The Day Geometry Dash Almost Died...

[@manix648]

Very well made video! I will be showing my kids one day as a retelling of the past

[@MatMart]

Thank you Manix! (obsidian when tho)

[@Galacticlays]

manix, you are amazing

[@notmoe3527]

Hello Manix

[@sandwich-plays]

bru

[@cheemswegman6161]

Hi manix

[@Lemoncak3]

🔥🔥🔥documentary man, thanks for having me on!

[@MatMart]

Any time!

[@Terrarian_World678]

Did I Dislike the hardest?

[@XEAZUR]

yoooooo lemonvak i subcrib and i 6

[@SophiaDennise]

Lemoncak3 followed in GD

[@SonXo1]

Love the vid!

[@MatMart]

If this video gets 10K likes I will instantly release a new documentary...

[@qrain__]

nice fitmc title ripoff

[@gabrieldesmedt3376]

fair

[@AIR-TryNiceGT]

3th omg

[@uyscience6336]

lol

[@namlin]

Cool

[@MikalIkal]

This is an amazing documentary style video for Geometry Dash. The editing, storytelling, and history behind this is incredible and I’m sure it took ages to make. It’s also really cool to hear a few voices from other Geometry Dash players such as lemoncake reading comments as a bit of diversity. This was amazing and your videos keep making me more and more impressed with this community after all this time!

[@MatMart]

took around 4 weeks

[@MikalIkal]

@@MatMart that’s really impressive! Nice work, and keep up the awesome content!

[@SomeIdiotOnRoblox]

No

[@IkorEq]

i remember theese times so much... the fact that knobbelboy was the one who brought up the GD community for a certain time was really amazing.

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Yet knobbelboy isn’t even that popular lol

[@IkorEq]

@@Kbxbigbro808 he isnt popular only nowadays. At the time he was considered a legend

[@IlIlIlIIlIIllII]

@@Kbxbigbro808 l

[@Kbxbigbro808]

@@IlIlIlIIlIIllII Go sleep

[@Kbxbigbro808]

@@IkorEq lol at the time he was barely even known

[@tonyearlgd]

can we appreciate how much effort he put into syncing the levels in the background? 1:37 piano syncs with the pulse in the back 2:16 the unity circles in the bg go up when he says "lifted" 2:20 the fading piano syncs with the fading comment 6:11 drums synced with the cut man puts so much effort into little details 🙏

[@MorseLevvBJ]

I think the unity one was on accudent

[@balloonboy7041]

@@MorseLevvBJ doubt

[@mikedavis1208]

I think these are just accidents.

[@ixkyu]

@@mikedavis1208 we'd like to believe that these are intentional even if they were accidents

[@abdcdfefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]

im pretty sure all of these besides the last one and maybe the comment piano thing

[@EREnder]

yo this video is awesome! Love the storytelling and it's nice to reexperience the events that happened back then

[@kippyxdd]

endur

[@iinhalegfuel]

I'm subbed to u

[@EREnder]

@@iinhalegfuel thank you :)

[@TheCreatorPilot]

Enderman my boi

[@EREnder]

@@TheCreatorPilot yo hi creatorpilot it's been a while

[@fakeblast]

In my honest opinion Bloodlust was the best top 1 we've ever had, such cool history, the time it took to come out, the decoration and how difficult the level was for the time it came out, it was insane

[@salomonthefish]

Nah it has to be bloodbath. It was insane how much harder it was than anything else, and the race to beat it went on for literal months. The demon list only had like 2 or 3 modern day extremes at the time, the rest was all insane demons.

[@farewell418]

Probably Cataclysm, it put the most popular GD song on the radar, it inspired levels such as Artificial Ascent, Bloodbath, and Aftermath. It was peak difficulty for the time, and it showed the game the worlds best players: Cyclic, GironDavid, and Riot. It was just all around revolutionary

[@deanmark3636]

@@salomonthefish And it proved that Riot was one of the best of all time at that time

[@Doyouknowwho]

Zodiac?

