What kind of Minecraft content do you enjoy? What trends in modern content do you dislike? What trends do you like? I'd love to hear it all! Also, today is my birthday! :D Edit: I want to be extra clear on one point: I blame TH-cam for this issue more than the creators. The creators are just doing what works for them. TH-cam as a platform has been pushing this content more and more. I have a feeling we’re going to see it burst at some point. There’s only so much crazy stuff you can do before people quit on it
'Hardcore let's plays', at some point once the creator gets totems, it is just plain old survival without worrying about dying, and the dying is just there to end the series abruptly once it gets boring or the view fall off, and then the creator moves onto another season or series. Don't get me wrong, most of the hardcore series are enjoyable, but the community is just so over saturated that it is like having Fast Food, sure a hamburger tastes great once in a while, but once you're having it everyday it becomes dull and boring.
Anything that gives me the feels of LDshadowlady’s 1st season of One Life or certain challenge video that one player plays Minecraft with a few conditions like super flat only or one chunk only
I actually have my own youtube channel, literally only 80 subscribers (not this account) with hardly any views on anything. For the most part it is just long form content that is either lightly edited or not edited at all because I decide to livestream it, so I completely understand the want to make long form content. I honestly think my content is rather terrible but I do it just because I feel like doing it at that time. I find technical aspects of minecraft interesting and most of the videos I watch on minecraft are the people who do redstone stuff or cover what came out in a minecraft snapshot since someone can figure something interesting out with a new feature that came out that wasn't in the changelog.
a youtube creator called Calvin (@Calvin9000) recently made a horror modpack let's play series called "From the Fog". it's an exciting series but it feels so much like older minecraft videos, its just a casual survival world, where we get to discover with him the horror creatures that roam the new world. it's kept so exciting but so minimal and for modern videos they feel so.. fresh? i love it. i've been enjoying Mogswamp's videos too, because while his projects are all modern and somewhat grand, he has kept the same world from 11 years ago, so there's still an element of watching something new grow that old minecraft videos used to have, while still having that "grand insane crazy" aspect to it that is all over today's community. a great way of scaling content while having some originality in his videos. i'm all for watching people do really crazy stuff or build HUGE things in the game, but i miss the old style of editing where it was edited slowly and you could binge a series for hours. i don't want to see this giant project completed in one video only, it means i run out of videos to watch SO quickly. if its a summary video alongside a longer series of actually building this project, great, that's cool. but i miss being able to relax and sit down and watch less screamy minecraft content
na just the community seeking to destroy the game every year with content we dont actually need in the game that the community begs for and OP broken items that shouldnt even exsist in the game and the still remaining exploits of farms and bugs and intentionally breaking vanilla game mechanics which are being premoted even by mojang. im all for creativity in minecraft and having the options to get more creative sure but if it means by doing so they have to exploit the game and break the game and ruin what the core of minecraft and ecspecially survival minecraft is, then whats the point in anyone playing. like how is it fun to speedrun the vanilla experience and use progression skips and exploits to make the game easier for you at all fun. ur the same type of people who cry a river and say its too easy. just stop exploiting, get a backbone and grow up and actually make it harder for ur self. restrict ur self and play and improve naturally that way. actually play the vanilla minecraft experience. i play minecraft where i dont break blocks and can only build on top of them. only time ill break a block is if im replacing a block i accidently broke and im putting it back or when i need to mine a block ive placed. i also only use the inland puddles of water, lakes and ponds to create farms dedicated to their biomes, with different shapes and sizes. to make eating less of a hassel, i make slabs to walk up blocks instead of jumping up a block each time which doubles up as sectioning of areas which i see in my head to build things in.
bro doesnt know that speedrunning takes skill, exploitation of bugs is fun and also you don't know that people have different opinions then you @@unboxing_legend7708
This is why I've been really enjoying Secret Life, that new series by a couple MC TH-camrs (Grian, MumboJumbo, etc). Its just them mucking around playing Minecraft, but with a gimmick that they have a little task to do. But it's not big super builds like Hermitcraft. It's just goofy stuff like "pretend you have an imaginary friend for the session" or "move people's doors without getting caught"
super great video and amazingly put. i also feel that the slower paced content (doesnt necessarily have to be as slow as the OG days tho) is more inspirational & relatable when people are actually wanting to jump in game and play. the more relaxed content is probably healthier for the community as a whole. no hate to the crazy projects like theyre cool but i just want to build a house and vibe
Exactly. I think these modern videos take a lot of work, and I don’t want to diminish that. They take a ton of effort to be made, but after years of this and it seemingly being the only thing viable, it’s quite sad. To be clear, I don’t want to go back to old content. I just think more variety would be really cool. There’s so much personality in the Minecraft community, and so much of it feels lost with this “Mr. Beast” style content
@@TheGeekFactor mrbeast has changed the youtube landscape forever in a pretty insane way, for the better and for the worst all at the same time, their are elements of mrbeast in all the creators that have popped off or are popping off from what ive noticed. super in your face LOOK HERE type of editing
I've always focused on trying to be as unique as possible it's what made my channel go viral to begin with, but nowadays everything is oversaturated, most people have sacrificed uniqueness over a corporate formula, not to mention the amount of copying going around. it's getting even more challenging to stand out from the crowd especially in an environment where everyone is trying to one up each other.
Your videos are the perfect example of what these "modern" content creators should strive for. Sure, your videos are fast-paced and flashy sometimes, but they have a unique style. These content creators, as you said, follow a corporate formula, which I dislike. It makes modern minecraft videos feel unreal or unpersonal.
Tho I also want to learn more about you. Your projects are awesome and I will always support you for that. But I think your videos lack a bit of YOU. You got your own character and no other channel is like yours, but still I have the idea that I don't know you as a person. (Which is logical because I don't know you IRL. I hope you get the point). Maybe I am wrong. Idk...
At this point its just a flex fest of nobodies trying to get 5 minutes of fame... I miss the old days where I came home and watched Block By Block or Keralis... Its just not the same...
I definitely miss slower-paced, “old-school” style Minecraft videos, and though they are really hard to find, I’ve realized that it’s often the smaller, more slow-growing channels who tend to make that style of content. They’re very hard to find and it takes a bit more searching, but they’re still out there and it’s always a delight to stumble upon them!
This 100%! Everything is so fast paced now, and that content is pushed to the top over the slower or more genuine feeling content. It makes it incredibly difficult for newer creators to be seen when they are going against that method.
Hello, if you're interested, some time ago I made a video of me upgrading my diamond armor and tools to netherite. It's my only Minecraft video so far, since I'm still developing my brand and deciding my channel's main type of content.
Yep. I've realized this. This is the reason I get burnt out making videos. The algorithm wants me to make highly edited videos, so I'm constantly trying to get better editing skills. I'm just going to make slower videos.
You are so right about your comments section, it if difficult to find a modern video without the majority of comments being something like "give this man an Oscar" or "we gettin out of the ___ with this one" having real conversation in the comments is super cool to have. Although the "Beastification" is real, it is not new, someone like Skeppy has been doing that for years. The mix of the video essay and consistent view video I love is Hermitcraft. they still have some clickbait and action, but there is still lots of personality and genuine effort put into the Hermitcraft group.
After all these years, I’m still a big fan of Ethoslab. He’s consistently managed to remain, in my opinion, the staple for minecraft content and lets plays. He’s not there to propose you some whacky idea, or some sort of mastodontic challenge: he’s just a guy who’s playing Minecraft and he’s fun to watch. This is the reason I also watch hermitcraft, and with the “recent” release of Decked Out 2 by TangoTek, I’ve been having a blast.
The fact that I scrolled down a bit and saw 3 different people mention Ethoslab says more than enough. He is similar to how he was 10 years ago. Not the same, but you can tell he is real, and he makes his viewers think and actually puts effort into teaching a little bit here and there. Actually, just scrolled down all the way and 18 people mentioned him, not including replies.
Yea exactly. I love that group. I've watched hermitcraft for a while now and have been loving the life series grian came up with. Its really interesting and fun to see an inverse of hermitcraft where dying actually has consequences beyond inconvenience, and they're ENCOURAGED to do random violent stuff lol. Plus the little twists obviously. Its just a bunch of great people and creators having fun and it is a winning formula. Hell I think there was a whole video essay on why hermitcraft is great.
I think a large part of the problem with current Minecraft content is that instead of coming up with new ideas, a lot of creators try to just up the scale of a preexisting idea. So instead of having a new idea that can change the way you think of something in Minecraft the video just tries to make you watch because of the wow factor
yeah uve hit the nail in the coffin but not the way ik ur explaining it. people play minecraft these days to speedrun the game, cheat progression and skip progression and use exploits to play the vanilla game which isnt playing the vanilla game nor is it truely fun and those who say it is, are the people who are influenced by sneaky content creators making it out to all be fine and acceptable. creativity in minecraft isnt the problem its the people using exploits to ruin it. farms these days are not ur typical pen where ur limited to the amount of mobs u can breed and farm for food or other recources. these days a mob farm exploits the number of mobs that can spawn within 1 or multiple areas and boost the chances to gain loot quick and easy without the added challenge and tapping mobs in a 2 by 2 space where a mobs limitations of what they can do is limited and also exploited. getting high tier loot now thanks to youtube influencers and the community ruining the progression of the game, getting what is meant to be late game items is now wayy too easy to obtain with little to no effort and yet again, exploits. enchanted books like mendi g are easy to obtain by resetting village workers for a new loot trade pool of items to trade you, u can get iron from making farms to kill iron golems, u can make farms for any mobs to get all the recouces it can drop from it. there isnt any skill anymore and people seek to ruin the game. i think that to fix at least the enchanted book issue to make it harder to obtain is to make very situational and not as great enchants such as bane of arthropods fairly easy to obtain but not in the way that it can be exploited. thru trading a high price which the villager trades cant be reset, from a very low drops while fishing and average drops while looting structures like the typical mob spawner and other set structures. when it comes to something like mending, have it as a end game item similar to the elytra or warden and deep dark with a very low chance or just get rid of mending so durability is actually used again and ups the difficulty and makes people actually be more careful with the recources they gather to use it on.
I think this problem can stem from the base game having terrible progression. It hasn't been fundamentally changed in many years. People will eventually become bored and try to make challenge videos with a lot of "wow factor" to make modern minecraft content watchable
@rpstephen I disagree with the idea that the issue is rooted in Minecraft's progression. The spread of MrBeast-ified content spreads all across both this platform and others, and it's certainly not isolated to Minecraft. If it's a genre that can be targeted to children, it **will** be effected.
@@apollounknowndev if not Mrbeast, then youtubers like Ali-A for example will spread the same type of content. Minecraft along with other games will go down this rabbit hole regardless of youtuber era.
i fell down this "minecraft myth" youtube rabbit hole recently. a lot of it is this exact type of content with a horror twist of "stuff that is actually in the game!1!!!" when its clearly mods, datapacks, or literally just someones friend in a multiplayer server. this kind of stuff makes me so sad because it doesn't feel nearly as authentic as old minecraft rumors did. it just feels like a clickfarm for children.
There are so many videos that just feel to me like "empty content" these days. It's just fast-food for the eyes. Nobody needs broccoli every day, but McDonald's for ever meal will ruin anybody's taste.
As someone who's engaging with fast-paced grand Minecraft videos quite often, I agree with your words that it's all made only for reacting to something, and not thinking. I didn't think I'd enjoy a slow and calm video, but this one proved me wrong. It felt nice not to be bombarded by flashing images and screaming voices while watching. Definitely will be coming here to relax
you're right on the money with this. You look at some of the videos that are pumped out today & it's super hard to distinguish one MC TH-camr from another. It's the same wacky editing style, the same subtitling of every sentence, the same basic ideas for videos & the same type of personality behind the camera. They remind me of family channels in a way. They make their thumbnails look super flashy, the snappy in-your-face editing & acting like they're living their best lives imaginable. When in reality, you can tell that most of these people are putting on an act. But like you said, it's what the YT algorhythm pushes out most.
Same. I remember this show called "The worst/most strict parents in the world" and at some point, especially Season 2 onwards, it was visible that these Borrowed parents were doing more akin to an act. Not just the parent but also the Teenager in question!!
I deliberately don't edit my videos. I was almost a voice actor, and people like how chill I am. I am quite comfortable to just build my world, tell a story, and sometimes learn new redstone things. Someone said I'm "the bob ross of minecraft" once on stream and that's become my new sort of frame, goal, thing. Etho is my biggest inspiration so that helps
My thoughts exactly. My kids watch Minecraft videos that are completely different to the style I make, let alone the content I wish I could make. Then again, I'm not making videos to make money, it's just a hobby - and will remain so unless the current meta changes drastically!
