Hey caanths here - seen a bunch of comments saying "omg I hope you cover ____" and just wanna say I probably didn't lol. This is the briefest overview of the timeline of Minecraft on UA-cam, shown to someone who has no idea what a lets play is even. I didn't really have time to go into every subset of Minecraft and just kind of covered the pivotal points. As a side note, I want to actually do a full dive on Yogscast cause theyve done so much, and potentially do a seperate dive into XQC vs Forsen speedruns. SMP Live was tricky cause of Carson, so might do a dive at some point but wanted to keep this one more lighthearted. If there's anyone else you feel should get a full indepth dive into let me know! Happy Divemas :)
honestly you could probably do a whole dive just into steve, you got minecraft, sourcefed, sp7, among us, and his music, plus whatever else i missed cause theres prob more @neverknowsbest9486
Hermitcraft. They are some of the friendliest and most incredible creators all on one server. They have literally built full rougelike games INSIDE of survival minecraft
I have two suggestions for important history: 1) Never mind you mentioned team crafted NOICE 2) Mineplex server shutting down this year :( 3) they've stopped removing Herobrine in their updates
Ethoslab specifically is a BIG one. He has one of it not the longest running single player minecraft let’s play series that still gets consistent views to this day
@@a_ninja2376 Hermitcraft was one of the ones that I was really surprised there was no mention of. They've been one of the biggest groups in recent years.
@@CadeIsntHere That's mainly what I watched. VintageBeef PauseUnpause Guude Baj BdoubleO GenerikB EthosLab, I made sure I was subscribed to everyone that was on the server.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who remembers all the modded minecraft community history from like 2013 onward. Direwolf20 and the entire mod developer server was such a cool era. Not to mention the evolution of Feed The Beast transitioning from a modded adventure map, into a mod launcher, into the Curse Forge launcher, into the Twitch Launcher, back to forge I think lol
There should be a part 2 of this, there was so much important history that was overlooked. Like mindcrack and hermitcraft. Or every minecraft youtuber's favorite minecraft youtuber, Ethoslab
Yea, skipping Ethoslab is a crime. Technical Minecraft is also something that shouldn't be overlooked, there is literally CERN-level scientist breaking the game. In the newest lore Tango Tek's Decked Out 2 also deserves its place in MC history, that thing is a real, full game inside a game.
@@emofems There have been plenty of full fledged games inside of minecraft, the impressive part is the fact he made it all in survival, which, while an amazing feat, might not be as big of a milestone as us hermitviewers would like to think.
For being mainly in the know for a lot of things, I thought for sure Stanz at least had learned the term somewhere. Someone’s gotta teach him the ropes. Maybe using the old heads that popularized it and made early video game YT what it was. Protonjon and the Runaway Guys crew still streams regularly. And that era of Nintendo making people sign up to show their games, and the lengths Chuggaconnroy led the charge to fight the policy. Maybe Maximillian Dood for the fighting game side, and even Ray Narvaez Jr. that built his early online career doing that stuff with AH. I’m amazed Stanz has no prior knowledge of let’s plays.
to clarifty with the older yogscast minecraft. Most, if not all of it, was a surprise for simon. Basically the whole channel was built around lewis finding simon funny. So he and a bunch of the others from YOGS (not yogscast yet at that time, the wow guild, which was "Ye Olde Goon Squad" hence Yogs) would just build stuff and set up funny scenarios for simon to experience. Which made it even better, because simon was like the viewers perspective, while lewis would, in a lot of cases, nudge simon towards the stuff all the others had scripted. I first started watching them after finding their wow videos (as a kid that had never stepped into any raids, they where amazing) then onto the Yogpod, then minecraft. And i remember when the first minecraft videos came around, it was at the same time that my school gave every student a laptop (for work) and we all immedietely got minecraft on the laptops. What a time......I still love the yogscast, and watch pretty often, although not so much the TTT stuff, since iv had like 10 years of multiple channels worth of TTT over the years. But they do some really great other channels now, board games and roleplaying. And have even done a few episodes of their own live action Taskmaster show, and even just yesterday released another live action show which is real fun!
There’s some big stuff, like touching on Hunger Games without diving into those big names like JeromeASF. MC Parody songs really starting even before CaptainSparklez (I think the Yogscast songs were a year before his). And a lot of different trends in early Minecraft that just popped up. Hardcore survival, Hunger Games and the start of public servers, Spleef and Bed Wars. Skyblock Survival also not mentioned in the video. I know the introduction of the command blocks could be an entire hour of implications to both modding and also teaching children rudamentary programming. Or even when Minecraft went onto Xbox, and the only youtubers that actually played that version being Roosterteeth/Achievement Hunter. And them making it popular enough for the devs to put in the Tower of Pimps into the tutorial as an easter egg.
Really surprised that Syndicate being the first ever Twitch streamer to hit 100,000 viewers streaming Mianite didn’t make this video. Syndicate and CaptainSparklez’ Mianite streams/videos were peak Twitch/UA-cam for me.
I feel like the Minecraft resurgence directly was a generation of Minecraft fans growing up. The kids who watched Minecraft lets plays when thet were like 10 became old enough that they could unleash their creativity on the game. They were now in their late teens and actually started to gain the skills to do something with their love for the game.
Everyone upset Hermitcraft wasn’t covered, none of the creators weee covered at all from Etho to Mumbo and Grian. I think even if it is or isn’t planned it leaves the door open to a Hermitcraft deep dive later on. I think it makes sense anyways because the Hermitcraft series kind of ran tangential to the ups and downs of Minecraft which is what was covered. Other big creators and series from the past can get dives later as well. Also just want to say I loved the video, even though it doesn’t have time to hit every creator it does go through the overarching storyline well. Nice video Caanths + Stanz :)
It was a very British minecraft centered deep dive. It would be the equivalent of a "deep dive on non-skit OG youtubers", talking about Zoella, Dan & Phil, Alfie but not mentioning people like Tyler Oakley, Grace Helbig and the Green brothers. Yes, there is a history there for sure, but very regional. Even given how massive livestreaming is in Spain, Japan, Germany now, it would be hard to give a truly world-wide overview, but I think that Stanz getting the info from a British crafter when his audience is primarily American/North American is probably where some of the disappointment comes in! Still a good general timeline though.
@@maddisonk88but the 2 biggest creators on hermitcraft are British? (Technically the 3 biggest now, but when this video was made only the 2 biggest were British)
Historians will say Pewdiepie but I attribute the revival of Minecraft to Jschlatt his vid "A Tribute to Minecraft" which had trickled down to things like Carson's SMPLive popularizing SMPs, both of which predated Pewdiepie's newer Minecraft series. These events inspired the likes of WilburSoot and others to create SMPEarth which saw a meteoric rise to many creators like TommyInnit, Technoblade, etc. The DreamSMP was formed slightly later and at first was similar to other SMPs but then became a storyline that started by parodying Hamilton.
