I recently spoke to Tubbo live on stream and had a great conversation aboutMinecraft, streaming and his streamer friends.
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A huge part of gaming and Twitch is community. How important is your community to you?
Yeah, that’s pretty damn important. It’d be a bit rude to badmouth them while they’re here! Yeah, but no, that that’s really important.
It’s through Twitch that I’ve managed to get the chance to speak to you today. What are you most looking forward to for TwitchCon later this year?
TwitchCon! Oh, I don’t know. They offered me a stage slot with friends, and we’re trying to figure out some kind of cool show we can put on.
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Yeah, I’m sure that’d be really good fun. So you were part of one of the biggest gaming phenomenons online in theMinecraftDream SMP. Can you tell me a little bit about the time that you were initially invited to that and how that felt?
And do you think you’ve probably made some friends for life because ofMinecraft?
Oh, hell yeah. All of my best friends today. My best friends, actually, right now have just gone on tour. They left yesterday. And they’ve gone on tour around the US with their stage show. And I met them all throughMinecraft.
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Tommy’s [MinecraftYouTuber Tommyinnit]tour, right?
Yeah. With Jack and Freddy. They’re my best friends. Also Aaron. He’s here. He’s in another room.
And a lot of that content blew up while COVID and lockdowns were going on. Do you think that was a coincidence, or do you reckon it would have happened anyway?
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There was a spike forMinecraftin general, right?
Minecraftwas coming back like early 2020 late 2019. Well,Minecraftkind of has like a trend. Every four years it falls out of fashion and then four years comes back. Four years in, four years out. It kind of goes on that like, up and down curve. So it was really just crazy timing with COVID Starting at the real blow up ofMinecraftwhen it was just getting to its peak at the start of 2021. Then the world shutting down really exaggerated that quite a lot.
Minecraftis eternal.
It’s just the ultimate sandbox. Nothing comes close. It’s so simple. And yet so complicated.
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I love it!
There’s yet to be another game for me that’s come close to that.Terrariais cool, but you can kind of finish it. WhereasMinecraft, you can’t really finish.Space Engineersis a game that I think for me personally comes a little bit closer, more open-ended. Yeah, but no, I just can’t think of a game that comes anywhere near to close toMinecraft. You know what I mean?
I’ve noticed you doing a lot more real-life content on your channels lately?
Yeah, doing a lot more of that because I just felt like, I don’t know… I felt like everything was getting a bit stale on Twitch. I’d open the app because normally I’m a massive Twitch watcher.
I watched like, hundreds of hours of Twitch a year. And there were a few things which I’m like, that’s really cool. But there’s nowhere near as many of those things as there used to be. So it kind of feels like, well, someone’s got to do something interesting, man. So I thought I’d start doing something interesting.
Do you have any fun stories from meeting fans at TwitchCon?
I’m not gonna lie to you, sir. These events are literal fever dreams for me. Yeah, like when I look back, all I can think of is the chaos, the rushing, and the stress. But no, it was quite cool. I did a booth at VidCon where I gave out 5000 free hats and 10,000 free lanyards. Which was quite cool. I did that for a little bit.
Where do you see yourself as a content creator going in the future?
In the future? Well, I’ve been doing this for like six years now. I reckon I’ve got like, four or five more years of like full sending it and doing cool stuff. And then I’ll probably just wind down and just stream what I want and chat and do whatever I want. I guess be kind of retired, I guess.
Yeah, sounds good. Because a lot of this job is absolutely fantastic and great, but burnout is a massive thing, right?
I don’t really get burnt out at all. Like, yeah, literally at all. I don’t know. It just doesn’t hit me. Whenever I feel burnt out. I just start a new project and it gets me just so hyped to make more stuff. And then I go back to the other stuff that I left because I felt burnt out and I’m like when I’m ready.
We’ll finish with a simple gaming question: what’s the greatest game of all time? You know, other thanMinecraft.
Counter StrikeorFactorioorSpace Engineers. They just come in waves, man.
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Topics:Interview,Minecraft,Twitch
