Funny / MagicGum Civilization Experiments

• In general, Magic Gum's very straightfowards and direct voice is the source of many laughs, especially when dealing with ridiculous and absurd situations, or Black Comedy.

" 100 Players Simulate Civilizations in Minecraft "

• The Black Comedy of the initial experiments being absolutely chaotic with people speedrunning murdering each other to the most negative reputations possible "as a badge of honor."
• The audacity of Magic Gum to name the exile zone "Australia."
• "The Plains region went straight to work, doing what every country does in new lands: extracting natural resources, taming animals, and stealing resources from the natives."
• "Welcome to Siberia, I don't care what you name it, you're going to die here, that's all." - Mayyye
• MagicGum realizing that the Jungle's community system was starting to look suspiciously like Communism, complete with the Soviet flag slowly fading in on top of the footage and the Soviet national anthem slowly growing louder in the background.
• "The lack of leadership created a Civil War, as members fell one by one like flies. Some by murdering other players, and some by trying to keep order by murdering those who murdered other players."
• It turns out, due to the chaos in the Ocean civilization, only 2 players survived. The funny thing is, one of them wasn't in the Ocean to begin with, so the Ocean effectively only had one survivor, like some sort of twisted Battle Royale.
  • The guy who wasn't in the Ocean to begin with "became king, winning with a landslide vote of 2 to 0."
• "But just like in real life, you don't magically get diamonds from god." Cue Gilligan Cut to someone placing down a sign saying "Sub 2 Magic gum," getting his diamonds duplicated in return.
  • The Plains continuing to "force the natives into one sided trading relationships."
• "In the meantime, some guy got mobbed by a polar bear, while the rest of the country cheered the polar bear on."
• "The Jungle society was now thriving, with a full fledged wall, farm, and their leader hadn't died to lava yet, so that was a good sign.
• The fact that the shrines "Siberia" built to their admin wasn't actually dedicated to Mayyye, but to Kiwi, the admin of the Ocean region.
  • The "Kiwi give me stuff" sign getting replaced with a "Worship Only Maye" sign, coupled with ominous zoom in.
  • "They became known as the nation of 'Siberia', cause it's really cold I guess."
• Clownpierce trying to reenact his execution of Kspnerd in front of MagicGum, only for Kspnerd to not die (probably due to being in creative), with MagicGum being forced to execute him with /kill while Clown wails on him, causing him to die anticlimactically after a minute of using his sword on him.
  • "I think he's got some sort of divine protection" - Clownpierce
  • "That was so realistic." - Other plains member
• "I'm gonna die dude, I'm gonna die..." "No don't."
  • Image on screen: "LIVE" "Flare: 'no don't'" *graph depicting a sharp, dropping trendline* "BREAKING NEWS: DEATH RATE DROPS TO 0%
  • The soldier that was going to save them dying by falling from their skybase.
• "We have to stay safe, just... come over here, oh shoot..." - player attacked by Hannibal, captioned with WHAT.
• "This is our base. I don't know what they do here. I don't like seeing their private places" - Mayyye, god of the Siberians
  • "Storage Rooms." *Walks into dead end* "Nothing here... don't don't don't." - Mayyye
  • "This is our prayer room, they pray to me for items." "Definitely not Kiwi right?" "Not Kiwi - not anymore, I killed them."
  • Mayyye trying to imply that the statue built for Kiwi was his, and MagicGum going along with it.
  • Mayyye praising his nation's technology over that of the Plains, then stating that they are too poor to have a bed, causing MagicGum to question him about it before he replies that "we don't have wool here, we only have fish".
  • Them producing paper sheets named "Siberian Propaganda" and giving them to everyone.
• One Siberian getting trapped in an escape hole by an Ice Warrior, then somehow surviving.
• "They violated the basic the basic rule of war: 'Never give up the high ground,'" credited to Sun Tzu, probably
  • One of the top comments:
  Oh please we all know the most important and basic one and it is
  "Never invade Russia in winter"
  In which they failed to see
  — dragonisanoverratedname8767
• "He had made a small hut during his time reflecting on his actions, but turns out he learned nothing from them, because he made his way all the way to the mesa base, and planned to ambush them"

" 100 Players Develop Kingdoms in Minecraft "