My favourite MC series thing on YT had to have been DanTDM’s modded MC adventures. These kinds of role-playing style adventure videos were pretty common back in the day but the difference with Dan’s series was it was mostly him doing the talking. The adventures were always weird and unique, u never really knew what next week’s episode would be, it was basically my version of the Saturday morning cartoon. It really did feel unique on YT and I don’t recall many others like it.
This is exactly why I search for Minecraft Roleplay videos occasionally. Like, even though the Minecraft Roleplay community has been dying these past couple years, each and every content creator in the space has some sort of meaningful story to tell. They can take it slow to build everything up and that's what I love about it
See I will agree heavily. When I was younger I (funnily now) enjoyed the Little Club. They always did RPs and I mostly enjoyed how they tried making their own stories even with the more copied formula of say, The Crafting Dead and stuff. I still enjoyed them because they liked making stories, but now these days the group's disbanded and tried doing the clickbait I know of now, which is sad.
There was a Minecraft creator (I don’t remember) who recently made a survival video as a classic video, and a dopamine rush style version to test views etc. it was pretty interesting.
Yo. I am also interested, raised a hand 🙋♂🙋♀ try searching in your History, in PC and mobile, you can have a special search bar for History/Watched videos specifically. At least I have it... Happy searching!
Hey man i never comment but you feel like a real human being. This type of self discussion content talking about thing you notice leave really satisfied. Its easy listening, like chatting late at night with a friend. Keep it up !!!
It’s crazy how I saw Matpat’s video in Game Theory about this issue on TH-cam as a whole just 2 days ago. Im not a fan of it either to be honest. I love older TH-cam videos that I used to watch when I was younger. Not because due to nostalgia, but overall each video was made with character and passion. The issue with people trying to one up each other, or trying to make the idea bigger is that there will be a point where they’ll hit a power creep. These ideas will only get bigger and more insane, and I’m scared as a viewer. I definitely don’t want this trend to continue.
Yeah I agree. Being a new content new content creator for me is difficult because I want to stand out and be different but what's different isn't popular so doesn't get seen. The only things that get seen are, "I Survived 100 Days In.....blah.....blah....blah...."
@@SioxerNikita No he isn’t. Just because he has a team doesn’t mean there isn’t sometimes genuine effort and thought in some of his vids, on his multiple channels. I’m not a fan but calling matpat a content farm is bs
I totally agree. I recently deleted instagram from my phone, the last app that had me scrolling endlessly. I’ve now startet going back to older Minecraft let’s plays because it gave me joy and a sense of nostalgia. I highly recommend Vintage beef’s life in the woods series. I have no idea how many times I’ve rewatched it since it came out! It will always have a special standing to me.
I can 100% remember times in my content creation journey thinking about changing to a style that "works" for the algorithm but in the end changing to a style to shows off my personality was the good way to go. I will say part of the issue to me is the market is flooded not just the hype videos but the standard let's play and SMP world there is just so much competition out there.
For anyone who's looking for an underrated channel, I would highly recommend the Minecraft content of Troubled Boys. They mostly play modded content, but their style just feels so natural like friends just hanging out and having a good time (often chaotically), and it's honestly such a refreshing thing to see in today's climate of Minecraft TH-cam content.
I like the more grounded older mod reviews, and let's plays. I'm a huge stampy fan and have been watching him for over 8 years now. And I loved the race to the moon series and stampys lovely world. I miss that Era of minecraft videos. I also like forge labs version of 100 days videos but other than that I normally don't like 100 days videos.
Yeah I’d say forge is one of the few who follows this trend but gives his own twist on it that makes it feel like his. I don’t think. I want to go back to the old style… I just want more variety in content being viable.
i miss the mod reviews bro. they were a core part of minecraft including parody songs. when was the last time u heard of a well known content creator doing a mod review on crazycraft or a seasonal lets play? when was the last time uve seen minecraft videos of people literally just playing the vanilla minecraft game for fun on the pure vanilla non exploitive experience? u dont anymore. its all because of these greedy content influencers making content ruining games and ruining social media through awful videos on youtube and other platforms.
I grew up watching and loving Stampy’s lovely world, custom mod adventures, think’s lab etc. and it’s really sad to see what the popular Minecraft videos have become I even tried to start two of my own Minecraft let’s play series including my own continuation of stampy’s lovely world(not for views, just because I wanted to and I thought people would enjoy it) but I only got around 10-20 views and no feedback, I will however keep making videos even if not a lot of people watch them at least a few people enjoy watching my content and I enjoy making the videos and that’s all that matters😊
This is why I like Hermitcraft. Most of the Hermits have rather slow paced videos that are just simple plain _Minecraft._ People playing the game together and just having fun, making cool builds because they enjoy doing so.
The reason i love hermitcraft is well....1)etho approves 2)the content isn't super clickbait thumbnail with red arrows 3)it's paced well it's not super high editing...(technically yes but that's because the full videos are hours long so obviously they have to cut that) 4) it's for everyone over the age of 7 litterally 5)it's original 6).......all this to say that hermitcraft didn't just follow trends for views...
Skeppy has always been doing challenge videos tbh. The quality in his videos fluctuates but he definitely pioneered the genre of these Minecraft challenge videos. I agree with you for the most part about how saturated and cooperate a lot of this content feels- and i think skeppy is not in the wrong for staying with his brand :)
2:11 normal TH-camr: I trapped 100 kids in ikea, last one alive wins(in Minecraft) mrbeast: I trapped 100 kids in Ikea, last one alive wins (in real life)
I'm so happy that people such as yourself feel this way, as it makes me optimistic towards youtube's future as well as making me feel like I have more freedom in the way I can make videos. Thanks so much for the inspiring and thought-provoking commentary!
This is why I love hermit craft. It’s not overstimulating or trying to be clickbaity. It’s genuinely impressive because of the things they achieve in game, not because of some crazy idea or overstimulating edit.
Idk, for me, after Season 7 HC lost a bit of it's magic. The forced roleplay and the dozens of resource packs, over-the-top builds and palettes and custom items (look at decked out 2 jesus christ) just started to feel non-vanilla to me. The newer seasons also seem to be catered towards a younger, kid-pre-teen audience. Maybe I have just grown out of it, but I just don't feel like the series is as good as it was from season 1-7. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the hermits putting hundreds of hours into making episodes, it's just not for me anymore.
@@ihatehandleupdateI actually don't see the "pre-teen audience" thing aside from them being PG. I mean "kids friendly" doesn't mean "made for kids". I feel the opposite - they're mostly adult people who make videos for all ages. It's like a movie that you can watch with your kid and you both can enjoy it. Maybe it depends on who you watch though.
I'm happy that someone is finally able to talk about this and put words on things that are easy to feel but not that easy to comprehend. I don't think that the "beastification" of the Minecraft content on TH-cam is an isolated case and it seems that TH-cam in general is converging to a more fast pace format that restrict most of the accessibility of the chiller and longer format content. It feels like TH-cam is not a place to chill and listen to shared story anymore or even learn new things as content creators are trading their originality and wishes to share their creations for a more corporationnal and money making styles of content. But like you said, this type of video does belong on the platform and exciting huge concepts are not worse than other videos they are just different. However there is no balance anymore between the different video styles and it's really sad to see this part of most of people childhood ( including myself ) to disappear from the platform. I hope this trend will reverse itself and eventually make the platform come back to a more diverse and fun place to hang out. Anyway, I wish the Minecraft community will stay strong as they did in the past and keep its love for this wonderful game.
these are the exact things that have been going through my mind for a really, really long time. im glad that others are also noticing whats going on and making something big out of it, like this. it deserves to be known
The sad part is that it isn't just Minecraft, but other content as well. Most creators as a whole lean more into fast paced editing with obnoxious zoom-in's and each creator I noticed keeps using the same exact music for their videos without experimenting with their content. I really hope to see more content creators with passion put into their work instead of the same content over & over.
thank you for talking about this. a lot of single player minecraft lets plays leave me completely overstimulated by the end of the video. the builds are cool but i barely have time to process them! i've heard content creators i like talk about it and i get the impression they feel trapped to keep making the fast paced content if they want to keep growing their channels. i feel like it's less of a problem with smps, maybe because they attract a different audience. like even hermitcraft which is known for having crazy megabuilds usually has slower videos than a lot of hardcore youtubers
I completely feel you on that, many of the people I used to enjoy watching have sped up their editing style to the point where the videos are not quite as interesting as they used to be. I want to see a bit of the grind, I want to experience multitasking like a real player would instead of this hyper focus on the single goal and just cutting out all the waiting... I love watching skyblock modpack playthroughs so if you know of a good channel that does these please let me know.
The only Minecraft youtubers I currently still watch are Python and smaller creators that make Minecraft Better Than Adventure or Magical Let's plays......it's just more chill and old-school feeling.
My introduction to Minecraft was Captainsparklez's very first hunger games. The slow pacing and exploration was what really got me hooked. Now, I barely watch any minecraft, much less play it. It's become as you say, hooked on short attention span. And so it loses me, along with most likely others.
OH MY GOD ! Wow, i have never been that speechless, you have described to the exact word what i feel about minecraft videos. I have noticed this shift and got progressively more and more displeased by it like it irritates me. I hate that it is so difficult to find real minecraft videos that convey the minecraft atmosphere and not just the minecraft visual, and hate even more that even when you find these videos they are highly overshadowed by the "popular" ones. I have seen countless small youtubers lauching their minecraft channels with these flashy edited mc content and people in the comment are like wow amazing editing but i can't disagree more to that, it is a litteral factory that produces un-personal and brain damaging content. I hope we will see the reverse change some time in the future... If you want some high quality minecraft content that conveys emotions almost like if you were playing minecraft yourself, watch Dallasmed65 or PyreMarten. I can't describe how great they are, and they need all strength they can get;
After reading the community post Mumbo put out about 2 months ago about all the eager marketeers painting a picture of the "content creation of the future (heavily reliant on AI)" , the conveyor belt styled content is only bound to get worse from here..
I also think that this "Bigger and Better" content style is damaging the game itself, have you heard of the "One Week Minecraft Phase"? It's where people get a sudden burst of motivation to play Minecraft, but only about a week later they hit a wall of overwhelming apathy and stop playing. With this style of content being as popular as it is, I think it makes a lot of people believe that rushing through the game as fast as possible so you can build some absurd mega structure is the way the game is supposed to be played, and a lot of people aren't up for that so they just quit.
The thing is, minecraft is a game so grounded on the creative aspect, that while it never really dies out, it essentially has ''cycles'' where the game reaches a peak of attention, where new content is being pumped out every second by content creators, and when that inevitably becomes stale, as all forms of content do in large scale plataforms, it falls into some level of obscurity again, until a new well of ideas is tapped, and cycle repeats itself, introducing the game to newer audiences, which is why minecraft is often labled as a kids game, because if you pay attention, while people of all ages PLAY the game, the vast majority of audience members who WATCH minecraft series are usually in the range of 12-17 years old. Of course as times passes these audiences grow and loose interest in the game too, further enforcing the life cycle of minecraft. This in fact also applies to content creators, who may have become famous or simply well known for minecraft, but decide to leave the game behind for the same reasons. Over here in Brazil, we have MANY well known youtubers who started out as purely minecraft creators, and then one day they just stopped, swapped their content, some for podcasting, some for more general lets plays, or even returned to minecraft YEARS LATER, when the next cycle began anew. So honestly im not really worried about the state of minecraft content, we simply reached the apex of THIS cycle, and now things will slow down again up until the next big thing appears. Thats my take on it at least
That is a pretty good take honestly, I never had the perspective of Brazil but now I do thanks to you. As for my odd perspective... I am from Slovakia (center of Europe) and all our own Slovakian TH-camrs started with Minecraft at one point, and all of them also moved away from it! But unlike Brazil, they never returned years later. Slovak youtubers also are more "free" in terms of content variety, and that our language is not spoken by any other country, so we are few in numbers and potencial. I am sorry 😭 I just wanted someone to share Our story with.
Imo this isn’t just a TH-cam problem. There’s an entire generation coming online that has only known social media, the new internet, and corporate-created content. They are used to being spoon-fed everything through an algorithm, especially from TikTok. As a result, they never nurtured any creativity, and, need constant mental stimulation and dopamine hits. Sadly, there’s nothing you can do, other than not selling your soul. The days of TH-cam videos feeling less overproduced, corporate, and flashy are over. I miss the early days of TH-cam, tbh.