I agree. Carson's main channel was also growing like crazy at the time, which brought over a lot of fans and introduced them to a good chunk of what would later become dream smp members.
SMPLive was 100% a major contributor to the minecraft reneissance. I think people are just iffy to talk about to following the controversy that Carson would face down the line.
I actually thought it was well-accepted by everyone that Schlatt’s video was the catalyst. Schlatt -> SMPLive -> Pewdiepie/SMPEarth -> Dream is pretty much how I saw it go from a dead game to being back in the mainstream
@@scottb.3905 same man. I found them through etho since I’ve been watching him since episode I wanna say 170 of his letsplay which is wild to think about now
Achievement Hunter Minecraft videos were the only ones I watched. Them playing around the limited console version originally along with an editing style that constantly bounced between perspectives in the group has essentially ruined watching any other Minecraft video because just staying on one static character, especially in a group scenario, just never did it for me. In fact, it carries over into any group Let's Plays in general. I wish more people would go the extra mile to put that type of effort into the subsequent UA-cam video when they collab on stream, but I realize why they don't. I always have to hope that some super fan will edit together the multiple perspectives because the streamers never will since they need it for their own channels or whatever.
Yes! I never watched the singular players of ongoing game series, like Minecraft but also GTA, Halo, Rainbow 6, etc. because I always watched Achievement Hunter and the editing and the way episodes were put together were so good!
One thing that was left out that is insane: when team crafted were living together in a house in california, one of the members had a friend who was trying to make music. The guys let him live in their empty room/closet until one day he uploaded a song on youtube called "White Iverson" which completely took over the charts. That friend is now known as Post Malone, he was even in a few of their old videos
When Caanths said SeaNanners, he awakened how much I used to watch SSoHPKC, UberHaxorNova and the rest of the Creatures. They were the Pewdiepie’s of that era of UA-cam with their let’s plays and gaming content.
The thought that someone remotely interested in UA-cam can not know what a let's play is, is so mind blowing to me. I watched as skits and music and animation died to let gaming thrive, but now mrbeast type challenges have killed gaming.
A history of minecraft youtube without mention of etho, mindcrack or hermitcraft is like a History of Bible that doesn't mention Jesus and his watery wine
Yep, Etho was literally the Jesus of Minecraft. Dude made the craziest shit back in the day, way before anyone else even got close. I loved his let's play so much. Mindcrack was also such a fun time. The earliest UHC's were so intense and seemed so fun. Crazy that it was like a decade ago.
@@mcmadness110 Yeah, zipkrowd and SciCraft are important. Their commitment over the years has really improved the game experience for those of us who actually play and enjoy the game, rather than using it as a basis for role-play
I grew up during the peak of the Mindcrack Server. It's in my username I was obsessed with every member. VintageBeef, PauseUnpause, Guude, Bdoubleo100, GenerikB, EthosLab, Baj. It was really the true way to grow up on UA-cam back in the day. Edit: now that I look back on it. I think they popularized the Ultra Hardcore Game mode that servers use today. Teams crafting, mining, and fighting for the last team left while being in Hardcore Mode, I remember watching those in 2012/2013. The are truly pioneers of the Minecraft content sphere.
PaulSoaresJr was really the first person to make Minecraft Lets Plays in that style popular. He got so many people into minecraft with his early series'
Stanz needs to do a yogscast deep dive now.... They recently just finished there annual Christmas charity drive called the jingle jam and raised over £2 million for charity
Asynchronous livestreaming is… a shockingly accurate description of a let’s play. Genuinely surprised Stanz didn’t know what one was; it may be the first bit of UA-cam lingo I ever learned. Starting with CaptainSparklez and Shadow of Israphel… this is a real walk down memory lane. Kinda crazy to watch someone learn about it all after the fact.
This just shows how absolutely massive the game is. He missed so many people that I have watched a lot who were just around while the others were too. I think it’s impossible to capture it all
I was hoping they would touch on Achievement hunter's minecraft series, they might not have been a primary minecraft channel, but I know a lot of people followed their let's play channel solely for their ongoing minecraft series.
Everyone always skips over The Pack!! It's Vikkstar123, Lachlan, BajanCanadian, JeromeASF, PrestonPlayz, and MrWoofless. It was the biggest Minecraft group after TeamCrafted/Yogscast & they've recently got back together and started a group channel. They had a series called How to Minecraft which was like the OG Dream SMP. It's crazy that everyone remembers Minecraft UA-cam through completely different creators because of how huge it was.
Commenting before getting the chance to watch it: I hope there is mention of EthosLab’s lets play world, The Yogscast Tekkit Series/ Shadow of israphel, TheDiamondMinecart’s Lab as well as the Minecraft Survival games era… these all were massive booms for the minecraft community early on.
If you haven't already, go and listen to "Take a Chance" by Daniel Young. It's what's played when Peculiar is telling his story and it will make you cry
I’m so glad they are putting a spotlight on the Yogscast. For some reason a lot of videos talking about minecrafts history completely misses the massive impact the Yogscast had on the Minecrafts popularity
I can't always catch the stream but honestly, one deep dive a week uploaded on a specific day and I'd be there every single time. Like these are always great but the divemas ones being 40 minutes each have been fucking amazing
The whole resurgence of Minecraft was really hard to pin who brought it back, but PewDiePie is a good one to argue did for sure. In my personal opinion, it was An Ode to Minecraft that started the return, but if I'm not mistaken, that was also not that far away from when PDP started playing, like maybe a few months I think? I feel like it was a whole massive Minecraft zeitgeist that appeared out of nowhere lmao
I think it was a mix of things, the "Creeper Aww Man" discord meme got huge around this time, PDP started minecrafting, Ode to Minecraft into SMP Live happened, then Minecraft Mondays capitalized on the building hype to mix OG Minecraft UA-camrs with newer ones which catapulted the success.
Things you might look into: -The weird reputation of Notch -X's adventures -Ethoslab -DiscoFV -Mindcrack -Hermitcraft -The Aether mod -The huge modding scene -Texture packs rise and fall -Race for the wool and other costume maps -Building a computer in minecraft -The redstone scene -The hardcore phase -The "100 day" phase -Server crashing with lag -Soundtrack and C418 -The speedrun scene -The absolute need for the Wiki etc. The video should likely be called "What I watched of Minecraft over the years".
