What Really Happened to the Zombies Community?!

[@ROXA5]

Man, time sure flies by..

[@jc_switch9421]

fr bro i was 8-9 years old when i started watching lex and pat

[@KN-592]

Zombies lost its secret sauce imo

[@jacknagle447]

It didn’t lose it, as it’s still there. They just got rid of it for something way worse

[@KN-592]

@@jacknagle447 yup gotta love vanguard

[@Shirohige4yonko]

The sauce it's there but they forgot who to cater to. They think Warzone idiots are the ones who got zombies to where it was 😐.also you know Activision doesn't care about it.

[@KN-592]

@@Shirohige4yonko I think it's all about where the most profits come from and mp unfortunately seems to bring the most, people are eating up all the mw crap they pay 70 bucks happily too, some people dk how to vote with their wallets lol

[@davidn.2555]

Well bring it back chef

[@minepro2929]

The first time I didn't need to lower my volume for a Lex video.

[@colbywatson2335]

I even had to turn it up

[@Largebean22]

I feel like no one ever mentions Reed in these videos. My man has won both EE4C’s and the first ZWC. He’s one of the all time greats. He hasn’t posted in a while, but I’ve seen him heart comments on his most recent video

[@lookatmyzombies9377]

I love Mr RadAustin27 I remember before Bo3 came out watching his out of map exploration series... Think I played with him once he did many streams where he played with people

[@ryandixon8202]

easter egg 4 chronicles, zetsubou with cena???? (please explain what the fuck the abbreviation mean)

[@trent132]

@@ryandixon8202 zombies world championship

[@regretEND]

@@ryandixon8202EE4C was a charity even where all these teams of streamers raced to see who could beat all the Easter eggs in bo3 first. ZWC was also an event for zombies streamers and players.

[@Victorfrederick17]

@@ryandixon8202Easter eggs for charity and zombies world championship

[@gokublack7504]

13:14 The og zombies KZbinrs will forever be my favorite uncs

[@cuyxjrplays]

Are they 30 yet probably only one right I think

[@The123tactics]

you mean NGT?

[@ToastMalone824]

love your channel lex. you've helped me get through so many tough times brother

[@somregularguy]

As someone who witnessed the growth of the zombies and COD as a whole from WAW to now it’s sad to see the peak is long gone, don’t get me wrong zombies and COD isn’t dead but it’s not close to what it used to be back in the days of MW2-BO2, you could go to the trending page on KZbin and you wouldn’t be scrolling too far to find a COD video… good times

[@TemariTheKid]

The one OG that hit the hardest to me was Radaustin27 aka Reed, I was following him since WaW so when he left that was like a heavy bitty for me

[@danny2896]

Well… aged like milk for sure

[@tommyplitt3176]

I disappeared for literally like 5 years but now I’ve started watching zombies videos again and it’s so true. The zombies community isn’t comparable to any other community. You are and always have been my favorite zombies KZbinr since I was like 12 and I’m 20 now lol

[@ToadimusPrime]

I have a bit to add in regards to NGT Zombies. I played with them during Zombies Chronicles, and during that time, it had just been Spiderbite and Hypermole leading the channel, with Axel (went by a different gamertag) joining in for Easter Eggs and challenges. There was another guy who just stopped playing with them at some point before Chronicles, but I can't remember the name. Axel had his own twitch channel and was mostly doing EE speedruns and then would eventually move on to other games, but he was never really a part of NGTZ. Hypermole left presumably because he was just done with Zombies. Spider would later return to play BO4 on his own, but then quit shortly after that. Never got a chance to ask what happened, I kinda stopped communicating with them after Chronicles when Hypermole left, and would occasionally get a pop-up of Spider playing zombies on steam, up until his return and disappearance again. I haven't seen him active on steam for almost 2 years now. Might just be because of the timezone difference, or he just stopped gaming on pc or in general.

[@fellerz_]

You might be thinking of TheOnlyBently or something like that. But Guns4hire and meaty was in ngtzombies. They left and started their own channel called YouAlwaysWin.

