40 Fun Facts About LDShadowLady

Which animal appears on the black banner LDShadowLady uses as the symbol of her Shadow Cadets?

A rabbit on a black field is the fan emblem she also wears as a cape. She flew it over her Empires SMP kingdom even though it had nothing to do with the realm's theme.

LDShadowLady first met her future husband Smallishbeans in September 2011 at what kind of event?

A gaming convention called GameFest brought them together: she noticed Joel dancing there and went over to say hello. They began dating in January 2012 and married in May 2019.

LDShadowLady's first YouTube uploads in 2010 were gameplay clips from which shooter series?

Call of Duty commentaries and montages were her original plan, and they earned about 300 subscribers in a couple of months. A guest spot on a Minecraft server in 2011 changed everything.

What was the name of the kitten LDShadowLady took in from a neighbour's unwanted litter?

Buddy once vanished for days in December 2013 until a stranger rang to say he had found him in his garage. Lizzie thanked the man with a Christmas card and chocolates.

Meri, the dog owned by LDShadowLady and Smallishbeans, belongs to which breed?

Finnish Lapphund dogs were bred by the Sami people to herd reindeer, and Meri's own name is a Finnish word meaning the sea. She joined the couple in mid-2017.

In the first Empires SMP season, LDShadowLady built her realm on giant lily pads in which biome?

Ocean was her pick, which made her the server's sea queen: she ruled from a palace of prismarine, quartz and coral while villagers and her allies' embassies sat on the lily pads.

In the 2025 film A Minecraft Movie, LDShadowLady and three fellow YouTubers appear briefly as what?

Auction attendees is the whole part: she sits among the bidders with DanTDM, Aphmau and Mumbo Jumbo. A pig in a crown elsewhere in the film honours the late YouTuber Technoblade.

LDShadowLady voices herself in an episode of Minecraft: Story Mode built around what kind of plot?

A murder mystery unfolds at a house party full of Minecraft YouTubers, who are picked off one by one by a killer in a pumpkin mask. DanTDM and CaptainSparklez also play themselves.

Holding the Empires SMP crown, LDShadowLady ruled that every player could eat only which food?

Cake was the law, and conveniently she had just opened a bakery selling it, so her own rule turned a profit. She took the crown from Joel by winning his game show.

In X Life, the series LDShadowLady co-founded, what happened to a player's health after each death?

It grew by one heart each time, from a single one at the start to a maximum of ten. Dying with all ten meant being kicked off the server for good.

LDShadowLady's queen in the first Empires SMP season slowly turned into which rare Minecraft mob?

A blue axolotl is a real long shot in the game, where breeding gives just a 1-in-1,200 chance of one. Her character developed gills first, then changed fully after swallowing a magic orb in episode 18.

Which ShadowCraft build did LDShadowLady have to extend into a mountain because it kept filling up?

Her graveyard held the pets she kept killing by accident while trying to look after them, a running joke of the 73-episode series. It was first dug behind her house in episode 11.

Which subject did LDShadowLady study at university while never mentioning her degree in videos?

Computer animation and visualisation was her course from 2012 to 2015, and she left with an upper second-class degree. She kept uploading regularly the whole time.

LDShadowLady gained 3,000 subscribers overnight after guesting on which YouTuber's Minecraft server?

Zack Scott ran a server called Scottland, and she had simply messaged him to ask for an invite. Her debut in episode 86 of his daily series pushed her towards Minecraft videos of her own.

Before it became her YouTube name, LDShadowLady was already Lizzie's username on which service?

Xbox Live is where the gamertag came from, and the LD simply stands for Lizzie D. She has said the format copied a YouTuber she admired, NDTitanLady.

Maddie, a guest in LDShadowLady's early horror videos such as Amnesia, is which relation of Lizzie?

Her sister Maddie is about a year younger, and the two were very close growing up. They played Amnesia together in 2011, and Maddie came back for other scary games.

LDShadowLady is known for pastel pink hair that she dyes herself, but what is her natural colour?

Brown is what grows in, but she has said she does not feel like herself without the dye. She always colours it at home, and once turned Joel's hair pink for a 2016 video.

How was LDShadowLady eliminated from Secret Life in 2023, making her the first player out?

Fell into the void is the short version: she had lured a rival to the End to punch him off the edge, then caught an enderman's eye and was shoved off herself.

Which YouTuber created the Life Series, the hardcore seasons LDShadowLady first joined in 2021?

Grian launched it in 2021 as 3rd Life, giving every player three lives. Lizzie arrived for the second season, Last Life, and came back for Secret Life and Wild Life.

In her 2019 factions series KingdomCraft, LDShadowLady's side of the server took which name?

