Why Minecraft YouTubers Suck Now 

I say this as someone with ADHD- i am super sick of the MrBeastification of RU-vid and as you’ve mentioned it’s been nauseatingly prevalent in Minecraft videos. I have issues with my attention span, but I don’t like keys being jangled in front of my face. A friend managed to get me into Hermitcraft a while back and I’m really excited for the new season! It feels good to be able to enjoy Minecraft again after such a long while being away from it.

I do believe there are still some really good Minecraft content creators, good examples are, like you mentioned the guys from HermitCraft and also, in my opinion the best Minecraft type of videos I have seen in a while are from sandiction I really recommend his videos, they are pretty relaxing and entertaining in my opinion.

Here's some minecraft creators i think are pretty cool. - Dialko - Chilled Beta Minecraft gameplay - Mischief of Mice - Modded Minecraft - Yeah Jaron - Pretty good smp and 100 days content - Pheonix SC - Minecraft news and Cursed content - Direwolf20 - The OG chill modded Minecraft let's player - And many more that i cant remember off the top of my head rn

4:44 back in the day I built his whole submarine and wondered why I wasn’t moving

i am NOT listening to someone who created a dream smp tier list about minecraft creators for 10 minutes

atleast now i have realised why i dont like watching minecraft vidoes anymore

Not gonna lie but the current minecraft youtube is way better Its just that youtube quality has risen

I’ve seen my fair share of good and terrible Minecraft videos. I say you can copy the idea just put a little twist on it to make it stand out and be more unique. I’ve seen a lot of Minecraft videos that copy the idea, but do something unique that makes it stand out.

all the content nowadays is highly fast paced and edited og days all slow paced and minimal editing was needed

MAKE MC GREAT AGAIN

rekraps new videos are actually good ngl

Dallasmed65 is like the only good minecraft RU-vidr nowadays.

And that’s why I don’t make Minecraft videos anymore

good video, let's make minecraft great again

Look up The Librarian - From The Fog , a MC map

Well they end up most likely doing smt controversial anyway

Clone calamity is the best stampy video

There is still good youtuber that remains cause rekrap2 is so innovative at the minute

lets make minecraft great again

Make Minecraft Great Again

6:26 Um, actually, according to the statistics of RU-vid, it calculates the copy of the cipy of the copy that copied the copy ot being 5 months for the copy of your copy. Your copy of the copy is 1 month old. Therefore, that point fell apart. 🤓

i love that video 5:27. i was also wondering why it has close to no views LOL

Opinion on Minecraft Roleplays?

Back in my day Skydoes Minecraft ‘Popular mmos ‘the Atlantic craft and the diamond minecart made videos on all the cool mods who are are these clowns?

if its so ez, do it urself buddy

who has a sink in their room?

Hermitcraft: I'm not like the other

Back in my day Minecraft videos opened with the funny cat man greeting everyone from his bedroom, eating some cake and then playing minigames with his friends for 20 minutes and we were all happy. The idea that the human attention span has decreased isn't true, but a lot of RU-vidrs sure seem to think it has because goddamn

good video! i think people are starting to innovate a bit more as time goes on but i understand that there's definitely a lot of videos nowadays that just seem like copies and pastes of one another.

"Minecraft youtubers suck" said a Minecraft youtuber

no mention of redstone youtubers leeeeetssssss goooo! redstone youtubers stay winning and original!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

i love this video and i think it speaks on an important aspect of not only youtube but gaming as a whole. i really hope you get the attention you deserve cause you are crushing it.