I agree alot on this. Ive been recently been disintrested in a lot of content because of fast pace to the point where ive just started making my own videos with a pace good enough for me that I can just play it in the background. there are still a lot of good paced minecraft youtubers, such as ethoslabs or dallasmed65 but I still think there is not enough to balance out the fast pace youtubers😅
Thank you for making this video. I feel it's important for people to realize this, and want to seek out more inspirational, more important feeling content. I watch the occasional "Mr. Beast" style MC video once in a blue moon, but I mostly try to find content that seems more meaningful to me. It's hard to find many videos like that nowadays...I just wish that more people could make a decent living off of better, more relaxed content, so we'd have more thought-provoking videos to watch where we get to experience the person, not the product. Recently, I've been seeing these types of videos all over TH-cam, and thought that...maybe I should start making my own videos more like them, so more people can even get a chance to see the story I'm creating with my videos (because the algorithm wants what the algorithm wants). Thank you for changing my mind, and showing me that we need more personal and true-to-self creators like you.
I always click “not interested” when anything regarding hardcore such as “I built x in minecraft hardcore mode” as they are mostly fake and also a huge ass algorithm farm. Also from a technical player these clickbait hardcore videos ruin the technical scene so badly and it does personally annoy me Etho is the only solid consistent lets play creator out there, his builds have a unique style and he doesn’t overhype stuff. From a Minecraft player who has been playing for 14 years the state of content recently has been abysmal
This is so valid, I honestly miss SO bad the slower paced videos and more story/theme focused. When I do still manage to find either older or new content in this style I can't binge it fast enough.
I agree, especially from being a fan of very small MC yters with less than 100 subscribers, who are struggling to find their footing. I'm currently watching this circle of creators trying to hit something with minecraft but really struggling. There's this one creator doing a 7 day challenge and posting each day seperately, and trying to find their unique editing style, telling a story that flows through the seven videos. But I'm watching as their friends succumb to more high-energy fructose style videos, one by one, in a desperate attempt to try and catch some new subscribers
LukeTheNotable, the creator of the 100 Days format makes his videos very enjoyable, funny, and worth the wait. But I dont like 100 days videos (Other than people who keep it interesting like Forge Labs or Mogswamp)
I remember in 2012, I used to watch a youtube channel that did alot of different gaming videos, including minecraft adventure maps or survival seasons. If I look back at them at full length there are alot of mundane or outright boring parts where nothing really happened, but when something did happen those parts were the best and I would still remember them even after all these years. With these 100 days in hardcore... I don't really remember alot when they end, mostly because they aren't as unique as I would want, it is always a mega build or challenge but there is not alot of personality because of the cuts and the voice overs, something that didn't happen alot back then and it was mostly just a person playing the game and commentating, talking about the most random shit imaginable that came to mind and that was the time where we would get an insight about the person commentating and their opinions. That lead us to making a connection with them.
The 100 Days challenges are a great example. In 2012 that would be a series of 10-20 videos. Now its all that compressed into usually one, maybe two highly edited videos.
what you said is pretty applicable to most of youtube content now, the mrbeast-ification of youtube was inevitable ever since the adpocalypse. But it’s pretty interesting to see that the old, minimally edited, personal style of videos is slowly making a resurgence. Sam sulek does this and has become unbelievably successful, ironically enough. Anyways, great video dude, and the points really resonated with me
I think you could apply this videos message to almost every popular game on TH-cam or even just any topic on TH-cam. I’m not the first to say this by far but TH-cam is becoming more like TV than a platform for average people sharing their interests. That plus the slow death of long form content makes me worry about how things will look in a few years for now
Wow, you're definitely hitting what content I'm looking forward for. Finally a video I can really agree with. After like 2018 minecraft videos felt different but I always thought it was because I got older. The content has definitely changed. I've kept trying to branch out to other minecraft youtubers and the same content is the same. I'm losing my point, regardless thank you for the video. It's actually perfect.
Theres an eb and flow to these things. I felt this same feeling of overstimulation and desperation for engagement about youtubers now deemed "classics" by others of my generation like popular MMO, Dan TDM and stampy. I hated these growing up because they refused to shut up, constantly talking incessantly in these child friendly patronising personas. The audible and visual equivalent to jingling keys. And if youve seen their content outside of MC and youll see theyre way more intelligent and chill and give more space for that down time and those moments of silence. Its that their minecraft content was designed to keep kids watching, keep them engaged, keep them listening even if its inane drivel. So how do you keep enjoying the content... well, just dont watch that 100 days, 100 players crap. Watch the old hands that understand the space (hermitcraft, the traffic life series, pirates/rats smp ect)
i thoroughly agree with all of your points especially the one about tiktok and how content feels so corporate. It all feels so washed out and fake. Tiktok is such a harmful app for the youth and the app is spying on you. Thank you for making this video more people need to speak on this.
it's both. youtube and it's algorithm because you wouldn't find these videos without it (and the algorithm just loves to recommend these videos to kids), and mc youtubers themselves due to the fact that they're making these cringy flashy hyper-edited videos, which in turn is recommended to people by the algorithm. but it's actually more on the mc youtubers, they're the ones making those videos.
I 100% agree. I've been watching minecraft content for around a decade now (oh god), and the one time I full on stopped was when Dream's manhunt became a trend. I enjoyed some "Minecraft Manhunt but ", but for the most part they were the same. My personal favorite minecraft youtubers are the Lifesteal youtubers, as they put genuine effort into their content and make every video entertaining, regardless of the topic. My two favorites are Parrot and Rekrap2. Parrot made a video about a *diamond being stolen*. And it was super well done and I was entertained the whole time. Rekrap has stepped a bit away from Lifesteal itself but he does his own stuff, with commentary of his life over a video of him speedrunning, and it's also spectacular. I also have been enjoying DoctorR4t, but that's because I'm a programmer and modder and it's fun to watch. Let's hope we get some more unique stuff in the future.
I hope for unique content too ☺☺ but have you seen lately what's happening on Planet Minecraft and it's Bedrock equivalent: The Bedrock Marketplace?? It is as if there is something for Everyone! There is almost every player/character skin imaginable in Planet Minecraft... and Bedrock Marketplace is sloooooooowly adopting... WHich begs the question: Since you saw Minecraft videos for 10 years (and me too, I started in October, 2013, like you did)... What would you like to see? Is there something Unique that has not been done before?
I can't relate enough to this video. I've been using TH-cam since 2007 and only recently have I started wondering If it was time to leave. There are a few creators that do make meaningful content but, alot of it does feel like time wasters. Earned a sub!
Same It feels like every other social medi a now Content just feels pumped out now, I had a lot more fun watching Beta LPs than I did watching these weird challenges.
I find my favorite videos to be the more introspective and structured videos where the creator expresses his/her POV to the audience to convince a point. More like persuasive, or history related. Hearing someone else's feelings towards stuff I like, like this block game. :) I did enjoy hearing what you said and I agree.
I think the really good large minecraft channel is forge labs. he turns the 100 days hardcore idea into his own by adding his own personality into it. I would really recommend watching his stuff
TH-cam Shorts are kind of a weird thing to me.. I hate them, yet I keep getting pulled in, when I lay in bed I just mindlessly scroll through the shorts, getting ragefits, screaming at annoying spammy videos. I keep hitting "Do not recommend this channel" on like 90% of those videos, yet TH-cam keeps recommending me videos of the same style, while TH-cam seems to stop recommending me shorts of channels I actually do watch some of the times..
The opening 5 minutes to this video speaks to the whole "you in TH-cam" thing in such a great way. Its crazy how these thoughts in this video are exactly what I've thought about for a long time. And funny enough someone asked where I'd been for so long not making videos. I made a similar analogy with the chef thing. TH-cam has become a platform where there are so many chefs and the kitchen is running out of space and now people have a mr beast feastables addiction. Mr beast is doing his thing but his content is effectively an Instagram model. 10m people might turn their head as the content crosses their eye line but it isn't enriching the soul. Its effectively making you more shallow. Absolutely loved this video so much!
I 100% agree with your opinion. That fast-paced content is very overwhelming to me. When some youtuber builds a grandiose build, I would like to have the time to actually see the build, enjoy the build, be amazed at the scale and details... But they make like ten cuts per second so I don't enjoy anything, I get frustrated and leave feeling sad. It is good to just pause and enjoy the view for a little while. I recently made a video close to my heart. Celebrating my ten years playing on a private server where everyone left except for the owner and I. I speak quickly because I'm nervous, but otherwise I aimed to make the video contemplative, nostalgic, slow paced and meaningful. The total opposite of what's trending now. Thankfully, I got blessed by the algorithm so I got a whopping 3k views. I've never seen that before and I feel really happy that my story touched the heart of so many people. The video is in French though, but you can watch it. I really should add subtitles at some point. Have a nice day, take care ! Rose.
I don't understand the problem. Are the videos you want to watch not there? Watch the videos you want to watch, find creators online outside of the TH-cam recommendations and you won't have the problem. I see those thumbnails once in a while, very rare. They are obvious in what they are. I don't watch them and TH-cam doesn't show me those videos. Simple.
you have a lot of good points in here about how minecraft content is just kinda all the same lately and like people are always trying to make ideas more and more large scale and always having more and more dopamine. hence why at least with the videos i make, i try to tell a really cool story in them without focusing so much on making an over the top build or crazy large idea; i just like to tell a story in my own way while keeping it interesting to the viewer with personality of course.
yeahh thats what ive been doing, i only watch these modern mc vid from channels like ish,speedsilver and some others but i enjoy commentaries from chill youtubers, ibxtoycat, ecko, wattles, xisuma, mumbo and so much more. including you too, its very nice to sit down and consider the things these youtubers have to say instead of just be bombarded with zoom and sound effects... yes we need more of this but hey, like you mentioned, youtubers are only doing their work. now, i know this js unlikely but it stems from the root itself, youtube algorithm, we really need a new video streaming platform that promotes their vids differently from youtube since youtube doesnt have a competition therefore refuses to improve. eitherway really appreciate this video from you, in the long run, you might not get as much views as those children oriented content but, you gave a good influence to the ones watching and thats more than money can get you, never stop!
I think the best minecraft content creators are people like SeaWatt, Grox, and Evbo. They just use Minecraft to tell stories and that's pretty much all I want to do as well. I too fell into the trap of "omg following a trend gets views" and, it does, and following a trend isn't bad. But it got really stale for me you know? I wanna try making something unique and different, even if I still follow a trend somewhat. This is a really well put together video, and I totally feel the same way about Minecraft content these days.
7:06 just about had me rolling on the ground it caught me so off guard XD But to the video, its fantastic and it hits it right on the nail....In the film world, writers have to include moments of down town, time for not only the character to process what just happened, but also for the audience to do the same as well. It allows for emotions to sink in, pressure to build, bonds and connections to be formed...that dead time is good, even if TH-cam doesn't necessarily support that stuff all the time. The audience that's looking for it, will find it, and those who want the fast paced content will have it too. We just gotta dig a bit more sometimes lol this isnt a bash on fast paced stuff though, I love it just as much as the next, but when its all that seems to be thrown in our face, I really just want anything but that! Good stuff though good sir!
This is a great video and i absolutely agree with you on it. Sometimes I'll go back to watching videos from 2013-era because they are more personalized and stuff. Other times I'll watch livestream vods. Anything to get away from that horrible hyperediting trend.
whats fucking weird, is ive been thinking the same thing the last few weeks, yet never said anything to anyone about it. suddenly i have a few videos with a similar topic as yours. lots of good points, and its good to know that others feel the same about mc videos. i love longform chill minecraft videos the most. very relaxing to listen to as i do my own thing in minecraft
God you're so right. A thing i loved but now hate as everyone is trying to be the exact same with no unique twist.. Is the "Sandiction edits". He started a trend of VEEERY fast paced editing but also sprinkled his personality into the videos a lot. They were quite fun to watch! He had a very mellow vibe and it was just a chill time to watch... Then when his videos popped off, there where THOUSANDS of copies that edited videos the EXACT same way, tried to copy his personality and mellow vibe without a single sprinkle of uniqueness. Search up any hardcore video within the last 2 years and they're all the same.
Something I feel like pointing out is that putting unrelated gameplay in the background while talking is just another form of the issue you're trying to address the video in the background is supposed to keep people's eyes and minds focused on something as you talk, so that we don't get "bored" of listening to you, which is just another symptom of recent generations' fear of boredom. It's like all those videos on TikTok with the subway surfers or whatever in the background. I can't blame you for doing that since editing is hard and takes time, but I thought I might as well point it out.
