50 Fun Facts About Minecraft YouTubers

Mojang's 2022 launcher tribute to the late YouTuber Technoblade put a crown on which farm animal?

A pig in a crown was Technoblade's Minecraft skin and channel logo, and the same crowned animal turns up in A Minecraft Movie, where Steve hails him as a legend.

What did Minecraft YouTuber Dream keep hidden from fans for years until a much-watched October 2022 video?

His face stayed off camera for years. He said he revealed it so he could meet up with friends, try new kinds of videos and do more work outside his home.

Which British Minecraft YouTuber, a former Tesco worker, topped Forbes's 2017 list of highest-paid YouTube stars?

DanTDM, who began as TheDiamondMinecart, earned about $16.5 million that year, and his Sydney Opera House show was the second-fastest sell-out in the venue's history.

Which Dream series, launched in December 2019, earned a Guinness record for most-viewed Minecraft gameplay video?

Manhunt has Dream try to finish the game on a single life while as many as six friends, armed with tracking compasses and infinite respawns, try to kill him first.

Which English streamer's five-year Minecraft hardcore world ended in 2019 when a baby zombie in golden armour attacked?

Philza had held the record for the longest hardcore run. The death lifted his streams from 15 viewers at most to roughly 180 and let him quit his retail job.

Which English YouTuber, who plays an orange and white cat, ended his 823-episode Lovely World series in 2023?

Stampy ran one of the ten most-watched YouTube channels in the world in 2014, yet called it a complete accident: he had set out to be a video game journalist.

Which YouTuber hosted the $100,000 duel series that Technoblade won against his friendly rival Dream?

MrBeast put up the prize because fans had long argued over which of the two was the best Minecraft player. Technoblade took the series and the money.

Which white-eyed Minecraft urban legend took off in 2010 after streamers Copeland and Patimuss staged sightings of him?

Herobrine began as an anonymous 4chan post about a blank-eyed figure, and Copeland faked his own encounter on stream by editing the game's textures.

In July 2019, Dream used reverse engineering to work out the Minecraft world seed of which hugely popular YouTuber?

PewDiePie had just returned to Minecraft with a hit series that summer, and Dream cracked the seed using techniques he had picked up on online forums.

Which crop did Technoblade farm obsessively to outgrow rival im_a_squid_kid in a 2019 SkyBlock video series?

Potatoes fuelled the whole saga: each player tried to log the highest harvest in the game mode, and Technoblade titled the series as though it were a real war.

Which YouTuber, dubbed the godfather of Minecraft song parodies by The Wall Street Journal, made 'Fallen Kingdom'?

CaptainSparklez turned the Coldplay parody, sung by a king who has lost his castle, into a five-video saga that ran from 2012 to 2022.

'Revenge', the 2011 Minecraft parody sung by a player attacked by creepers, reworks a hit by which R&B singer?

Usher's 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love' was the model. The parody set three Guinness World Records, and in 2019 it returned as a meme that had group chats typing it out line by line.

Which English YouTuber's Twitch stream of the Dream SMP finale in January 2021 peaked at over 650,000 viewers?

TommyInnit drew the third-biggest live audience Twitch had then seen, passing Ninja's Fortnite stream with Drake, and later earned two Guinness records for Minecraft streaming.

Which breakaway nation on the Dream SMP, founded in July 2020 for non-American players, won a war for independence?

L'Manburg had its own flag and national anthem, held a presidential election and was finally blown up in January 2021.

Which Broadway musical inspired the early storyline of the Dream SMP and was often referenced by the server's members?

Hamilton shaped the first big arc, a revolution followed by a rowdy election. Most scenes were improvised around a few plot points scripted in advance.

Which colour-blind Minecraft YouTuber first tried colour-correcting glasses in a hit 2020 video?

GeorgeNotFound has protanopia, a form of red-green colour blindness. He also set a Guinness record when nearly 320,000 people watched him cook live on Twitch.