I'm genuinely glad somebody is taking their time to try and fix this, I feel like I've been searching for a new Minecraft idea for 5 years

2014: Custom mod adventure 2024: Minecraft but **Arbitrary quirk**

Nice video. I wanna say a few things: Firstly, respect for painting Dream and his content in a more positive light here. That wasn't really common, at least up until now. People's dislike for him tend to cloud their vision a lot and, for whatever reason, many people end up thinking that he was somehow the problem and that he never innovated. When objectively he's actually been one of, if not the biggest innovator in the history of MCYT (even if Manhunt were unoriginal, these people also think that that's the only content he's posted for some reason, even though you have gems like Block Shuffle and Death Swap, and more hidden ones like Unsolved Mysteries or Ultimate tag). While the video got the point across, I would've talked about *personality* way more if I were in your shoes. Honestly, at least half the reason of why we think old content was better is because we're nostalgic. If you look at just content and video concepts by themselves, if you think about it, old MCYT was honestly even less creative. At 3:05 you mention some video types that you say are unique, however when you really think about it for a while, like 90% of the content back then WAS JUST that. Survival/modded survival lets plays, mod reviews, a series on a map (like Cops n Robbers), or sometimes modded (like most of the series PopularMMOS or SSundee did). It's also worth noting that the copying simply didn't feel as blatant, and it can also feel that in today's world most ideas have already been done, unlike 2009-2014, and back then RU-vid also wasn't nearly as worldwide or money driven, most creators seemed very passionate. The big thing is this: the old videos definitely had a lot of personality tied into them, which is rarer in videos nowadays, which explains why people feel new content sucks, as personality is one of, if not the most important aspect in a RU-vid video. If you look at something like Hermitcraft, which many people also think of as "older" and say it's one of the "few good pieces of MCYT" (it's in this comment section too lol), objectively the SMP itself isn't some crazy thought out idea, it's the people behind it, and whenever they do things like the Mycelium War, Big Moon event, or the SMP crossover, that make it special, have that "old feel", and therefore popular. I wish you talked about Camman (especially seeing as he was in the thumbnail), as, although his content ranges from a variety of things, he's also a creator whose personality is very present in his content. It's been one of the key factors contributing to his insane success, and you can especially see it with how he interacts and jokes with the community and having channel memes like "make minecarts faster" or "this is the 90854th rarest block/item in minecraft video, I swear it's the last one guys!" It's creators like these have a strong and recognizable personality. A mindset people tend to have for creators or celebrities is like, as Ray William Johnson said, "the guy who did that thing." The hermits are like "those guys that have that cool SMP with the amazing builds", camman is like "the pink guy who talks about Minecraft facts and is parkour pro and wants faster minecarts", Dream is like "the smiley lime green Manhunt/speedrunning guy", etc. Meanwhile, with this in mind, even if you manage to enjoy 1 video from 1 of these copycats, you're gonna look at them and go "wtf do I remember you for" lol. Good news is, I think we'll see a "good content" period again soon, maybe within 1 or 2 years. For as long as the game exists and is popular, I think, Minecraft will just keep going in a cycle, and that this is just a bad phase that it's going through; like we've seen before, from 2017 to early 2019 where the game felt like it was in its "dark age" and that no content was really that good anymore. But this time it's different, as back then there was a sort of hate train towards Minecraft and the game was way less popular and developed. But this time, with so many fans of the game, so much material to use (and that's just the vanilla base game), and this time, so many people LOOKING for and talking about wanting fresh content, well, I don't really see what could stop the next and 3rd wave of creators, as well as the existing ones, from creating yet another great and unique period of Minecraft content that we all enjoy. On the subject, I don't know if you've seen this, but Dream has really been talking about getting back into Minecraft after a lot of inactivity, and he said there's been this project he's been working on for a while that he thinks could be even greater than Manhunt. Definitely something to look forward to! Edit: He's now posted a very interesting short on his channel, go check it out if you haven't. He's also stated on his private account on Twitter that "Minecraft has never been more fun" and that there should be a "flow of stuff in the coming weeks."

I think the issue is too that Minecraft content has being made for nearly over a decade now. Although Minecraft still can have value and appeal to people, if your feeling like it just isn't "clicking" for you anymore... Thats perfectly valid. Nobody can like the same things forever, and sometimes you just need to walk away and take a step back from something you love to remember why you loved it. Take a break, get a new hobby. Maybe get some stuff going on in your life in general.

Random SalC1 binge watch sessions are always goated. The pinnacle of Minecraft content imo.