I love long formed content. So I got almost surprised when I came across this guy’s channel, and was actually very happy to be able to keep up with what I’m watching. - Minecraft: Minecraft have become a mess, especially after Microsoft taking over the Mojang company, and its now a game that I don’t play as often as I used to. Which saddens me. As a kid I used to play Minecraft everyday when I got home from school, back in 2013. Sitting playing it on my ps3 was so damn fun and I’ll never forget those memories. But now, I see it change from a fun and engaging game, to a game with added micro transactions (for some reason), and a competitive game with way too much hyperactivity and greed. It’s so depressing, as I’ve always find changes incredibly difficult, this was a game I truly loved. I didn’t wanna watch it die, but it’s changing. And it seems to be changing for the worse.. - Short formed content & tiktok So I’ve personally never been a huge fan of short formed content, and I even have ADHD. It was and still is so fun watching gaming videos about details, 1 hour documentaries, cause I just loved the feeling of being able to keep up, and learn from things. I literally grew up with TH-cam on my side. - So, unsurprisingly..as I came across Tiktok, it was an app I truly began to despise. I started scrolling, and scrolling…and scrolling. It caught me, I was addicted to this short formed, brain rotting crap of an Chinese app. And hell did I feel it changing by attention span, and even myself for good. I felt like a different person, and even became depressed and delusional about my identity. It was so damn crazy! That’s when I noticed that Tiktok is an app that’s designed for making you hooked, every emotion you feel is connected and recognized via face cams you never see. They record and recognize your expressions and can sense if you feel: Depresssed: Shows you therapy videos Happy: Shows you cute and funny videos Scared: Shows you tips and “tutorials” on how to break into houses, self defense etc. I quickly realized that Tiktok is worse than any social media app combined, and is why many people and teenagers who are on the app feels miserable. Cause they’re simply addicted, and become a bit delusional from the world around them. I uninstalled the app after a year of addiction to the crap that app had been feeding me, and slowly returned my brain cells and personality to who I was before. It was crazy, because it changed ME, as a person. The creator of tiktok doesn’t even care about their own audience, which isn’t surprising to me. - Now, TH-cam is getting nervous and tries to copy their form of trashy and hyper content, by adding shorts. To me, just like Minecraft’s micro transactions, doesn’t make sense, and never fit good together. It completely breaks the creativity and functionality of the whole app and community started on it. - Conclusion and final words This video was very informative and this channel had exactly the type of content I was looking for. Slow paced videos and mentions about the frustrations of fame, and general enjoyment from either watching, or creating content. I myself are a content creator, and I’ve especially noticed that my short and fast paced series/experiments have been getting 17k views, while my detailed videos that I put actual effort, motivation and work into, barely even pass 200 views. TH-cam’s algorithm is very messy, and I feel saddened that people, mostly kids on my channel, only wants fast paced videos. Although that’s not really the audience that I strive for, I still think about what to record and how to make the content enjoyable. But I am a bit confused on how I should balance it out, considering most of my viewers only watch 30 seconds, but only a few watch to 2 minutes. I’ll find a way to reach a more slow paced and consistent audience, by posting games and thing I love instead of forcing myself to do fast paced content that just bores me. - Thanks for this video, and I felt the need to subscribe just because this video had the exact thought I had on my mind. Hope you’ll continue doing these videos, as I simply love slow paced and informative videos, deep diving into games and specific topics like this. ^_^
I have been noticing a slow rise of Minecraft chill plays where they are building with beautiful music and speaking of life lessons, it’s quiet, slow. Relaxing
I remember when I was like 9, I watched a horror Minecraft series from some guy that was tryna do a Minecraft world, but the zombie village had some secrets and stuff- I have no idea where it is now, but if I could go back and watch it, I would, I remember it being amazing
There is a Huge difference between kid's friendly and for kids content. It's going to be interesting to see the type of content the next generation will produce for minecraft. I'm not a fan of the high stakes game aspect some creators has been running with for the past few years.
This also applies to the MC animation scene as well The brainrots (e.g. newer monster school vids) always get more views than the actual good stuff to the point where you only has a fighting chance if you already built a big fan base (like Squared Media, Rainimator, Captain Sparklez, etc.) And since Mine-Imator is very easy to use, a lot of creators are getting into this, making the competition *very* tight To prove this, my 16:9 Blue Archive videos perform better than all of my (currently public) 16:9 MC Animation videos *COMBINED* While my (now privated) Toothless Ender Dragon video (the first one, not the remake) got 111k views, it got carried by the trend *so hard* at that time, when i'm not trend-jacking, the video doesn't perform too well - EDIT - after writing all of this, i realized that the video is 5 months old already, is he gonna read it, who knows And i can't really blame Mine-Imator though, because it's the software that got me into 3D Art in the first place
I see the problem as 2 fold. The first is pretty self explanatory. It's TH-cam. The platform pushes the stupid or at least sensational stuff. It forces people to play the game when they don't want to. The second I see is a problem with minecraft, but not with the community, or Mojang, or Microsoft. Minecraft is old. Really old in the world of games to have such a massive user base. Minecraft broke new ground in gaming, opening up many new ideas. Compare it to the creation of the FPS genre in the 90s. Wolfenstein came out, then Doom, then Quake. Each was a big innovative step, each was super popular - but they were all seperate games, evolving on the same idea. Eventually we get to Goldeneye, Halo, and all the rest. Minecraft though, has stuck around. It's had games that have incorporated elements it presented, but no true games trying to follow it, that were successful at least. This has led to a game with a pretty sizable amount of content, and even more massive online modding scene and other community stuff - but it is getting old. Development is becoming tough, trying to navigate not really even code, but design and expectation. The game has a hard time adding really big stuff to shift progression because just how big it's gotten. Then the community, with so much time having passed... It's explored everything. In that golden age of great TH-cam minecraft content, it felt like you were constantly discovering stuff - cool new mods, maps, music videos... And certainly people will continue to make cool stuff. Stuff like Create especially will keep minecraft alive for literal decades. But that sense of discovery is gone, that surprise. You can install mods that add new biomes or mobs, but you know what the game is capable of, what you should reasonably expect. Create is the only mod I can think of where I went Wow! For the first time in ages. But my point still stands - the game and it's community gave become lethargic. New updates and mods can't really provide that brand new sense of wonder. That I posit can only be in a new game, a new curated experience where you don't know what to expect with progression, challenge, and even potential story. Minecraft needs a true successor. Not something to "challenge" it. Let's not be sensational here. Minecraft will subside eventually. The players though want that same kind of game. There are scant options for a sandbox block building game. Vintage story I'd say is the most realized, but it seems to be having difficulty breaking into the mainstream. No, the only game I think that can bring back that discovery, is Hytale. I know that a lot of people have found it popular to hate on the game recently (more of that sensationalism) but it has given me no reason to doubt it will release, and ample reason to believe it will offer a legitimate feeling of discovery. If not Hytale, something else is needed. I can feel it in the community. Everyone is tired. They want something new to explore!
I'm quite late to this video, but I just wanna put in my own two cents here. Slowly there's been a shift in TH-cam content where more and more people are making content with a personal touch, as an antithesis to the Mr Beastification. One of those formats you might know is "person holding microphone in front of greenscreen".(I know, very descriptive name I came up with). Say, NakeyJakey or Internet Pitstop. And I'm also seeing this shift in the Minecraft community. As someone one who's on the older side of the Minecraft community(Played it first when I was like 10, remember the site Minecraft For Free?), I find myself watching more and more of these kind of Minecraft channels. Hell, you're one of them. And I know there are a bunch more like me. And as a lot of the younger audience grows older, they're gonna grow out of those Mr Beast type of videos. And trust me, your channel has a LOT of potential. I get that working on a project like this can cause a lot of insecurities - especially when one of your vids shows up as a 10/10 in TH-cam Studio - but seriously, I think there's a chance you'll have more than 200k subs by the end of the year. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Things like this will solve themselves most of the time. Trends change, and so do people.
I think the problem is fundamentally caused by the wide age range of Minecraft players and TH-cam's inability to differentiate between content aimed at older and younger demographics. It's like if TH-cam couldn't tell the difference between shark documentaries and baby shark. There seems to be either more children or they have more time to watch TH-cam and it ends up causing content for older audiences to perform worse in the algorithm.
I remember in 2012-2013 There was a romanian channel called FreeStyleRO2 and i watched his modded minecraft series. Now around 2015 he deleted his channel and its quite sad. I still watch old modded Minecraft series nowdays too!
You know, this video is probably the most genuine video I've seen in a month. It feels like you're having a conversation with someone, and that is just a monologue ripped out of it. The reoccurring points, ideas, the hiccups and uncertainty. No OvErExCiTeD voice, no hyperactive seizure-provoking editting. Just a rough train of thought. Though I despise this corporate-stule MrBeastified modern videos with every cell of my being, I don't want the "og rough persona" era back too, because "boring" (boring/annoying voice, lack of ability to keep up long monologues, etc) people won't get any chance, and the "funny" ones... will be rather cringe anyway. IMO the 2016-18 was the perfect era. Videos, where personality and editing are well balanced, have all of the parts of a good story (not just exposition/climax), not boring and not exhausting to watch. And probably the closest we've ever been to the proper dark humour (not just insilts)
My favourite minecraft youtube series is from earlier this year, Minecraft Into the Fog by The Librarian. Its so cozy and relaxing to watch, he is a great game commentator
If I get 1 more 2-3 hour long "I SURVIVED 1000 DAYS IN HARDCORE" video with 60,000 jump cuts placing blocks along to the background music recommended to me I'm going to lose my mind
About that call to action - each and every one of us has the ability to tell TH-cam not to recommend certain types of videos or even entire channels to us, at least on the front page. If you do not use it, the algorithm will decide what to present you with without your input.
i 100% agree with what you're saying, me personally i just like the classic storytime template mixed with real time gameplay (you know technoblade style) i think an other part thats not touched on enough is how some video that do mix gameplay in the video go WAY to hard on it and make their whole brand being good and eventually they're not really much of creator but more of a gladiator who will eventually burn out. i think thats the main problem with some smps, they focus too much on the "grrr i gotta prove my pvp abilities and take over the whole sever RAHHH" and theres really never a calm moment where they interact with the viewer. and i think thats what the problem is, they dont see a community that supports them but instead a product they have to appeal to also i wouldn't dog to much on skeppy, he made those types of video before the beast
What kind of Minecraft content do you enjoy? What trends in modern content do you dislike? What trends do you like? I'd love to hear it all! Also, today is my birthday! :D
Edit: I want to be extra clear on one point: I blame TH-cam for this issue more than the creators. The creators are just doing what works for them. TH-cam as a platform has been pushing this content more and more. I have a feeling we’re going to see it burst at some point. There’s only so much crazy stuff you can do before people quit on it
'Hardcore let's plays', at some point once the creator gets totems, it is just plain old survival without worrying about dying, and the dying is just there to end the series abruptly once it gets boring or the view fall off, and then the creator moves onto another season or series.
Don't get me wrong, most of the hardcore series are enjoyable, but the community is just so over saturated that it is like having Fast Food, sure a hamburger tastes great once in a while, but once you're having it everyday it becomes dull and boring.
Anything that gives me the feels of LDshadowlady’s 1st season of One Life or certain challenge video that one player plays Minecraft with a few conditions like super flat only or one chunk only
I actually have my own youtube channel, literally only 80 subscribers (not this account) with hardly any views on anything. For the most part it is just long form content that is either lightly edited or not edited at all because I decide to livestream it, so I completely understand the want to make long form content. I honestly think my content is rather terrible but I do it just because I feel like doing it at that time. I find technical aspects of minecraft interesting and most of the videos I watch on minecraft are the people who do redstone stuff or cover what came out in a minecraft snapshot since someone can figure something interesting out with a new feature that came out that wasn't in the changelog.
a youtube creator called Calvin (@Calvin9000) recently made a horror modpack let's play series called "From the Fog". it's an exciting series but it feels so much like older minecraft videos, its just a casual survival world, where we get to discover with him the horror creatures that roam the new world. it's kept so exciting but so minimal and for modern videos they feel so.. fresh? i love it. i've been enjoying Mogswamp's videos too, because while his projects are all modern and somewhat grand, he has kept the same world from 11 years ago, so there's still an element of watching something new grow that old minecraft videos used to have, while still having that "grand insane crazy" aspect to it that is all over today's community. a great way of scaling content while having some originality in his videos.
i'm all for watching people do really crazy stuff or build HUGE things in the game, but i miss the old style of editing where it was edited slowly and you could binge a series for hours. i don't want to see this giant project completed in one video only, it means i run out of videos to watch SO quickly. if its a summary video alongside a longer series of actually building this project, great, that's cool. but i miss being able to relax and sit down and watch less screamy minecraft content
Happy birthing day!