• The fact that "Starvation and war managed to wipe out 97% of the world population," during the previous event, complete with bruh sound effect.
• The Plains anthem, while heartwarming, is also funny for how simple it is:
  Plains on top!
  Plains on top!
  Plains on top!
  Plains on top!...
  — Plains farmers
• "Maybe they got a little too creative, as a weird cross appeared in the sky, making me slightly question their sanity." - MagicGum.
• "At first, the people tried to grow wheat in sub-zero conditions, but failed, so they turned to the next best solution: Exploiting the local natives for their resources."
• MagicGum treating the Republic of Alchembrew forcing a diamond covered player to give up their armor by force as a Witch Hunt, complete with calling the clay patch technique "a generational art."
• Eggcat's speech, despite being epic, was also very long and melodramatic, not helped by MagicGum using Civilization 6's opening montage to spice up its ending.
  • Eggcat using "mandatory volunteering" to commission a statue of himself.
• MagicGum stating that Hungery_ "became popular after promising riches in exchange for people's support" a.k.a *Bribing Officials*.
  • Followed by somebody requesting his 20 gold from Hungery_ immediately, with Hungery_ promising to have his miners mine for it.
  "Legends say, he's still waiting for that gold"
  — MagicGum
• When the Desert shows off their abstract art, one of them makes a comment about how Diorite is the worst Minecraft block. This prompts MagicGum to overanalyze the art, saying how it's like how the desert kingdom seems useless but isn't, captioned with "english teachers be like:"
• The Desert building piston aircraft (in a Medieval experiment) and attempting to use them to haul resources long distances to reach the plains. Emphasis on attempting, as, during their first delivery, all of the pilots fell off of their vehicles to their deaths, leaving the planes to drop off their goods at the Plains unattended.
  • The Plains subsequently trying to man the aircraft themselves, only to make the exact same mistake.
• A viking trying to assassinate Clownpierce in broad daylight in front of his entire army, while announcing it loudly to his target. No points for guessing what happens next.
• The snow king chooses the most unfortunate time to have lag: When getting ambushed by the crusading army. Cue his death. What really seals the deal is what MagicGum says in response:
  "It was a textbook mistake in the art of war: 'Never trust Comcast internet'"
  — MagicGum, quote credited to "Sun Tzu, probably"

" 500 Players Colonize Earth in Minecraft "

