Saturday, October 5, 2013

Stephen - Blog Post #5

Minecraft is an ideal topic for finding videos on YouTube. It has become very common for gaming channels and just average gamers to post gameplay videos, walkthroughs, instructions, and ideas from Minecraft. Many of these videos are humorous, but it really depends on the players. My favorites of these videos are created by two linked channels: Rooster Teeth and Let’s Play. 

These feature a wide variety of Minecraft gameplay videos in which they come up with, build, and play different games and contests. One series that they have is called Things to Do. In these videos, they give suggestions for players to do in their own game. They are generally fairly short, I have posted one below. These videos are culturally significant because both Rooster Teeth and Let’s Play have an enormous number of subscribers (6,374,506 and 1,085,016 respectively.) Their videos get huge amounts of viewing and very large amounts of response and recreation. They are far from the only channel doing this as well. Minecraft is a very popular source for online videos. 


2 comments:

  1. When I had a stepson, he always watched Minecraft videos, sometimes more than he actually played Minecraft! So I bet there are a lot of videos to watch. It seemed like there were a lot of videos played by people from the UK.

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  2. It makes sense that a level of competition would need to be added to this game, especially by the fans. People love competitive play and will create it even if it doesn't exist.

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