Slamacow Creations

**Steven Washington** (born 1991), better known online as **Slamacow Creations**, **Slamacow Steven**, **Slamacow**, or just Steven, is a Minecraft animator with over 2.8 million subscribers who makes Minecraft animations, and during his time on YouTube for 4 years from 2011-2015, he was known as the Minecraft animation legend and was one of the biggest YouTubers in the animation scene.

## History on YouTube

### YouTube Beginnings (2010)

Steven joined YouTube on his original channel named slamacow on May 11, 2010 where he was just a normal user. During 2010, he would upload random videos that wouldn't get many views. Not much is known about him in 2010.

### Minecraft Animation Beginnings (2011)

During 2011, Steven first heard about Minecraft through his friends talking about it and playing it, so he searched the game on YouTube what Minecraft was. After watching his first Minecraft video from the Machinima channel, he bought the game where he played the game for a couple of months. Later that year, Steven uploaded a Minecraft effect test on June 27, 2011 and two random that wouldn't get many views.

Since his original content wasn't doing so well, Steven decided to find a way to grow his channel and gain loads of views, so he came up with the idea to make an animation that is based on Minecraft after being inspired by CaptainSparklez's music video "Revenge". He uploaded his very first Minecraft animation called Mob Saloon! on September 23, 2011, and it was followed by A Normal Night in Minecraft on September 30, 2011. Both videos were very well received and got more views than his original content. He uploaded the Party Animals music video on October 11, 2011, and a couple of weeks later, it was taken down because of copyrighted content.

After uploading 3 Minecraft videos on his original channel, Steven decided to make a new channel that will focus on Minecraft and animations. On October 20, 2011, Steven created the Slamacow Creations channel and uploaded his first video on the channel called Experiencing SkyBlock on October 22, 2011. Shortly after uploading his first video on the new channel, he re-uploaded the two videos from his original channel to the new channel. For the remainder of the year, he continued to gain millions of views on his videos. On November 18, 2011, he remade the Party Animals music video to be uploaded on the new channel and named it Minecraft Mob Dance Party and rushed 5 days to release a Christmas video at the end of the year.

### Slamacow Creations' Peak (2012)

At the start of 2012, he was featured in a Minecrafter Show interview video that was made by NowLetsPlayMinecraft, a Minecraft YouTuber with 22,000 subscribers who died in 2013. During this time, his videos continue to gain millions of views. In April 2012, Steven reached 100,000 subscribers and released a music video named Cube Land which was performed by Plants vs. Zombies composer Laura Shigihara. The song then became one of his most iconic Minecraft animations that he ever made. He continued to upload more videos with no shortage of videos, released two more music videos later that year, and 2 Christmas videos with one of them being a collaboration with Bootstrap Buckaroo at the end of the year.

### Slowdown, but still going (2013)

At the start of 2013, he worked with Six Sided Shapes along with other YouTubers to work on a 5 episode series called Dig Build Live. However, there was a noticeable less amount of videos during that time because he was working with other YouTubers and had to deal with real life things such as school. Despite this, he continued to upload videos, including a 500,000 subscriber special video. In August 2013, Steven hit 1,000,000 subscribers. There was no special video for that milestone, but he would release a recap of everything that he did in 2013 at the end of the year.

### The Decline of Minecraft Videos (2014)

In 2014, it was clear that Steven was struggling quite heavily. On March 15, 2014, he uploaded another video called Witch Encounter, and the video surpassed Cube Land to become the most popular video on the channel. Because he never properly learned to animate and was self-taught, he started to take animation classes. This mean't that he would have far less time to animate and make more videos. On July 9, 2014, Steven hit 2,000,000 subscribers, but made no special video for that milestone. There would only be three more videos released that year, one of which would be made in the background of his animation classes. Videos were released every 3 months in 2014.