I feel like there's a cycle of the Minecraft community self destructing due to overproduction of content, and rebuilding every few years
more like the video type meta tbh
na just the community seeking to destroy the game every year with content we dont actually need in the game that the community begs for and OP broken items that shouldnt even exsist in the game and the still remaining exploits of farms and bugs and intentionally breaking vanilla game mechanics which are being premoted even by mojang. im all for creativity in minecraft and having the options to get more creative sure but if it means by doing so they have to exploit the game and break the game and ruin what the core of minecraft and ecspecially survival minecraft is, then whats the point in anyone playing. like how is it fun to speedrun the vanilla experience and use progression skips and exploits to make the game easier for you at all fun. ur the same type of people who cry a river and say its too easy. just stop exploiting, get a backbone and grow up and actually make it harder for ur self. restrict ur self and play and improve naturally that way. actually play the vanilla minecraft experience. i play minecraft where i dont break blocks and can only build on top of them. only time ill break a block is if im replacing a block i accidently broke and im putting it back or when i need to mine a block ive placed. i also only use the inland puddles of water, lakes and ponds to create farms dedicated to their biomes, with different shapes and sizes. to make eating less of a hassel, i make slabs to walk up blocks instead of jumping up a block each time which doubles up as sectioning of areas which i see in my head to build things in.
its the natural cycle of life
@@unboxing_legend7708 tell me you have autism without telling me you have autism
bro doesnt know that speedrunning takes skill, exploitation of bugs is fun and also you don't know that people have different opinions then you @@unboxing_legend7708
This is why I've been really enjoying Secret Life, that new series by a couple MC TH-camrs (Grian, MumboJumbo, etc). Its just them mucking around playing Minecraft, but with a gimmick that they have a little task to do. But it's not big super builds like Hermitcraft. It's just goofy stuff like "pretend you have an imaginary friend for the session" or "move people's doors without getting caught"
Been loving that series
Third life was the original and still to me the best i still Remember PIZZA
Oh yea its great. That group of youtubers typically does great stuff. Very much the other side of the spectrum lol.
Everything involving "the hermits" is awsome! Very talanted creators!
The Life Series is insanely fun. A new one should be coming out pretty soon.
super great video and amazingly put. i also feel that the slower paced content (doesnt necessarily have to be as slow as the OG days tho) is more inspirational & relatable when people are actually wanting to jump in game and play. the more relaxed content is probably healthier for the community as a whole. no hate to the crazy projects like theyre cool but i just want to build a house and vibe
Exactly. I think these modern videos take a lot of work, and I don’t want to diminish that. They take a ton of effort to be made, but after years of this and it seemingly being the only thing viable, it’s quite sad. To be clear, I don’t want to go back to old content. I just think more variety would be really cool. There’s so much personality in the Minecraft community, and so much of it feels lost with this “Mr. Beast” style content
I opened this account and the first thing I see is "100 Days But I Can't Leave THIS CHUNK (#1)"
@@TheGeekFactor mrbeast has changed the youtube landscape forever in a pretty insane way, for the better and for the worst all at the same time, their are elements of mrbeast in all the creators that have popped off or are popping off from what ive noticed. super in your face LOOK HERE type of editing
You guys are honestly the only Minecraft content I watch
I miss muse farms by the minecraft muse from the old days. So relaxing yet enticing
I've always focused on trying to be as unique as possible it's what made my channel go viral to begin with, but nowadays everything is oversaturated, most people have sacrificed uniqueness over a corporate formula, not to mention the amount of copying going around. it's getting even more challenging to stand out from the crowd especially in an environment where everyone is trying to one up each other.
I love the excitement that comes from you uploading, I'll probably always be around
Bro you’re like one of the only Minecraft TH-camrs that stands out to me and i frequently find myself watching your vids
Your videos are the perfect example of what these "modern" content creators should strive for. Sure, your videos are fast-paced and flashy sometimes, but they have a unique style. These content creators, as you said, follow a corporate formula, which I dislike. It makes modern minecraft videos feel unreal or unpersonal.
Tho I also want to learn more about you. Your projects are awesome and I will always support you for that. But I think your videos lack a bit of YOU. You got your own character and no other channel is like yours, but still I have the idea that I don't know you as a person. (Which is logical because I don't know you IRL. I hope you get the point). Maybe I am wrong. Idk...
At this point its just a flex fest of nobodies trying to get 5 minutes of fame... I miss the old days where I came home and watched Block By Block or Keralis... Its just not the same...
I definitely miss slower-paced, “old-school” style Minecraft videos, and though they are really hard to find, I’ve realized that it’s often the smaller, more slow-growing channels who tend to make that style of content. They’re very hard to find and it takes a bit more searching, but they’re still out there and it’s always a delight to stumble upon them!
This 100%! Everything is so fast paced now, and that content is pushed to the top over the slower or more genuine feeling content. It makes it incredibly difficult for newer creators to be seen when they are going against that method.
Hello, if you're interested, some time ago I made a video of me upgrading my diamond armor and tools to netherite. It's my only Minecraft video so far, since I'm still developing my brand and deciding my channel's main type of content.
watch vinesauce vinny's minecraft playthrough, super cozy and is basically what u said
Yep. I've realized this. This is the reason I get burnt out making videos. The algorithm wants me to make highly edited videos, so I'm constantly trying to get better editing skills. I'm just going to make slower videos.
You are so right about your comments section, it if difficult to find a modern video without the majority of comments being something like "give this man an Oscar" or "we gettin out of the ___ with this one" having real conversation in the comments is super cool to have.
Although the "Beastification" is real, it is not new, someone like Skeppy has been doing that for years.
The mix of the video essay and consistent view video I love is Hermitcraft. they still have some clickbait and action, but there is still lots of personality and genuine effort put into the Hermitcraft group.
After all these years, I’m still a big fan of Ethoslab. He’s consistently managed to remain, in my opinion, the staple for minecraft content and lets plays. He’s not there to propose you some whacky idea, or some sort of mastodontic challenge: he’s just a guy who’s playing Minecraft and he’s fun to watch. This is the reason I also watch hermitcraft, and with the “recent” release of Decked Out 2 by TangoTek, I’ve been having a blast.
Him, and Hermitcraft as a whole really.
Direwolf20 is a good example too.
All of the hermitcraft youtubers are just really solid creators honestly
Also the Hermitcraft adjacent ones, like Pixlriffs, the rest of the Empires SMP group, Pythonator, etc.
The fact that I scrolled down a bit and saw 3 different people mention Ethoslab says more than enough. He is similar to how he was 10 years ago. Not the same, but you can tell he is real, and he makes his viewers think and actually puts effort into teaching a little bit here and there.
Actually, just scrolled down all the way and 18 people mentioned him, not including replies.
Yea exactly. I love that group. I've watched hermitcraft for a while now and have been loving the life series grian came up with. Its really interesting and fun to see an inverse of hermitcraft where dying actually has consequences beyond inconvenience, and they're ENCOURAGED to do random violent stuff lol. Plus the little twists obviously. Its just a bunch of great people and creators having fun and it is a winning formula. Hell I think there was a whole video essay on why hermitcraft is great.
I think a large part of the problem with current Minecraft content is that instead of coming up with new ideas, a lot of creators try to just up the scale of a preexisting idea. So instead of having a new idea that can change the way you think of something in Minecraft the video just tries to make you watch because of the wow factor
yeah uve hit the nail in the coffin but not the way ik ur explaining it. people play minecraft these days to speedrun the game, cheat progression and skip progression and use exploits to play the vanilla game which isnt playing the vanilla game nor is it truely fun and those who say it is, are the people who are influenced by sneaky content creators making it out to all be fine and acceptable. creativity in minecraft isnt the problem its the people using exploits to ruin it. farms these days are not ur typical pen where ur limited to the amount of mobs u can breed and farm for food or other recources. these days a mob farm exploits the number of mobs that can spawn within 1 or multiple areas and boost the chances to gain loot quick and easy without the added challenge and tapping mobs in a 2 by 2 space where a mobs limitations of what they can do is limited and also exploited.
getting high tier loot now thanks to youtube influencers and the community ruining the progression of the game, getting what is meant to be late game items is now wayy too easy to obtain with little to no effort and yet again, exploits. enchanted books like mendi g are easy to obtain by resetting village workers for a new loot trade pool of items to trade you, u can get iron from making farms to kill iron golems, u can make farms for any mobs to get all the recouces it can drop from it. there isnt any skill anymore and people seek to ruin the game.
i think that to fix at least the enchanted book issue to make it harder to obtain is to make very situational and not as great enchants such as bane of arthropods fairly easy to obtain but not in the way that it can be exploited. thru trading a high price which the villager trades cant be reset, from a very low drops while fishing and average drops while looting structures like the typical mob spawner and other set structures. when it comes to something like mending, have it as a end game item similar to the elytra or warden and deep dark with a very low chance or just get rid of mending so durability is actually used again and ups the difficulty and makes people actually be more careful with the recources they gather to use it on.
I think this problem can stem from the base game having terrible progression. It hasn't been fundamentally changed in many years. People will eventually become bored and try to make challenge videos with a lot of "wow factor" to make modern minecraft content watchable
bruh why do you type like a 1st grader lol.
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@rpstephen I disagree with the idea that the issue is rooted in Minecraft's progression. The spread of MrBeast-ified content spreads all across both this platform and others, and it's certainly not isolated to Minecraft. If it's a genre that can be targeted to children, it **will** be effected.
@@apollounknowndev if not Mrbeast, then youtubers like Ali-A for example will spread the same type of content. Minecraft along with other games will go down this rabbit hole regardless of youtuber era.
i fell down this "minecraft myth" youtube rabbit hole recently. a lot of it is this exact type of content with a horror twist of "stuff that is actually in the game!1!!!" when its clearly mods, datapacks, or literally just someones friend in a multiplayer server. this kind of stuff makes me so sad because it doesn't feel nearly as authentic as old minecraft rumors did. it just feels like a clickfarm for children.
There are so many videos that just feel to me like "empty content" these days. It's just fast-food for the eyes. Nobody needs broccoli every day, but McDonald's for ever meal will ruin anybody's taste.
As someone who's engaging with fast-paced grand Minecraft videos quite often, I agree with your words that it's all made only for reacting to something, and not thinking. I didn't think I'd enjoy a slow and calm video, but this one proved me wrong. It felt nice not to be bombarded by flashing images and screaming voices while watching. Definitely will be coming here to relax
You should check Giran , Smallishbeans , Mogswamp , loony they are pretty good Minecraft content
you're right on the money with this. You look at some of the videos that are pumped out today & it's super hard to distinguish one MC TH-camr from another. It's the same wacky editing style, the same subtitling of every sentence, the same basic ideas for videos & the same type of personality behind the camera.
They remind me of family channels in a way. They make their thumbnails look super flashy, the snappy in-your-face editing & acting like they're living their best lives imaginable. When in reality, you can tell that most of these people are putting on an act. But like you said, it's what the YT algorhythm pushes out most.
Same. I remember this show called "The worst/most strict parents in the world" and at some point, especially Season 2 onwards, it was visible that these Borrowed parents were doing more akin to an act. Not just the parent but also the Teenager in question!!
I deliberately don't edit my videos. I was almost a voice actor, and people like how chill I am. I am quite comfortable to just build my world, tell a story, and sometimes learn new redstone things.
Someone said I'm "the bob ross of minecraft" once on stream and that's become my new sort of frame, goal, thing.
Etho is my biggest inspiration so that helps
Etho is the goat
@Americanbadashh yeah etho is brilliant. I have a pretty exciting life off screen so I like being chill on Minecraft 😂
My thoughts exactly. My kids watch Minecraft videos that are completely different to the style I make, let alone the content I wish I could make.
Then again, I'm not making videos to make money, it's just a hobby - and will remain so unless the current meta changes drastically!
My favourite MC series thing on YT had to have been DanTDM’s modded MC adventures. These kinds of role-playing style adventure videos were pretty common back in the day but the difference with Dan’s series was it was mostly him doing the talking. The adventures were always weird and unique, u never really knew what next week’s episode would be, it was basically my version of the Saturday morning cartoon.
It really did feel unique on YT and I don’t recall many others like it.
I remember watching plenty of Dan's videos. Those were good times.
God damn I missed those. I also liked his diamond dimensions play through.
The Diamond Dimensions was one of the best series on youtube.
Honestly socksfor1 Minecraft all the mods videos were really good
This is exactly why I search for Minecraft Roleplay videos occasionally. Like, even though the Minecraft Roleplay community has been dying these past couple years, each and every content creator in the space has some sort of meaningful story to tell. They can take it slow to build everything up and that's what I love about it
See I will agree heavily.
