“ | Hello everyone, this is Mumbo, and... | ” |
―Mumbo Jumbo's intro |
Oliver "Oli" Brotherhood[1][2] (born: December 1, 1995[3][4]), better known online as Mumbo Jumbo (or simply Mumbo), is an English Minecraft YouTuber known for showcasing his redstone builds, sometimes with details on how to build them, as well as testing new features. He is a member of the Hermitcraft SMP server in Minecraft, having joined at the start of Season 2. He currently lives in Waterlooville, Hampshire.
Early Life & Call of Duty[]
Oli was born on December 1, 1995 in Farnham and started to make videos about BMXing, with his friends, as he was into that at that time. At some point in his life he met Tom, the person who he would originally start Mumbo Jumbo with. Tom had an Xbox 360 and Oli decided to buy one. He started making Call of Duty videos on channels such as AspectDz and DatsikGaming, with his friend Tom. He also had his personal channel at that time too, named MrOliBrotherhood, where he just uploaded clips and subscribed to people who he liked. This all changed when he saw a Minecraft video and thought he really liked it, so he started to play it and create content on the game.
Starting out on Mumbo Jumbo[]
Oli created the ThatMumboJumbo channel on the March 30th, 2012[5] and uploaded his first video a day later[6], which has since been unlisted. The first public video on his channel was 'ServerCraft Survival: Episode 5: To The Nether!'. He called himself 'Viva' in this video, because that was his Call of Duty (Gamer) name[7]. He also had a friend working on the channel, called Tom, with his name being 'DaCube' (he was 'Jumbo' in the YouTube name). He left the channel at 200 subscribers and now Mumbo runs it himself.[8]
Early Videos & Series[]
After Mumbo's ServerCraft series, he started making some redstone themed videos and later tutorials on how to use and build various redstone contraptions. He had a prominent series at this time, called ‘60 second Minecraft’, where he had to build a redstone contraption in under 60 seconds. This caused him to get 1000 subscribers on his channel. In Early 2013, after Geomine, Mumbo started a series known as 'Mumbo's World', where he played through survival on his own world. He hit 50,000 subscribers in the middle of this series and stopped the series on Episode 15, five months in. This is when he joined Hermitcraft SMP.
Survival SMPs & Hermitcraft[]
MumboJumbo had been dabbling into Survival Multiplayer Communities since 2012. He started off with a server called Geomine, which was a server run by Xisumavoid which brought together players and a few Youtubers. The community invited him for his videos, and he played there for a while. This is partly the reason why he ended up on Hermitcraft Season 2, with Xisuma and other people of that community knowing him for his videos. Unfortunately, the server got hacked after a few months and everybody stopped playing, so Mumbo started another series.
On June 9, 2013, Mumbo was approached to join Hermitcraft. He accepted, with his first video on the server being titled HermitCraft: Episode 0 - Welcome Home . He has since been a continuously active member. He has been on the Minecraft server since Season 2, so he is a veteran. He is currently the most well-known Hermit as he has the most subscribers.
Mumbo also participated in Last Life Season 2. Last life is essentially a Minecraft hardcore survival mini-series. Everyone would start with 2-6 lives (green lives have 3+ lives, yellows have 2, and reds have 1), and live peacefully, build alliances, etc. But when a player became a red life, they would automatically be entitled to attempt to kill anyone they pleased. There was also a boogie man. The boogie man would be chosen each session and would have to kill one of the players (except the ones that were on their red life). If they succeeded, they would be cured, if they failed, they would be automatically turned into a red life in the following session. Another rule was that players could trade lives with other players (ex: player 1 had one life and player 2 had three lives, then player 2 traded a life to player 1, then player 1 would have two lives, and player 2 would have two lives). Mumbo was a part of the Southlands alliance, which contained Grian, SolidarityGaming, ImpulseSV, and InTheLittleWood. He died second in the series, being killed by Grian after he attacked him.
Mumbo then participated in Secret life Season five. The gimmick for this season was that each player had three lives, with 30 hearts, and hearts do not regenerate. Every week, players are given a task that if they complete, they can get extra hearts, or reroll for a harder task to get even more hearts if they succeed, or lose hearts if they fail. Mumbo was allies with “The Mounders” which contained Pearlescentmoon, Smallisbeans, and BDoubleo100. He dies second, in session 6 to a warden.
