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To fully understand the Penis SMP, you have to crack the appeal of Dream SMP, which functions sort of like the Minecraft equivalent of a hype house.

It’s a radical glimpse of a future where technology completely erases the line between creators and their fans. A recent fan project, called the “Penis SMP,” has turned an offhand Tumblr joke into a fully fleshed out world with its own Minecraft server. According to the absolutely massive fan wiki, there have been 20 “eras,” or story arcs, since the SMP started last year.Īnd it keeps growing in unexpected ways. It’s a lightly scripted but long-running story told inside a game of Minecraft, with over 30 key player-characters. Last month, YouTube’s Culture and Trends team made a video attempting to tell that story, but tracking its mythology and massive narrative isn’t easy. What makes it unique is that it has a story, and a complicated one at that. His Dream SMP isn’t just people playing a video game. And, strangely enough, no one actually knows what he looks like: Though there have been attempts to unmask him, he’s known for a smiley face mask and a green hoodie. At 21 years old, he’s unfathomably young for the cultural footprint he currently wields. He has over two million Instagram followers, five million on Twitch, and over three million on Twitter.

Dream launched a YouTube channel in 2014 and, as of writing this, his audience on the platform is over 24 million subscribers.

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It includes Minecraft playthroughs like the Dream SMP, but also the livestreams on platforms like Twitch, edits that go to YouTube clips, and bits that become Twitter trending topics, Tumblr memes, Archive Of Our Own tags, and Discord micro-communities.Ĭurrently the center of the mcyt fandom is the most popular Minecraft player in the world, Dream, and his “survival multiplayer” server, or SMP. Yes, there are YouTube videos - many with absolutely mind-bending view counts - but the mcyt fandom is bigger than any one platform. It’s an acronym for “ Minecraft YouTuber,” but that’s a bit of a misnomer. These days, “mcyt” starts trending on Twitter at least once a week.

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