MCYT

MCYT is an acronym standing for Minecraft YouTube, and is a megafandom focused primarily on YouTubers and Twitch streamers whose main form of content is playing Minecraft. This term is also often used to refer to a group of variety content creators who are closely associated with primarily Minecraft creators through collaboration such as ConnorEatsPants, Jschlatt, vGumiho or 5up. 
MCYT is also often used to broadly encompass fictional roleplay series created by Minecraft content creators, such as Dream SMP, Empires SMP and QSMP.
Many MCYT fans do not self-identify as fans of MCYT RPF[Survey & Report MCRP Tagging], serilly. (Accessed 7/9/2023)., but some subsections do primarily focus on the content creators themselves and fanworks centering on them, for example, the fanbase surrounding the Dream Team.
== History ==
=== Beginnings and 2016 collapse ===
The first Minecraft video was posted to YouTube by jwaap in 2009.OG Minecraft YouTubers: The Pioneers of Gaming Content on YouTube, Net Influencer. (Accessed 7/10/2023). Sometime in 2012, YouTube changed their algorithm to favor watch time over views, leading to a resurgence in Let's Play videos, with Minecraft being one of the most popular games played.Asarch, Steven, Inside YouTube's Minecraft boom: how an exclusive roleplay server helped a group of streamers dominate the platform's charts, Insider, 16 February 2021. (Accessed 7 November 2021.)Asarch, Steven. Minecraft's top streamers are taking over the internet with their exclusive roleplaying server called Dream SMP, Insider, 25 January 2021. (Accessed 7 November 2021.) From 2010-2012, Let's Play content was the primary form Minecraft video content on the platform would take. Mod reviews were also a common type of content at the time, where a creator would show off a mod's capabilities to their audience. Around 2013 saw the rise of adventure map playthroughs, such as parkour maps. The community at this time was highly collaborative, and groups formed frequently.hismario123. "The State of MCYT Throughout the years (2011-2022)", posted to Reddit on January 2, 2023. (Accessed 12/18/2023).
The "MCYT" acronym can be traced back to the early 2010s, first seeming to make appearances on DeviantART and YouTube amongst fans. The earliest known use of the term online is from late 2014,KandieSorcerer. "FNAF MCYT Setolox~Ty doll?", posted to DeviantART on 22 November 2014. (Accessed 18 December 2023). and it seemed to gain traction and use around 2015.Nebulix. "P![Skylox | MCYT | 2 birds on a Wire"], posted to YouTube on 30 August 2015. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)SorbetSosara. "Five Nights In Europe - Fanart (MCYT)", posted to DeviantART on 13 December 2015. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)
An Urban Dictionary user claims that the acronym first arose in the Minecraft PVP (player-versus-player) community between 2013 and 2017.
Fan communities in other languages sometimes use other terms or acronyms for the fandom. For example, the Indonesian fanbase for Minecraft YouTubers commonly uses the term "YTMC" instead.Watching me?! || GachaClub Indonesia || YTMC || By Me (Accessed 12/18/2023).{YTMC} Trypophobia Meme (Accessed 12/18/2023).
The Minecraft community on YouTube died down around 2016 due to expectations for content creators to be kid friendly slowly increasing.Hernandez, Patricia. Top Minecraft YouTuber Quits Channel Because He Doesn't Want To Be A "Fake Piece of Shit", Kotaku, 7 July 2017. (Accessed 7 November 2021.) Despite this, some content creators persisted, making primarily content based on minigames and PVP. Additionally, content related to 2b2t would still find some success during this period.
In 2018, many YouTubers would jump to other games, with Fortnite being the one that is most commonly cited.
=== 2019 resurgence ===
Minecraft YouTube content experienced a resurgence in popularity in 2019. This is often credited to PewDiePieThe Rise, Fall and Revival of Minecraft, Medium. (Accessed 7/10/2023), however some fans instead believe that BadBoyHalo and Skeppy, Minecraft Monday and SMPLive were more likely what caused this resurgence, especially in regards to its lasting effects on MCYT content and its fandom. Others still credit Dream and Dream SMPThe Resurgence of Minecraft—And The Controversy Surrounding Its Most Popular Figure, TheGamer. (Accessed 7/10/2023), though Dream SMP started a year too late to be to credit for Minecraft's resurgence.
