♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (tune of "Dynamite") ♪ I came to dig, dig, dig, dig ♪
♪ I'll build a city oh so ♪
♪ Big, big, big, big ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Just wait a sec ♪
♪ Gotta kill this pig, pig, pig, pig ♪
I haven't heard this song in a long time.
- ♪ I shoot my arrows in the air sometimes ♪
♪ Saying ay-oh ♪ - Is this CaptainSparklez?
- Is this CaptainSparklez?
-Is this CaptainSparklez?
- ♪ And then I'll go to work ♪
- I like the creativity.
- This is Minecraft, right?
- I suck at Minecraft.
- I hate Minecraft. - ♪ Using TNT ♪
♪ And then I'll head back home ♪
♪ Where I'll smile with glee ♪
♪ Now that I can make ♪
♪ Tons of TNT ♪
- (rhythmically) I don't get Minecraft videos!
- Can't you just get Legos and do this?
- ♪ I'ma blow stuff up ♪
♪ With my TNT ♪ - Sounds like a typical boy.
- I know that's what I do when I play.
I'm just like, "Hey, let's blow things up and kill animals."
- (CaptainSparklez) All right. So we are getting ready to play
the Minecraft Survival/Hunger Games map.
- That'd be kinda cool, to act like you're in The Hunger Games.
- This could work. I like Hunger Games.
- (CaptainSparklez) Or simply turn around and run.
Okay. - Go to the woods. Go to the woods.
- (CaptainSparklez) Oh jeez. - (high-pitched) Run!
- (CaptainSparklez) Get stuff and run!
Oh god, I'm being chased by a guy with a sword.
This is bad. - (laughs)
- (CaptainSparklez) How many people are left?
- Oh, he's set up. He's got the diamond sword and everything.
- (CaptainSparklez) I think it's just one-on-one now.
- How is he staying so calm? Oh my god!
- Ha, he's done. Done. - (CaptainSparklez) I'm on fire.
- Oh! Oh! Fire!
- (CaptainSparklez) And I'm dead. - Aw, that'd be me. (chuckles)
- (CaptainSparklez) Congratulations to AntVenom...
- AntVenom. He always wins.
- (CaptainSparklez) And thanks for watching, guys.
- You're welcome.
- (CaptainSparklez) What's going on, dudes? This is Slender.
- I love watching the Slender gameplays,
'cause it's just like, my heart is beating with you.
- I used to watch him every single day.
- I used to watch him a couple years ago.
- (CaptainSparklez) "Follows." (paper rustling)
This looks like a bathroom stall area.
- (nervously) Don't go in there.
- (CaptainSparklez) Oh...
(frightened yelp) Oh my [bleep] god! - Dang it, it scared me now.
- (CaptainSparklez) Oh...
(frightened yelp) Oh my [bleep] god! - Jesus.
- (CaptainSparklez) [Bleep]! - (laughing)
- (laughing) I don't want to watch it!
- (CaptainSparklez) My flashlight's--
(yelps) [Bleep]! - (amused) Look at his face.
- (CaptainSparklez) [Bleep], no way.
What-- what-- oh my god. (static screeching)
- He's on YouTubers React, right? I recognized him.
- (CaptainSparklez) Thanks for watching. - You're welcome.
- You're welcome.
- You're welcome. - (CaptainSparklez) And, um...
I'll see you next time.
♪ ("Gangnam Style" melody) ♪
- ♪ Diggin' Minecraft Style ♪
- Oh my god!
- Yeah, I've seen this.
- ♪ Minecraft Style ♪
♪ (dance melody begins) ♪
- ♪ Dungeons under here ♪
♪ Just the last time a group of creepers ♪ - This is amazing.
- ♪ So you know, hey ♪
♪ When they gonna show ♪
- This is why he's well known. I mean, he does a lot of variety.
- ♪ Go ♪ (vocal reverberating)
♪ (pause) ♪
♪ Diggin' Minecraft style ♪
♪ (techno interlude) ♪
♪ Minecraft style ♪
♪ Dig, dig, dig, dig ♪
♪ Diggin' Minecraft style ♪
♪ Ay, sexy piggy ♪ - (chuckles)
- I don't get any of the references though
'cause I don't play Minecraft.
♪ (funky riff) ♪
- ♪ Like a sauna here ♪ - (chuckling)
- ♪ We built a portal to the nether ♪ - (laughing) Oh god.
- It's crazy how they make this.
- They did pretty good on this.
- How long does this take people to do?
- ♪ Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay ♪
♪ Ayyyyyyyyyy sexy piggy ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Sexy piggy ♪
- I kinda like this version better than the real one.