Just came back to this video after seeing ur latest video just realised that u compared me to sundee as an example lmaoo also the video u showed as an example has 330K now which to me is insane, but Keep up with ur videos man, ur gonna hit 3k this month likely and before you know it youl be at 10K and you wont even be able to process the size of your audience after that, but it will only keep growing, so dont give up

It's the same situation with popular music vs inspired music. Popular music uses a formula to create uninspired but wide-reaching and familiar music, appealing to the largest audience possible. Other creators make unique music that is arguably better in many ways to popular music, but it doesn't draw in as many people because it isn't familiar to the average person Though at the end of the day, just like how the good music from the 80's and 90's has survived till today, the best minecraft videos are the ones that will stick with us

Just watch Hermitcraft. They can't clickbait people who don't even care.

Let me explain it to you. Big creators have no incentive to innovate. The risk is very rarely worth the result of trying a new idea. So, they sit around waiting for a smaller creator to have a smash hit, then all the big creators pounce on it, over produce it, and milk it to death. Rinse and repeat.

petition to return the old minecraft videos 👇

How did your 8 minute video entertain me more than any of the 20 minute 'Minecraft But' videos. Props to you, earned a sub!

Why are you hating on AntiClimax? He’s such a good civ RU-vidr lmao

Honestly, I agree. You've put to words the thoughts I've had for the longest time - I've noticed just how glaring the algorithm clickbait nonsense of Minecraft videos have become. While there were a few videos I've seen that I'm fond of, a lot of the others tend to just be "WACKY MINECRAFT TIPS OOOO" and shit like that just kinda grinds my gears a lil. I used to watch a lot of Stampy as a kid (and even as an adult), and I really do miss the olden day content. Though i will argue that a lot of old day content was shit too: not only were there a fuckton of clickbaiting legacy console MC youtubers, but the content just became hella stale over time, with an over-reliance on mods. It's something that makes a lot of things like SMPs and Hermitcraft really fresh. Then there's youtubers like Iskall who I absolutely adore his commentary due to the overall positive fuzzy vibes it gives. I hope to start Hermitcraft again very soon - I've watched bits of it here and there but always find it hard to keep up with due to the vast volume of awesome people who stream it

There are still a lot of great Minecraft RU-vidrs out there. The Life series is probably the best Minecraft has ever been on RU-vid, and I'll watch Hermitcraft until it dies. Though, outside of that, I see it much like you do, a lot of the same trend chasing as every other genre on here.

At this point, I am subscribed to more smaller channels that produce good, new minecraft content with amazing stories, rather than anybody with millions of subs.

The only mcyt vidoes i watch are the good ones lol (hermitcraft, life series, ect)

AntiClimax clears you I'm afraid

Creativity has nearly died in the majority of the Minecraft community. Heck the trilogy that I'm working on is more creative than what these people are doing. Let's make Minecraft great again.

Last One has been the worst thing RU-vid has every experienced

Highly underrated, great video. The only thing I would say is that it's tough for every single person that wants to become a Minecraft RU-vidr, it's hard to come up with a unique idea tbf. However, straight up copying is never good. Personally, I've been in some MC series that copy others, but our whole gimmick is that we do. I used to be in the Offbrand life series, and now Bootleg, which yes we copy the main life series with normally our own little twists and our different personalities. At least we credit the originals. Trust me, if I had a great revolutionary idea for a series/video, I'd use it, it can be difficult though. But yes, minecraft content is very repetitive and even inappropriate, amazing video. Deserves more views honestly. Make minecraft great again

it feels like hermitcraft and the life series are the only good series now

my king TJ clears

dallasmed65 is one of the only minecraft channels i watch, his channel is such a break from the new over the top minecraft content nowadays. Highly recommend him to anyone that likes more laided back and chill minecraft vids

I absolutely loved this video, and everything you said was dead right! #MakeMinecraftGreatAgain

the days of legends like DanTDM and Stampylonghead shall return!