[@Mewtwo557]

ah yes, I remember this time. I was still shit at the game, but literally everything I saw from Manix blew my socks off to the other side of the world. Blade of Justice and Bloodlust still stand toe to toe as my favorite extreme demons in the game. Absolutely excellent work here. Also, I really appreciate how you approached "he who shall not be named". I find it very funny.

[@Dullsonic3]

You mean the evil wizard Voldemort?

[@ElysiumGD]

Even if Crazen has done wrong, I don't think it was it was a necessarily good idea to censor him out of the story completely tho :/ But yes, gud vid and 3 Manix levels :)

[@Dullsonic3]

@@ElysiumGD Let me guess, another predator?

[@angelogaray8019]

@@ElysiumGD Uh... who's Crazen?

[@xastava7516]

@@angelogaray8019 who gon tell him💀

[@silverdragon2462]

It's an ok video but to give realistic feedback, the whole premise is confusing. The idea that the GD Community would "almost vanish overnight" if Bloodlust was not completed is just clickbait and you give 0 evidence that the community was about to die, or that Bloodlust's completion "saved" anything (handpicked YT comments do not count). In truth, GD has been one of the most consistent games in terms of popularity level, and there was never a day it was remotely close to vanishing / dying. There's no evidence that extreme demons like Bloodlust or Fusion Z or BoJ had any impact on how future creators decided to improve their levels, so the entire epilogue is confusing and out of nowhere. In other words this whole timeline with different extreme demons being made / passed on to different verifiers is interesting but has little implications for the game itself. But the story-telling / animation is good, so I'll give you that.

[@omcogaming50]

FitMC wants to know your location Edit:The fun fact is that the Redacted player is Crazen

[@b48292]

you just ruined the whole point of redacting

[@dominatemc983]

@@b48292 Wow, my stupid self thought the players name was actually "redacted"

[@Zandezz.]

Gd is immortal

[@TaanishTheTitan]

Yes

[@MiArblys]

What can I say,except that this video is one,if not your best ! The story told is very interesting,the narration is on point,the editing is epic and gives me very good vibes :) This video is excellent,to say the least👍 It's an obvious Like+Subscribe for this work

[@MatMart]

thank you!

[@thisisanaccount6215]

@THE PAC IS BACK it will not come out D:

[@MiArblys]

@THE PAC IS BACK Where is the part one ?

[@codename-limbo]

I came here from watching debunking analog horror.

[@EchoGD]

Thanks for letting me edit part of the video! Your script writing, music choice and raw amount of effort you put into these videos is genuinely inspiring. Amazing work :)

[@XcreatorGoal]

Amazing video, super interesting topic and well done edit! 2.2 will def. revolutionize the Game and hopefully it will bring back old players to compete again and bring back the amazing feelings we had when people were verifying extremely hard levels

[@MatMart]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ItsCyclonic]

Hello XcreatorGoal! I watch your vids.

[@manixtheweirdo7059]

@@MatMart I really love it :)

[@Not_interestEd-]

2.2 finally got announced! We shall see if this statement holds true.

[@Dento64GD]

We wont forget what happend on your discord…

[@sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555]

after watching 5 minutes into the video you already forgot the thing which you came for, the exact date which geometry dash was gonna die

[@MoldyGD]

Idk what to say but epic doc yes, you should make some more

[@mycx8809]

Incredibly good commentary! You are an underrated creator.

[@WorseThanZoink]

10:41 the ꋬꋬꋬꋬꋬꋬꋬꋬꋬ got me 💀

[@JoshuaTheUnemployed]

AAÆAAAAAA

[@A_Dog_Named_Vox]

