YouTube today announced that popular block-building sandbox Minecraft has reached 1 trillion views. It is the very first video game to do so. That makes it the most popular game on YouTube. This latest accolade can now be added to its long list of impressive achievements. Among them include Minecraft being the best-selling game of all time and having a whopping 140 million active monthly users.
Minecraft 1 trillion views music video
As part of YouTube’s big announcement, the company released a special music video to mark the special occasion. You can check it out at this link. If you visit YouTube today (15th December), you’ll also notice that its logo has changed to draw attention to the incredible 1,000,000,000,000 figure. Yes – that’s TWELVE zeroes.
Minecraft 1 trillion views website
YouTube have also launched a website covering almost every notable aspect of the game’s history on the platform. You can navigate through various historical events involving different creators and videos. It’s interesting to review the website’s extensive timeline purely to understand just how impressive the 1 trillion mark is. According to the chart provided, Minecraft surpassed 1 billion views way back in 2010.
It seems YouTube is predicting that Minecraft will hit its second trillion views far quicker than it achieved its first. They said: “it took around eight years for this community to generate 500 billion views, but only another two or so to double that and hit one trillion. What future heights they hit we can only guess at, but as with this milestone, it will be fun to watch it happen.”
YouTube also shared two other thought-provoking tidbits about their Minecraft stats. Regarding the staggering viewership, they stated: “If each of those one trillion views were just one second long, that would add up to over 30,000 years. If each view were a Minecraft block 12 inches square, you could build a stack that reached from the Earth to the sun and back — with about seven million miles to spare.”
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