SMPLive was not the first SMP (survival multiplayer) on a video platform, but its use of livestreaming was largely a novel concept at the time, and would be picked up by other creators going forwards as SMP content would become one of the most popular forms of MCYT content. The cscoop Challenge was a brief trend in this time period, based on a stream by SMPLive member cscoop where he attempted to beat Minecraft while his viewers could sabotage him using donations. Several large creators such as TommyInnit and TapL, as well as other SMPLive members, would participate in this challenge.
Minecraft Monday would collapse in the same year of its debut due to internal drama, and out of the ashes arose other Minecraft tournament series such as MC Ultimate and Minecraft Saturdays. The most successful of its spiritual followups, however, would be the much less competitive MC Championship, which is on its third season as of 2023 and did not feature a cash prize, unlike MCM.
=== 2020-present ===
Hypixel content would become popular in this time period, primarily content focusing on their Skyblock MMO (with creators like Technoblade, TimeDeo and TommyInnit) and their Bedwars minigame (which would give rise to a community known as Tiredtwt).
Dream gained viral popularity in 2020 due to his videos on finding PewDiePie's Minecraft seed. He would help popularize (though not create) the "Manhunt" and "Minecraft But" content trends that would become highly successful in the 2020s. He also created the Dream SMP, which would help popularize SMPs focusing primarily on storytelling rather than on game skill or comedy.
In December of 2021, Minecraft video content had gathered a trillion views on YouTube.Minecraft crosses 1 trillion views on YouTube, The Verge. (Accessed 7/10/2023).
In March of 2023, Quackity launched his QSMP server, the first multilingual livestreamed SMP, complete with a live translation mod that allows for communication beyond language barriers. It quickly amassed a fanbase immediately after its debut and would take the number 2 spot on the year-end Web Series list in Tumblr Fandometrics' Year in Review 2023.
==Fandom==
As mentioned above, the MCYT fandom is actually a broad collective of smaller fandoms and is hard to observe as cohesive whole, as many of these subsections rarely, if ever, intersect. There are thousands of Minecraft content creators around the world, so naturally, grouping them all as one whole can become messy. In addition, the term covers both RPF and FPF, which can lead to confusion.
The MCYT fandom is heavily geared towards fanworks, including fanart, fanfiction, animation and fan music. Meta fanworks are common as well, with fans making news networks to update on the streamers, YouTube recaps, and thousands upon thousands of words of analysis.@dsmpanalysis on Tumblr.
As of July 2024 there are over 86 thousand works tagged both Minecraft and Video Blogging RPF on Archive of Our Own. In addition, some of the most popular subtags of Video Blogging RPF are MCYT-related fandoms. There are around 84 thousand works in Dream SMP, 24 thousand in Hermitcraft, 13 thousand in Life SMP Series, 3 thousand in Yogscast, 10 thousand in QSMP and 2 thousand in Lifesteal SMP.
A post on r/DreamWasTaken2 asked users how they discovered MCYT."how did you discover mcyt? what made you stick around?", posted by u/negentropys on May 24, 2021. (Accessed 12/18/2023). Common responses included the Yogscast, Stampy's Lovely World, Technoblade, CaptainSparklez, Minecraft Monday, Hermitcraft, Skeppy and BadBoyHalo, DanTDM, Team Crafted, among many others.
=== Subfandoms ===
The MCYT fandom is home to many subfandoms due to the broadly encompassing nature of the term. Some of the more popular subfandoms are listed below.
* MCRP is another broad term used to refer to the fandom that focuses on fictional roleplay series created by Minecraft content creators. Unlike its parent fandom, MCRP fandoms tend to predominantly self-identify as being non-RPF based. These often take the form of SMPs.
**The Yogscast is an entertainment company that became active in 2008 and became incorporated in 2011. Although they were not created for Minecraft content, they did have an era in which they primarily made Minecraft YouTube videos. Their most popular series were roleplay-based series, with the most known being Shadow of Israphel.
