Minecraft videos now have 1 trillion views on YouTube, but the most popular videos aren’t actually made in Minecraft
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Minecraft has been around for over a decade, and in that time diamond axes and creepers and Steve’s blocky head were everywhere. They’re all over YouTube too, and today the platform is celebrating over 1 trillion Minecraft video views with some impressive stats on all the many creations to date. I’ve spent a fair amount of time watching Minecraft streams, building guides, etc., but these aren’t the most popular Minecraft videos of the past decade. The most-viewed Minecraft YouTube video of all time isn’t even made in Minecraft.
To mark this milestone, YouTube has put together some visual representations of all the biggest Minecraft videos on the platform since 2010. They were grouped into the categories I expected, like “survival game”, “survival multiplayer” and “speedrun”, but also joined things like “role-playing” and “animation”. While YouTube also shows that popularity varies by country, the category that has dominated for years has been animation, with nearly 5 billion views in both 2020 and 2021.
The animation tag is a a lot of Different Minecraft videos, the biggest of which are not actually made in Minecraft. The one with 178 million views to date is an animated short in which the Minecraft meme, the mysterious Herobrine, pits various monster families to see who is the most powerful.
With 127 million views is a 2018 video of a stick man battling a cross-sectional Minecraft world, reminiscent of the popular old animator vs animation video that people of my time might remember. There are also real-life crossovers, both in the form of real-life Minecraft, and real-life in Minecraft.
Then came the music video era, during which CaptainSparklez dominated the most popular Minecraft videos for three years with pop song parodies and funky 3D animation styles that looked like Minecraft worlds and characters.
I’m fascinated because while I’ve been playing Minecraft for a full decade, I’ve never watched any of these videos. Minecraft came out when I was in college, so my nostalgia belongs to creating a server with my first co-workers and using it as a way to hang out with friends who moved across the country. In 2014, I was on Twitch seeing players my age build up in the hardcore world.
We may not be the ones who made Minecraft a global phenomenon, though. That honor goes to the kids who watched Minecraft and Freddy’s crossover parody in 2017. They must be feeling nostalgic in the comments section of that video.
No judgment – I mean sincere. Compared to the equally silly Flash animations that were popular on YouTube in the early days, these Minecraft videos are gorgeous. Remember when it was possible to cite this as the height of lunchroom comedy?
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