Tbf, nothing has changed in terms of copying. Back then in “the golden age” everyone played the same maps, the same mod showcases, and the same mini games (hunger games, spleef, etc). The only difference is that we grew up with those and at the time these seemed new. You say how every RU-vidr has the same intro and base yet that’s been the case since the dawn of RU-vidrs. Sure new trends and innovations are brought in but everyone copies is because it becomes popular. The only reason why newer videos seem more boring is because of the over saturation of Minecraft content which makes us long for the days prior to our Minecraft fatigue.

While creators can make the video unique, it’s now up to how they can make the thumbnail and title clickbait because of how high video’s standard nowadays and this is one of factors for youtube to promote a viral video. It’d be hard to come up new format for good thumbnails and title.

POPULAR OPTION: TEHNOBLADE IS PEAK MINECRAFT CONTENT

#1 reason why life series stays on top >>>

I somewhat disagree with the everyone was doing their own thing they totally were copying or at least taking inspiration from each other the difference is they had their own personalities and image that made them unique if you were to put two older videos even if they are the exact same idea and concept you could tell it was different but with these RU-vidrs even if you put two different videos I’m pretty sure people will have trouble distinguishing between them

Technoblade Captain Sparklez Stampylonghead Grian Popularmmos Mumbo Jumbo Bad Boy Halo Dantdm And Skeppy All Have Good Minecraft Content WatchThem

The funny thing is that their skins always have to be one specific color, and also needs the simplest of faces

If you actually watched those videos, you would see they are wildly different. Saying they are tryna copy people's success while you are only getting views cause you put bigger RU-vidrs in your titles and thumbnails, get a job.

Make Minecraft great again! I'm trying but it's hard to compete with the super saturated thumbnails and over the top topics even if they are repetitive.

What about Hermitcraft, Life Series and Empires?

And then there's the subtitles, someone needs to desperately tell these creators to stop using the damn Tommyinnit font as their subtitles, or better yet use RU-vid's subtitles instead; Grian does that and its far better than literally every single youtuber in history

What I hate the most about Minecraft now is that all content and gameplay is too chaotic and busy. I miss the peaceful and simple aspect of Minecraft in 2013.Another thing that bothers me is that every single Minecraft video is a challenge now. I miss how peaceful Minecraft was when you would just chill and build like in Hermitcraft

This is why I only watch Building with BdoubleO, Hermitcraft, and old DanTDM, Stampy and Yogscast videos. Whenever people ask me if I miss old MCYT, I just say “No, because I still watch them”

AntiClimaxYT cook doe so you're invalid

I'm suffering the same issue that you talked about. I make letsplay videos on an SMP that nobody else makes content about, yet I only get a handful of views. Heck, there's even a storyline in it now - yet I only get about a handful of views. It sucks to see creators with no imagination at all get so much popularity for something they didn't even come up with.

Wether you hate Dream Smp or not, you gotta admit it was pretty original. I remember just being so excited because you never knew what would happen. For a a moment it helped solidify for me that maybe Minecraft would end up being okay, like the old days with Dantdm and Sparklez. But even if that whole series did help there is SO MUCH TRASH MINECRAFT CONTENT. Every once in a while I watched Tommyinnit’s stuff just because some of it is more original then others and I personally find some of the jokes to be better then others. I mourn for the glory days of Minecraft I thought there would never be another original idea. But then….I CAN NOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH IF YOU ARE BORED OF THE SAME MINECRAFT STUFF WATCH QSMP MY GOD IT IS ONE OF THE MKST ORIGINAL SERVER IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. Not only it it’s idea original it is the FIRST EVER MULTILINGUAL MINECRAFT SEVER. So if you’re bored of the same civilization videos over and over give it a watch ❤

You're such an underrated creator. Your content is incredible. I've heard the discussion of how bad RU-vid is with recommending videos. Some videos do awful because RU-vid recommends them to the wrong people which lowers the reach you should've gained. I honestly wish it could get better but I know that's foolish. We'll just have to ride it out until the next large change in RU-vid. All your subs are 100% earned. Hope to see you grow quickly like you deserve!

One of the greatest Minecraft videos ever made, and he didn't play minecraft at the background!