Amazing video! The storytelling was great and the editing was smooth as well. I loved how everything came together in the end. Also, the part at 14:45 gave me another idea. Can you imagine what will happen if [REDACTED] (Crazen) successfully stole and verified Bloodlust? In an alternate timeline, he would be the one to replace Knobbelboy as the top 1 most respected player of the time, be the one to bring GD out of its dark age and bring vitality into the game, potentially take on numerous more projects due to his fame, and influence GD like nobody ever could. His name will be engraved in GD history... But then, he would be exposed as a groomer. What would happen to the community at that point? How would they react to one of the most respected and loved people being exposed as a horrible person? It can even potentially be worse than the GHS situation since Crazen will probably delete Bloodlust and all of his other projects before leaving, so there would be huge damages done to the demon list. People would need to find numerous new verifiers to rebeat Crazen's levels and come up with a way to deal with the emotional impact. Maybe even more things will happen. Large players leaving? Civil wars between supporters and enemies of Crazen? Even a return? Now I really want to see a GD theory video about this topic. It will probably be super controversial and be demonetized tho :(

[@YodeePlayzGD]

big brain

[@WorkableGoldmanv2]

An interesting what if story can come out of this

[@carkitten67]

he wouldnt get fame and it would be like another blade of justice as his version was a lot easier than knobbelboys meaning it wouldnt place at top 1

[@mr_dinosaur9271]

4:01 man had a heart attack, stroke, and got new about his cancer all in one go

[@ybd]

Change the title to "the day world peace was almost achieved"

[@thepkxx6356]

underrated comment

[@FuunnyGD]

lol

[@O00v00OGD]

Where is the bloodlust moon

[@Therealjimpter]

Gru stole it

[@filenotfound_2416]

It’s silly to me that people really thought 2.0 was hurtful to the game. Every update to Geometry Dash since it released has been nothing but beneficial to the game and the community. RobTop, as far as I know, has never implemented super controversial features or changes except for the physics changes in 2.2 which is incredibly recent. I know early 2.0 levels were kind of a mess but of course it’s gonna take the community awhile to learn new features in the editor, and guess what? Creators eventually did get a grasp on them and the game ended up fine.

[@GDDNID]

anyone else noticed how everything is synced?

[@eternalvoid974]

What next after 2.2 comes out?

[@DSMister]

It's kind of ironic that you mention that early 2018 was the dark time for Geometry Dash. Personally, I remember during that time that because of the lack of notable events happening, the gameplay community had started forming, especially with the advent of Ocular Miracle back in November 2017. Even from a dark place, a spark had already formed and the small flames of creativity had started from another corner that would roar into an inferno that it is today.

[@deznut5]

highjump's part

[@ΣωτηρηςΚουρδουκλας]

Geometry dash never dies >:D

[@richi3035]

7:50 that's so iconic

[@arjunaakbarfarzani1174]

Thats Knobbel Boy?!

[@quandaledingle305]

4:10 bro got the camera that his grandpa used in WW2

[@progCan]

10:00 OMG THAT IS DA UNDERTALE DEATH SOUND!

[@Geckofallinga]

as long as at the speed of light exists geometry dash will remain

[@dashingclasher]

can we talk about how much of an unsung hero knobbelboy is? he went from the unlikely challenger to the overworked intern to the community's scapegoat to a replaceable dummy, and he still pulled through and beat bloodlust. a toast to knobbelboy's sheer willpower

[@terrarian5541]

17:33 gd players touch grass?

[@FTAlordOFdeath]

Idk how did they touch grass

[@realboofus]

i thought this man had AT LEAST half a million subscribers, I just realised he only has 30k. This man NEEDS more subscribers.

[@MatMart]

ty!

[@azivine7]

this is up there with samifying's documentaries. so cool

[@GDDNID]

Insane and interesting commentary video, GG

[@kko9278]

Nah Bro "Rose Are Red Your Mom Is Blue Where Is The Bloody Hell 2.2"??

[@Coldbibiwich123]

At 11:52 i really like the rhyme Roses are red The community is blue Where the bloody hell is 2.2

[@monkeeeeyt]

i joined gd almost 1 year ago and look at me i almost got a full hard demon layout ready and my hardest is a medium demon B

[@MatMart]

good job

[@cedrillion581]

This video is built like a murder mystery 💀💀💀💀5:52 but still , good video

[@saidoof9369]

Fr lmao

[@charliepagel3611]

That ending was so wholesome

[@CliveHQ]

9:10 lemoncake voice xDDDD

[@jayarr211]

on 3:47 he said get rekt son" (or surv) that line... looks familiar... it was in a song named "fun dance" by Sharks.

