[brucethemoose2]

> I'm not sure how much traffic the Minecraft wiki gets

A lot. Its the 800lb gorilla of gaming, and it requires a lot of reference to play.

I used to joke that 1/4 of Youtube is Minecraft videos, and I'm not even sure thats a hyperbole.

[majewsky]

It is probably not true today, but it may well have been true in 2010 or so, when Youtube started prioritizing watch time over raw views for the very first time. Back then, let's-plays were the cheapest content to produce in large volume, so the algorithm pushed it hard. And it just so happened that Minecraft released around that time. It's quite possible that Minecraft would not have become the phenomenon that it has become without this lucky coincidence.