Grian is the only popular Minecraft RU-vidr that posts weekly on RU-vid, good luck finding someone who doesn’t make monthly content.

yuh

They no longer have a sparkle, all they want is money now. Making reused content. The whole community was so great. I remember the game being the game of gods to a kid like me. Now it's a washed up community and weirdos like I xD. The best thing Ive seen coming from this community nowadays is awesome custom datapacks, mod-making channels. I am perticularly sick of custom subtitles that SUCK ASS and dont make the video appealing. It's all fancy shmancy crap, glorified dramatasized intro. Mr Beast style. No originality. I agree. I wanna enjoy videos, not being grabbed for attention as if I am a tiktok kid or osmething. Slow dooooowwwn! everyone.

It's all to become big with the quickest cheapest way -clickbait- and sailing along with the trends in Minecraft. From channels that spread lies by creating or spreading speculation as genuine content (itz jhief for example) to the ones that fake every bit of it. Also getting tired of youtubers who fake longterm worlds or just re-open a save file from 2014 and act like they have played 9 years with dedication, which annoys me personally as someone who -really- plays in a SPP with dedication for 8+ years (but I'm no youtuber) :P Even saw one who claimed to have survival world that is older than Minecraft itself... must be a time traveler or something... And to finish my rant, something that is also annoying are youtubers who have reached status and fame but sort of rest on that plateau and can get away with low quality (copied) content because of their god status. Their followers would even call a dirt hut awesome. Something I sadly see with 1 or 2 hermits as well. So appreciate the good ones because the way up becomes harder thanks to the amount of lazy clickbait channels. But if you "waste" some time by digging around in the clickbait mess you still stumble on good ones, also ones that just started but are really serious and motivated.

i agree with you, they do suck. but i checked out your videos and you fit the formula as well. your videos, including this one, are over-edited and formulaic. you should take your own advice.

I love how they all use the same 3 backround music for their intro

There's always been a bit of a copying and youtubers trying to optimize the algorithm. Eventually, people get sick enough of it that they have to change, and people either quit or get motivated to try something different. I think most people just tend to look into the past with rose tinted glasses.

as a minecraft youtuber, thank you for making this video!

cant really dig into creators "doing the same thing", when this video literally is just part of the new trend of videos bashing minecraft content. you arent original either lil bro

Make MinceRaft great again.

I agree with your points BUT there has been a clear change in YT algorithm and idk if you have noticed but youtube is recommending a lot of small creators

I have a channel and my entire message is to just have fun and be creative like the old days but with a hint of that modernization...not just raw footage...but not super fast paced and edited to oblivion...I want to make minecraft content and any other great game content unique and fun again...take risks...experiment with different games...and I don't do it for the money...I genuinely want to see things change for the better...

You are so goddamn right bruh. Minecraft videos are so unoriginal and it’s repetitive these days. As a small Minecraft RU-vidr, I am trying my best to bring back old Minecraft content like animations 🥲🥲

I can't say you are not right. It is kinda the same and I ended up watching hermitcraft or old video's or just nothing... When I become a youtuber, i am going to do things differently...

Right, because calling Minecraft RU-vidrs out for unoriginality has never been done before.

You're just watching the wrong creators. Things change, just like style in content and personality. It's hard to get unique content when no idea is new

Finally someone is talking about this. Whenever I search up "Minecraft" on youtube now all I see is the same junk copied over and over. The only minecraft videos I watch now are from youtubers I watched when I was little

I’m sorry for making bad Minecraft content 😢

RU-vid recommends videos to an audience, if it doesn't know who your audience is it won't be recommend very far. Most videos in the minecraft sphere right now follow trends and that get views, but most the videos don't give any reason to subscribe further. So when people do subscribe to these trendy videos the creators mistake it as people having interest in them and their brand when in reality they are just interested in the trendy videos they made. The more they follow trends and try to chase views and sub goals the further they are forced to continue the trendy videos. The only way to avoid this is to start your channel with that knowledge in mind. The Dream wave of content did this by making each video a series of a specific person's journey doing something. I coded it so that, I discovered this...(not neccesarily titled like that but the idea of the video was that) But every once and a while they would do something trendy to bring in new viewers into their journey. RU-vid is just as much about content strategy and branding as it is about making good videos and I think that the next big thing for minecraft content is probably already in the works. All the Minecraft RU-vidrs that are doing these trends will likely stay in the background / ride their current success because they aren't ambitious enough for a big break.