[@immute]

5:49 "I might be one of them" Close call recently...

[@wolfzey1846]

I posted this on Drrpy about NGTzombies, so here you go, "I think Drrpy missed on maybe the reason why NGTzombies didn't continue as NGTzombie was one of the many channels that spiderbite uploaded/managed, another being nextgentactics and i believe he had more than 3 channels where he was uploading and believe that he experience burn out and focused more on his family and talked about it in one of the returning videos"

[@azurraa]

God my childhood 😭

[@rex-ie9gf]

i’ve always felt in the loop of the zombies community and an active member but after seeing this video i realized i haven’t been consistently playing it since 2019 :( 5 years just went by and i had no clue i had disconnected so badly.. time is crazy

[@EpicGhostShadow]

😭😭😭❤ real

[@trejoo1]

NGT Zombies was the biggest blast from the past I have had in a while!!!

[@PLAYER-MOST-WANTED]

i still go back and watch their custom maps videos from time to time

[@bojeppe6828]

​@@PLAYER-MOST-WANTED same bro

[@Idranim]

fantastical gamer has been apart opf like 10 top 5 channels and its always jarring hearing his voice on a new channel but nevering being able to find his og one

[@thecanadiandefender1451]

Good to know my boi Azura is doing well, I loved his content the most back in the day. Still remember all the people calling him Peter Parker shit was so funny 😂

[@staticmetalxbl]

I miss Azura so much. Really wish his videos were still up.

[@jasiahcrider6418]

Just thinking bout the start of zombies always makes me remember how me & my brother discovered it. Hes 7years older then me & made me beat the campaign first before i could play multiplayer (i was in elementary school at the time) & he just played MP i finally beat the campaign & was super happy then got so scared & screamed for him to come in the room we were both so shook & I gave him the controller & watched him get to round 15. Pretty sure i had a nightmare after that but such good times…. If ya cared thats my zombies origin story 😂😂 23 now & still load up some nach zombies every once in a blue moon 🙏🏽

[@Ellie-yc3bl]

Must of been a legendary moment for you to look up too, round 15 on nacht is crazy, especially first attempt. Must've fueled your desire to get better at the start

[@blackheart7261]

Azura was my most watched zombies KZbinr during the BO3 era sad his gone but glad to know he doing alright 🙏

[@BruhBruhBruh251]

It’s definitely weird to think the first Z house was almost 10 years ago, and how much all the boys have developed and changed and it’s kinda heartwarming and weird

[@joelparshley9499]

I lived pretty close to the trainwreck that took yoteslaya from us i remember seeing it on the news before i even heard it on youtube between him syndicate ngt and you you guys made me the zombies player i am today and hell partly the person i am today thank you for that and rip yoteslaya

[@Dirk1337]

People always say reaction content is cheap. But the original content quality instantly gets 10x better when such a fantastic personality like lex is giving his thoughts to it. Unlike with other reaction content I watch I only know the content from Lex's reactions instead of searching for a reaction to something. That alone says a lot about Lex. Hope he stays and is happy in the zombies community as long as possible, it would be a devastating loss for the community.

[@sonofslic7716]

lex, coming back to you and watching this video brought back so many memories, i thank you for giving me a childhood

[@6ixallah]

I just wanna put this out here but I turn 25 next month and didn’t realize I been watching MrTlexify since I was 14 crazy man glad to be around since the OG days

[@Spmmcrasher1509]

Lex you should check out Afterlife's bo4 retrospective series. It's really well put together. He gasses bo4 up while still criticizing the worst parts of certain maps. He also gives a run down on the easter eggs and how they affect the story.