When I was younger I (funnily now) enjoyed the Little Club. They always did RPs and I mostly enjoyed how they tried making their own stories even with the more copied formula of say, The Crafting Dead and stuff. I still enjoyed them because they liked making stories, but now these days the group's disbanded and tried doing the clickbait I know of now, which is sad.
Ah the days of Aphmau and the little club
There was a Minecraft creator (I don’t remember) who recently made a survival video as a classic video, and a dopamine rush style version to test views etc. it was pretty interesting.
If you ever find who it was then please reply with the name since that sounds like a video I would want to check out
Yo. I am also interested, raised a hand 🙋♂🙋♀ try searching in your History, in PC and mobile, you can have a special search bar for History/Watched videos specifically. At least I have it...
Happy searching!
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@@gratermccheesy9650yeah, your never getting the video name unless you’ve found the video
@@thisisyouraverageperson I know, but still sucks
Hey man i never comment but you feel like a real human being. This type of self discussion content talking about thing you notice leave really satisfied. Its easy listening, like chatting late at night with a friend. Keep it up !!!
For real! Finally someone with a platform is talking about stuff like this
Off topic but "you feel like a real human being" is such an ominous sentence
It’s crazy how I saw Matpat’s video in Game Theory about this issue on TH-cam as a whole just 2 days ago. Im not a fan of it either to be honest. I love older TH-cam videos that I used to watch when I was younger. Not because due to nostalgia, but overall each video was made with character and passion. The issue with people trying to one up each other, or trying to make the idea bigger is that there will be a point where they’ll hit a power creep. These ideas will only get bigger and more insane, and I’m scared as a viewer. I definitely don’t want this trend to continue.
I didn't even know matpat made a video about it. I'll have to watch it.
I don’t want to get political, but isn’t there one, red, white and blue, Stars and Stripes, government that this sounds like???🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
(Is joke)
Yeah I agree. Being a new content new content creator for me is difficult because I want to stand out and be different but what's different isn't popular so doesn't get seen. The only things that get seen are, "I Survived 100 Days In.....blah.....blah....blah...."
Funniest part is that MatPat is a content farm himself.
@@SioxerNikita No he isn’t. Just because he has a team doesn’t mean there isn’t sometimes genuine effort and thought in some of his vids, on his multiple channels. I’m not a fan but calling matpat a content farm is bs
"I don't use tiktok, it's a harmfull platform"
Trully based.
I totally agree. I recently deleted instagram from my phone, the last app that had me scrolling endlessly. I’ve now startet going back to older Minecraft let’s plays because it gave me joy and a sense of nostalgia. I highly recommend Vintage beef’s life in the woods series. I have no idea how many times I’ve rewatched it since it came out! It will always have a special standing to me.
I can 100% remember times in my content creation journey thinking about changing to a style that "works" for the algorithm but in the end changing to a style to shows off my personality was the good way to go. I will say part of the issue to me is the market is flooded not just the hype videos but the standard let's play and SMP world there is just so much competition out there.
Based ethoslab subscription
For anyone who's looking for an underrated channel, I would highly recommend the Minecraft content of Troubled Boys. They mostly play modded content, but their style just feels so natural like friends just hanging out and having a good time (often chaotically), and it's honestly such a refreshing thing to see in today's climate of Minecraft TH-cam content.
MogSwamp is a good youtuber check him
I like the more grounded older mod reviews, and let's plays. I'm a huge stampy fan and have been watching him for over 8 years now. And I loved the race to the moon series and stampys lovely world. I miss that Era of minecraft videos. I also like forge labs version of 100 days videos but other than that I normally don't like 100 days videos.
Yeah I’d say forge is one of the few who follows this trend but gives his own twist on it that makes it feel like his. I don’t think. I want to go back to the old style… I just want more variety in content being viable.
i miss the mod reviews bro. they were a core part of minecraft including parody songs. when was the last time u heard of a well known content creator doing a mod review on crazycraft or a seasonal lets play? when was the last time uve seen minecraft videos of people literally just playing the vanilla minecraft game for fun on the pure vanilla non exploitive experience? u dont anymore. its all because of these greedy content influencers making content ruining games and ruining social media through awful videos on youtube and other platforms.
I grew up watching and loving Stampy’s lovely world, custom mod adventures, think’s lab etc. and it’s really sad to see what the popular Minecraft videos have become I even tried to start two of my own Minecraft let’s play series including my own continuation of stampy’s lovely world(not for views, just because I wanted to and I thought people would enjoy it) but I only got around 10-20 views and no feedback, I will however keep making videos even if not a lot of people watch them at least a few people enjoy watching my content and I enjoy making the videos and that’s all that matters😊
For mod reviews in that older style I would recommend Mice of Men, he is super underrated and his tutorials are very clean and understandable
OMG I NEED TO REWATCH RACE TO THE MOON
This is why I like Hermitcraft. Most of the Hermits have rather slow paced videos that are just simple plain _Minecraft._ People playing the game together and just having fun, making cool builds because they enjoy doing so.
"You are not supposed to think, you are supposed to react". Very succinct description
The reason i love hermitcraft is well....1)etho approves 2)the content isn't super clickbait thumbnail with red arrows 3)it's paced well it's not super high editing...(technically yes but that's because the full videos are hours long so obviously they have to cut that) 4) it's for everyone over the age of 7 litterally 5)it's original 6).......all this to say that hermitcraft didn't just follow trends for views...
Skeppy has always been doing challenge videos tbh. The quality in his videos fluctuates but he definitely pioneered the genre of these Minecraft challenge videos. I agree with you for the most part about how saturated and cooperate a lot of this content feels- and i think skeppy is not in the wrong for staying with his brand :)
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normal TH-camr: I trapped 100 kids in ikea, last one alive wins(in Minecraft)
mrbeast: I trapped 100 kids in Ikea, last one alive wins (in real life)
I’d pay to watch
I'm so happy that people such as yourself feel this way, as it makes me optimistic towards youtube's future as well as making me feel like I have more freedom in the way I can make videos. Thanks so much for the inspiring and thought-provoking commentary!
Meanwhile, somewhere in Canada... Etho still doesn't make thumbnails
This is why I love hermit craft. It’s not overstimulating or trying to be clickbaity. It’s genuinely impressive because of the things they achieve in game, not because of some crazy idea or overstimulating edit.
Idk, for me, after Season 7 HC lost a bit of it's magic. The forced roleplay and the dozens of resource packs, over-the-top builds and palettes and custom items (look at decked out 2 jesus christ) just started to feel non-vanilla to me. The newer seasons also seem to be catered towards a younger, kid-pre-teen audience. Maybe I have just grown out of it, but I just don't feel like the series is as good as it was from season 1-7. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the hermits putting hundreds of hours into making episodes, it's just not for me anymore.
@@ihatehandleupdateI actually don't see the "pre-teen audience" thing aside from them being PG. I mean "kids friendly" doesn't mean "made for kids". I feel the opposite - they're mostly adult people who make videos for all ages. It's like a movie that you can watch with your kid and you both can enjoy it. Maybe it depends on who you watch though.
@@ihatehandleupdateI think a lot of the HC audience is older. I run into a lot of fans my age, and I’m in my 40s
I'm happy that someone is finally able to talk about this and put words on things that are easy to feel but not that easy to comprehend. I don't think that the "beastification" of the Minecraft content on TH-cam is an isolated case and it seems that TH-cam in general is converging to a more fast pace format that restrict most of the accessibility of the chiller and longer format content. It feels like TH-cam is not a place to chill and listen to shared story anymore or even learn new things as content creators are trading their originality and wishes to share their creations for a more corporationnal and money making styles of content.
But like you said, this type of video does belong on the platform and exciting huge concepts are not worse than other videos they are just different. However there is no balance anymore between the different video styles and it's really sad to see this part of most of people childhood ( including myself ) to disappear from the platform.
I hope this trend will reverse itself and eventually make the platform come back to a more diverse and fun place to hang out.
Anyway, I wish the Minecraft community will stay strong as they did in the past and keep its love for this wonderful game.
these are the exact things that have been going through my mind for a really, really long time. im glad that others are also noticing whats going on and making something big out of it, like this. it deserves to be known
I miss when minecraft content was just about playing the game.
I really miss the minigame era of minecraft videos.
This is on my mind CONSTANTLY. Minecraft content will die out if nothing changes soon.
I love Minecraft, I don't want to see 2016-2018 repeated.
The sad part is that it isn't just Minecraft, but other content as well. Most creators as a whole lean more into fast paced editing with obnoxious zoom-in's and each creator I noticed keeps using the same exact music for their videos without experimenting with their content. I really hope to see more content creators with passion put into their work instead of the same content over & over.
thank you for talking about this. a lot of single player minecraft lets plays leave me completely overstimulated by the end of the video. the builds are cool but i barely have time to process them! i've heard content creators i like talk about it and i get the impression they feel trapped to keep making the fast paced content if they want to keep growing their channels. i feel like it's less of a problem with smps, maybe because they attract a different audience. like even hermitcraft which is known for having crazy megabuilds usually has slower videos than a lot of hardcore youtubers
I completely feel you on that, many of the people I used to enjoy watching have sped up their editing style to the point where the videos are not quite as interesting as they used to be. I want to see a bit of the grind, I want to experience multitasking like a real player would instead of this hyper focus on the single goal and just cutting out all the waiting... I love watching skyblock modpack playthroughs so if you know of a good channel that does these please let me know.
The only Minecraft youtubers I currently still watch are Python and smaller creators that make Minecraft Better Than Adventure or Magical Let's plays......it's just more chill and old-school feeling.
My introduction to Minecraft was Captainsparklez's very first hunger games. The slow pacing and exploration was what really got me hooked.
Now, I barely watch any minecraft, much less play it. It's become as you say, hooked on short attention span. And so it loses me, along with most likely others.
its funny how youtube has turned from broadcast yourself into just broadcast
man i love these videos, you make the types of videos i really love to watch. i hope you make it big out here one day
I hope so too! Thank you for the kind words!
thanks garrett, you inspired me to try to watch more long-paced videos (maybe like from 10 minutes to an hour)
OH MY GOD ! Wow, i have never been that speechless, you have described to the exact word what i feel about minecraft videos. I have noticed this shift and got progressively more and more displeased by it like it irritates me. I hate that it is so difficult to find real minecraft videos that convey the minecraft atmosphere and not just the minecraft visual, and hate even more that even when you find these videos they are highly overshadowed by the "popular" ones. I have seen countless small youtubers lauching their minecraft channels with these flashy edited mc content and people in the comment are like wow amazing editing but i can't disagree more to that, it is a litteral factory that produces un-personal and brain damaging content. I hope we will see the reverse change some time in the future...
If you want some high quality minecraft content that conveys emotions almost like if you were playing minecraft yourself, watch Dallasmed65 or PyreMarten. I can't describe how great they are, and they need all strength they can get;
After reading the community post Mumbo put out about 2 months ago about all the eager marketeers painting a picture of the "content creation of the future (heavily reliant on AI)" , the conveyor belt styled content is only bound to get worse from here..
I also think that this "Bigger and Better" content style is damaging the game itself, have you heard of the "One Week Minecraft Phase"? It's where people get a sudden burst of motivation to play Minecraft, but only about a week later they hit a wall of overwhelming apathy and stop playing. With this style of content being as popular as it is, I think it makes a lot of people believe that rushing through the game as fast as possible so you can build some absurd mega structure is the way the game is supposed to be played, and a lot of people aren't up for that so they just quit.
The thing is, minecraft is a game so grounded on the creative aspect, that while it never really dies out, it essentially has ''cycles'' where the game reaches a peak of attention, where new content is being pumped out every second by content creators, and when that inevitably becomes stale, as all forms of content do in large scale plataforms, it falls into some level of obscurity again, until a new well of ideas is tapped, and cycle repeats itself, introducing the game to newer audiences, which is why minecraft is often labled as a kids game, because if you pay attention, while people of all ages PLAY the game, the vast majority of audience members who WATCH minecraft series are usually in the range of 12-17 years old. Of course as times passes these audiences grow and loose interest in the game too, further enforcing the life cycle of minecraft. This in fact also applies to content creators, who may have become famous or simply well known for minecraft, but decide to leave the game behind for the same reasons. Over here in Brazil, we have MANY well known youtubers who started out as purely minecraft creators, and then one day they just stopped, swapped their content, some for podcasting, some for more general lets plays, or even returned to minecraft YEARS LATER, when the next cycle began anew. So honestly im not really worried about the state of minecraft content, we simply reached the apex of THIS cycle, and now things will slow down again up until the next big thing appears. Thats my take on it at least
That is a pretty good take honestly, I never had the perspective of Brazil but now I do thanks to you. As for my odd perspective... I am from Slovakia (center of Europe) and all our own Slovakian TH-camrs started with Minecraft at one point, and all of them also moved away from it! But unlike Brazil, they never returned years later. Slovak youtubers also are more "free" in terms of content variety, and that our language is not spoken by any other country, so we are few in numbers and potencial.
