Minecraft YouTubers Need to Stop

Minecraft is an okay game that I played years ago.  I still find nothing wrong with the game.  It’s a simple and fun.  It’s fun to build in and track your progress as you go from a little hut made only to escape the night to a mansion.  I want to make it entirely clear that I have no problem with the game.

I don’t even have a problem with the community, to be honest.  It’s mostly just kids that have fun playing the game.  Yeah, they can be cringy, but every kid does some cringy things that they’ll do their best to forget as they get older.  They might as well spend their time playing a game like Minecraft which is harmless enough.

Where my problem lies is with the YouTubers that blatantly lie to profit off of the ignorance of these children who want to watch videos about their favorite video game.  This was brought to my attention when I typed “how to make a spongebob po” into Google, hoping to find out how to make a Spongebob popsicle.  As I typed, I found that something very different was suggested to me, “how to make spongebob portal in minecraft.”  Needless to say, I was intrigued and had to find out what terrible garbage this was.

As it turns out, it was just what I thought, absolute garbage made to fool children into clicking videos full of lies.  I found videos that claimed to inform people how to create a portal in Minecraft that would take them to an alleged Spongebob dimension.

Of course, this makes absolutely no sense.  Spongebob is owned by Nickelodeon which is owned by Viacom.  Minecraft is owned by Mojang which is owned by Microsoft.  Unless there was some sort of licensing deal in place, there would be no way for Spongebob or anything related to Spongebob to exist within Minecraft.  A child doesn’t think about such things however and is simply excited because they believe that their favorite cartoon is now in their favorite video game.

These lies do not stop at Spongebob however.  There have also been videos made describing how to make a portal in the game that will transport the character to a Mario dimension.  This claim holds slightly more water because a version of Minecraft was released on Nintendo’s Wii U which included skins based on the Mario world.  There still is no “Mario Dimension” within the game and no portal that can be built to access one.

Additionally there are videos claiming to show how to bring characters like Pennywise the Clown, the Hulk, Robin from Teen Titans Go!, and Freddy Fazbear.  I personally do not play Minecraft, but the way that these YouTubers are deceiving children for their personal, financial gain really bothers me.  While I still wouldn’t watch them, I feel like it would be much more respectable if these creators instead made entertainment based on these properties that children like as opposed to deceiving them.

Author: Jackson Palmer

Jackson Palmer is a student studying literature at the Mississippi School of the Arts. He hopes to use the education he obtains there to write novels, short stories, poetry, and scripts for movies, television, and theater productions. Additionally, he would like to write within a number of genres such as comedy, drama, horror, etc. Some of his favorite writers and influences include Billy Joel, John Steinbeck, and Dan Harmon. He hopes to explore concepts and systems of thought such as existentialism, nihilism, and fulfillment within his writing. He would like to thank you visiting his blog and hopefully reading his work. View all posts by Jackson Palmer