "terrahotel") were abandoned and left to be griefed by other players. Following this event, the server had fully reset (including paid items) and had effectively lost most of it's playerbase. Edit: Thank you, Caleb for providing insight on this topic (:

[@I_Eat_Apple]

What was your ign?

[@literally_brey]

ItzBrey@@I_Eat_Apple

[@I_Eat_Apple]

@@literally_brey Doesn't seem familiar, but thx

[@literally_brey]

np@@I_Eat_Apple

[@kookie984]

@@literally_brey i remember you. i was a mod back in 2022, Kxr1mMC

[@wolfypro]

Yooo nice editing man!!! Really love watching these types of videos. Also the music you chose was DOPE!!! I love your vids man. Good luck!!

[@Janarchyy]

Melon was my first smp I played and it was fun! All I did was build and relax. I never had pvp battles and it's sad to see the downfall of Melon.

[@J4n4rchy]

Friends and I also played Melon. But the pay to win issue was apparent while playing.

[@I_Eat_Apple]

​​​@@J4n4rchysame, I quit the server shortly before the lvl 50 items came out

[@puffs_yt]

As a x-mod during melons start of the reset, there were some very shady things going. I was only a mod then left as well. Hohos and Dayton vanished, it was only when hohos left that Dayton made a message then went MIA. I loved the server, staying up almost till 3:00 AM to protect from dupers. I was probably the most active staff member during that time period, so was my manager who I became really good friends with. They told me more about Melon's past. As I spent more time there I uncovered more secrets that were not the greatest looks. I never new hohos personally but the way he acted to people on the staff discord was rude. We never had staff meetings, when I was there as people didn't care about the server. I now regret defending the server looking back how shitty it was.

[@Durner-mk8si]

Didn’t you abuse your perms as a staff member and get demoted lmao

[@aweexa8274]

@@Durner-mk8si Nice alt

[@Jonnyy1984]

yeah puffs you probably were one of the best staff members

[@unavailableun]

just one minor point with the money at 2:08, because of the divider (in this case a $ sign) I'm pretty sure most people will assume you read the left side first, then the right side, not both at once as you set it up for them to do I know I did

[@Cryosaturn]

Amazing intros as always. Good video!

[@Orca4135]

This is a really sad story. I am a staff member on OneblockMC, and our owner is reletavely inactive, however we have an admin team who care about the server and player base and are incredibly dedicated. I hope that can prevent something like this from happening. I love the community and especially that within staff. I suppose it’s a “pay to win server” but it’s ranks and kits are decently easy to get without paying real money, I bought the top rank for in game currency. The kits are cool, but there are better items in crates from bossfights which happen 5 times a day. This makes it easy to compete on the server without spending a cent.

[@elofarming]

I remember crashing that server back when it was pretty small and duping stuff to fuck up the economy lmao

[@64bitdoggo]

This guys videos are too good for only 30k subs, we need this guy at 100k right now!

[@LiedYou]

this editing is AMAZING

[@UserRandomNonsense]

fr

[@Nasrions]

The editing style alone something u gotta appreciate

[@eggthereallyegg]

I was watching this while playing minecraft lol also great video! Editing is really good! :D

[@gradino2080]

you are becoming my favourite youtuber, watched only 4 videos and they are all so good jus enjoying them

[@StopDropDash]

Hey man im an editor and I can really pick out how much effort these edits take. You put time and effort and I respect it. I like the low FPS style you put for your clips and just want u to know that you are unique man keep going.

[@oPolarbear]

As someone who plays melon it’s kinda sad because they had a realm called survival and I had 70days of playtime I was in top gems which is game money and top in kills and they just closed it a few days ago because survival wasn’t making enough money to have it still open. But they said they’re having 10 new things coming out in like a week but I wished they would reset OP survival to make it fair for those who are going to from survival to OP

[@Params]

i love the disrupt tv,coffeezilla editing style!