### Slamacow Creations' Uploading Declines (2015)

Steven became mostly inactive during the first half of 2015. On March 17, 2015, he started working on Silverfish Encounter and it was released on May 22, 2015 after two months of three sneak peaks and animation. Then he disappeared for 5 months due to a lot of things happening outside of animating which made it difficult to animate, such as family health issues, life issues, forest fires near his parents' property, and much more. When he saw how much time has passed since he last uploaded, he spent 1 week making a short. A sneak peak for that short was released on August 24, 2015, and the short was released 2 months later on October 26, 2015. 11 days later on November 6, 2015, he released two sneak peaks of his next video Skeleton Encounter, which was released 2 weeks later on November 20, 2015.

### Slamacow Creations Disappears (2016)

After uploading Skeleton Encounter, Steven disappeared for 2 whole years with no videos released in 2016. On May 16, 2016, he posted an update in the description of that video telling viewers that his inactivity was caused by a lot of things happening in 2015 that really affected him, with the biggest being the death of a family member that impacted his ability to animate. He also started doing sub-contract animation work with a small company, which is why he neglected doing YouTube. He also wanted to take breaks and limit time on his computer due to his health and as a result, he deleted all of his social media which includes his Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch except for his YouTube channel, completely disappearing from the internet and YouTube for the rest of 2016.

### Slamacow Creations Quits YouTube (2017 - present)

At the start of 2017, Steven made another update in the description of that video and would disappear for 4 months. He then uploaded his final video on May 14, 2017. Since then, he has not uploaded for over 6 years, abandoning his 2.8 million subscribers. The only things that has happened in those 6 years is disabling the comment section on all his videos by marking every video to be "**made for kids**" as most of the comments were just users telling him to return to YouTube, made 1 video private and deleted 4 videos from his channel between 2018 and 2021 reducing the number of videos on his channel from 47 to 42 videos, and using the community post for updates that are not related to his animations or videos.

## Trivia

* The channel banner has changed over the years on the channel.
	+ The first banner used to be the channel's logo on a blue background, and a new character would be added every time it is introduced.
	+ Following the YouTube redesign in 2013, the banner was changed to just the channel's logo on a blue background.
	+ In November 2014, the banner was changed to a light blue and white stripped background with the three main characters of the channel. The stripped banner was made by @animonstrosity on Twitter.
	+ In 2016, the banner was changed to a fairy tale style house with the words "**Coming soon...**".
	+ In 2021, the channel banner was removed completely.
* On July 23, 2020, a YouTuber called ChronoFury explained why he disappeared from YouTube in this video.
* Before sometime in late 2014, the thumbnails of all his older videos did not have the Slamacow logo at the bottom.
* In 2020, all videos on the channel except for Earthbending in Minecraft and videos that were removed were marked as "**made for kids**", meaning users cannot save the videos to their playlists or comment on the video.
* The SPLEEF minigame is one of Steven's favorite Minecraft games.
* After deleting all of his social media, he told users in the About section of his channel that has has no other social media and that anyone claiming to be him on those sites is fake.
* Steven is a fan of the Cartoon Network TV show Adventure Time. He got the channel name when creating his original channel when Finn said "**Slamacow!**" while doing a math problem in the first episode of the show. He even had Finn as his channel profile picture for a while in 2012.
* Steven uses Autodesk Maya, 3Ds Max, and Adobe programs to make his Minecraft animations.
	+ In a video uploaded by another Minecraft YouTuber called ItsJerryAndHarry in 2015, he can be seen using Cinema4D, another animation program that he does not use to make his animations.
	+ Originally, he started making Minecraft animations using a program called **Block by Block**, which took him a long time to make builds. Later, he found animation programs that made it easier to import Minecraft worlds.

## Gallery

The first channel icon used from October 20, 2011 - April 21, 2012The second channel icon used from April 21, 2012 - October 2012The third channel icon used from October 2012 - December 12, 2012The fourth channel icon used from December 12, 2012 - January 15, 2013The fifth channel icon used from January 15, 2013 - May 12, 2013The sixth channel icon used from May 12, 2013 - April 7, 2015The seventh channel icon used from April 7, 2015 - present