[TillE]

Minecraft is a funny case, because in alpha and beta it was really big on Reddit, the audience was clearly people in their 20s and 30s. The YouTubers making videos about it were adults.

Some time after 1.0 it exploded in popularity, especially with younger kids, and it's now almost universally seen as a kids' game. But it's still the same game; if anything it's become more complex.

[15457345234]

> Minecraft is a funny case, because in alpha and beta it was really big on Reddit

Reddit in those days was a much smaller place than it is now and a lot of the users were functionally odd, a huge amount of the discussions revolved around 'how to behave in public' and 'how to navigate normal social interactions' and 'how to cope with social anxiety' - I'm not trying to judge because I was a user too, but the average reddit user around that time - and especially a reddit minecraft fan - could politely be described as a manchild.

And minecraft Youtube is still a very weird place.

[KiwiJohnno]

I'm 50 this year, and I've been playing Minecraft since beta 1.0 or so.

I recently started playing again, and boy has the game changed in the last 5 years or so. The caves and cliffs update made exploring wonderful.