I am sorry 😭 I just wanted someone to share Our story with.
@@KingOskar4 no need to apologize! I Love when people talk about their own culture and all.
Imo this isn’t just a TH-cam problem. There’s an entire generation coming online that has only known social media, the new internet, and corporate-created content. They are used to being spoon-fed everything through an algorithm, especially from TikTok. As a result, they never nurtured any creativity, and, need constant mental stimulation and dopamine hits.
Sadly, there’s nothing you can do, other than not selling your soul. The days of TH-cam videos feeling less overproduced, corporate, and flashy are over.
I miss the early days of TH-cam, tbh.
I agree alot on this. Ive been recently been disintrested in a lot of content because of fast pace to the point where ive just started making my own videos with a pace good enough for me that I can just play it in the background. there are still a lot of good paced minecraft youtubers, such as ethoslabs or dallasmed65 but I still think there is not enough to balance out the fast pace youtubers😅
I think Grian has done great with his last, second, secret life series.
It's so genuine and is based around friends.
Thank you for making this video. I feel it's important for people to realize this, and want to seek out more inspirational, more important feeling content. I watch the occasional "Mr. Beast" style MC video once in a blue moon, but I mostly try to find content that seems more meaningful to me. It's hard to find many videos like that nowadays...I just wish that more people could make a decent living off of better, more relaxed content, so we'd have more thought-provoking videos to watch where we get to experience the person, not the product. Recently, I've been seeing these types of videos all over TH-cam, and thought that...maybe I should start making my own videos more like them, so more people can even get a chance to see the story I'm creating with my videos (because the algorithm wants what the algorithm wants). Thank you for changing my mind, and showing me that we need more personal and true-to-self creators like you.
I always click “not interested” when anything regarding hardcore such as “I built x in minecraft hardcore mode” as they are mostly fake and also a huge ass algorithm farm. Also from a technical player these clickbait hardcore videos ruin the technical scene so badly and it does personally annoy me
Etho is the only solid consistent lets play creator out there, his builds have a unique style and he doesn’t overhype stuff. From a Minecraft player who has been playing for 14 years the state of content recently has been abysmal
This is so valid, I honestly miss SO bad the slower paced videos and more story/theme focused. When I do still manage to find either older or new content in this style I can't binge it fast enough.
I agree, especially from being a fan of very small MC yters with less than 100 subscribers, who are struggling to find their footing. I'm currently watching this circle of creators trying to hit something with minecraft but really struggling. There's this one creator doing a 7 day challenge and posting each day seperately, and trying to find their unique editing style, telling a story that flows through the seven videos. But I'm watching as their friends succumb to more high-energy fructose style videos, one by one, in a desperate attempt to try and catch some new subscribers
LukeTheNotable, the creator of the 100 Days format makes his videos very enjoyable, funny, and worth the wait. But I dont like 100 days videos (Other than people who keep it interesting like Forge Labs or Mogswamp)
I remember in 2012, I used to watch a youtube channel that did alot of different gaming videos, including minecraft adventure maps or survival seasons. If I look back at them at full length there are alot of mundane or outright boring parts where nothing really happened, but when something did happen those parts were the best and I would still remember them even after all these years.
With these 100 days in hardcore... I don't really remember alot when they end, mostly because they aren't as unique as I would want, it is always a mega build or challenge but there is not alot of personality because of the cuts and the voice overs, something that didn't happen alot back then and it was mostly just a person playing the game and commentating, talking about the most random shit imaginable that came to mind and that was the time where we would get an insight about the person commentating and their opinions. That lead us to making a connection with them.
The 100 Days challenges are a great example. In 2012 that would be a series of 10-20 videos. Now its all that compressed into usually one, maybe two highly edited videos.
what you said is pretty applicable to most of youtube content now, the mrbeast-ification of youtube was inevitable ever since the adpocalypse. But it’s pretty interesting to see that the old, minimally edited, personal style of videos is slowly making a resurgence. Sam sulek does this and has become unbelievably successful, ironically enough. Anyways, great video dude, and the points really resonated with me
I think you could apply this videos message to almost every popular game on TH-cam or even just any topic on TH-cam. I’m not the first to say this by far but TH-cam is becoming more like TV than a platform for average people sharing their interests. That plus the slow death of long form content makes me worry about how things will look in a few years for now
Wow, you're definitely hitting what content I'm looking forward for. Finally a video I can really agree with. After like 2018 minecraft videos felt different but I always thought it was because I got older. The content has definitely changed. I've kept trying to branch out to other minecraft youtubers and the same content is the same. I'm losing my point, regardless thank you for the video. It's actually perfect.
It's like a funke video but in the real early days.
Theres an eb and flow to these things. I felt this same feeling of overstimulation and desperation for engagement about youtubers now deemed "classics" by others of my generation like popular MMO, Dan TDM and stampy. I hated these growing up because they refused to shut up, constantly talking incessantly in these child friendly patronising personas. The audible and visual equivalent to jingling keys. And if youve seen their content outside of MC and youll see theyre way more intelligent and chill and give more space for that down time and those moments of silence. Its that their minecraft content was designed to keep kids watching, keep them engaged, keep them listening even if its inane drivel.
So how do you keep enjoying the content... well, just dont watch that 100 days, 100 players crap. Watch the old hands that understand the space (hermitcraft, the traffic life series, pirates/rats smp ect)
i thoroughly agree with all of your points especially the one about tiktok and how content feels so corporate. It all feels so washed out and fake. Tiktok is such a harmful app for the youth and the app is spying on you. Thank you for making this video more people need to speak on this.
i’d think it’s more of an issue with youtube’s algorithm than minecraft youtubers
it's both. youtube and it's algorithm because you wouldn't find these videos without it (and the algorithm just loves to recommend these videos to kids), and mc youtubers themselves due to the fact that they're making these cringy flashy hyper-edited videos, which in turn is recommended to people by the algorithm.
but it's actually more on the mc youtubers, they're the ones making those videos.
I 100% agree. I've been watching minecraft content for around a decade now (oh god), and the one time I full on stopped was when Dream's manhunt became a trend. I enjoyed some "Minecraft Manhunt but ", but for the most part they were the same. My personal favorite minecraft youtubers are the Lifesteal youtubers, as they put genuine effort into their content and make every video entertaining, regardless of the topic. My two favorites are Parrot and Rekrap2. Parrot made a video about a *diamond being stolen*. And it was super well done and I was entertained the whole time. Rekrap has stepped a bit away from Lifesteal itself but he does his own stuff, with commentary of his life over a video of him speedrunning, and it's also spectacular. I also have been enjoying DoctorR4t, but that's because I'm a programmer and modder and it's fun to watch.
Let's hope we get some more unique stuff in the future.
I hope for unique content too ☺☺ but have you seen lately what's happening on Planet Minecraft and it's Bedrock equivalent: The Bedrock Marketplace?? It is as if there is something for Everyone! There is almost every player/character skin imaginable in Planet Minecraft... and Bedrock Marketplace is sloooooooowly adopting... WHich begs the question:
Since you saw Minecraft videos for 10 years (and me too, I started in October, 2013, like you did)... What would you like to see? Is there something Unique that has not been done before?
in a way, this video explains anti-instant gratification very well.
I can't relate enough to this video. I've been using TH-cam since 2007 and only recently have I started wondering If it was time to leave.
There are a few creators that do make meaningful content but, alot of it does feel like time wasters.
Earned a sub!
Same
It feels like every other social medi a now
Content just feels pumped out now, I had a lot more fun watching Beta LPs than I did watching these weird challenges.
I find my favorite videos to be the more introspective and structured videos where the creator expresses his/her POV to the audience to convince a point. More like persuasive, or history related. Hearing someone else's feelings towards stuff I like, like this block game. :)
I did enjoy hearing what you said and I agree.
I think the really good large minecraft channel is forge labs. he turns the 100 days hardcore idea into his own by adding his own personality into it. I would really recommend watching his stuff
TH-cam Shorts are kind of a weird thing to me..
I hate them, yet I keep getting pulled in, when I lay in bed I just mindlessly scroll through the shorts, getting ragefits, screaming at annoying spammy videos.
I keep hitting "Do not recommend this channel" on like 90% of those videos, yet TH-cam keeps recommending me videos of the same style, while TH-cam seems to stop recommending me shorts of channels I actually do watch some of the times..
Ngl, every time i go in one of these videos, i watch it like for 1 minute before my brain gets overdosed on dopamine and i start dying from inside
The opening 5 minutes to this video speaks to the whole "you in TH-cam" thing in such a great way. Its crazy how these thoughts in this video are exactly what I've thought about for a long time. And funny enough someone asked where I'd been for so long not making videos. I made a similar analogy with the chef thing. TH-cam has become a platform where there are so many chefs and the kitchen is running out of space and now people have a mr beast feastables addiction. Mr beast is doing his thing but his content is effectively an Instagram model. 10m people might turn their head as the content crosses their eye line but it isn't enriching the soul. Its effectively making you more shallow. Absolutely loved this video so much!
I 100% agree with your opinion. That fast-paced content is very overwhelming to me. When some youtuber builds a grandiose build, I would like to have the time to actually see the build, enjoy the build, be amazed at the scale and details... But they make like ten cuts per second so I don't enjoy anything, I get frustrated and leave feeling sad. It is good to just pause and enjoy the view for a little while.
I recently made a video close to my heart. Celebrating my ten years playing on a private server where everyone left except for the owner and I. I speak quickly because I'm nervous, but otherwise I aimed to make the video contemplative, nostalgic, slow paced and meaningful. The total opposite of what's trending now.
Thankfully, I got blessed by the algorithm so I got a whopping 3k views. I've never seen that before and I feel really happy that my story touched the heart of so many people.
The video is in French though, but you can watch it. I really should add subtitles at some point.
Have a nice day, take care !
Rose.
I don't understand the problem. Are the videos you want to watch not there? Watch the videos you want to watch, find creators online outside of the TH-cam recommendations and you won't have the problem.
I see those thumbnails once in a while, very rare. They are obvious in what they are. I don't watch them and TH-cam doesn't show me those videos. Simple.
you have a lot of good points in here about how minecraft content is just kinda all the same lately and like people are always trying to make ideas more and more large scale and always having more and more dopamine. hence why at least with the videos i make, i try to tell a really cool story in them without focusing so much on making an over the top build or crazy large idea; i just like to tell a story in my own way while keeping it interesting to the viewer with personality of course.
yeahh thats what ive been doing, i only watch these modern mc vid from channels like ish,speedsilver and some others but i enjoy commentaries from chill youtubers, ibxtoycat, ecko, wattles, xisuma, mumbo and so much more. including you too, its very nice to sit down and consider the things these youtubers have to say instead of just be bombarded with zoom and sound effects... yes we need more of this but hey, like you mentioned, youtubers are only doing their work.
now, i know this js unlikely but it stems from the root itself, youtube algorithm, we really need a new video streaming platform that promotes their vids differently from youtube since youtube doesnt have a competition therefore refuses to improve.
eitherway really appreciate this video from you, in the long run, you might not get as much views as those children oriented content but, you gave a good influence to the ones watching and thats more than money can get you, never stop!
This isn't just Minecraft; this is TH-cam now.
I honestly just started to re-watch old sunnde Minecraft playthroughs like 6 to 3 year old ones
i just want to say i came across this video while brosing youtube, and as an audio only viewer this channel is great, keep it up man
I think the best minecraft content creators are people like SeaWatt, Grox, and Evbo. They just use Minecraft to tell stories and that's pretty much all I want to do as well. I too fell into the trap of "omg following a trend gets views" and, it does, and following a trend isn't bad. But it got really stale for me you know? I wanna try making something unique and different, even if I still follow a trend somewhat.
This is a really well put together video, and I totally feel the same way about Minecraft content these days.
7:06 just about had me rolling on the ground it caught me so off guard XD
But to the video, its fantastic and it hits it right on the nail....In the film world, writers have to include moments of down town, time for not only the character to process what just happened, but also for the audience to do the same as well. It allows for emotions to sink in, pressure to build, bonds and connections to be formed...that dead time is good, even if TH-cam doesn't necessarily support that stuff all the time.
