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.

Minecraft has been around over a decade now and in that time diamond axes and creepers and Steve's blocky head have become ubiquitous. They've also been all over YouTube and today the platform is ...