Minecraft Skin[]
Mumbo Jumbo's usual Minecraft skin is a civilized man in a bespoke designer tuxedo with a moustache. He has used many variations of this skin such as; In Hermitcraft Season 7, he used variations of his skin that makes it look more hobbit-like (due to his starter base being based on a hobbit hole), his skin having a moustache-shaped bald patch in the back of his head, an open mouth with missing teeth instead of his moustache and the sleeves of his suit pushed up towards his shoulders, with his trousers around his stomach. In 2020, recovered his moustache from Tango Tek. Recently, In Hermitcraft Season 7, Mumbo said that he found his main skin when he searched 'moustached businessmen Minecraft skin'. In Hermitcraft Season 7, his skin was altered so that his trousers go up to his chest with a crop top. He has several "moustaches" all over his head due to Grian shaving the hair all over his head in a video. His other Minecraft account, "Mumbo" - used primarily as a Camera Account on the Hermitcraft Server, has kept his default skin in the midst of all of this.
Channels[]
Mumbo has quite a few channels, however two of them are currently active, which is Mumbo Jumbo and Mumbo (Vlogs). He had two previous channels, which at different points he called his second channel. Back in 2013, when it was the April Fools Minecraft 2.0 update, Mumbo made an animation about what is new in this update. People seemed to enjoy this, so he wanted to create another channel to dedicate some of his time into animating things relating to Minecraft and other topics. He made two animation videos and a tutorial on how to 'Create Motion in After Effects'. After his 2nd animation, he became inactive on this channel. This was unknown until Mumbo later explained his reason on TheMumbo, his newest second channel. What happened was Mumbo got two copyright strikes on that channel and if he risked a third one, it may terminate his whole career. TheMumbo was a paid channel, which was an old feature on YouTube where you had to pay to subscribe, similar to the 'Join' button nowadays, which Mumbo has on his main channel. On TheMumbo, he did vlogs to the paid members, as well as making the original version of his setup tour from 2014. He since discontinued this channel due to a bug that the paid feature was broken and nobody could subscribe to that channel.
Filmography[]
Mumbo has delved into making films since 2016 with small, personal films about his main channel (he makes these films on his second channel, called 'Mumbo') such as updates and even making films about cars that he has or is interested in. In 2017, he introduced short films to his channel, with his first one being 'Snow in the Forest '. He continued doing this, with a series called 'UK Roadtrip'. In October 2018, Mumbo shot his first film to be featured in a theatre about a Filipino fisher. He shot a Christmas advert a few months later in December 2019 and then started shooting music videos in July 2020. Mumbo started a production house too, named 2Story in 2018. He has a website made by himself, using Wix. He featured the website and Wix in a sponsored video.
Live Stream Joke[]
He made a Xbox Live joke of a user 'Mumbo For Mayor'. This was a joke because he was campaigning to be mayor on 'Hermitcraft'. However, he swiftly stopped the livestream and made it private, so nobody can view it anymore.
Trivia[]
- He has a strong interest in cars, surfing, filming, and photography.
- He is one of the few Hermits who uses Instagram frequently, and has almost 250,000 followers there.
- He is the most subscribed hermit.
- He has a Bengal cat named Benji, and a Golden Doodle Dog called Kubo.
- In January 2022, The Daily Mail used a picture of Kubo in their newspaper, without Oli's permission.[9]
- Every time he does something idiotic, he calls himself a moron or a spoon.
- He used to use an excess of stone bricks. However, he has consciously tried to avoid them since Season 3 of Hermitcraft.
- He has a second channel simply called 'Mumbo', on which he has posted cat videos, product reviews, films, documentaries, and vlogs. It used to be called 'Mumbo Vlogs.
- He has been accepted into Nottingham University and later Oxford University. He took a gap year before pursuing a career in computer science and programming.
- He revealed in Hermitcraft Season 8: Episode 30 that he has an A-Level in English.
- He has been playing Minecraft since Beta 1.7 (mid 2011) and it's been just over 10 years since he started playing.
- He is 6'5" (77 inches or 196cm) tall.
- He is a fan of Good Mythical Morning
- In May 2019, Warner Chappell claimed his content, namely his intro, for copyright. He was forced to remove his intro from all of his videos, but in some videos, his intro still remains, including his first video with that intro music.
- He has a girlfriend named Vicky who he is currently dating and living with. She has been in some of Mumbo's videos and periodically appears helping Mumbo in his short films, as they own 2Story together.
- He is one of 11 hermits who have over a million subscribers on YouTube and that are still active on Hermitcraft.
- He is allergic to oranges. He had an orange plant, which he thought was a lemon plant until it produced an orange.
- In late 2019, his Youtube profile picture disappeared due to a YouTube glitch, which took weeks to fix.
- Mumbo has three YouTube play buttons in total. He has a silver and gold playbutton for Mumbo Jumbo, his main channel, and a silver playbutton for Mumbo, his vlogging channel. He originally thought that his silver playbutton for his second channel was the gold playbutton for his main channel.