The audience that's looking for it, will find it, and those who want the fast paced content will have it too. We just gotta dig a bit more sometimes lol
this isnt a bash on fast paced stuff though, I love it just as much as the next, but when its all that seems to be thrown in our face, I really just want anything but that!
Good stuff though good sir!
This is a great video and i absolutely agree with you on it. Sometimes I'll go back to watching videos from 2013-era because they are more personalized and stuff. Other times I'll watch livestream vods. Anything to get away from that horrible hyperediting trend.
whats fucking weird, is ive been thinking the same thing the last few weeks, yet never said anything to anyone about it. suddenly i have a few videos with a similar topic as yours. lots of good points, and its good to know that others feel the same about mc videos. i love longform chill minecraft videos the most. very relaxing to listen to as i do my own thing in minecraft
God you're so right.
A thing i loved but now hate as everyone is trying to be the exact same with no unique twist.. Is the "Sandiction edits".
He started a trend of VEEERY fast paced editing but also sprinkled his personality into the videos a lot. They were quite fun to watch! He had a very mellow vibe and it was just a chill time to watch...
Then when his videos popped off, there where THOUSANDS of copies that edited videos the EXACT same way, tried to copy his personality and mellow vibe without a single sprinkle of uniqueness. Search up any hardcore video within the last 2 years and they're all the same.
Something I feel like pointing out is that putting unrelated gameplay in the background while talking is just another form of the issue you're trying to address
the video in the background is supposed to keep people's eyes and minds focused on something as you talk, so that we don't get "bored" of listening to you, which is just another symptom of recent generations' fear of boredom. It's like all those videos on TikTok with the subway surfers or whatever in the background.
I can't blame you for doing that since editing is hard and takes time, but I thought I might as well point it out.
I love long formed content.
So I got almost surprised when I came across this guy’s channel, and was actually very happy to be able to keep up with what I’m watching.
- Minecraft:
Minecraft have become a mess, especially after Microsoft taking over the Mojang company, and its now a game that I don’t play as often as I used to. Which saddens me.
As a kid I used to play Minecraft everyday when I got home from school, back in 2013. Sitting playing it on my ps3 was so damn fun and I’ll never forget those memories.
But now, I see it change from a fun and engaging game, to a game with added micro transactions (for some reason), and a competitive game with way too much hyperactivity and greed.
It’s so depressing, as I’ve always find changes incredibly difficult, this was a game I truly loved. I didn’t wanna watch it die, but it’s changing.
And it seems to be changing for the worse..
- Short formed content & tiktok
So I’ve personally never been a huge fan of short formed content, and I even have ADHD.
It was and still is so fun watching gaming videos about details, 1 hour documentaries, cause I just loved the feeling of being able to keep up, and learn from things.
I literally grew up with TH-cam on my side.
- So, unsurprisingly..as I came across Tiktok, it was an app I truly began to despise. I started scrolling, and scrolling…and scrolling.
It caught me, I was addicted to this short formed, brain rotting crap of an Chinese app.
And hell did I feel it changing by attention span, and even myself for good.
I felt like a different person, and even became depressed and delusional about my identity. It was so damn crazy! That’s when I noticed that Tiktok is an app that’s designed for making you hooked, every emotion you feel is connected and recognized via face cams you never see.
They record and recognize your expressions and can sense if you feel:
Depresssed: Shows you therapy videos
Happy: Shows you cute and funny videos
Scared: Shows you tips and “tutorials” on how to break into houses, self defense etc.
I quickly realized that Tiktok is worse than any social media app combined, and is why many people and teenagers who are on the app feels miserable. Cause they’re simply addicted, and become a bit delusional from the world around them.
I uninstalled the app after a year of addiction to the crap that app had been feeding me, and slowly returned my brain cells and personality to who I was before. It was crazy, because it changed ME, as a person.
The creator of tiktok doesn’t even care about their own audience, which isn’t surprising to me.
- Now, TH-cam is getting nervous and tries to copy their form of trashy and hyper content, by adding shorts.
To me, just like Minecraft’s micro transactions, doesn’t make sense, and never fit good together.
It completely breaks the creativity and functionality of the whole app and community started on it.
- Conclusion and final words
This video was very informative and this channel had exactly the type of content I was looking for.
Slow paced videos and mentions about the frustrations of fame, and general enjoyment from either watching, or creating content.
I myself are a content creator, and I’ve especially noticed that my short and fast paced series/experiments have been getting 17k views, while my detailed videos that I put actual effort, motivation and work into, barely even pass 200 views.
TH-cam’s algorithm is very messy, and I feel saddened that people, mostly kids on my channel, only wants fast paced videos.
Although that’s not really the audience that I strive for, I still think about what to record and how to make the content enjoyable.
But I am a bit confused on how I should balance it out, considering most of my viewers only watch 30 seconds, but only a few watch to 2 minutes.
I’ll find a way to reach a more slow paced and consistent audience, by posting games and thing I love instead of forcing myself to do fast paced content that just bores me.
- Thanks for this video, and I felt the need to subscribe just because this video had the exact thought I had on my mind.
Hope you’ll continue doing these videos, as I simply love slow paced and informative videos, deep diving into games and specific topics like this. ^_^
I have been noticing a slow rise of Minecraft chill plays where they are building with beautiful music and speaking of life lessons, it’s quiet, slow. Relaxing
I remember when I was like 9, I watched a horror Minecraft series from some guy that was tryna do a Minecraft world, but the zombie village had some secrets and stuff- I have no idea where it is now, but if I could go back and watch it, I would, I remember it being amazing
There is a Huge difference between kid's friendly and for kids content.
It's going to be interesting to see the type of content the next generation will produce for minecraft.
I'm not a fan of the high stakes game aspect some creators has been running with for the past few years.
This also applies to the MC animation scene as well
The brainrots (e.g. newer monster school vids) always get more views than the actual good stuff to the point where you only has a fighting chance if you already built a big fan base (like Squared Media, Rainimator, Captain Sparklez, etc.)
And since Mine-Imator is very easy to use, a lot of creators are getting into this, making the competition *very* tight
To prove this, my 16:9 Blue Archive videos perform better than all of my (currently public) 16:9 MC Animation videos *COMBINED*
While my (now privated) Toothless Ender Dragon video (the first one, not the remake) got 111k views, it got carried by the trend *so hard* at that time, when i'm not trend-jacking, the video doesn't perform too well
- EDIT -
after writing all of this, i realized that the video is 5 months old already, is he gonna read it, who knows
And i can't really blame Mine-Imator though, because it's the software that got me into 3D Art in the first place
I read it. I have no stake in the Minecraft animation game but it sucks that it’s going down the same path as TH-cam in general
I see the problem as 2 fold.
The first is pretty self explanatory. It's TH-cam. The platform pushes the stupid or at least sensational stuff. It forces people to play the game when they don't want to.
The second I see is a problem with minecraft, but not with the community, or Mojang, or Microsoft.
Minecraft is old. Really old in the world of games to have such a massive user base. Minecraft broke new ground in gaming, opening up many new ideas.
Compare it to the creation of the FPS genre in the 90s. Wolfenstein came out, then Doom, then Quake. Each was a big innovative step, each was super popular - but they were all seperate games, evolving on the same idea. Eventually we get to Goldeneye, Halo, and all the rest.
Minecraft though, has stuck around. It's had games that have incorporated elements it presented, but no true games trying to follow it, that were successful at least.
This has led to a game with a pretty sizable amount of content, and even more massive online modding scene and other community stuff - but it is getting old. Development is becoming tough, trying to navigate not really even code, but design and expectation. The game has a hard time adding really big stuff to shift progression because just how big it's gotten.
Then the community, with so much time having passed... It's explored everything. In that golden age of great TH-cam minecraft content, it felt like you were constantly discovering stuff - cool new mods, maps, music videos...
And certainly people will continue to make cool stuff. Stuff like Create especially will keep minecraft alive for literal decades.
But that sense of discovery is gone, that surprise. You can install mods that add new biomes or mobs, but you know what the game is capable of, what you should reasonably expect. Create is the only mod I can think of where I went Wow! For the first time in ages.
But my point still stands - the game and it's community gave become lethargic. New updates and mods can't really provide that brand new sense of wonder.
That I posit can only be in a new game, a new curated experience where you don't know what to expect with progression, challenge, and even potential story.
Minecraft needs a true successor. Not something to "challenge" it. Let's not be sensational here. Minecraft will subside eventually. The players though want that same kind of game.
There are scant options for a sandbox block building game. Vintage story I'd say is the most realized, but it seems to be having difficulty breaking into the mainstream.
No, the only game I think that can bring back that discovery, is Hytale. I know that a lot of people have found it popular to hate on the game recently (more of that sensationalism) but it has given me no reason to doubt it will release, and ample reason to believe it will offer a legitimate feeling of discovery.
If not Hytale, something else is needed. I can feel it in the community. Everyone is tired. They want something new to explore!
I'm quite late to this video, but I just wanna put in my own two cents here. Slowly there's been a shift in TH-cam content where more and more people are making content with a personal touch, as an antithesis to the Mr Beastification. One of those formats you might know is "person holding microphone in front of greenscreen".(I know, very descriptive name I came up with). Say, NakeyJakey or Internet Pitstop. And I'm also seeing this shift in the Minecraft community.
As someone one who's on the older side of the Minecraft community(Played it first when I was like 10, remember the site Minecraft For Free?), I find myself watching more and more of these kind of Minecraft channels. Hell, you're one of them. And I know there are a bunch more like me. And as a lot of the younger audience grows older, they're gonna grow out of those Mr Beast type of videos.
And trust me, your channel has a LOT of potential. I get that working on a project like this can cause a lot of insecurities - especially when one of your vids shows up as a 10/10 in TH-cam Studio - but seriously, I think there's a chance you'll have more than 200k subs by the end of the year.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Things like this will solve themselves most of the time. Trends change, and so do people.
I think the problem is fundamentally caused by the wide age range of Minecraft players and TH-cam's inability to differentiate between content aimed at older and younger demographics. It's like if TH-cam couldn't tell the difference between shark documentaries and baby shark. There seems to be either more children or they have more time to watch TH-cam and it ends up causing content for older audiences to perform worse in the algorithm.
I remember in 2012-2013 There was a romanian channel called FreeStyleRO2 and i watched his modded minecraft series. Now around 2015 he deleted his channel and its quite sad. I still watch old modded Minecraft series nowdays too!
Who remembers the epic proportions seasons? That us how you make good interesting minecraft
You know, this video is probably the most genuine video I've seen in a month. It feels like you're having a conversation with someone, and that is just a monologue ripped out of it. The reoccurring points, ideas, the hiccups and uncertainty. No OvErExCiTeD voice, no hyperactive seizure-provoking editting. Just a rough train of thought.
Though I despise this corporate-stule MrBeastified modern videos with every cell of my being, I don't want the "og rough persona" era back too, because "boring" (boring/annoying voice, lack of ability to keep up long monologues, etc) people won't get any chance, and the "funny" ones... will be rather cringe anyway. IMO the 2016-18 was the perfect era. Videos, where personality and editing are well balanced, have all of the parts of a good story (not just exposition/climax), not boring and not exhausting to watch.
And probably the closest we've ever been to the proper dark humour (not just insilts)
My favourite minecraft youtube series is from earlier this year, Minecraft Into the Fog by The Librarian.
Its so cozy and relaxing to watch, he is a great game commentator
Glad people are calling these videos out
If I get 1 more 2-3 hour long "I SURVIVED 1000 DAYS IN HARDCORE" video with 60,000 jump cuts placing blocks along to the background music recommended to me I'm going to lose my mind
About that call to action - each and every one of us has the ability to tell TH-cam not to recommend certain types of videos or even entire channels to us, at least on the front page. If you do not use it, the algorithm will decide what to present you with without your input.
i 100% agree with what you're saying, me personally i just like the classic storytime template mixed with real time gameplay (you know technoblade style) i think an other part thats not touched on enough is how some video that do mix gameplay in the video go WAY to hard on it and make their whole brand being good and eventually they're not really much of creator but more of a gladiator who will eventually burn out. i think thats the main problem with some smps, they focus too much on the "grrr i gotta prove my pvp abilities and take over the whole sever RAHHH" and theres really never a calm moment where they interact with the viewer. and i think thats what the problem is, they dont see a community that supports them but instead a product they have to appeal to
also i wouldn't dog to much on skeppy, he made those types of video before the beast
Well said. This strikes a chord with the emptiness I've been feeling about parts the Minecraft-TH-cam space. Thank you for putting this into words.
Yeah, same here