Which Minecraft minigame server, home of Bedwars and Skywars, was Technoblade's main stage on YouTube?

Hypixel grew out of a YouTube channel for adventure-map trailers. Its minigames were only meant to keep players busy while they waited, then became the main draw.

Which Minecraft roleplay YouTuber founded the production company Catface and the cat plush line MeeMeows?

Aphmau, real name Jessica Bravura, started posting in 2012 but grew slowly for years. By 2021 her channel was drawing over 500 million views a month.

Which 2019 tournament, hosted by Keemstar, made Technoblade a star with four wins in its fourteen events?

Minecraft Monday invited creators for their fame, not their skill, so a PvP specialist could shine. It ended when hackers breached the server mid-event.

What unusual controller did Technoblade use to beat Minecraft on hardcore mode in a 2017 video?

A racing wheel was his self-imposed handicap. Technoblade later dropped out of college, where he had been studying English, to make Minecraft videos full-time.

Which English YouTuber, a lead writer of the Dream SMP's story, also fronts the indie rock band Lovejoy?

Wilbur Soot planned many of the server's early arcs, writing plot hooks and letting the cast improvise between them. With Lovejoy he reached number five on the UK Albums Chart.

On the Dream SMP, Dream was finally imprisoned at the end of a long saga fought over which rare items?

Music discs, just two of them, were used as leverage by one character after another, and the feud over them became the server's longest-running story arc.

Which Texas-born Minecraft YouTuber, a founding member of the Dream SMP, became a co-owner of NRG Esports in 2022?

Sapnap was the fourth person to join the server and is known for his PvP skill. Away from Minecraft he has played in Twitch chess tournaments such as PogChamps.

Which British YouTuber, a Hermitcraft builder since 2018, launched the Life Series with 3rd Life in 2021?

Grian pitched 3rd Life as experimental hardcore with a twist. He also rebuilt Corfe Castle in Minecraft for the National Trust, with an archaeologist's help.

Which British group shot to fame with the Minecraft series Shadow of Israphel and runs the Jingle Jam charity streams?

The Yogscast became the UK's biggest YouTube channel in 2011 on the back of the series, and the Jingle Jam has since raised over £30 million for charity.

In which Minecraft pursuit did moderators strip Dream's record in 2020 after finding altered item drop rates?

Speedrunning moderators put the odds of his luck at 1 in 7.5 trillion. Dream first denied cheating, then said in 2021 that a mod had changed the drop rates without his knowledge.

Technoblade's 2021 charity stream raised over $300,000 for a foundation fighting which type of cancer?

Sarcoma is the cancer he was diagnosed with, as the foundation later confirmed. He had told viewers he had cancer weeks earlier, and the stream beat its $250,000 goal within two hours.

Which Mexican creator launched a multilingual Minecraft server with live automated translation in March 2023?

Quackity named the server the QSMP. His own handle comes from Toontown Online, where the word replaced censored chat typed by duck characters.

Kurt J. Mac spent over fourteen years walking toward which glitched edge region of old Minecraft worlds?

The Far Lands lie about 12.5 million blocks out, where a maths overflow warps the terrain. His walk holds the Guinness record for the longest journey in Minecraft.

Which YouTuber, a Team Crafted member with ten million subscribers by 2015, appeared in Lady Gaga's 'G.U.Y.' video?

SkyDoesMinecraft was often the most-watched channel on YouTube in a given week, and the FDA once hired the creator to make an anti-smoking video in Minecraft.

Which British streamer, a key Dream SMP character, ran a 2024 subathon that lasted 64 days?

Tubbo filled the marathon with cooking shows, panel games and Dungeons & Dragons sessions, more than doubling the 27 days his previous subathon had lasted.

Which YouTuber created Tales from the SMP, the time-travel anthology later adapted into Dark Horse comics?

Karl Jacobs started out as a video editor for one creator and a cameraman for that creator's brother before joining the on-screen cast, then met Dream while filming a gaming video.

Which best-of-five archery duel between the top two teams decides the winner of each MC Championship?