- Mumbo was mentioned by James Charles and other large YouTube channels as a channel they enjoy, therefore giving promotion to Mumbo. Even YouTubers as big as PewDiePie, mentioned Mumbo to run for Mayor of the Hermitcraft server, causing hundreds of people to spam many videos and streams with this tagline, being aggressive. Ironically, he did not decide to vote for himself, with voting for GoodTimesWithScar instead.[10]
- Mumbo was only 17 when he joined Hermitcraft, making him the youngest known hermit to join the server.
- He was the youngest member of Hermitcraft until season 7 ended. That title was taken in season 8 by PearlescentMoon, who's only about 6 months younger. She is the youngest to this day, and Mumbo became the 3rd youngest.
- As a precaution in difficult situations, Mumbo holds down shift with his thumb (such as when he was creating a ghast Farm in the "Last Life" series. [11]
- He is sometimes noted for his resemblance to former U.S. president Bill Clinton, particularly when he first revealed his face in his videos. Mumbo, however, has stated that he personally does not see the resemblance. [12]
Quotes[]
- 'Hello Everyone, this is Mumbo here.'
- 'I don't have a moustache' (in real life.)
- 'Then you can pick up your boats and hoes, and have a fantastic time!'
- 'I'm a spoon!'
- 'Oh my word!'
- 'This is really quite simple redstone' (When it's actually not.)
- 'This is completely bonkers'
- 'Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode on the Hermitcraft Server, it is episode ______'
- 'All done and dusted'
- 'Chuffed to bits'
- 'Hope you enjoyed, catch you in the next one, SEE YA'
- 'Sugarcane, pillar, sugarcane, brick wall!"
- 'Thats Pants!'
- 'Thats Mega!'
- 'Moving Swiftly On'
- 'I know I say this all the time but I think we can all agree this is the best redstone contraption I have ever made.'
- 'Hermit Challenges...Initiation!'
- 'Is This Burnstick?'
- 'We could be onto a winner, here!' (says this when making redstone contraptions or machines)
- 'To be quite frankly honest,'
- 'Anyway, here's "Wonderwall".'
- 'Peace, Love and Plants.'
- 'Moon Is BIG.' (As Used In Hermitcraft Season 8.)
- 'Sustainable'
- ‘The sort of survival hardcore series?’ (Last Life)
Subscriber Milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 100 subscribers: May 25, 2012
- 1,000 subscribers: August 10, 2012
- 10,000 subscribers: December 25, 2012
- 20,000 subscribers: March 13, 2013
- 30,000 subscribers: April 6, 2013
- 40,000 subscribers: April 26, 2013
- 50,000 subscribers: May 11, 2013
- 60,000 subscribers: May 26, 2013
- 70,000 subscribers: June 13, 2013
- 80,000 subscribers: June 29, 2013
- 90,000 subscribers: July 12, 2013
- 100,000 subscribers: July 21, 2013
- 200,000 subscribers: December 8, 2013
- 300,000 subscribers: April 29, 2014
- 400,000 subscribers: September 1, 2014
- 500,000 subscribers: January 10, 2015
- 600,000 subscribers: May 10, 2015
- 700,000 subscribers: August 8, 2015
- 800,000 subscribers: October 3, 2015
- 900,000 subscribers: January 14, 2016
- 1 million subscribers: April 23, 2016
- 2 million subscribers: January 3, 2018
- 3 million subscribers: April 22, 2019
- 4 million subscribers: July 26, 2019
- 5 million subscribers: January 31, 2020
- 6 million subscribers: June 1, 2020
- 7 million subscribers: January 23, 2021
- 8 million subscribers: November 24, 2021[13]
- 9 million subscribers: June 22, 2023
Video View Milestones[]
- 1 billion views: July 11, 2019
- 2 billion views: October 26, 2020
References[]
- ↑ Doctorow, Cory (May 20, 2019). How Warner Chappell was able to steal revenues from 25% of a popular Minecraft vlogger's channels - Boing Boing. Retrieved on July 17, 2024. “Oliver Brotherhood is a British vlogger with over 3 million subscribers [...]”
- ↑ Post on Twitter/X by Mumbo Jumbo (@ThatMumboJumbo), accessed on July 17, 2024
- ↑ https://twitter.com/thatmumbojumbo/status/1068797418395844609
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLLIh8iYk3g
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/ThatMumboJumbo/about
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ2jdoCvSy0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMocs05ZDcE&t=24s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6rqYMyKbHs&t=26s
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ThatMumboJumbo/status/1489759590271139847
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YM2mxPYI94
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOQOOuenUMg
- ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqblwI-kzs8
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ThatMumboJumbo/status/1463567575514861570