Mindcrack is the bridge of old-minecraft to new and skipping it is ignoring a massive part of the game. Etho, Guude, BdoubleO, Zissteau, Pause, etc. and in extension EVERY CTM map from Vechs moving into HermitCraft is honestly crazy to me. And I don't know how you cover Minecraft without even mentioning UHC. Minecraft didn't "die" the viewers were all on Mindcrack and saying it "died" feels kinda off to me TBH. a Part 2 is honestly a necessity for this. and @Caanths , if you want info this is my time. I lived for this shit
It actually followed a cycle even more than they realized. Back when it was in the first dead period the main thing still existing was hermitcraft. It was just a wholesome little community with no lore or anything, just playing Minecraft on a big server with friends. It still had a significant amount of viewers but nowhere near the before or after. When Minecraft became popular again, so did hermitcraft. Now as Minecraft does continue to fade in popularity again hermitcraft stands as probably the most popular place with Minecraft content, and just based on how it is, it will likely continue that way far into the future.
Definitely think when talking about the golden age of Minecraft, mindcrack(including Seth bling), bajancanadian and kyrspeedy should get honorable mentions. They were HUGE and all had large impacts on starting the play styles that made Minecraft popular(hunger games, UHC, red stone abilities and multiplayer worlds)
if you do cover yogscast, would love a section on HatFilms. they're a group of 3 guys under the yogscast umbrella but more separate. in my opinion theyre some of the funniest people in yogscast ~ fun fact they were hired by minecraft to make alot of their trailers!
These videos are so wild to me because my experience with UA-cam is so different. Like I got into watching people doing let’s plays even though I don’t play the games myself. Also, I guess it’d be kind of not the same because they had their own website(and there’s just a lot of stuff that’s gone down that they may not wanna talk about lol) , but they did(do) have a yt channel, Achievement Hunter via RT. For a while before everything they had a bunch of different long running series going. They were kind of the only channel I watched play games(Minecraft, GTA, halo, etc.) continuously.
Ain't no way he could have a history of Minecraft without mentioning Ethoslab, Mindcrack, Hermitcraft, Grian, the life series etc along with The Syndicate Project & Mianite there's SO much missed but I guess if he mentioned all of them the video would've been like 20 hours long
Yogscast Simon used to live in my apartment building around 10 years ago - really nice guy but barely saw him out (standard gamer) - definitively would be down for a deep dive. edit: big up Crewcraft.. Sp33dy and co were the boyz
If you do a yogscast deep dive you have to cover the tekkit server, honestly you could do a dive just on that. I used to watch it from every perspective and it was so good how you had more laid back old lets play style with sips co and simon/lewis, more RP focused with rythian and more tutorial focused with duncan. Peak collaborative youtube
Yogscast had me thinking there was a whole story built into minecraft. Boy was I disappointed when I finally got to play the game and was very wrong. Loved their stuff though
I can’t believe they completely missed syndicate tucker sparkles and firefox doing mianite, that was a cultural revolution that kinda was the prelude to dream smp
1:44 SeaNanners wasn't the first Let's Play (and I'd also argue he wasn't the most popular at the time either). He directly states in his first video that he was inspired by X's Adventures in Minecraft. That series definitely deserves more credit on it, sucks that it almost universally gets snubbed despite SeaNanners directly shouting him out.
Quackity smp is going beyond language barriers that's why u don't here much from it , its because most of the memes or lore is in Spanish or Portuguese or French
I would say smp live was more integral to the minecraft renaissance than pewdiepie's series, both were integral to it's revival but smp live was far more impactful.
I feel like I'm the only one that watched the Cube SMP guys. I know they weren't that big but I would say they were one of the firsts to do a great SMP run
I literally have been scrolling the comments looking for someone to mention the Cube! I was beginning to think I was the only one that watched and loved it too
@@carlyherbert I never hear anyone mention them and I grew up watching the cube! I never really watched the other big Minecraft youtubers apart from ldshadowlady. It's great to find another fan!!
I hope there's a part 2 to this as a whole with a deeper dive into some parts of it. There's so much lore here that (understandably) has been cut out. From more of the Roleplay Let's Plays like Mr.Gibbs or HermitCraft (and MumboJumbo's redstone), to more organic events like TechnoBlade's potato War, or the large amount of SMP's there were (SMP Earth, SMP Live, etc.). There's probably so much even i'm forgetting now, and i don't know how well re-diving into a covered topic would do, but I do hope it gets covered.
Modern Minecraft still is pulling lots of views with the modern smp format, lifesteal with parrot rekrap clownpierce etc, and with the event format, MCC, block wars, Minecraft mayhem etc. would seriously recommend a deep dive into Minecraft events, and not just the mainstream ones, because it’s a super interesting topic
Oh and speed running! After being popularized by dream and Illumina, it’s now had a ton of success and there’s even ranked speed running which has a pretty sizeable prize pool and some of the bigger communities (ex. HBG with feinberg couirway etc) now have gained some traction in the greater Minecraft community and in the greater entertainment community as well
Caanths not including let's play channel, phil's 5 year world death, hermit craft and dsmp/qsmp. pained me so much, but i understand him not being into them so not being able to talk on them. I hope he can get someone in to talk on them as they are such big part of many people's internet culture and have been a big part of my life so was shocking to me he didn't know them but no one is the same. Happy with majority of what was covered tho.
oh my god, you so right about Ph1lza's Hardcore World not even getting a mention. That is literally one of the most famous Minecraft moments of all time. Even people who don't play the game were circulating that clip everywhere.
Whenever I think Lets Play or Minecraft, but especially those two things together, I think Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth. Completely responsible for me and my friends downloading Minecraft and creating a world together.
this was a great vid and brought back sm memories! would’ve loved to see the creatures or ihascupquake since they were my GOATs but either way nostalgic af :’)
There’s one person who I wished you talked about but I know probably isn’t appropriate. That being Technoblade. I think he was a true picture of the rise, fall, and rise again of Minecraft while providing hilarious and uplifting content. He became a huge part of the Dream SMP later on, but I think his best work are the earlier videos playing skywards and bedwars on Hypixel. You could probably do a deep dive on just him to be honest. May he rest in peace
for all those who don't know the pack started uploading Minecraft videos again on their The Pack channel. The pack being Vikstar, lachlan, prestonplayz,bajancanadian, jeromeASF, and woofless
he did a great job showing the history but i feel he missed a couple eras he forgot all about the old classic x's adventure in minecraft. as well as the callmecarson era. but other then that he did great explaining it to stanz
Yet again a minecraft history video( although this isn’t meant to be a thorough one) doesn’t include how i got into minecraft and that is the Pack and the How to Minecraft SMP ( literally try to find a minecraft history video that includes them )
I feel like attributing minecrafts second rise to PewDiePie is a little incorrect. Shclatts "a tribute to Minecraft" put Minecraft back into the consciousness of old players. The series SMPlive was probably the biggest contributing factor to Minecrafts revival and arguably is why PewDiePie decided it was a good and viable idea. Smplive kickstarted the huge popularity of things like the dreamSMP. Also should have mentioned the success of mianite and how important that was for the modern SMPformat being dreamSMP before dreamSMP.
