By: Atticus Dewey

Alone, betrayed, and sick of his job Adam Dahlberg, known as NetNobody, would be ending his YouTube career to follow his passion: music. He had been recording videos on game called Minecraft — a game that would suck all the love he had for gaming — for over five years before he decided he had enough.

Born on January 17, 1994, Dahlberg was adopted at a young age to go to a home that would care for him. However, Dahlberg admits that his upbringing is one of the things that drove him to the internet.

On the internet Dahlberg found a game that he would eventually begin recording games for. Runescape was a game that Dahlberg became addicted to. In fact, he was addicted to the point of which Dahlberg would spend hours every day playing the game. He eventually gained an unhealthy amount of weight, an amount of weight that would make Dahlberg realise his addiction.

“With Runescape, I was known [on that game] for having high agility and I made this joke that was the higher your agility gets in that game, the fatter you get in real life,” Dahlberg said, reminiscing on Runescape. “So I lost the weight by doing the entirety of P90X twice as well as jogging all the time. I also changed my diet to healthier foods and when I felt happy about my life I decided to try and come back to video games.”

When Dahlberg came back to video games he also decided to start making YouTube videos. As the Runescape community began to idle out, Dahlberg moved his attention from making Runescape videos to Minecraft videos. He looked at what other popular Minecraft YouTubers were doing at the time and put a comical spin on it.

“I went to all these YouTubers different pages to see what made them stand out. I noticed a recurring trend of ‘mod showcases’ and how no one had ever done them comically or done them as a comedy based skit,” Dahlberg revealed. “So I thought, ‘let me do this thing which seems to be popular in trends but make it my own’ so I started adding my own characters, and did some really wacky stuff.”

Five years after he began to make Minecraft YouTube videos, Dahlberg finally began to lose his passion for making gaming videos. “Randomly a few people came onto the scene with strictly kid-friendly content and it basically swapped the community, changing it to this kid-friendly vibe, to the point where if any of us wanted to collaborate with others from the community, we would have to turn kid-friendly as well,” Dahlberg said. “I wound up founding my whole company on kid-friendly stuff and I really was not happy. Back when I was uncensored and able to do whatever I wanted, that’s when I had the most fun because it was the most real me, it was the most realistic version that I could be. After a while, it felt as if I was losing Adam to this Sky character and I knew it was time to stop.”