[@JayZX14]

There is french canadian youtuber/streamer ( Jyglox ) that got big on bo2 disapared one day, he came back for chronicle, for 2 week and we lost him again, we don't know where he is today

[@drdouchenozzle3556]

Ngt zombies was goated back in the day for custom zombies with spiderbite and hypermole along with you and pat… miss those days as a young teenager…

[@Sly]

There's some spin-offs including Hypixel Zombies on Minecraft, and some people who play that have never even heard of CoD Zombies. Kind of surprised to say the least, but just comes to show the impact this genre could have outside it's community

[@Bluabetic]

I wish I could've been a part of the zombies community when it was peak. I was too young to really understand anything about uploading to KZbin, but I absolutely loved the introduction into zombies with WaW, and I've bought every dlc since WaW just for the zombies. I still game and I'm planning on making a few videos on some zombies content, but I'm worried it won't do as well as I don't have a group to make zombies content with.

[@sgtdebones]

If JZ was still lead of zombies post-Buried, Richtofen's ending would of been canon and we'd likely get maps that focused on The Flesh and the forgotten Illuminati. Some maps would have been altered ofc, or outright changed entirely. Maybe ZC2 with Victis replacing celebs on specific maps as fractures like Ultimis on WaW maps. Maybe more original Victis maps. I'd like to see a zombies map at the Griffith Observatory and Hollywood Sign in the original universe post-Richtofen ending that focuses on the Illuminati

[@angeldelgado7120]

Thanks for everything Lex and thanks for staying around.

[@WakeUpDonni333]

this just gave me so much closure, yall have been in the back of my mind everytime i get high

[@takrequiem5706]

I think there’s one group of Zombie KZbinr that’s missing from this and believe me or not it’s PLAYtheGAME run by Benn Down. Basically they run theories about the lore of the Aether Story but since we haven’t heard anything from them it’s completely gone but Benn Down on the other hand he makes Zombies album inspired from CoD Zombies. If you listen his song “Alcatraz” you know it fits perfectly for Mob of the Dead

[@Malachite25]

You know it’s a good reaction video when Lex’s video is double the length of what he’s watching

[@CaIIMeVon]

Love the Yoteslaya shout out in the beggining he was the one that got me to watch you syndicate and all the others like that Rip to Yote the GOAT

[@itzchris6300]

I used to watch the shit out of his Borderlands 2 content, man I really miss him.

[@Kyle-bi7df]

I mean cmon, when we have had just 4 real zombie maps in past 5 YEARS and 0 in the past 3, how is anybody supposed to be passionate to make content/make a living. How Lex managed to survive this drought and stay loyal to zombies is incredible. God I hope BO6 surprises us and is a lot more than what we are expecting, zombies NEEDS it.

[@wingnut5206]

man, ive been non stop watching old z house and zombies content. Lex you specifically influnced me alot, i found myself in hs trying to copy your style of humor. I grew up watching you and pats zombie content. when z house started it introudeced me to so many more youtubers i love. And lastly something has to be said I love the dynamic you and jack had at both z houses, i wish i could have such a good friendship like that. thank you for your content lex past, future and present you make life easier

[@yvesangelic]

holy shit the amount of ties and behind the scenes work the zombies community has is insane

[@lookatmyzombies9377]

I watched NGTZombies everyday play custom zombies maps... Those were the times

[@qwwupp4763]

well this video is going to make me cry 😂 i miss NGT so much (especially spiderbite and gunsforhire)

[@CollinBrink]

Crazy Lex mentioned NGTZombies, Syndicate, and Yoteslaya cause those were like the hard carries of zombies back in the day. Until the day I found Lex’s channel in 2015 I would watch those 3 all day. Then I got obsessed with Lex’s BO3 stream highlights he uploaded when the game launched. Good times.

[@youjerbchannel1533]

Yall remember DavetheRave

[@Emxguy99]

I remember playing the maps day 1 and coming home from school to watch videos from everyone. I miss 2016-2017 man

[@nathanh1949]

Hope jack stood up for lex

[@Sevens777-j4x]

The Relaxing End is the face of zombies. He played the game the right way and I doubt anyone ever got more fun out of playing the mode than him. He’s a legend and my favorite zombies KZbinr besides Lex.

[@WhosGoldly]

"bonds and friends that are unbreakable" only if we knew sooner..