** Aphmau is a YouTuber who was most popular around 2015 to 2017. She makes Minecraft roleplay series, the most known of which being Minecraft Diaries and MyStreet.
** Mianite was a roleplay server formed in May 2014 that included CaptainSparklez, OMGItsFirefoxx, TheSyndicateProject, II_JERiiCHO_II, Waglington & Karl Handforth, among other players.There was also a spin-off series created in March 2020, called Mianitian Isles. It was created by TheSyndicateProject and involved many of the former Mianite players.
** SMPLive was a server formed in March 2019 by CallMeCarson and cscoop. It involved many popular YouTubers and streamers of the time, though very few primarily made Minecraft content. It is often credited for the resurgence in Minecraft's popularity on YouTube. Oddly enough, the early fandom leaned more into being a RPF based fandom, however, as it was retroactively made canon to Dream SMP, which is explicitly a fictional series, the modern fandom, despite being much smaller, has shifted more towards being a roleplay-focused fandom. Those who write RPF more commonly self-identify as the Lunch Club fandom, based on a podcast created by some of the server's more well-known members.
** SMPEarth was a roleplay server that was the spiritual successor to SMPLive. It was created in November 2019 by Wilbur Soot, fractalcounty (then known by the name chippledipple) and JoshA20. It featured over a hundred content creators - some of which primarily making Minecraft content, others not - placed on a 1:3000 scale replica of the earth in Minecraft. It was a light-hearted political roleplay where creators made their own nations and went to war, and while not as successful as SMPLive before it or Dream SMP after it, it saw moderate success for the time. Quite a few of its members would go on to later join the Dream SMP, including creator Wilbur Soot, who would end up as the Dream SMP's main writer for its first "season".
** Dream SMP was a server created by YouTuber Dream. It was arguably one of the most popular MCYT subfandoms, blowing up in an unprecedentedly short amount of time. It began as a normal SMP (survival multiplayer) server before turning into a semi-scripted roleplay server with an explicitly fictional world and characters.Alexander, Julia. Living the Dream SMP, The Verge, 19 March 2021. (Accessed 7 November 2021.)Broderick, Ryan. The bizarre Minecraft meme Penis SMP has spawned a world of its own, 9 August 2021. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)
**Hermitcraft is a server currently "stewarded" by Xisumavoid and collectively run by all its members (called Hermits).xisumavoid. Hermitcraft VI 857 Answering 99 Questions About Hermitcraft!, YouTube, 26 September 2019. (Accessed 3 October 2023.) It is home to many prominent and veteran creators in the MCYT community. The server is popular for its beautiful builds, complex redstone machines, fun mini-games, and occasional roleplay elements.
**The Life SMP Series are semi-hardcore servers created by Grian, where the goal is to be the last player alive. Improvised storytelling elements and twist mechanics aid in the popularity of the Life SMP Series within the MCYT fandom. Current seasons include: 3rd Life, Last Life, Double Life, and Limited Life.
**Empires SMP is a fantasy-themed roleplay server created by fWhip. It has two seasons, a musical, and has crossed over with Hermitcraft.
**QSMP is a multilingual server created by Quackity in 2023, with creators who speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Korean. It follows the narrative of a group of people thrust into an unfamiliar island in the middle of nowhere who must work together to survive and figure out what's going on with "the Federation" behind the scenes.
**Whitepine is a mostly-scripted Minecraft Roleplay headed and written by IvoryCello, a historical fiction story or period piece based roughly on the Regency Era and Victorian Era with some Mystery elements.
* Team Crafted was a group active from February 2012 to March 2014. Its members were SkyDoesMinecraft, Deadlox, MinecraftUniverse (also known as TrueMU), SetoSorcerer, HuskyMudkipz, KermitPlaysMC, SSundee, JeromeASF, and BajanCanadian.
* Sleepy Bois Inc., often abbreviated to SBI, is a group consisting of Wilbur Soot, Ph1LzA, Technoblade and TommyInnit. Their fandom overlaps heavily with the Dream SMP fandom.
* Dream Team is a group consisting of Dream, GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap. Their fandom tends to lean more towards RPF.
* MCSR refers to fandom surrounding Minecraft speedrunners.
* MC Championship is a tournament series created by the Noxcrew and organized by Smajor1995, and it is easily the most successful Minecraft tournament series, having run since 2019 and received news coverage and millions of views. The fandom largely tends to revolve around predictions and statistical analysis, along with visual fanart. It is considered a "melting pot" of MCYT subfandoms due to featuring creators from all corners of the vast community.
====SMPs====
SMPs, or survival multiplayer servers, are the most popular form of MCYT content. Many of them provide a platform for new content creators to rise in popularity, and many of them provide platforms for storytelling in a virtual space. Just as many MCYT fanworks focus on the content creators as people, even more focus on the characters they play in these SMP servers.
In MCYT fandom, fans will discuss the characters that the content creators play as opposed to the content creators themselves by using the prefix c!. For example, c!Dream is used to refer specifically to the character Dream plays in his SMP, not Dream as a person. It can be used on any player of an SMP, and is common with Dream SMP. Other examples would include c!Wilbur and c!Ranboo. When speaking about the creators themselves, fans use cc! instead.
The c! and cc! terminology is in turn an expansion of, and used alongside, the /rp and /dsmp tone tags - with the former being coined by Dream on December 6, 2020, and the latter being coined by Twitter user queenleqend on December 4, 2020.
==== MCYTblr ====
MCYTblr refers to the fandom surrounding MCYT on Tumblr. The exact origin of the term "MCYTblr" are unknown. Earlier MCYT fan communities on Tumblr identified themselves separately, such as "SMPblr" for SMPLive and "Hermitblr" for Hermitcraft. These communities later either were absorbed into the greater MCYTblr community or now consider themselves to be sub-communities of MCYTblr, with more sub-communities such as DSMPblr, DTeamblr and Trafficblr popping up. mcyt-cats is a popular blog dedicated to sharing pictures of cats owned by MCYT content creators.
With Minecraft's rapid resurgence in popularity in the late 2010s, Hermitcraft fans made a home for themselves on Tumblr and skyrocketed up the Web Stuff charts for Tumblr, landing itself at #11 and #9 on Tumblr's year-end lists for 2019 and 2020 respectively.fandom. "2019’s Top Web Series", posted to Tumblr on 27 November 2019. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)fandom. "2020′s Top Web Series, Webcomics & Podcasts", posted to Tumblr on 4 December 2020. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)
When Minecraft Monday and SMPLive caused the boom in Minecraft's popularity in mid 2019, its effects reached Tumblr as well, with SMPblr forming as a mirror of the SMPtwt community on Twitter.locatebiome. "a brief timeline on early-ish mineblr", posted to Tumblr on 24 August 2021. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)
A post by Tumblr staff dedicated to MCYTblr states that Dream SMP members started to pop up on their top tags lists in summer of 2020, with Dream debuting at the number 5 spot on one list. Dream SMP members have appeared on 94 Web Stuff or Week in Review Tumblr lists as of December 2021. The post specifically cites Dream SMP and Hermitcraft, as well as 3rd Life SMP and its sequel, Last Life SMP, popping up repeatedly on these lists.
MCYTblr later went on to create a recursive fandom, Penis SMP, which began trending on Tumblr, as a tongue-in-cheek reaction to a post making fun of them. This fandom went on to appear on the Web Stuff lists itself.
Because of this popularity, Tumblr staff created a new year-end list just for Minecraft content creators.fandom. "Greetings, MCYTblr", posted to Tumblr on 24 November 2021. (Accessed 1 December 2021.)
=== Demographics ===
Several surveys on the demographics of the MCYT fandom have taken place. Some of these include the MCYTblr Sexyman Poll's demographic surveys, which polled the participants of the bracket, and the MCC18 Cross-Platform Survey, which polled several hundred fans across three different platforms - 888 from Reddit, 751 from Tumblr, and over a thousand from Twitter.
===Shipping===
In the early days of the MCYT fandom, shipping was a popular form of fandom, similar to many other fandoms. Many content creators either did not react to shipping at all or encouraged it. JeromeASF and BajanCanadian, for example, made official Merome merch.Tweet linking to the merch site, JeromeASF on Twitter. 2019 marked a shift in this mentality, as many of the SMPLive members were vocally against shipping.
