

That seems tobe something that YouTube are phasing out. Like if they were alotbetter at pushing videos to people thatwere subscribed to you. If you had the keys to YouTube is thereanything you would change? Thered be a few things in terms of the YouTube side of things. YouTube was a huge element for Minecrafts success. Id just be like: that doesnt seem like anything Id be interested in. If you showed me an advert on the TV, and it was like: Its building. Its one of those games that blew up on YouTube pretty quickly, and suddenly it was in all of everyones sub boxes and feeds, and people were looking into it and wondering what on earth is this thing? Thats the sort of thing that I dont think Minecraft could have achieved through traditional advertising. They saw it and they thought well first they thought it looked rubbish, but when they saw the creative elements and all the things that you could do with it they got into it. The reason a lot of my friends found out about Minecraft is because some of the YouTubers that they were watching originally started playing Minecraft. How important is YouTube for Minecraft? Its very important because without it I dont think Minecraft would be where it is today. Ive experienced that, and its something you see right the way throughout the community. There are plenty of little servers that are people from all over the world working together as a little group on their various projects and things. If youre all working together, as a team, it allows you to build friendships quite easily. Everyone seems to have a common interest in Minecraft, and obviously you get involved in your own little communities. When I started out on YouTube, everyone whos a similar size to you will help you out. Are you proud to be a member of the wider Minecraft community? Its one of the more friendly communities Ican think of on the internet. Outside of that, it forces you to be creative and use your brain and assess what youre doing and better whatever it is that youre working on.Īnd then theres the community aspect as well. If people are getting into redstone, it teaches you some of the fundamental things about Boolean logic, which is to say the fundamentals of computing.

It requires quite a lot of logical thought and it forces you to be a lot more creative than other things in the market. Do you think Minecraft should be held up as an educational resource for younger kids? I guess so yes.