I remember months ago (maybe even last year?) he was talking about how surprised he was at how well the gaming channel was doing, and someone mentioned he just accidentally rediscovered Let's Plays. The fact he forgot that is immensely funny to me, and I know he definitely forgot because I was in chat both times. Never change, Stanz.
Holy fuck core memory. You would not believe the emotion I felt as a child growing up and seeing online the current version of Minecraft. Watching UA-camrs playing that Version of Minecraft and interacting with npcs. Only to tell my older brother “they put npcs in Minecraft” bruh they embarrassment.
i love how stanz just apparently hasnt been on the internet ever. axctauuyl a great way to make these history type vidoes. having a guy whos amazed by lore that most people just kind of know is really fun to watch
This could be a cool series (maybe stream only) of deep dive on different sunsets cause there’s like 15-20 different communities that are largely unrelated
The earliest days of Minecraft when people were still discovering things was incredible. I spent hundreds of hours in Alpha learning with the small community how to do things that we would now consider basic. There were no tutorials, no explanation of how to craft, just pure discovery. Those few months were some of my fondest memories in gaming, and I was so happy everyone was eventually able to appreciate it the way it deserved to be appreciated
preach. i remember watching the seananners nether episode, downloading the game, and telling all my friends about it the next day. we all went back to my house and took turns playing. the rest is history. scuse me while i go cry for a sec😭
For me as someone who played minecraft, then stopped for the most part, technoblade and minecraft mondays brought me back, combined with the innovation in hypixel. For most of my friends it was the same, but seeing none of it mentioned was a little surprising.
Minecraft Mondays and technoblades rise was a spectacle to watch every single week. He was a beast and had to be nerfed so he wouldn’t win every week 😂
Minecraft on UA-cam will always have a special place in my heart. Back in the day over a decade ago one of the biggest German Gaming UA-camrs, Gronkh, had a Minecraft series with 1.6k episodes that had young me in a choke hold, and when that ended after a few years I started searching for other youtubers. This also coinceded with me getting better at English, so it ended up opening up this crazy world of the wider internet for me.
as someone who watched the qsmp, it definitely was in the middle of a minecraft recession and now that the server had so many issues on the inside so many people(including me)stopped watching so we really are in a minecraft recession
I strive to have even an ounce of the audacity Caanths has labeling something "the history of Minecraft youtube" and not even mentioning Mindcrack or hermitcraft lmao. that's genuinely insane to me.
Minecraft was my intro to UA-cam. It’s one of those childhood things that somehow has no nostalgic value for me despite how massive a part of my life it was. The content is cringe to me now but I respect it and (most of) the creators who play it because it’s how I got in, and Minecraft itself is still an S tier game.
Hey caanths here - seen a bunch of comments saying "omg I hope you cover ____" and just wanna say I probably didn't lol. This is the briefest overview of the timeline of Minecraft on UA-cam, shown to someone who has no idea what a lets play is even. I didn't really have time to go into every subset of Minecraft and just kind of covered the pivotal points.
As a side note, I want to actually do a full dive on Yogscast cause theyve done so much, and potentially do a seperate dive into XQC vs Forsen speedruns. SMP Live was tricky cause of Carson, so might do a dive at some point but wanted to keep this one more lighthearted.
If there's anyone else you feel should get a full indepth dive into let me know! Happy Divemas :)
honestly you could probably do a whole dive just into steve, you got minecraft, sourcefed, sp7, among us, and his music, plus whatever else i missed cause theres prob more @neverknowsbest9486
Hermitcraft. They are some of the friendliest and most incredible creators all on one server. They have literally built full rougelike games INSIDE of survival minecraft
I have two suggestions for important history: 1) Never mind you mentioned team crafted NOICE 2) Mineplex server shutting down this year :(
3) they've stopped removing Herobrine in their updates
Ethoslab specifically is a BIG one. He has one of it not the longest running single player minecraft let’s play series that still gets consistent views to this day
@@a_ninja2376 Hermitcraft was one of the ones that I was really surprised there was no mention of. They've been one of the biggest groups in recent years.
This video should realistically be 3-4 hours long.
Mindcrack and Hermitcraft, as well as the whole Smplive to Dreamsmp era need their own deep dives honestly
@@CadeIsntHere That's mainly what I watched. VintageBeef PauseUnpause Guude Baj BdoubleO GenerikB EthosLab, I made sure I was subscribed to everyone that was on the server.
dont forget that whole roleplay era they had
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and the pack too@@CadeIsntHere
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who remembers all the modded minecraft community history from like 2013 onward. Direwolf20 and the entire mod developer server was such a cool era. Not to mention the evolution of Feed The Beast transitioning from a modded adventure map, into a mod launcher, into the Curse Forge launcher, into the Twitch Launcher, back to forge I think lol
Thanks for having me on! ☺
This was brilliant Will ❤⭐️
There should be a part 2 of this, there was so much important history that was overlooked. Like mindcrack and hermitcraft. Or every minecraft youtuber's favorite minecraft youtuber, Ethoslab
Yea, skipping Ethoslab is a crime. Technical Minecraft is also something that shouldn't be overlooked, there is literally CERN-level scientist breaking the game.
In the newest lore Tango Tek's Decked Out 2 also deserves its place in MC history, that thing is a real, full game inside a game.
HC definitely needs it's own deep dive in some of the biggest creators. Grian, Gem, Mombo, Etho, Scar, Tango, and Doc. HC 10 years and counting!
@@emofems There have been plenty of full fledged games inside of minecraft, the impressive part is the fact he made it all in survival, which, while an amazing feat, might not be as big of a milestone as us hermitviewers would like to think.
I never comment but as someone that watched Etho growing up and continues to watch Etho as an adult, gahh so happy seeing him mentioned!!!! ❤
I was wondering if anyone else remembered mindcrack. Used to be a huge vintagebeef and pauseunpause fan.
How stanz has kept himself from everything youtube yet make a career out of it is astonishing. HE DIDNT KNOW WHAT A LETS PLAY IS!!!
For being mainly in the know for a lot of things, I thought for sure Stanz at least had learned the term somewhere.
Someone’s gotta teach him the ropes. Maybe using the old heads that popularized it and made early video game YT what it was. Protonjon and the Runaway Guys crew still streams regularly. And that era of Nintendo making people sign up to show their games, and the lengths Chuggaconnroy led the charge to fight the policy. Maybe Maximillian Dood for the fighting game side, and even Ray Narvaez Jr. that built his early online career doing that stuff with AH.
I’m amazed Stanz has no prior knowledge of let’s plays.
It's insane
to clarifty with the older yogscast minecraft. Most, if not all of it, was a surprise for simon. Basically the whole channel was built around lewis finding simon funny. So he and a bunch of the others from YOGS (not yogscast yet at that time, the wow guild, which was "Ye Olde Goon Squad" hence Yogs) would just build stuff and set up funny scenarios for simon to experience. Which made it even better, because simon was like the viewers perspective, while lewis would, in a lot of cases, nudge simon towards the stuff all the others had scripted. I first started watching them after finding their wow videos (as a kid that had never stepped into any raids, they where amazing) then onto the Yogpod, then minecraft. And i remember when the first minecraft videos came around, it was at the same time that my school gave every student a laptop (for work) and we all immedietely got minecraft on the laptops. What a time......I still love the yogscast, and watch pretty often, although not so much the TTT stuff, since iv had like 10 years of multiple channels worth of TTT over the years. But they do some really great other channels now, board games and roleplaying. And have even done a few episodes of their own live action Taskmaster show, and even just yesterday released another live action show which is real fun!
Ye Old GOON Squad 🥴
@@customch33s32 "goon" was the demonym for anyone on the Something Awful forums, the OG YOGS guild was just an SA Warcraft guild
Also worth mentioning the Jingle Jam their annual chirstmas charity livestreams
The fact they got through a history of Minecraft on UA-cam and didn't mention Hermitcraft is kind of insane
Nor mindcrack or any members of either.
Nor Dwarves vs Zombies or Hatfilms (made the trailers)
@@nothingtosaybuthellothere8421 DvZ was my peak Minecraft enjoyment
There’s some big stuff, like touching on Hunger Games without diving into those big names like JeromeASF. MC Parody songs really starting even before CaptainSparklez (I think the Yogscast songs were a year before his). And a lot of different trends in early Minecraft that just popped up. Hardcore survival, Hunger Games and the start of public servers, Spleef and Bed Wars. Skyblock Survival also not mentioned in the video. I know the introduction of the command blocks could be an entire hour of implications to both modding and also teaching children rudamentary programming.
Or even when Minecraft went onto Xbox, and the only youtubers that actually played that version being Roosterteeth/Achievement Hunter. And them making it popular enough for the devs to put in the Tower of Pimps into the tutorial as an easter egg.
There was also a period back then where adventure maps were popping off, like SkyDoesMinecraft etc.
Really surprised that Syndicate being the first ever Twitch streamer to hit 100,000 viewers streaming Mianite didn’t make this video. Syndicate and CaptainSparklez’ Mianite streams/videos were peak Twitch/UA-cam for me.
And also he was the first streamer to reach 1 million followers on Twitch right?
@@jmillz1999 yeah it was syndicate and riot games gunning for the first 1mil. I think syndicate got it during one of the mianite trials
Mianite is my all time fave Minecraft series ever tbh
@@jmillz1999 Syndicate was such an OG of streaming that not even people who are considered OG streamers like Xqc and summit know who he is.
Its still amazes me how clueless stanz is about everything
The fact he didn’t know what a lets play was is mad
Ya I must imagine he doesn’t really do anything hobby wise since he doesn’t know much lol
I feel like the Minecraft resurgence directly was a generation of Minecraft fans growing up. The kids who watched Minecraft lets plays when thet were like 10 became old enough that they could unleash their creativity on the game. They were now in their late teens and actually started to gain the skills to do something with their love for the game.
and in the same way thats also what caused minecraft to die, the minecraft kids became teens who thought it was a kids game and wasnt cool anymore
Everyone upset Hermitcraft wasn’t covered, none of the creators weee covered at all from Etho to Mumbo and Grian. I think even if it is or isn’t planned it leaves the door open to a Hermitcraft deep dive later on.
I think it makes sense anyways because the Hermitcraft series kind of ran tangential to the ups and downs of Minecraft which is what was covered.
Other big creators and series from the past can get dives later as well.
Also just want to say I loved the video, even though it doesn’t have time to hit every creator it does go through the overarching storyline well. Nice video Caanths + Stanz :)
It was a very British minecraft centered deep dive. It would be the equivalent of a "deep dive on non-skit OG youtubers", talking about Zoella, Dan & Phil, Alfie but not mentioning people like Tyler Oakley, Grace Helbig and the Green brothers. Yes, there is a history there for sure, but very regional.
Even given how massive livestreaming is in Spain, Japan, Germany now, it would be hard to give a truly world-wide overview, but I think that Stanz getting the info from a British crafter when his audience is primarily American/North American is probably where some of the disappointment comes in!
Still a good general timeline though.
@@maddisonk88but the 2 biggest creators on hermitcraft are British? (Technically the 3 biggest now, but when this video was made only the 2 biggest were British)
Historians will say Pewdiepie but I attribute the revival of Minecraft to Jschlatt his vid "A Tribute to Minecraft" which had trickled down to things like Carson's SMPLive popularizing SMPs, both of which predated Pewdiepie's newer Minecraft series. These events inspired the likes of WilburSoot and others to create SMPEarth which saw a meteoric rise to many creators like TommyInnit, Technoblade, etc. The DreamSMP was formed slightly later and at first was similar to other SMPs but then became a storyline that started by parodying Hamilton.
for me it was techno man RIP
I agree. Carson's main channel was also growing like crazy at the time, which brought over a lot of fans and introduced them to a good chunk of what would later become dream smp members.
Also Philza dying after 5 years in a hardcore world contributed
SMPLive was 100% a major contributor to the minecraft reneissance. I think people are just iffy to talk about to following the controversy that Carson would face down the line.
I actually thought it was well-accepted by everyone that Schlatt’s video was the catalyst. Schlatt -> SMPLive -> Pewdiepie/SMPEarth -> Dream is pretty much how I saw it go from a dead game to being back in the mainstream
…you didn’t know what a Let’s Play was?! 😐 I’m utterly and unequivocally flabbergasted.
they talked about let's play but not ethoslab?! I'm utterly and unequivocally flabbergasted
Caanths skipped over all of Mindcrack and Hermitcraft just to gas his friend up really
If mindcrack or hermitcraft ends up not being covered I’ll be upset
God, i was such a Mindcrack kid. UHCs were appointment viewing for me young me.
That’s isn’t even early beta Minecraft. I remember this, it was alpha and free at the time.
@@scottb.3905 same man. I found them through etho since I’ve been watching him since episode I wanna say 170 of his letsplay which is wild to think about now
we will riot 😭
Time to be upset
Achievement Hunter Minecraft videos were the only ones I watched. Them playing around the limited console version originally along with an editing style that constantly bounced between perspectives in the group has essentially ruined watching any other Minecraft video because just staying on one static character, especially in a group scenario, just never did it for me. In fact, it carries over into any group Let's Plays in general. I wish more people would go the extra mile to put that type of effort into the subsequent UA-cam video when they collab on stream, but I realize why they don't. I always have to hope that some super fan will edit together the multiple perspectives because the streamers never will since they need it for their own channels or whatever.
Yes! I never watched the singular players of ongoing game series, like Minecraft but also GTA, Halo, Rainbow 6, etc. because I always watched Achievement Hunter and the editing and the way episodes were put together were so good!
Peak UA-cam gameplay content
One thing that was left out that is insane: when team crafted were living together in a house in california, one of the members had a friend who was trying to make music. The guys let him live in their empty room/closet until one day he uploaded a song on youtube called "White Iverson" which completely took over the charts. That friend is now known as Post Malone, he was even in a few of their old videos
When Caanths said SeaNanners, he awakened how much I used to watch SSoHPKC, UberHaxorNova and the rest of the Creatures. They were the Pewdiepie’s of that era of UA-cam with their let’s plays and gaming content.
I was a Chilledchaos type B person.
the tree house series was peak minecraft
The thought that someone remotely interested in UA-cam can not know what a let's play is, is so mind blowing to me. I watched as skits and music and animation died to let gaming thrive, but now mrbeast type challenges have killed gaming.
A history of minecraft youtube without mention of etho, mindcrack or hermitcraft is like a History of Bible that doesn't mention Jesus and his watery wine
Yep, Etho was literally the Jesus of Minecraft. Dude made the craziest shit back in the day, way before anyone else even got close. I loved his let's play so much. Mindcrack was also such a fun time. The earliest UHC's were so intense and seemed so fun. Crazy that it was like a decade ago.
I also remember watching technical Minecraft with the zipkrowd server, scicraft’s predecessor
@@mcmadness110 Yeah, zipkrowd and SciCraft are important. Their commitment over the years has really improved the game experience for those of us who actually play and enjoy the game, rather than using it as a basis for role-play
I grew up during the peak of the Mindcrack Server. It's in my username I was obsessed with every member. VintageBeef, PauseUnpause, Guude, Bdoubleo100, GenerikB, EthosLab, Baj. It was really the true way to grow up on UA-cam back in the day.
Edit: now that I look back on it. I think they popularized the Ultra Hardcore Game mode that servers use today. Teams crafting, mining, and fighting for the last team left while being in Hardcore Mode, I remember watching those in 2012/2013. The are truly pioneers of the Minecraft content sphere.
etho it still my goat, love watching the team canada series and LP
LOVED wacthing the UHC series! Where everyone would post the same 20 minute perspective daily so no one was spoiled!
PaulSoaresJr was really the first person to make Minecraft Lets Plays in that style popular. He got so many people into minecraft with his early series'
Yes I loved his survive and thrive series!
Yeah it was sad to see him excluded
his series was even on the minecraft site back in the day too
He was also one of the first people to really use mods as a story telling device
Was looking for comments to see if Stanz covered him, not really a minecraft history video without him and his how to survive series.
Stanz needs to do a yogscast deep dive now.... They recently just finished there annual Christmas charity drive called the jingle jam and raised over £2 million for charity
Merry Jingle Jam to you!
@@ManlyTorchic to you too.... Great username by the way
Asynchronous livestreaming is… a shockingly accurate description of a let’s play. Genuinely surprised Stanz didn’t know what one was; it may be the first bit of UA-cam lingo I ever learned. Starting with CaptainSparklez and Shadow of Israphel… this is a real walk down memory lane. Kinda crazy to watch someone learn about it all after the fact.
I remember the early era of Minecraft very well.
The one time I try to get noticed in chat I get dono walled lmfao 😭
boris2024 and HiggumsMC noticed you lol (i like your videos btw)
I went to your channel and clicked old to see how you started and I didn’t realize you were doing the flat world since then
I went to your channel and clicked old to see how you started and I didn’t realize you were doing the flat world since then, that is impressive.
This just shows how absolutely massive the game is. He missed so many people that I have watched a lot who were just around while the others were too. I think it’s impossible to capture it all
I was hoping they would touch on Achievement hunter's minecraft series, they might not have been a primary minecraft channel, but I know a lot of people followed their let's play channel solely for their ongoing minecraft series.
Ryan Haywood of AH was definitely one of those 3 or so people he mentioned who used Minecraft to communicate with kids.
Everyone always skips over The Pack!! It's Vikkstar123, Lachlan, BajanCanadian, JeromeASF, PrestonPlayz, and MrWoofless. It was the biggest Minecraft group after TeamCrafted/Yogscast & they've recently got back together and started a group channel. They had a series called How to Minecraft which was like the OG Dream SMP. It's crazy that everyone remembers Minecraft UA-cam through completely different creators because of how huge it was.
Commenting before getting the chance to watch it:
I hope there is mention of EthosLab’s lets play world, The Yogscast Tekkit Series/ Shadow of israphel, TheDiamondMinecart’s Lab as well as the Minecraft Survival games era… these all were massive booms for the minecraft community early on.
Duncans tekkit series walked so every other modpack could run
Crazy that this whole deepdive didn't mention any Mindcrack or Hermitcraft creators
Man I remember being there as each israphel episode came out
I also helped out the yogscast wiki a LOT back in the day
you were a legend for that
I can't believe Captainsparklez and the history of Minecraft has been done and with no or little mention of Mianite.
SMP Live, HermitCraft, Etho are crazy omissions. Maybe a separate smp deep dive that has those and likr 2b2t and stuff
Man do I miss the feeling of watching an OG Yogscast Minecraft series
Cant believe technoblade was only mentioned by name once
Stanz talking yogscast and Shadow of Israphael makes me so happy. Yogscast was my whole childhood.
If you haven't already, go and listen to "Take a Chance" by Daniel Young. It's what's played when Peculiar is telling his story and it will make you cry
I’m so glad they are putting a spotlight on the Yogscast. For some reason a lot of videos talking about minecrafts history completely misses the massive impact the Yogscast had on the Minecrafts popularity
my first intro to the genre was achievement hunter i believe. i must have been around 13-14 and they had only done less than 20 minecraft videos.
Skipping over SMP Live is devastating but understandable 😂
I can't always catch the stream but honestly, one deep dive a week uploaded on a specific day and I'd be there every single time. Like these are always great but the divemas ones being 40 minutes each have been fucking amazing
The crafting table was there cause after pillaring up you run out of blocks and need to use the last thing you got
the fact this needs to be explained is INSANE.
The whole resurgence of Minecraft was really hard to pin who brought it back, but PewDiePie is a good one to argue did for sure. In my personal opinion, it was An Ode to Minecraft that started the return, but if I'm not mistaken, that was also not that far away from when PDP started playing, like maybe a few months I think? I feel like it was a whole massive Minecraft zeitgeist that appeared out of nowhere lmao
I think it was a mix of things, the "Creeper Aww Man" discord meme got huge around this time, PDP started minecrafting, Ode to Minecraft into SMP Live happened, then Minecraft Mondays capitalized on the building hype to mix OG Minecraft UA-camrs with newer ones which catapulted the success.
Don’t forget about SMPlive and Minecraft Mondays by keemstar.
Things you might look into:
-The weird reputation of Notch
-X's adventures
-Ethoslab
-DiscoFV
-Mindcrack
-Hermitcraft
-The Aether mod
-The huge modding scene
-Texture packs rise and fall
-Race for the wool and other costume maps
-Building a computer in minecraft
-The redstone scene
-The hardcore phase
-The "100 day" phase
-Server crashing with lag
-Soundtrack and C418
-The speedrun scene
-The absolute need for the Wiki
etc.
The video should likely be called "What I watched of Minecraft over the years".
Mindcrack is the bridge of old-minecraft to new and skipping it is ignoring a massive part of the game. Etho, Guude, BdoubleO, Zissteau, Pause, etc. and in extension EVERY CTM map from Vechs moving into HermitCraft is honestly crazy to me. And I don't know how you cover Minecraft without even mentioning UHC. Minecraft didn't "die" the viewers were all on Mindcrack and saying it "died" feels kinda off to me TBH. a Part 2 is honestly a necessity for this. and @Caanths , if you want info this is my time. I lived for this shit
It actually followed a cycle even more than they realized. Back when it was in the first dead period the main thing still existing was hermitcraft. It was just a wholesome little community with no lore or anything, just playing Minecraft on a big server with friends. It still had a significant amount of viewers but nowhere near the before or after. When Minecraft became popular again, so did hermitcraft. Now as Minecraft does continue to fade in popularity again hermitcraft stands as probably the most popular place with Minecraft content, and just based on how it is, it will likely continue that way far into the future.
25:04 why was jschlatt’s ram featured in the 2.5 era?
Definitely think when talking about the golden age of Minecraft, mindcrack(including Seth bling), bajancanadian and kyrspeedy should get honorable mentions. They were HUGE and all had large impacts on starting the play styles that made Minecraft popular(hunger games, UHC, red stone abilities and multiplayer worlds)
if you do cover yogscast, would love a section on HatFilms. they're a group of 3 guys under the yogscast umbrella but more separate. in my opinion theyre some of the funniest people in yogscast ~ fun fact they were hired by minecraft to make alot of their trailers!
Covering Minecraft Let's Plays/what a Let's Play is/content creator controversies, without covering Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter, is nuts.
These videos are so wild to me because my experience with UA-cam is so different. Like I got into watching people doing let’s plays even though I don’t play the games myself.
Also, I guess it’d be kind of not the same because they had their own website(and there’s just a lot of stuff that’s gone down that they may not wanna talk about lol) , but they did(do) have a yt channel, Achievement Hunter via RT. For a while before everything they had a bunch of different long running series going. They were kind of the only channel I watched play games(Minecraft, GTA, halo, etc.) continuously.
Ain't no way he could have a history of Minecraft without mentioning Ethoslab, Mindcrack, Hermitcraft, Grian, the life series etc along with The Syndicate Project & Mianite there's SO much missed but I guess if he mentioned all of them the video would've been like 20 hours long
Yogscast Simon used to live in my apartment building around 10 years ago - really nice guy but barely saw him out (standard gamer) - definitively would be down for a deep dive. edit: big up Crewcraft.. Sp33dy and co were the boyz
The way world war 2 bombing sirens sounded in my mind the second Caanths mentioned PewDiePie
If you do a yogscast deep dive you have to cover the tekkit server, honestly you could do a dive just on that. I used to watch it from every perspective and it was so good how you had more laid back old lets play style with sips co and simon/lewis, more RP focused with rythian and more tutorial focused with duncan. Peak collaborative youtube
i literally did a full rewatch of all the tekkit series and Blackrock Chronicles still the best series they had
Yogscast had me thinking there was a whole story built into minecraft. Boy was I disappointed when I finally got to play the game and was very wrong. Loved their stuff though
No how to Minecraft is kinda wild
“Hahaha me and stanz are the same age I’m only 30”. Then he doesn’t know what a let’s play is and it breaks my heart. Damn I’m old for UA-cam
I can’t believe they completely missed syndicate tucker sparkles and firefox doing mianite, that was a cultural revolution that kinda was the prelude to dream smp
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SeaNanners wasn't the first Let's Play (and I'd also argue he wasn't the most popular at the time either). He directly states in his first video that he was inspired by X's Adventures in Minecraft. That series definitely deserves more credit on it, sucks that it almost universally gets snubbed despite SeaNanners directly shouting him out.
Quackity smp is going beyond language barriers that's why u don't here much from it , its because most of the memes or lore is in Spanish or Portuguese or French
it’s insane to not mention etho when you are talking about surviving through eras of minecraft
Unexpected video but kinda goes hard
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No achievement Hunter, syndicate project, the creatures etc
I would say smp live was more integral to the minecraft renaissance than pewdiepie's series, both were integral to it's revival but smp live was far more impactful.
I feel like I'm the only one that watched the Cube SMP guys. I know they weren't that big but I would say they were one of the firsts to do a great SMP run
I literally have been scrolling the comments looking for someone to mention the Cube! I was beginning to think I was the only one that watched and loved it too
@@carlyherbert I never hear anyone mention them and I grew up watching the cube! I never really watched the other big Minecraft youtubers apart from ldshadowlady. It's great to find another fan!!
I hope there's a part 2 to this as a whole with a deeper dive into some parts of it. There's so much lore here that (understandably) has been cut out. From more of the Roleplay Let's Plays like Mr.Gibbs or HermitCraft (and MumboJumbo's redstone), to more organic events like TechnoBlade's potato War, or the large amount of SMP's there were (SMP Earth, SMP Live, etc.). There's probably so much even i'm forgetting now, and i don't know how well re-diving into a covered topic would do, but I do hope it gets covered.