Dodgebolt comes after eight minigames testing combat, parkour, survival and teamwork. Only the two teams with the most coins get to play it.

Which YouTuber cameos as an auction attendee in A Minecraft Movie and helped design some of the film's props?

Mumbo Jumbo was among several creators on hand during production, as the crew worked to keep everything on screen, from trees to fruit, built only from cubes.

In which Telltale adventure do five YouTubers, voicing themselves, meet the White Pumpkin at a mansion murder mystery?

Minecraft: Story Mode put the creators' own avatars in its sixth episode, where they are picked off one by one until the player unmasks the culprit.

On which streaming service did 'Dream SMP' appear as a music genre label in 2021 year-end listening summaries?

Spotify used the label for artists that the server's fans streamed heavily, including some with no link to it at all, and several of those artists objected.

Which Texas YouTuber started with the Call of Duty channel TBNRfrags before launching a Minecraft channel in 2012?

PrestonPlayz later moved his gaming to a separate channel and filled the main one with vlogs and challenges. His parents help run the business as its CEO and COO.

Which member of the Sidemen also belonged to the Minecraft group the Pack and joined the Dream SMP?

Vikkstar branched into Minecraft after starting with Call of Duty videos, and turned down a place at University College London to make YouTube his full-time job.

Which anarchy server, the oldest in Minecraft, was swamped by new players after TheCampingRusher's 2016 video?

2b2t has almost no rules, and its veterans fought the newcomers by wrecking the spawn area. The server's owner said the chaos was exactly how it should be.

Which Minecraft boss did Dream SMP members finally defeat together on the server's last day in April 2023?

The Ender Dragon had been off-limits for the server's whole three-year run under Dream's rules, so the kill doubled as a farewell.

Which Glass Animals hit shares its title with a viral Dream SMP fan fiction credited with boosting the song?

Heat Waves the story reached the top three most-praised works on Archive of Our Own, and the song later completed a 59-week climb to number one in the US.

Which YouTuber broke through in 2016 by testing how much TNT it takes to blow up a Minecraft house?

Unspeakable had been posting for nearly four years before that video took off. For his first live show, in 2023, he filled an arena with over two million plastic balls.

Which YouTuber built a BASIC interpreter and an Atari 2600 emulator inside Minecraft without using any mods?

SethBling, a former Microsoft engineer who worked on Xbox, also set a Super Mario World record by using a glitch to run his own code and skip to the credits.

In which Florida city did Dream share a house with two fellow Dream Team members from 2022?

Orlando became home to all three once the group's English member won a US visa in 2022, a move he filmed for a video about meeting Dream in person.

Which German streamer joined the Dream SMP in August 2020 and later signed with the esports team Team Liquid?

Nihachu began streaming in 2016 while a knee operation kept her from walking for about a year. Her early broadcasts featured The Sims and creepypastas read in German.

Which Scottish YouTuber, also known as Dangthatsalongname, launched MC Championship in 2019 with Noxcrew?

Smajor1995, real name Scott Major, reshuffles the teams himself before every event to keep them balanced, and admits about three new players each time.

Which American YouTuber, a star of SMPLive, co-created the comedy podcast Chuckle Sandwich with Ted Nivison in 2021?

Jschlatt won fans on SMPLive with his dry humour and deliberately terrible audio quality, and briefly joined the Dream SMP in 2020.

Which LGBTQ youth charity received over $300,000 from MC Championship's Pride event in June 2021?

The Trevor Project also received $140,000 from Dream that same month, $90,000 of it contributed by his fans.

At which annual ceremony was Dream named Content Creator of the Year in 2021?

The Game Awards prize followed back-to-back wins in the Gaming category at the Streamys in 2020 and 2021.

Which fantasy MMORPG server, co-founded by a future Hermitcraft star, did Guinness name the largest inside Minecraft?

Wynncraft borrows its design from RuneScape, with hundreds of quests, five classes and dungeons, and costs nothing beyond the game itself.