"His name is banned for a reason."

Gaming content creators are immensely popular on YouTube. In fact, it's the most widely-watched type of content consumed on the platform.

In fact, in 2020 alone, over 100 billion hours of gaming-focused content was consumed by users on the video sharing platform, and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of demand for content in this vertical.

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The team consisted of individual streamers, friends, and YouTubers who would play games together and post a series of video logs and skits. Primarily, Derp Crew content featured ChilledChaos, Smarty, GaLm, ZeRoyalViking, Tom Fawkes, and Aphex Arcade.

Questions about the team surfaced after after nearly two decades online.

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In a February 15, 2020 video, Viking recorded a video explaining why the group is no longer putting together videos of their gaming sessions online.

From the top, he explains that The Derp Crew didn't effectively "disband" due to drama or any spats they had with one another.

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He went on to state that they are still friends and regularly hop on games together. But that they just aren't posting videos of their sessions.

Viking references a video uploaded by Chilled who explained that he was "burnt out" by regularly posting content on YouTube.

He said that Chilled wanted to focus his efforts on Twitch gaming, rather than managing the multi-camera setups for their YouTube gaming sessions, and editing all of that content together.

Viking said that he speculates everyone in the Derp Crew experienced burnout in some capacity or another.

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Other members, like Chilled, headed towards Twitch streaming instead.

Ultimately, he said that everyone in the crew's goals shifted throughout the years, and trying to keep everyone on the same track proved to be a tall order to satisfy unilaterally.

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He says that he didn't want to be codependent on other folks just to make content. This is why he began posting more of his own content.

And at one point in the video he says that managing "the business side of things" with personal friendships was a challenge for The Derp Crew.

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Aphex seemingly corroborated that there was indeed some drama between a member of The Derp Crew, specifically GaLm, in a Twitch clip of his own.

Redditors in this forum post mentioned that GaLm's management of fan donations and tempestuous interactions with other members of The Derp Crew is what ultimately caused the team to stop uploading content together.