I'm suprised no mention of Achievement Hunter/Let's play channels. I used to watch them growing up and was always watching them
Modern Minecraft still is pulling lots of views with the modern smp format, lifesteal with parrot rekrap clownpierce etc, and with the event format, MCC, block wars, Minecraft mayhem etc. would seriously recommend a deep dive into Minecraft events, and not just the mainstream ones, because it’s a super interesting topic
Oh and speed running! After being popularized by dream and Illumina, it’s now had a ton of success and there’s even ranked speed running which has a pretty sizeable prize pool and some of the bigger communities (ex. HBG with feinberg couirway etc) now have gained some traction in the greater Minecraft community and in the greater entertainment community as well
hardcore is also pretty popular
Caanths not including let's play channel, phil's 5 year world death, hermit craft and dsmp/qsmp. pained me so much, but i understand him not being into them so not being able to talk on them. I hope he can get someone in to talk on them as they are such big part of many people's internet culture and have been a big part of my life so was shocking to me he didn't know them but no one is the same. Happy with majority of what was covered tho.
oh my god, you so right about Ph1lza's Hardcore World not even getting a mention. That is literally one of the most famous Minecraft moments of all time. Even people who don't play the game were circulating that clip everywhere.
The pack? Team crafted? UHC? H2M? Hermitcraft? SMPLive? So much overlooked 😔
Would love a Yogscast deep dive. They were my childhood
Whenever I think Lets Play or Minecraft, but especially those two things together, I think Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth. Completely responsible for me and my friends downloading Minecraft and creating a world together.
Stanz not knowing what a Let's Play is despite being a UA-camr is like a guy in the army not knowing WW2 happened. Crazy.
this was a great vid and brought back sm memories! would’ve loved to see the creatures or ihascupquake since they were my GOATs but either way nostalgic af :’)
YOOOOO MR WILLIAMO, I was such a huge fan of him. I still go back and watch his videos sometimes as a guilty pleasure!!!!
you forgot to mention Technoblade and minecraft animations like Slamacow or the game Minecraft story mode
There’s one person who I wished you talked about but I know probably isn’t appropriate. That being Technoblade. I think he was a true picture of the rise, fall, and rise again of Minecraft while providing hilarious and uplifting content. He became a huge part of the Dream SMP later on, but I think his best work are the earlier videos playing skywards and bedwars on Hypixel. You could probably do a deep dive on just him to be honest. May he rest in peace
for all those who don't know the pack started uploading Minecraft videos again on their The Pack channel. The pack being Vikstar, lachlan, prestonplayz,bajancanadian, jeromeASF, and woofless
stampycat was a lo of people childhood when starting to watch youtube lets play
The idea he doesn't know what a let's play is... Is mind boggling. I get why this series exists now.
he did a great job showing the history but i feel he missed a couple eras he forgot all about the old classic x's adventure in minecraft. as well as the callmecarson era. but other then that he did great explaining it to stanz
Yet again a minecraft history video( although this isn’t meant to be a thorough one) doesn’t include how i got into minecraft and that is the Pack and the How to Minecraft SMP ( literally try to find a minecraft history video that includes them )
YO the actual MrWilliamo? I watched some of his videos back then, so cool your friend knows him and got him into the call
I feel like attributing minecrafts second rise to PewDiePie is a little incorrect. Shclatts "a tribute to Minecraft" put Minecraft back into the consciousness of old players. The series SMPlive was probably the biggest contributing factor to Minecrafts revival and arguably is why PewDiePie decided it was a good and viable idea. Smplive kickstarted the huge popularity of things like the dreamSMP.
Also should have mentioned the success of mianite and how important that was for the modern SMPformat being dreamSMP before dreamSMP.
The fact stanz didn't even know what a 'lets's play' is boggles my mind
I remember months ago (maybe even last year?) he was talking about how surprised he was at how well the gaming channel was doing, and someone mentioned he just accidentally rediscovered Let's Plays. The fact he forgot that is immensely funny to me, and I know he definitely forgot because I was in chat both times. Never change, Stanz.
Bro I love these Dives so much. Caanths is such a great narrator, and it's cool learning about this stuff.
Well since he just found out about let's plays, now we need a dive into the rise and fall of Achievement Hunter and the Lets Play channel
stanz not knowing what a lets play is is blowing my mind right now
PopularMMOs being in jail is a really big thing you missed
Holy fuck core memory. You would not believe the emotion I felt as a child growing up and seeing online the current version of Minecraft. Watching UA-camrs playing that Version of Minecraft and interacting with npcs. Only to tell my older brother “they put npcs in Minecraft” bruh they embarrassment.
i love how stanz just apparently hasnt been on the internet ever. axctauuyl a great way to make these history type vidoes. having a guy whos amazed by lore that most people just kind of know is really fun to watch
This could be a cool series (maybe stream only) of deep dive on different sunsets cause there’s like 15-20 different communities that are largely unrelated
The earliest days of Minecraft when people were still discovering things was incredible. I spent hundreds of hours in Alpha learning with the small community how to do things that we would now consider basic. There were no tutorials, no explanation of how to craft, just pure discovery. Those few months were some of my fondest memories in gaming, and I was so happy everyone was eventually able to appreciate it the way it deserved to be appreciated
preach. i remember watching the seananners nether episode, downloading the game, and telling all my friends about it the next day. we all went back to my house and took turns playing.
the rest is history.
scuse me while i go cry for a sec😭
For me as someone who played minecraft, then stopped for the most part, technoblade and minecraft mondays brought me back, combined with the innovation in hypixel. For most of my friends it was the same, but seeing none of it mentioned was a little surprising.
Minecraft Mondays and technoblades rise was a spectacle to watch every single week. He was a beast and had to be nerfed so he wouldn’t win every week 😂
The lack of techoblade being referenced as the goat is sad to see. RIP the king
Minecraft on UA-cam will always have a special place in my heart. Back in the day over a decade ago one of the biggest German Gaming UA-camrs, Gronkh, had a Minecraft series with 1.6k episodes that had young me in a choke hold, and when that ended after a few years I started searching for other youtubers. This also coinceded with me getting better at English, so it ended up opening up this crazy world of the wider internet for me.
as someone who watched the qsmp, it definitely was in the middle of a minecraft recession and now that the server had so many issues on the inside so many people(including me)stopped watching so we really are in a minecraft recession
I strive to have even an ounce of the audacity Caanths has labeling something "the history of Minecraft youtube" and not even mentioning Mindcrack or hermitcraft lmao. that's genuinely insane to me.
Would've loved for them to scan over Achievement Hunters' minecraft series, but that's just where i come from :D
Minecraft was my intro to UA-cam. It’s one of those childhood things that somehow has no nostalgic value for me despite how massive a part of my life it was. The content is cringe to me now but I respect it and (most of) the creators who play it because it’s how I got in, and Minecraft itself is still an S tier game.