


Some placed obscene content around the spawn area and along player-built roads to get TheCampingRusher's YouTube videos taken down due to violations of YouTube's terms of service. Some players built in-game contraptions designed solely to overload the server, with the intent of making it difficult for TheCampingRusher and his fans to play on it. Some older players deterred new players by destroying the spawn-in area to make it uninhabitable and extremely challenging to proceed from. Īlthough the new players, who called themselves "Rushers", largely outnumbered the older players at the time, the older players had years of experience and resources. This overwhelmed the server and strained the hardware used to host and run it, bringing together a loose group of older players who banded against these new players. This caused a massive influx of new players from the channel's audience, who were at first mostly tourists, as the video gained over two million views in less than four months from its upload. On June 1, 2016, YouTuber "TheCampingRusher" uploaded a YouTube video of himself playing on 2b2t. Unique 2b2t players over time according to the server administrator This increased to almost one terabyte by late 2015, costing US$90 a month to maintain. In early 2013, the file size of 2b2t's world map, which is procedurally generated, was reported to be over 500 gigabytes. A subreddit was created by a player on March 25, 2012. Except in fixing game-breaking exploits, these server operators are relatively hands-off in administrating the server. The founders eventually stopped playing Minecraft, though the server remained online due to the large player base that had been formed. Members from different forums raided each other and their bases on the server. The server was advertised shortly after its creation on online forums such as 4chan, Facepunch Studios, and Reddit, whose users populated the server by the hundreds due to the total freedom it offered.

fter a while we decided to open it up to see how much destruction could be made and started advertising it on various places on the Internet. There was no main reason or big idea, it started out as any generic Minecraft test server in late 2010 where me and some friends played on to play the game. After being asked by Vice journalist Andrew Paul via email in 2015, the server operator stated: The founders are anonymous, choosing to remain unknown or known only via usernames the most prominent founder is commonly referred to as "Hausemaster" or "Hausmaster". The 2b2t Minecraft server was founded in December 2010.
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The basic story is that this guy who ran the Garry's Mod server started a Minecraft server with the same premise – that you can do anything you want – and this was then given to one of his friends, who we know as Hausemaster. In a Rock, Paper, Shotgun article by Brendan Caldwell, 2b2t player James Rustles stated about the server's origin:
