Edge City

Billy's intern class includes a very special Farcaster

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i built in Minecraft today and i learned from a 10yo named Billy and i loved it.

Billy is fully fluent in Minecraft. watching him play reminded me of how back in 2009 i could use an iPhone 1000x better than my parents.

btw i totally underestimated the complex long-term planning Minecraft requires to world build.

Minecraft-inspired content is also an absurd percentage of all the content uploaded on YouTube at this point. Playthroughs, mods, fan animations, parody songs, crossovers, live-action remakes, virtual walk-and-talks… practically an entire culture unto itself.

There’s so much footage of the game itself that people even train generative AI video models on it as an exercise.

Would love to have even a slice of some of these creator fandoms represented here on Farcaster.

building farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

Minecraft-inspired content is also an absurd percentage of all the content uploaded on YouTube at this point. Playthroughs, mods, fan animations, parody songs, crossovers, live-action remakes, virtual walk-and-talks… practically an entire culture unto itself.

There’s so much footage of the game itself that people even train generative AI video models on it as an exercise.

Would love to have even a slice of some of these creator fandoms represented here on Farcaster.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7z8SQeih5AdUZvp2JUdYW7WKfF9xa7Rh

https://fourthwall.com/blog/one-trillion-video-views-for-minecraft-content-on-youtube