[@20Claud1]

“Everything changed when 2.0 was released.” Why does this remind me of ATLA?

[@inserthandsomefacehere9401]

Yes when my icon touches a spike the run dose end in any level 0:37

[@geiboi77]

the hitbox for a spike is a bit smaller than the visual

[@Sinner487]

calling this a mobile game is like calling minecraft a mobile game.

[@mizomaker05]

Minecraft can be playable on mobile 💀 and I play gd on a mobile

[@creepergd4884]

I like how whenever you put like someone creating a level it's just reversed footage of you deleting the level lmfao

[@ZesilinaNewborn]

Amazing video dude, and honestly i get more and more impressed by how the creators in the community keep pushing the editor again and again, as someone who's been here since 1.3, i'm amazed at how far we've gotten and look forward to the future and i hope gd grows even more

[@totes5555]

The day matmart stole FitMC's video title for another game and discovered stock images and still made a masterpiece

[@trafficlover74]

1:12 FERNANFLOO QUE HACES EN UN VIDEO GRINGO JAJWJQJJSJWJDDQDA

[@superslago2028]

0:29 man just explained the entirety of the game

[@Onvil_]

my man mat is recruiting new members to the gd cult, i mean fandom

[@Oszlfr]

1:41 trackmania had a track editor and it was made in 2005

[@reinhad]

3:35 playing gd with ADHD be like

[@andremckenna2007]

Only more for the player levels and the official demon levels

[@Seelsrcool8]

This comment is true

[@grammarworm8795]

Why is nobody realising the storytelling and thumbnail and title is literally just FitMc’s 2b2t video but put in a geometry dash context

[@qwildqq]

kind of but its missing the geometry dash version of "The oldest anarchy server"

[@patriotseangd]

It’s ironic how out of all the levels Manix made that he would fear for having bad gp it would be Blade Of Justice, one of the few levels he’s made without bad gp.

[@Icyleo]

10:09 We both use the same icon and colors

[@debajyotidas1]

This is amazing dude, keep up the good work :)

[@MatMart]

Thanks a ton!

[@aiapihud4344]

14:52 man I love not wanting to mention Crazens name! As if we can't all acknowledge the sea of scummy shit he did before the thing that he's most known for

[@Mythical_8]

I started playing the game right before Bloodlust was verified. I never knew that all this was happening before I joined. It’s really interesting to hear this story so many years later. Great job on this video!

[@gestly2880]

when 2.2 launches it's gonna be insane literally every youtuber is gonna make a vid of it even the ones who have never played it b4 lol

[@akramabbar684]

12:48 well that was a potato PC

[@7DQuillion]

I remember I first started playing back when zodiac was top one, I got so excited when bloodlust got verified, crazy that now it's barely top 30 I think

[@lzide3835]

9:21 I know of a level in the works which is a blade of justice remake that might go on a rampage of many skilled players failing to beat it just like normal blade of justice this has done Named S____ o_ D_______ guess what it is named in the replies

[@dasilvawayan]

Sword of destiny I'm not a gd player but I know this.

[@zMysticat]

1M VIEWS! Congrats legend. This was such a good video :D love your content!

[@CliveHQ]

Very interesting and informative!

[@johndavidrubio4731]

I completed blood bath in practice mode IN SCHOOL WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT which is my best gd accomplishment

[@F4anz]

Bloodbath has fallen down

[@Kari-From-Bangkok]

Anyone see michigun in the thumbnail?

[@sebastianmjynapiermjy]

Yeah

[@SkulltexWasTaken]

as a gamer once said, "Take a break, and youll come back better" 15:41

[@Matthewgd1929]

17:12 “one simple mobile game” *IS NOT JUST A MOBILE GAME*

[@Matthewgd1929]

.