• "Here, we'll be seeing constant natural disasters, brutal winters, and violations of the Geneva Conventions, so just like normal earth."
• During the Ice Age, a group of players tried getting food from MagicGum by singing a song about it to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree."
• "The Arctic People migrated to Greenland for better conditions, which, if you didn't know, is also 80% ice" - MagicGum
  • The Arctic using Clash of Clans music to set the mood.
  • To demonstrate how poor the Arctic civilization was, MagicGum went up to one of their shopkeepers and asked them what they sold. The shopkeeper promptly roleplayed as a Skyrim NPC complete with shopkeeper music and stilted dialogue, telling him that they only had a carrot.
• The Outback having a giant sign pointing towards their main settlement in order to attract players from the Australian desert.
  • MagicGum mentioning that the Upsidedowners "had problems convincing people to stay", followed by their leader Venzai showing that they imprisoned someone for calling his right hand man Josh ugly, and were planning on using him as a test subject.
    • "So instead, Venzai did what any rational leader would do: immediately begin developing weapons of mass destruction."
• Oddimur failing to escape from the Arctic after bombing their walls, being put in their surprisingly nice prison (though the guards refused to make it nicer for him).
  "I used to be feared!" - Oddimur
  • Oddimur complaining about the lack of running water in his prison.
  • Oddimur somehow finding his way out of the prison just as he was about to be extradited back to Africa, with nobody having noticed him until the middle of their conversation. Oddimur then claimed that it was his "daily alloted hour of exercise" before trying to run away, only for the guards to catch him immediately and lead him back to the prison.
• The name of JoshTheNerd's weapon? The HonCannon1.1.
  • The Australians getting attacked by Emus.
• Eggcat_'s chapter being titled "The Florida Man"
  • After hearing from his spies about Europe preparing firework rockets, one of his soldiers asks how to counter them. Another replies:
  "We don't! We die!"
  • CommonHat's speech degenerating into Emperor Palpatine's speech from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, complete with reorganizing Europe into an empire.
  • MagicGum using the Spiderman pointing meme to illustrate how confusing the spy situation was.
• The Trost Sanctuary using their king as a test subject for their first rocket test flight, only to realize halfway through that their King couldn't come back from this. Fortunately, after MagicGum talks some more about them, it's revealed that he survived by dropping into water.
• The fact that Taiwan's rival named themselves "real china".
  • One of the Taiwanese accidentally blowing himself up with his TNT minecart.
• Europe's prison practicing forced labour.
  • How did the Arctic let Oddimur escape? They accidentally locked themselves in with him, then let him out without getting themselves out first.
• Someone reaching the edge of the map, causing them to realize that the Earth was flat and bounded. MagicGum promptly tried drowning him with water for "seeing too much".
• The European Union's Olympics included such sports as "archery, mountain climbing, and... pit fighting?"
  "So basically no Olympic sports except for archery" - MagicGum
• "Who the f- is laughing?" An African complaining during an African funeral service.
  • "I made the boats racially diverse." "Cause it's like made out of different woods." - MagicGum
• Draco, the head of NASA, trying to instruct a new recruit in how to pilot one of their redstone piston rockets, only for the recruit to break one of the rocket's critical components in trying to launch it.
  • Unlike the other civilizations who mastered redstone, Mexico just used them to "make some fire beats."
    "We in Mexico, We in Mexico" - MagicGum singing along with the tune
• MagicGum representing Africa's gift of Trilliam dollars to Hevan_Girl with the "This is worthless" joke.
  • The Assassins Guild confronting their target, Lirdak, in broad daylight, loudly announcing their intent to assassinate him. While Europe had a diplomatic mission there. Predictably, many of the higher ranking members of the guild were slaughtered, including the former leader of Australia Venzai, with Lirdak surviving the attack.
    • The Australian empire falling apart as a result of Venzai's death.
• The sheer Patriotic Fervor the United States possessed, featuring a dedication towards freedom, the Star Spangled Banner, openly displayed American flags, a low-resolution copy of Mt Rushmore, the ability to "exploit the legal system," and a McDonalds without a good stockpile of food.
  • The McDonalds being out of fish due to their fishermen being "lacking," "sanctions," and Covid.
    • When MagicGum requests ice cream, it looks as if gulfstream_'s ice cream machine is actually working, unlike in the prototypical McDonalds as Lampshaded by MagicGum, saying that it was "unrealistic." Unfortunately, their ice cream machine was indeed not working.
    • Immediately thereafter, MagicGum holds gulfstream_ up with a crossbow and asks him for "all of his Fillet'o'Fishes and his ice cream machine."
    • After the robbery ends, gulfstream_ explains to Magic that "if you don't like a customer, you can just spit in their food." MagicGum then comments that "we're working at a Popeyes right now."
    • After stating to CorruptedFlare that he planned on leaving a 1-star Yelp review, gulfstream_, being within earshot, immediately pulls a crossbow on Magic for this, causing Magic to run away into the streets to report him to the police, who then immediately go to "beat the f- outta dis boy."
    • After they reach the McDonalds, the police and MagicGum find that gulfstream_ has run away, only to discover him nearby in the streets. He immediately claims self-defense, as Magic tried to rob him earlier. Magic then calls all of the United States' officials to oversee his trial.
    • At the trial, gulfstream_ represents himself and claims, in response to MagicGum's claim that he pulled a "gun" on him, that Magic did it first. Two of the councilors present make an objection on point of assumption, while MagicGum tries to turn the trial in his favor by bribing the president, TheMustachedMan, with diamonds, alarming the crowd.
• Beastow, one of the Point of View characters for the Night of Fire, immediately exclaims that the flames represent global warming, and notes how serious this global warming was, "not like any global warming [hes] ever seen."
  • Magic captions his own footage of the start of the Night of Fire with "pov: you used a plastic straw."
• Beastow misconstruing MagicGum's insinuation that he isn't as wealthy as he could be as "[being] broke," with MagicGum hammering the point in by claiming he can easily tell just by looking.
  • Beastow having to figure out who Mansa Musa is by Googling him.
    • Beastow mispronouncing his name when speaking to the Europeans, despite reading off of Google.
  • Beastow looking confused when Magic teleports him into the middle of the desert.
  • Magic commenting how surprising it is for him not to be mugged, interrogated, or investigated by anyone for having so many diamonds.
• Mexico using the pretext of being oppressed by a usurper to, blatantly, try and lure America's president, TheMustachedMan, into a staircase trap, only for the president to say no.
  • The fact that several people died trying to test the trap beforehand.
• *This guy randomly found the town so we forced him to participate*
  • Zmanmarting killing the villager TheDarkFart to the statement of "Fuck this social climate of America." before covering him in lava, only for him to not die for a while due to being asleep.
    • When he wakes back up right into the lava, all he can say is a long, soft, "AHHHH" before burning to death.
  • Magic messing up the Salem event by accidentally saying the name of the murderer, zmanmartin, when discussing the event, only to, instead of letting him get executed, send him to Russia "for some cultural immersion."
    • MagicGum asking zman for their location, with the Russians playing along by asking him to not look at their shields, only to state that he was in Florida, shocking him.
• The Russians' leader making the Badass Boast that they have "enough vodka in [their] bloodstream to kill a bear."
  • Their leader calling the Chinese "stupid," which everyone else objects to.
  • The lagginess of the Great Wall fight.
• The fact that any 3 of the 7 trade goods could be used together to make a nuke, including things such as furs, tea, oil, and emu feathers.
  • MagicGum lampshading it by asking the viewer to "shut up" about the Fridge Logic involved.
• zman unknowingly getting the fact that the Uk would be involved with America correct, as, shortly after his robbery, the Uk would actually invade America.
• Magic asking for an additional 25% off for the stock of one of the last shops on the server due to the imminent end of the world.