(Image credit: Captain Sparklez). Audioplayer loading! Minecraft has been around for a decade now. In that time diamond axes and creepers and Steve’s blocky head became ubiquitous. They’ve been all over YouTube. Today the platform celebrates a staggering 1 trillion Minecraft video views with a lot of impressive stats about all the many creations that have been created. I spent most of my time watching Minecraft livestreams, building guides, etc., but these haven’t been the most popular Minecraft videos for the past decade. All this time, most famous Minecraft YouTube videos aren’t ever made in Minecraft. To commemorate the milestone, YouTube is bringing together some visual representations of all the biggest Minecraft videos made over the platform since 2010. They are divided into categories I thought that would be “Survival Games” and “Survival Multiplayer” and “Speedrun”, and are joined by such big personalities and “Animation”. While popularity varies by country, that is, as is YouTube, the constant dominant category over the years has been animation with more than 5 billion views in 2020 and 2021. In the animation studio, many Minecraft videos are made, the biggest one being made in Minecraft. With 178 million views in 2014, this animated short is a cryptid blockbuster from the Minecraft machine. With 127 million views, the video from 2018 is about a stick person battling a cross-section Minecraft world, reminiscent of the popular old Animator vs Animation video I might remember. Real life and real life are common, both in real life and real life in Minecraft. The music videos era was the time when CaptainSparklez dominated three most popular Minecraft videos for the year long with his own pop song parodies and snazzy 3D animations designed to look like Minecraft worlds and characters. I’m obsessed, because although I’ve played Minecraft for a whole decade, I have never seen any of these videos before. Minecraft was launched by me at the university; all that is a nostalgic all the more I think about creating a server with my first co-workers and getting along with friends who had moved across the country. I watched the player build in hardcore worlds in 2014 on Twitch. Even though we were not the ones who made Minecraft a global phenomenon, we were probably not responsible. That honor belongs to the kids who watched Minecraft and Five Nights at Freddy in 2017. They also watched the crossover parody song of the movie in 2017. That video tells them they’re feeling nostalgic. Nobody makes a judgement, and I mean not what we have nudged. These Minecraft videos are awfully polished and are compared to flash animations that appeared on YouTube early. Remember when was it so much fun to see this quote, was it the height of lunchroom comedy?