[@prospectoridv]

5:41 undertale fans: UNDERTALE REFERENCE????!?!?!!!!!

[@benches3215]

If people were overwhelmed by 2.0, just wait for 2.2, that is if robtop ever finishes it

[@izyne2090]

One of the best if not the best gd documentaries I’ve ever seen!

[@VincentMBasul]

Should i start? Idk I'm so bad at timing, I don't even know how the mechanics work

[@ISuckOffCops]

I like how the clip at 1:50 is just you deleting the level backwards

[@uyscience6336]

nice video about the history of geometry dash. this matmart documentary is probably your best

[@NinjaTu2]

D- did i just get tricked into watching an ad for geometry dash? Well done lmao

[@NovaaZR]

7:57 i felt that jesus

[@Jthegamer02GD]

This was all just an ad in the end 💀💀💀 Still tho amazing ass video loved it so much felt like a documentary

[@ImranAhmed-hj1gl]

3:12 Matmart: in a era that most bossfights are some stupid dumb monster that ca-- Robtop joined the stream Matmart:Frick

[@MarkUnderMark]

Thanks for letting me do the intro! Because I really really wanted to do that xD

[@Gusi8898]

My gosh, for someone who doesn't play gd much (myself), it's crazy how long I've been invested in this community. I think your video really captures the essence of what makes it such a fascinating community. Thank you MatMart!

[@TheRealJaeleo]

Did you know gd was released August 13 2013 and I was born August 13

[@Geometrygeometry43]

Your lucky

[@TheRealJaeleo]

@@Geometrygeometry43 ty

[@smurtzii]

This is such an amazing video. You put so much into this video, and I love it so so much. One of my favorite parts is when you were switching between bloodlust and keeping the suspense for it while talking about other levels that were being rooted for Top 1. You executed that perfectly! I also love the ending when you made that smooth transition into getting people to play Geometry Dash. 10/10 content right here, thank you for this masterpiece

[@Rag_--]

After this video I see a simple game with other eyes, Awesome video.

[@MatMart]

Glad to hear that!

[@emmanuelgaming101]

This video was insanely interesting and had me hooked the whole way, incredible work Mat!

[@MatMart]

Glad to hear it!

[@superhall911]

These people saying it's dead probably have the free version and can't even beat stereo madness

[@TheLudicrousLuv]

As someone who wasnt active on the community even on the times like these, the editing in this video is amazing! Although im not all too familiar with the GD community lore, knobbelboys victory on bloodlust will never be forgotten

[@qwertyisverydead7027]

This title is stolen from fitmc but you are worthy of using it. Good video!

[@Prometheus_Alt]

I remember being so hyped, so exhilarated when bloodlust was verified. I know my hardest was like ToE 2 back then but to see that monstrosity of a level verified was a big feat

[@Hello7488to]

I have my own GD channel and I just discovered it 2 months ago

[@AriLAng11]

Video is really nice! Reminds me of a Maximum video. The intro was really interesting and visually impressive. I like that you explained how Geometry Dash works at the beginning however my one piece of criticism is at 0:44 when you were showing how “it gets way worse”. Felt a bit cringy and out of place. And for new players who have never heard of BloodBath, they wouldn’t know how that gameplay you shown would be hard anyways.

[@MatMart]

Thanks for the critiques someguy. Imo the new players would know how it would be hard as I show footage of Riot failing. This was the only segment in the video more primarily meant to appeal to newcomers rather then veterans. I tried to keep it short for viewers like you though.

[@foreverkurome]

I remember when everyone on the game didn't blatantly use a hack client.

[@therealzonkgd]

0:53 he sounds like he doesnt care lmao

[@BearplayzYT]

Ham

[@Microbeegd]

Zonk

[@imthebiggestbirb]

brace for another dark age, 2.2, it’s almost here bois!

[@CM.25]

I love me some gd documentaries, and damn this was really well made! Nice job :)

[@Lation]

👏