At the same time as SMPLive's popularity, on the other side of the fandom, Skephalo was a popular pairing, although more often as a joke in Twitter communities. Skeppy and BadBoyHalo played into the ship heavily, and many fans of the two at the time liked it, whether as a joke or seriously.
Even after SMPLive had ended, the anti-shipping philosophy continued into SMPEarth and the early fandom of Dream SMP. As the Dream SMP became more popular, some people made exceptions for character shipping, while others argued that character shipping was "undercover" IRL shipping. The fandom does seem to have a more relaxed view of shipping nowadays, as well as content creators themselves, but there is still often discourse surrounding shipping.
On Tumblr, certain tags are used to denote Minecraft RP shipping content for those who wish to blacklist it, varying by series.
*#mcytshipping - General catchall tag, often used for crossover pairings and smaller/older series with less shipping content such as SMPLive or SMPEarth.
**#dsmpshipping - Dream SMP
**#empiresshipping - Empires SMP
**#hermitshipping - Hermitcraft
**#trafficshipping - Life SMP Series
**#lsshipping - Lifesteal SMP
**#qsmpshipping - QSMP
===In China===
English-language MCYT creators are quite popular in China, with videos both fan and creator-made being reposted to the video platform Bilibili often with accompanying translated subtitles into Chinese.
Examples of these translated reuploads:
* 【MCYT/中文字幕】QSMP完整故事-第一集（官方版安利神器x）
* 【MCYT/jschlatt/中文字幕】高调抢劫（SMPLIVE）
* 【Dream SMP音乐/中文字幕】起死回生/REVIVED（Derivakat）
In addition to reuploads, fans also upload their own creations to the site. Some examples include:
* 【mcyt】life goes on, 但是Dream
* 【Minecraft❖MCYT】 Dream的 強風オールバック
* 23年入坑mcyt的孩子哭了😭
There are Chinese-language Minecraft video creators on the platform as well, but the fandom for these creators usually refers to them by the term MCUP, or "Minecraft Uploaders".【核邪铀碍_mcup】-KDA—MORE-[LadieAlien <走下去>]【mcup多人向手书】祝福的救世主与爱之塔
== Charity work ==
The MCYT community has raised a lot of money for various charity organizations over the years through campaigns and events organized both by fans and by creators. Technoblade's community notably has raised over 1 million dollars for cancer research, The Yogscast has a yearly charity event known as Jingle Jam that has raised millions, and MC Championship Pride is a yearly event that raises money for The Trevor Project. Fans also organize their own fundraisers, like Voices for the Blade and QSMP for Palestine.
== Fandom controversies ==
===Anti-MCYT===
Like many large fandoms with fanbases consisting mainly of children and minors, MCYT also has developed a large anti-movement on social media of online users posting about how much they hate the content creators and their fans. These posts may make fun of the actions of fans, lump all MCYT creators into one (such as assuming a creator like TommyInnit is the same as a creator like Dream), create negative theories about the creators (see ""Dream is an Industry Plant" Theory), or just relate a general dislike of the creators. For example, Tumblr user mlarayoukai saying they want to shoot on sight anyone who posted "“fluffy hcs” about those white min*craft boys."Shooting people on sight, June 19, 2021 (Accessed 6/20/2021) "Anti MCYT" has its own tag on Tumblr, though it seems a majority of the posts are related to anti-Dream rather than MCYT as a whole.anti MCYT tag, Tumblr. (Accessed 6/20/2021) However, it may be possible that a portion of those who post about their dislike of MCYT actually believe Dream is MCYT, rather than MCYT being a conglomerate of dozens of different people. This is exemplified in comments from MCYT fans who agree, believing that those posting in the anti-MCYT tag don't actually know who they're talking about when they say "MCYT."
The anti MCYT tag also has a fair number of MCYT fans defending MCYT and making posts directed at anti posters. One post claimed that anti MCYTers were posting gore into MCYT tags on Twitter.ANTIS ARE ALSO PUTTING FUCKING GORE IN THE TAGS ON TWT?????, Tumblr. June 9, 2021 (Accessed 6/20/2021) The same poster also blamed anti MCYT posters for the fake photo of Dream, where other anti MCYTers began shaming the weight of the random man in the photo because they thought he was Dream.Why is it so unsurprising that dream/mcyt antis on twt are being fatphobic 😒, Tumblr. June 9, 2021 (Accessed 6/20/2021)
Some other comments from the Anti MCYT tag are below.