[@toxic_badasss9656]

I miss all them guys especially LonelyMailbox and Azura

[@cureoctane]

You definitely can’t say you could leave I’ll always stay for the reaction videos and streams you an OG

[@WillBrozInc]

Gotta reupload with heightened audio my guy

[@mattsib01]

I think personally the reason for the dying community is as follows: 1) all the originality of zombies went away. Most ideas of custom zombies have already been done (probably by Tim Hansen) Custom zombies is kind of a dead end. 2) Very large zombie creators loved by the community disappeared. (some came back) These youtubers leaving such as TheSmithPlays who said he was going to leave, but then came back not uploading zombies and so people forgot about these channels and so there was barely any supply of zombies from the big creators. So they left. Just my opinion, feel free to break my arguement

[@jamiecarr8143]

Glad he’s reacting to this video

[@quasimoto7662]

I mean answering this before watching the video, the zombies KZbin community was full of really really young guys (late teens early 20’s) when zombies was at its peak in popularity on KZbin, and unfortunately because of the content of the game, it was really difficult to stand out when compared to many of the larger zombies channels. Even among bigger KZbinrs. It’s sorta like how Minecraft had a huge surplus of channels, but zombies does have the issue in diversity in its content within the base game many other games don’t after a while. In zombies, the base goal of every game is always the exact same, whereas Minecraft, GTA, COD Multiplayer, and so on there’s a lot more variety in strategies you can take, things you can do, and so on. That becomes a problem in the long term when you only have so many maps, so many challenges, ranking lists, and so on, particularly for solo KZbinrs. So even before custom zombies came out on BO3 plenty of semi popular channels did end up going away in some form or switched to other content. This wouldn’t have been as big of an issue if the game also stayed relevant, and sadly for zombies since BO3 the game hasn’t resonated with fans in the same way that it used to. Even the biggest zombie fans and KZbinrs will admit that it just isn’t what it used to be. So with all of those factors in mind: a declining game series, a lack of the potential for more unique content for solo KZbinrs, a mostly young series of KZbinrs who were moving on from the series of zombie games already right after the highest peaks in the series because of the surplus, coupled with growing up and other things killed the zombies KZbin community. That’s the sad fact of it, at least in my opinion. It was never any one thing, it was several things that stacked on each other that eventually killed it.

[@dirt481]

Rip Yoteslaya, he was the reason I got so into cod zombies.

[@49HEALTH]

I think treyarch has delivered every game. It’s just that the first 4 zombies games set the bar so high, it was inevitable we’d get something that’s not as good.

[@Caldilsee]

"Commentary youtube...I feel like it's all drama and allegations and it's just so boring..." 💀RIP the only man who was keeping this community together. Come back to us brother.😭

[@SoliceEclipse]

i miss bo2 zombies era...

[@west-cm6ie]

Man rest in peace yoteslaya remember watching zombies and borderlands

[@Shadowkiller-dq2ju]

The title of this video is awkward after August 2024

[@tanispalmer3170]

WE LOVE YOU LEX!!! u have no idea how happy it makes me that you still make content for us 💛

[@cmac6136]

Damn psycho made lex go bald

[@jadaicebarbosa9553]

cant believe how long its been man time flies

[@Struud]

29 minutes of Lex rating thumbnails

[@averycringykid]

Bruh video is about to make me cry not gonna lie

[@ViruszPlayz.5822]

Me to bro, we aren’t kids anymore 😭🫡🫡🫡🫡……

[@AXGInsanity]

Gunna and Meaty still play, just called YAW

[@nicolaiodonnell7327]

Azura is a blast from the past man

[@patrickjoseph2822]

It sucks that Z House thought they had to only rely on Zombies when, in reality they could have expanded into a content house like SideMen, The Boys, or AMP

[@Loneee_999]

NGT Got Me Reminiscing 😭😭😭

[@TacoLex]

Syndicate… baggage with that name 😂

[@EpicGhostShadow]

"The WHAT train???" 💀

[@user-op6kt8pg9y]

The zombie community died when b03 ended

[@perry8165]

I miss TheGuyWhoCamps 🥺🥺

[@sails.]

