Why Do Minecraft Youtubers Keep Making the Same Content?

I love how quickly the civilization simulations stopped being actual experiments and just became glorified team deathmatches

I've been extremely burnt out this year when it comes to making content. I always wanted to be a YouTuber having fun like the Yogscast or Stampy but to be a proper YouTuber now, you need to be a CEO who hires loads of people to automate production and doesn't actually make the content themselves. I don't want to make clickbait kids videos that feel like they're made by a content farm, but the young audience don't care. Of course whenever something new does well there will be many copycats who just want money, however I hope that the people who are genuinely passionate about making good honest content will rise to the top as they will be able to innovate and stay ahead of their clones.

A guy pointing out the issues with minecraft youtube. I can respect that.

This isn't just a problem with the content creators; it is a problem with servers too. People will join a server and then complain if there is anything different about it, pushing server owners into installing the same plugins and having similar formats.

I recently really got into Mr Beardstone's Create series because it's a traditional let's play, with a modpack to spice things up. And he actually shows his mistakes, his thought processes, how he plans projects and is in general just pleasant to listen tonand watch. Like i said, his videos are mostly traditional but nowadays it actually feels fresh because it's honest gameplay

Recommendation; The Librarian's From The Fog series. It's basically survival with a twist, but he starts off having not played the game in a long time and discovering things from updates he missed, as well as inventing his own narrative as he goes. It's refreshing and really feels like a good old let's play from 2011 despite being in Modern minecraft.

Its crazy how narrow the popular content is for how broad minecraft is. Where are the story driven lets plays? Where are friends just playing around with games they made? (thats why you should continue the Evolution series, very entertaining.

I totally agree with a lot of this, However I will say those old style fun Minecraft videos do still exist out there. Unfortunately its never pushed by youtube and is fairly hard to find.

Man gotta love how etho has stayed true to himself, I’ve been watching the guy for like 10 years or something and still no “make sure to like and subscribe “ from him, no sponsor ads, no over the top reactions, no ads at all actually now that I think of it. Crazy to think that after all this time it’s like im still in 2013 watching my favorite creator push the bounds of Minecraft and continue to innovate and blow my mind

It's not just minecraft youtubers, It's every community ever. It's pretty sad seeing youtube like this but I think we wouldn't see anything original in awhile.

This is why i love ForgeLabs' content. He sticks to the boring 100 days in hardcore formula, except he truns them all into two hour documentaries where each and every important event, such as him dying, saying "nope you never saw that yup" and then loading into a backup of the world, aswell as an instance where he disintegrated 8 diamonds cause of the fact the footage was corrupted. He uses the 100 days format but makes it very clear that the challenges turn his life into a living hell.

What I have noticed is content like this “why ‘such and such repetitive viral videos’ are popular and why they should stop” getting more viral themselves, maybe this will become the next trend lol

we need more youtubers like Ryan or Dahomey, interesting topics and original content

It kind of makes me sick that Youtube creators basically have to rely on RNG to even make money, unless they go out of their way to basically "cheat" and use the methods that trick the algorithm into suggesting it more, like clickbait and rapid fast-paced trend videos.

As someone who has done some video editing work in the past. People really dont realize how much time actually goes into edoting a video. It can and often is the longer part of the process, as polishing and making sure everything works and flows well is very time consuming

Conclusion: One cannot bring down capitalism by just pointing out its flaws because the capitalist won't latch onto this and change whatever he ought.

the irony is, we all collectively have the power to dictate what youtube pushes. i got bored of the copypaste videos a while back, and so ive only been watching smaller creators with original ideas (and hermitcraft, of course). as a result, youtube just doesnt push copypaste videos to me anymore, cus it knows i wont watch them. the change has been a breath of fresh air.

Getting paid for what you love doing is truly a beautiful thing, but you can always lose the soul in your art if money becomes the priority. I am so glad you brought this up Ryan! You truly are an inspiration my guy! I hope we get a renaissance of better things soon.

This is the main reason that i slowly started watching less and less minecraft, it became all the same thing, and this is the reason that i absolutly love your content its new and passionate, Hi Ryan

I remember when I first came across the civilization format. It was simple, what if the world changed into Minecraft? It was a really fun idea, but now it’s devolved into… just bigger smps where each smp is a different island.