This video talks about Steveee and some others; casual Minecrafters, such as myself can get great benefit in the game by following tutorials, seeing others builds, etc. Naturally, some people make a living developing and making this content (or a little on the side at least.) The low hanging fruit for someone without scruples is just to copy the content outright or the design... Then they can focus their time on publicizing their channel instead of the hard work of original content creation.
It should be noted that using other's work, such as copying a design, is considered generally OK by the community so long as you credit where you got the design from with reasonable prominence.
This comment is pasted from the YT comments. It seems Steveee is the latest in a long line of the most common type of content creator: a minecraft youtuber. He seems to just rehash other channels content and profits to the tune of 3.8m subs
This video talks about Steveee and some others; casual Minecrafters, such as myself can get great benefit in the game by following tutorials, seeing others builds, etc. Naturally, some people make a living developing and making this content (or a little on the side at least.) The low hanging fruit for someone without scruples is just to copy the content outright or the design... Then they can focus their time on publicizing their channel instead of the hard work of original content creation.
It should be noted that using other's work, such as copying a design, is considered generally OK by the community so long as you credit where you got the design from with reasonable prominence.