League of Villains won the server in the end, blowing up the entire spawn area after its own base was captured. The other side called itself the League of Victims.

LDShadowLady's house on her Crazy Craft 3.0 server recreated the Disney castle found in which city?

Paris has the storybook castle she copied, built here from pink stained clay with a cyan roof and split into six main towers. She put it up between episodes two and three.

For her home on the TrollCraft server, LDShadowLady built a pink house modelled on what?

A Barbie mansion was the plan from early on: a rectangle with a round tower at each end, like the toy house. TrollCraft was her follow-up to Crazy Craft, with many of the same friends.

Which YouTuber organised UHShe, the all-female Ultra Hardcore contest LDShadowLady competed in?

StacyPlays ran the fights to the death, where the only way to heal was a golden apple and every player began with a wolf spawn egg. Lizzie was her partner in the Halloween 2017 season.

Which YouTuber created Enchanted Oasis in 2014 and invited LDShadowLady to join the series?

iHasCupquake asked her along with Vengelfe and MittyMoxx. Lizzie started two weeks late, so her first episode pretended she had used a time machine to catch up.

LDShadowLady survived to the purge of her first One Life season, where which YouTuber killed her?

Joey Graceffa finished her off in the finale, and he later dreamed up the KingdomCraft server they built together. In One Life 2.0 she died in the purge again, right after killing Joel.

Which mod was the only one LDShadowLady used in her 2012 Minecraft Singleplayer series?

Mo' Creatures added the goats, ostriches and turtles she spent the series taming. She credits these tightly edited episodes with making her channel take off.

LDShadowLady's intro was flipped upside down for an episode marking which national holiday?

Australia Day got its own episode of her Minecraft Singleplayer series, complete with what she admitted was a really bad accent. Joel did the upside-down edit for her.

Which princess did LDShadowLady recreate first in her Sims 4 Disney Princess Challenge?

Snow White came first, and the rules demanded seven children to stand in for the dwarfs, each with one bad trait. Belle followed in episode 17, then Rapunzel.

Smallishbeans, husband of LDShadowLady, ruled which kingdom in the first Empires SMP season?

Mezalea takes its name from mesa and azalea, after the terracotta badlands he built it in. His king married her queen in an in-game royal wedding during the season.

Which long-running Minecraft server crossed over with LDShadowLady's Empires SMP through a rift?

Hermitcraft members came through in autumn 2022 and set up an empire of their own in the Empires world. Joel went on to become a full member of their server in its tenth season.

LDShadowLady's mayor in the second Empires SMP season was secretly which animal in a human disguise?

A cat hid behind the mask and wig, with calico paws giving the game away. She ran Animalia, a birch-forest realm whose districts housed fox, frog, panda and bat villagers.

In 2022 LDShadowLady retold her first Empires SMP season in which 42-minute format?

A musical with 29 songs told the story from her queen's point of view. It sprang from a single duet in the series that fans loved, and it was recorded at a studio in Sheffield.

LDShadowLady played in the first MC Championship, a tournament run by which Minecraft collective?

Noxcrew is the creative team behind the event, and she lined up for that 2019 debut on the same team as Joel. At MCC 10 her team reached the Dodgebolt final and met his on the other side.

Which Canadian singer of the album Little Machines has LDShadowLady called her favourite artist?

Lights has signed four albums that Lizzie showed off in a room tour, among them Siberia and The Listening.

Fans know LDShadowLady as Lizzie, but which other short form of Elizabeth does her family use?

Beth was her nickname as a child, and her family still use it today. Lizzie is the name that stuck online, tucked into the LD of her channel name.

Smallishbeans, husband of LDShadowLady, plays which instrument in his friend's band The Orion Sound?

Drums are his instrument, and he first played them in a band at high school. The group is fronted by TheOrionSound, the Oli of Lizzie's early videos, who was also a groomsman at the couple's wedding.

LDShadowLady began her Forever World series in 2026 so that who could explore it one day?

Her daughter, born in August 2025, is meant to share the save when she is old enough. A forever world is never restarted, only updated with each new version of the game.

Which mod drove the Afterlife SMP, turning LDShadowLady into a different being after every death?

Origins gave each player a set of powers and weaknesses based on a mob, re-rolled with every respawn. Lizzie began as a raccoon and spent her tenth and final life as a villager.

In Last Life, LDShadowLady tamed three wolves and named them Dragon, Ogre and what?

Taxes joined Dragon and Ogre at her Fairy Circle Fort, the base she set up in a dark oak clearing. She finished that debut season in 13th place out of 17 players.

Which demon corrupted the lands of LDShadowLady and her rivals in the first Empires SMP season?

Xornoth is said to be the server's secret thirteenth player, a demon who dislikes water and hearing his own name spoken.