[@UbongaShorts]

Love the editing

[@DXNetworking-po5uv]

I used to play on this. The owner told me to go unalive myself when I told him it was pay 2 win.

[@ollie8359]

As someone to modded and resigned during all this I think you have made a great video here Caleb.

[@LumiDerp]

congrats on youtube rank!! (This editing is amazing btw!)

[@yuissssssssssssssssssssssss]

This editing style is crazy

[@CalebIsSalty]

ahhhh thank you!!! :)

[@Wingedjay]

I used to play on this w/ my friends it was fun for a while.. Basically my friend got banned by toxic admins so we stopped playing but at one point they reset the hole map so when we all logged on again (my friend who got banned on an alt) are base was gone:(

[@trojanspyware]

Chxrlie also tried to give $500 dollars to hackers to stop crashing the server😂

[@j2yd3nn]

I REMEMBER THIS 😂

[@xomxrixh]

so funny

[@irjectjade]

LMAO

[@ZellowHuman]

I used to be staff on this server but got removed for accidently finding and using an exploit. For context, up until recently I've been using a horrible PC so a lot of the times things in game are extremely laggy for me. After I was removed I kind of forgot about the server but came back to see a ton of the staff just gone. Thanks so much for making this video!

[@Grwdy]

I remember joining it with my brother. Though at that point in time it wasn’t much of a “pay to win” server, just a place the have fun. I haven’t played on it since then because I got a new computer and forgot the ip, sad to see how a smp I played on almost every day turned into this.

[@TheDuperTrooper]

lets collab

[@thederekmadg]

MelonSMP vid when?

[@ZeKingSG]

caleb is too good at making these types of videos hes gonna hypnotize me aaa

[@CalebIsSalty]

😂😂

[@Jinnox]

Bro is the cleanest documentary MC branded youtuber and thought I wouldn't notice 🔥

[@ReemRedPVP]

man i really love ur content for real like ur edit ur way of talking stories is amazing

[@samiskool3597]

It's kinda sad for me that melon smp is gone. I miss MadG and Aweexa, they're my favorite staff members because they are really interactive around players

[@minecraftluc3006]

As a big player on the server I can’t deny that this is the truth I ruined most of the servers eco anyways so LET IT BURN TO THE GROUND

[@point_gaming]

Editing is insane keep it up bro KZbinr like you deserve 1m subs

[@abedabed1144]

The editing style in one word is just 🔥

[@ShadowDominosOG]

Dude ur editing skills give me chills, pls you need to join the lifesteal smp with clown, parrot zam etc

[@EeLol123]

i used to play melon smp so much and i loved it but idk what happened anymore, all i know is it got overruned by hackers and shut down i think (this was posted before i watched the vid)

[@83yWasTooShort]

I remember someone I'd hang out with in VC telling me they were working on this server as a dev.

[@magentaninja4424]

Bro i remember when u were at 1.1k congrats bro on your growth lovely video aswell

[@Fierzco]

Bro this video brought me back to 2021. I remember finding Melon SMP and playing it every weekend. I even remeber seeing Chxrlie online. I dont remember why but i just stopped playing the server at one point.

[@tenbans]

havent been watching minecraft for a few months, came back and saw that you have 30k, i used to watch you when you had less than 5k, growth is insane keep it up yo 🔥

[@joelconolly5574]

Funniest thing about servers is that once pandemic died down, so does staying indoors. People already moved on with their lives which, for servers is definitely bad news. Less active players, less revenue possibilities. It's just the way of life.

[@marthew1]

bro this editing style is so good. keep up the good work!