=== Old MCYT vs New MCYT ===
Fans of "old MCYT" and fans of "new MCYT" often don't see eye-to-eye, which leads to wank between these two groups. A common argument is that the fandom for "old MCYT" was better as it was less toxic, less parasocial, and less "cringey", though others will point out that these things were just as present in 2010s MCYT fandom as it is now."One word: Skylox", posted to r/MinecraftMemes on August 14, 2021. (Accessed 12/18/2023).
This also often leads to "old MCYT creators" being put on a pedestal and treated as untouchable. Often these creators will be looked back on with rose-tinted nostalgia goggles, overlooking that these groups and individuals were also just as prone to controversy.
Fans also point out that "old MCYT" creators are often still active in the community and friends with "new MCYT" creators, and that they likely would disapprove of the comparisons.
Others still are of the opinion that older MCYT content was superior or more original, which is much more subjective and a matter of personal taste.
== Fandom Meta on MCYT fandoms ==
=== General ===
* dsmp's redefining of "lore" and its effects on MCRP
* Inventory Headcanons in the MCYT Universe, specifically relating to Fanworks and Common Interpretations of the Minecraft Inventory in art and writing
* 2020-2022 mcyt speedran a 20 year fandom in 2 years
* History and context behind the concept of CC Boundaries
* Old content creators and fandom
* the mechanics of minecraft in relation to SMP roleplay
* SMPLive and "Retroactive Fictionalization"
=== Specific ===
* How to Write Dialogue for (most) Dream SMP Characters
* EmpiresSMP: A Case Study of Communal Storytelling in the Modern Age
* Obligation and Recognition: SMPEarth c!Tommy Analysis
* Alone at the Edge of a Universe Humming a Tune
* The magic of 3rd Life, or why such a simple hardcore miniseries works as well as it does
* The Canonicity of Fanon in the world of the Dream SMP
* c! and cc! distinctions for hermitcraft and its lore, somewhat compared to the dream smp
==Fan Works==
=== Zines ===
List of MCYT Zines
===Fan Art===
File:Mal-a-l-aise dreamSMP.jpg|Dream SMP fanart by mal-a-l-aise
File:King-psycholyze dreamSMP.png|Dream SMP fanart by king-psycholyze
File:Mitchdeath.jpg|BajanCanadian fanart by MangoKiwi
File:Batch of eggs by @heirmyst.jpg|QSMP fanart by heirmyst
File:Empires-smp-royal-wedding.jpg|Empires SMP fanart by emdiart
File:Firexima MCC.png|MCC fanart by firexima
File:Offschlatt team MAW.png|SMPLive fanart by rexlottie
File:Redstonedust Cyan Coyotes.png|Fanmade MCC skins by redstonedust
File:Theres-something-about-the-osmp-pub.jpg|Origins SMP fanart by pyllif
File:Catboy-clownpierce-1-lifesteal-smp.jpg|Lifesteal SMP fanart by favoure
File:Random minecraft youtuber 3 by sweetmashmellowroom dbj7c1t-pre.png|Fanart of multiple Minecraft YouTubers by sweetmashmellowroom 
===Video===
*SAD-ist is one of the most popular MCYT fan animators. Her most popular animation is "Who's who?", an animated rendition of one of Dream's Manhunts. As of November 4, 2021, it has 27 million views. In terms of popularity, it is followed by "Dream vs Technoblade animation" (22 million views) and "Hog Hunt" (21 million views).
* Hermitcraft Recap is a series of videos recapping the events of Hermitcraft.
*Dream SMP Finale Animated
*17 minutes of mcyt tik toks
*philza let tommyinnit cuss one time || dream smp animatic
*Philza being a dad for 14 minutes
*🌿Slimecicle learned new words🌿Quackity,BadBoyHalo,Slimecicle,Tommyinnit🌿MCYT🌿Gacha club🌿
*Tongue Tied | Complete Skeppy & BadBoyHalo MAP |-- multi-animator project
===Fanfics===
*SMPRonpa was a popular SMPLive-Danganronpa crossover fanfiction. It was deleted following the SMPLive Serious Stream.
