It’s not like Minecraft ever really went anywhere. But it definitely spent the past handful of years less firmly entrenched in the zeitgeist than in the first half of the decade. Not so in 2019. The ...

As we near the end of the year (and decade), many “best of” lists and retrospectives have begun to appear. As in years past, YouTube also joined in to celebrate a year of videos, including celebrating ...

Minecraft was the most popular game on YouTube in 2019, racking up over 100 billion total views. The popularity of Minecraft is unparalleled on the platform, driven largely by controversial YouTuber ...

Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg has been a Let's Player, a commentary channel, controversial figure and, most recently, a Minecraft gamer. The YouTuber, who has nearly 100 million subscribers and is a ...

2019 has had a few constants on the internet so far: “Old Town Road,” Keanu Reeves, Area 51, a general sense of unease about our impending ecological disaster. Surprisingly, a 10-year-old video game ...

“It felt like people were playing it just because it was popular, and not because they were actually [having fun] doing it,” Kjellberg said in a recent video. For the first time since January 2017, ...