Cant blame jack for finding a way out

[@ryananderson8606]

FOREVER REMEMBER YOTESLAYA!!

[@daylightdies7194]

I do miss Azura and he’s a copper that blows my mind I hope he’s well and life’s treating him well

[@vankogiorgio]

Rip Yote. So many hours of hilarious content. I wish he could’ve seen Bo3 customs

[@boof994]

Zombies died with bo3. Man remeber how hyped pple were for bo3 map trailers, remember the reactions. The smith plays seeing the ppsh in the box of gorod krovi, the relaxing end carrying people, the olympia raygun video, it is something i always remember. It mKes sad that even of treyarch tried, it isnt possible for them to make zombies as good as it was. It would have to be an exact copy and paste with next gen graphics

[@elwickedz1313]

What about PlayTheGameCentral? Their coverage of Mob of the Dead back in BO2 only elevated that map for me

[@lookatmyzombies9377]

Oh I remember they allegedly had inside information

[@mesalex4]

i still miss Frenzy wish he would upload again

[@fIukee]

Lex you are such a legend I appreciate the time and effort you put into your content! Thanks for the laughs and memories

[@kebabgames420hehexd6]

Man I miss a lot of these guys, especially Pat, Sam, and Jack. Hope everyone's doing alright :)

[@Spenglenoodle]

I miss Reed and JohnyJ, zombroz was the jam back in the day, still have the mug

[@lookatmyzombies9377]

Yes i watched 99% of those

[@MrFreshhh]

RIP Yote 😢 Best days of my life watching him after school 😔

[@TheTechTavern]

this is how i find out Jack made one of my favorite songs?? How did I never realize he made 3 Types... talk about small world man

[@nonenone7761]

Spider-bite is my favorite missing Zombies tuber.

[@DarkHackerYT]

The thumbnail 😭

[@ILIKELOTSOFCAKE]

if Jack returned right now, I would have no complaints for the rest of my life

[@EpicGhostShadow]

Real

[@gavyn005]

I love the zombies community and I always will

[@LAVAMOOSE1369]

is this the first time we get quiet Lex??

[@EpicGhostShadow]

W

[@WoahBetrayed]

I remember playing a game of zetsabo with therelaxingend just found him in a public match

[@kennypowers1945]

Now that’s awesome. I’ve always wished I coulda ended up in a lobby with him or the others

[@quellepls2568]

We need to make our own zombies games

[@BillyBloodshed]

Really hope bo6 will bring back at least some of the feeling of the good ole days of zombies

[@SlobberCobbler]

If you wish to save VODs from Twitch, after you finish streaming, go to your recent streams and save the entire thing as a highlight, it stays forever.

[@davidloomis6668]

The JFK gamer has all the content creators in his basement

[@jlblue3072]

Biggest loss to this day, @MrTLexify meme intros

[@jack10229]

Qknightz will always hold a special place in my heart

[@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter]

Poor chucky man. Now he’s working for the one of the biggest losers on KZbin. I never liked Mr beast anyways though, always knew he was just another Ellen situation. Especially if anyone remembers his og content

[@aquaimperative5618]

I will say, the zombies community while great, is still far from perfect. I say our biggest problem is how unaccepting we are of change and different opinions and ideas. I mean few communities in any games have scenarios where if you dont like or do like a map, you're just completely wrong. Why are players not allowed to like Origins? Why are players not allowed to like ww2 zombies? I feel that if we try to look at these different opinions by trying to understand why and where they're coming from, that we will create much healthier and more productive conversations.

[@jake_norsegael]

Phil an officer?!?!? BACK THE BLUE BABY 💪🏻

[@thatmemeguy2520]

i will always enjoy zombies despite not being massively into it anymore and thats mainly becuase where all growing up and real life hits U and some zombies games being a hit or miss also plays a factor into the zombies community not being as good as it wants was imo

[@hunchieee]

Youalwayswin got me hooked to zombies back in the day