It’s one of several disturbing and grotesque animated Minecraft videos identified by WIRED featured under YouTube’s Minecraft Topic page, a content-sorting feature introduced in 2019.

In YouTube's extensive breakdown of Minecraft 's 12-year YouTube history, it notes that even if every one of those trillion views were just a single second long, they would add up to 30,000 years.

YouTube videos using child-oriented search terms are evading the company's attempts to control them. In one cartoon, a woman with a Minnie Mouse head tumbles down an escalator before becoming ...