Minecraft sales top 100M

Re:Minecraft sales top 100M by newobj on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:02PM (#11823603)

Yeah, we (if you are 30ish plus or minus) probably had TV shows and cartoons as shared reference points - this generation will have which Youtubers they watched as those reference points.

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Re:Minecraft sales top 100M by LeifCarrotson on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:20PM (#11824290)

I don't know about that, there are so many more YouTube channels and videos, while there were few enough OTA channels and shows that there will be common experiences.

Everyone knows who Bugs Bunny is, and can probably share the memory of a few plot points of some iconic episodes.

A group of people 20 years from now talking about videos they watched on YouTube will have a hard time coming up with a channel that two of them remember watching, much less a particular video. Unless, of course, they play the stupid game of "no, I remember one that was funnier" and spend the time searching on their phones for that one video that will one-up the others while to playing the videos they have queued up...ugh. https://xkcd.com/920/

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Re:Minecraft sales top 100M by newobj on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:51PM (#11825070)

You're right that there will be a way higher number of reference points with varying degrees of awareness, but I'm pretty sure most kids know Stampycat, Evantube, etc..

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