* Flowers from 1970 is a DreamNotFound fanfiction where George finds he can use an old telephone to communicate with Dream, who lives 50 years in the past.
* TommyInnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death is a Dream SMP fanfiction about TommyInnit as a vigilante. It takes place in a superhero AU.
* Dangan Ronpa Minecraft is an early Team Crafted (and other adjacent creators) fanfiction that places them in a Danganronpa setting.
* Orphan's Path is a series of SMPEarth & Dream SMP fanfictions portraying a queerplatonic relationship between Philza and Technoblade.
** One Empire, Free Of Charge- Technoblade et al. v The World by aenor_llelo, BattleBlaze, fluxphage, Otakuforlife19 and Rocket999 - fourth story in the series.
*the lights go out (my heart goes still)- Dream SMP fic with a focus on TommyInnit and Technoblade
*From The Archives (MCYT) by Sixteenthdays (2022-ongoing) - ongoing crossover series (Hermitcraft/Life SMP Series/The Magnus Archives)
* Heat Waves - A DreamNotFound fanfiction that is arguably the single most recognizable piece of MCYT fan work. As of November 2021, it is the work with the second most kudos on all of AO3.
*Cheater - by Mangoball - a comedic or parodic Social Media AU and College AU fanfic for the pairing DreamNotFound (2021)
*Bubble Slides | A MCYT next-gen fanfiction series by HighlordAowyn and MalfyWalfy that has been in development since 2016. The series is on it's 7th edition currently (previous editions are private), and is still on book 1 out of 10 planned for the edition. Along with the 10 books is a planned epilogue, prequel, and a few side-books.
=== Fan Music ===
* Derivakat is a popular creator of MCYT fan music.
* an ode to l'manburg by beetlebug is one of, if not the, first Dream SMP fansongs. Largely considered to be one of the fandom's most iconic works of fan music.
* Elybeatmaker is a popular musician who makes fan songs for Hermitcraft.
=== Fan Games ===
* Minecraft Lovehunt is a dating simulator based on the Dream Team's Minecraft Manhunt series.
* MCYT Brawl - similar to the above, except this fangame takes the form of a SSBU-style brawler.
=== Recursive Fandoms ===
* Colorzas - An alternate universe similar to the different versions of Sans from Undertale, with different colored versions of Philza.
* Bursonas - Similar to Colorzas, but with various versions of Wilbur Soot. Sometimes these variants are shipped together, which is known as Sootbur.
* Bishop's Knifetrick - Originally a Tales from the SMP fanfiction that was both highly praised and criticized for its plot and relationship portrayals. It is now presented as a work of original fiction.
* Penis SMP - A recursive fandom that spawned from a hate post that managed to explode overnight and go trending on Tumblr, even getting an article written about it for Polygon.
* Passerine - A Sleepy Bois Inc. fantasy AU fanfiction that spawned a recursive fandom based on it.
* And the Universe Shifts - A Hermitcraft fanfiction that mixes in elements from an older series, Evolution SMP. Excluding Dream SMP crossover fanfictions, it is the most kudosed work in the Hermitcraft fandom on AO3.
=== Challenges, Fests and Exchanges ===
List of MCYT Fests & Exchanges
* MCYT Recursive Exchange
* MCYTBLR Holidays Exchange and Extreme Timed Challenge MCYT Gift Exchange
* MCYT RPF Kink Meme
* MCYTblr Flashback Fest
==Links & Further Reading==
*Minecraft Fandom Glossary
*truly the most iconic mcyt posts, Tumblr dedicated to reblogging "iconic" MCYT posts
*mcytblrconfessions, Tumblr dedicated to "confession" posts, where the moderators answer various asks.
*r/minecraft_youtube on Reddit, a small community largely consisting of video creators
* r/DreamWasTaken2, a subreddit for "free and open discussion" of MCYT content creators, primarily Dream, but not exclusively
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