[@proestofbot]

seeing you grow from 200 to 31k is heartwarming love from india btw

[@mollssoo]

As a former melonsmp player, starting early 2022, I can say that this was one of the best servers out there. As soon as I joined, I was welcomed and then was given a bunch of stuff by a kind person. No matter how many servers I try to grind, they dont feel the same as melon did. Thankfully, I still have some melon friends added, but its extremely sad to see its downfall, not to mention the amount of staff that actually were dedicated to the game. _fish6169 here, to all the people I was unable to say goodbye to in melon, due to quitting right after the restart, thank you for all the amazing memories, including the drama 😂. Love you all, melon players and former staff. ❤️

[@ItsFlom]

Lmao, btw hohos has a new server called respawn, i was briefly staff on it and when in vc with hohos i recall melon having been mentioned several times. Thanks for providing context to those conversations i was so lost back then lmao

[@NetherverseYT]

Incredible editing as always, Caleb.

[@nixisawesome]

Caleb, your videos have been improving significantly overtime and I’m genuinely enjoying watching these high quality story videos.

[@oofinqs]

i've said it once and i'll say it again, ur editing makes these videos so entertaining and enjoyable to watch

[@madisonfrazier-pawloski6042]

is that a brockhampton instrumental at 0:19?? 🔥

[@CalebIsSalty]

you know it B)

[@sirbananamc]

the editing just keeps getting better and better! I love your videos! keep it up!

[@PGDreemurr]

6:00 small mistake amazing video though,its a very intresting topic with good editing

[@Midel657]

damn bro this was good video your editing is so skilled thanks for this amazing video caleb!

[@AJ2119_Minecraft]

great video caleb! been here since 12k!

[@AmethystBad]

somehow even more of a banger than was previously thought possible

[@Pacman_Pa8]

calebs videos are so awesome bro your so underrated your editing is so good and everything else

[@ILoveTaxEvasion]

this editing... wow its actually incredible! so much attention to detail bravo

[@DetectiveEggYT]

Caleb is just getting better and better, damn.

[@ziffy4574]

AHH MAN HOW I LOVED THE EWARP PVP MANN I MISS THOSE GOOD TIMESS AAAH Coinflips were also sooo fun and opening mystery crates was just crazy lol. Hands down best thing was the spleef game event we would get when madg hosted it

[@IAMTOEPICFORYOU]

What’s your editing software because this is amazing

[@_Gam3r]

bro is coffeezilla but minecraft pixels

[@clewmc]

As the founder of MelonSMP, it was quite the journey

[@Jonnyy1984]

you have balls for commenting here

[@Trixssssss-yt]

I love the editing and storytelling style

[@treddevontopratz]

Today, I remembered how i used to play on this server and i tried to log on. Didn't work. I then tried to go into the discord but it wasnt in my server list anymore. Then i clicked on youtube and found this video. Thank you for this information. I really miss the server but now that i know what was going on behind the scenes i am just sad.

[@iGiant8]

Nooooooooooooooooooo. My heart dropped as soon as I saw that PFP. Good work, Caleb.

[@GamingGabe_]

Bro 2:39 gave me chills

[@skylord3980]

I used to have over 400 thousand coins and 4 billion on that server before they reset it. Such a sad way to see it end

[@Xam_Notsam]

dayum this video is really well edited, underrated youtuber

[@plane4993]

every video just gets better WOW btw caleb what editing software do u use?

[@v031]

This is some of the best editing I have seen in a while.

[@ethanledezma4026]

Great video! but uh, i couldn't really hear u over the music so like... fix plz? :D

[@classeontop7403]

This video is insane! From the script all the way to editing.

[@hacking_life]

The editing is unmatched and you deserve more subs imo. Been subbed since the minecraft scam video or something like that.

[@Kotravic]

Another great video Caleb. 100k just over the horizon

[@UnknownishMan]

I played this server daily pre-reset and knew few helpers and staff well, I’d also met hohos a few times. It was a very fun server by all means and I didn’t realise what actually happened with this server and what was going on beneath the surface, things I wouldn’t know.

[@P1OOD]

This video got me hooked from start to finish! I predict you'll hit 100k by the end of the year if you keep this up.

[@FunnyCraftSheep]

this is such an interesting topic, you're getting way better at making videos! this was actually so cool

[@NotPugMC]

editings goated my guy 🗣

[@oglaze]

also what editing software?