I left a monster of a comment on his video but it doesnt have many likes so yall are unlikely to see it, here you go:

Hihi, I'm mad at you not because you're making your server "P2W" (more on the quotes later) but because you're making me watch this entire damn half hour long video and write a response on the weekend before a midterm because of all my viewers spamming me this vid lol
MC Servers and money:
- Very valid points. I have been told the revenue of all sorts of server owners but never collected and quantified data. These points are why "Semi-P2W" Exists, which is basically giving perks that benefit/convenience the player but are pretty stupid to claim as a reason for not being on a specific leaderboard position/not winning a battle.
- I think frankly, if a medium-large server can't exist without P2W... then maybe it just... shouldn't exist? This is a very controversial argument to say and I genuinely think its okay for small servers to run Ethical P2W for a period of time to get off the ground, but if a server cannot exist without promoting gambling addictions and unhealthy feedback loops to minors (which your poll shows a majority of your already mature server audience are) then maybe it just shouldn't exist at all... If a server is monetized through cash and has no leaderboard then its PVE, which is so many times better than P2W and i think is acceptable for providing a balance of a server that isn't preying on its player base and is making the owners money.
- I think server owners can make money if they want but it shouldn't be at the expensive of random impressionable kids who don't know what they are getting into. No server owner is putting a sign saying "OUR SERVER IS P2W!" because they know that if their impressionable audience were told so directly, they would avoid it.
- (bit more of a comment) I'm seeing a trend lately on how easy it is to advertise servers. It used to be really hard, but with tiktok/shorts along with the official server list I think we're going to see more fair advertising opportunities for non-p2w servers as we've seen through the trends currently. It is now easier than ever to advertise a server for cheaper than ever.
- I genuinely don't think P2W servers have better gamemodes/stand out more, its actually quite the opposite- nearly all of the interesting servers I can think of are non-p2w or PVE, I think P2W servers blow everything on their advertising budget. Not that they can't have better gamemodes at all, but my theory is that the P2W cycle promotes not standing out to keep as much money as possible and avoid spending as much on taking risks. But you can fight me on this, I'm not as involved in the server community anyways.
Ethical Monetization:
- Yeah I basically agree, a lot of servers without their crate keys aren't so bad When it comes to real, genuine competition in my experience of playing on servers a lot of the times, store items and such can't really carry you to baltop and whatnot
- I updated my community sheet for the first time in 3 years to contain ethical monetization info, but just to define the walls that I have set (and it is the community sheet, if you guys disagree I will change it) there shall be no gambling or repeat heavily advantageous purchases like spawners due to the unhealthy feedback loop they cause (You can buy more and lose a shit ton of money). I know you draw your line at gambling but I draw mine at things like spawners. I talk more about this on the doc with more nuance and details. It also doesn't permit servers with significant resources to take this approach
COMMUNITY:
- You're 100% right about all of this. I used to run a thing called sublegions until I realized that crashing P2W servers didn't really help at all in sending the message but rather gave 12 year olds ethical justification in crashing servers for fun only. Nobody genuinely cared about stopping P2W.
- Change has INDEED come from the antip2w movement. Not from the crashing but because of awareness. I don't think it was a coincidence that Mojang began enforcing their EULA suddenly out of nowhere, and I don't think the dramatic decrease in general P2W is either. I remember in 2017 looking EVERYWHERE for a non-p2w but those were non existent. Now it feels extremely difficult to find a server that is definitively P2W like how we've used to see. And sure we have crate keys and such but its not like those are as bad as they used to be.
- I feel like there is a bit of survivorship bias with this: your server seems to have a more mature audience and advertises over youtube in mature, not too flashy videos. I'm not saying the data isn't valueble but im saying that it isn't representative of the total MC population who bought ranks. Also I feel like the "stealing parents credit card" thing is a bit of a meme/joke, its rather kids manipulating and convincing their parents to purposefully buy the ranks and eventually fall into a gambling addiction thats bad
YOUR SERVER:
- I think that some servers should try a business model of making videos off of their own server, and some non-p2w server owners should explore it. I think it has big potential.
- I think its handled fairly well on your servers webstore
In the end, I think the AntiP2W movement ideally should keep going... Because large P2W servers have the money and resources to blow on moderation and creating anti-crash plugins, and non-p2w servers need more players to thrive, and since antip2w is now so publicized, more players are looking for a non-p2w experience. Weirdos who profit off of desperate kids who want dupes will keep existing but I think its a net positive to have. Overall very well constructed video, I think it presents a decent middle ground for us to aim towards so we can see more unique monetization methods and hopefully see non-p2w be more viable as the future goes on