From Dirt Huts to Hermitcraft
Exploring how Minecraft Let’s Plays have evolved over time
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6 min readJul 7, 2021
Minecraft has been the king on YouTube for the past decade with over 200 billion views in 2020 alone. Since the first Let’s Play videos during Minecraft’s pre-alpha days more than 12 years ago, both the genre and the game have grown dramatically.