Okay Minecraft RU-vidr shamelessly trying to get clout, I’ll certainly listen to you and your opinions! Your critique of RU-vid economics is so innovative, I’ve *never* heard someone point out these basic facts before! Can’t wait for your appeal to nostalgia to get you a few hundred thousand subs and launch another generic Minecraft RU-vidr career! I’m sure you’ll completely break the mold, and make something *totally* innovative! The incentive of making money and expanding *definitely* won’t have any impact on you. Because you’re *so different* ! (I don’t know why this video annoyed me so much, but I need to leave this here. I’m tired of RU-vidrs screaming about how they’re so unique and different from everyone else. And the nostalgia pandering combined with the “calling out bigger RU-vidrs” gimmick just makes me write off whoever is making the video as a generic hack.)

The hell is going on? I stopped watching or playing Minecraft in years. I was gutted learning I missed Stampy replay Terraria, learned that he finished lovely world and now I'm getting constant recommendations that the game is dying or that it sucks on RU-vid nowadays.

I remember back when I didn't know how to make a nether portal so I made a obsidian labyrinth with enderman and put down purple wool. I remember the first xbox 360 tutorial world and finding hidden discs, occupying the biggest house in the village, the old wheat and gravel textures, the sounds of villagers spamming doors, the old knockback, being able to hit sheep and them drop wool, raw chicken poisining you, thinking mineshafts were the works of herobrine, loading up a superflat world with layers below ground of emeralds with the custom superflat layer tool on xbox, the og splitscreen pvp minigame, the first time seeing the elytra courses, the first time entering a cave, I remember the first time I found diamonds in a work i named Pokemon, I remember trying to replicate stampy's builds and wondering why I can't move, the very first time I found a desert pyramid, ah yes the og desert pyramid with orange wool, I remember not knowing about the chest room and trying to inhabit the pyramid, I remember the good old days when you could come home from school and sit down and play minecraft with you friends or siblings, I remember playing splitscreen hide-and-seek and telling them no peeking when they obviously were, I remember making masterpieces of originality and genuity in creative pretending that others would get to see it and we'd be famous (never happened) I remember a superflat world me and my sister back in 2014 would play called Sanctuary. It was a tall wooden house we'd work so hard on, I remember the day I accidentally burnt it all down by adding a fireplace... devistation, I remember figuring out how to plant carrots and potatoes on my own by simply placing them on farmland, I remember the first and only fish texture, the red beds, mining the insides of mountains to make a giant mansion like we saw on good old youtube, the good old days of minecraft are gone now that we have grown up, matured, and experienced the initial bliss of our first times. We may think adding new fancy stuff, modding, exlpoiting, etc. may help our fun experience but the thing is, is just that we aren't kids anymore.

''lets make minecraft great again.'' Bro Thinks he Donald Trump 💀 But in all seriousness , I do miss those times , back when I was watching Monster School (The good one) and then it got replaced by some ... questionable content ... ),:

I'm glad this is something that is being talked about more. I hate to see it when a youtuber posts a really cool, good quality, and laid back Minecraft video they worked hours on, only to get ZERO views. Meanwhile some dude copies an idea, records it with a loud annoying voice the whole video, and edits the video with intense overstimulating edits ( like big annoying subtitles, super fast flashing images, or a million sound effects per second) that are hard to watch, and only exist to get more retention and are for the drooling zero attention span ipad kids. Just for the garbage copied video to get like one million views and gets put on the trending tab. So my advice for any future Minecraft content creators is to be original, because as corny as it sounds Minecraft is a game about creativity, and if originally runs out, creativity dies, and if creativity is gone so will Minecraft as a whole.