- ♪ Diggin' Minecraft style ♪ - ♪ Unh! ♪
(boom!) - (laughs) He liked it.
- That's brilliant.
- This is so cool! How did he do this?
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (Finebros) So do you have any idea
whose YouTube channel that was? - Mm-mm, I do not.
- No.
- No idea.
- CaptainSparklez?
- CaptainSparklez.
-CaptainSparklez.
I used to watch him. I think he had another name though.
- (Finebros) From watching these, how would you describe
the content you'd see on his channel? - He likes Minecraft.
- Minecraft.
- Minecraft. Minecraft. Minecraft. Minecraft.
Maybe some Slender. Probably Happy Wheels.
Minecraft.
- I'm not really a big gamer, so it was kinda boring to me,
because I don't know any of the references.
- Well, he's a pretty good gamer, I have to say.
- They were funny. I liked the Hunger Games one.
- I like the music videos, I like watching his Minecraft stuff,
and I like watching people get scared.
(breathy chuckle) I like it all.
- I feel like it's creative gaming,
because he's not just playing games
but he's making things out of the game.
And I've never seen that before, and that's pretty cool.
- (Finebros) So the person who makes this channel,
he calls himself CaptainSparklez. - Oh, I've heard that name.
- Oh! (titters) That's a nice name.
- That is literally the best name I've ever heard.
- From ProsDONTtalk[bleep] to CaptainSparklez, I was like,
"What did you think of in your head to be like,
'You know what? That's a good change'?"
- (Finebros) If you had heard the name CaptainSparklez
before ever knowing anything about his channel,
what would you assume was on the YouTube channel?
- (sniggering) Maybe a girl gaming channel.
- Beauty guru or something?
- Like, unicorns and happy bunnies and rainbows.
- Probably a vlogging one from a,
um, homosexual male.
- I'd assume he was like Tyler Oakley meets Kingsley.
Is that offensive?
- (Finebros) So though he plays lots of different games,
a huge part of his channel is watching him play Minecraft.
- Best part.
- (Finebros) Have you ever played Minecraft?
- Yeah.
- I love Minecraft!
- No. I've heard of it. I didn't know what it was though.
- No. But I've seen Tobuscus and Smosh Games,
and I've seen some people play it.
- No, I've never played it before.
There's so many other games out there with such nice graphics
like Call of Duty. There's Forza.
And then you have Minecraft, like playing with boxes.
It's bor-- okay, I'm gonna get a lot of hate, like a lot of hate.
- Yes, I have, and I don't anymore.
- I was really into it for a while,
but I haven't played it for a while.
- When it first came out, I played it like no tomorrow.
- (Finebros) And why don't you really play anymore?
- I kinda grew up, which I never thought would happen,
but it happens.
- (Finebros) Have you ever played Minecraft?
- No.
- (Finebros) See? Here's the thing though.
We had you in "Kids React to Minecraft" even.
- Yes.
- (Finebros) In that episode, you said you were going to play.
Are you gonna start playing Minecraft now? - No.
- Yeah, I will.
- (Finebros) So you lied to us all.
You said you would go and try it. - Yeah, I never did.
- (Finebros) So he collaborates with musicians and animators
to make these elaborate parodies.
He's also now started doing original Minecraft music.
What is your overall thought about the idea
of not just doing a parody but using Minecraft to do a parody?
- That's so cool.
If I played Minecraft, I'd be obsessing over this right now.
- I envy someone that can
take one thing and make so many things of it.
- There are so many gaming channels out there.
They're all the same basic structure.
When you add a new thing or add a new element to your channel,
it kinda raises the stakes
and causes other people to raise their channels.
And it keeps helping move YouTube forward.
- (Finebros) So CaptainSparklez's YouTube channel
has over 6 million subscribers... - Doesn't surprise me.
- (Finebros) ...and over a billion video views.
- Are you serious? Oh my gosh.
- (Finebros) What is it about his channel
that has that many people wanting to watch?
- Minecraft probably. Minecraft is that powerful.
- Lots of Minecraft lovers out there.
- Some people just play the games,
and it's solely just them playing it.
But he does that and he makes videos like that,
so it's really creative and it's really cool.
- (Finebros) Finally, gaming
is the fastest-growing genre on YouTube.
Even the number-one most subscribed person is a gamer.
- (Southern accent) PewDiePie.
- (Finebros) What, in your opinion, is the reason
this is becoming so huge?
- Because so many people want to become the best gamers,
they watch other people's strategies.
I don't even know if I'm saying this right.
- That's a hard question to answer,
'cause even I don't know why it's entertaining.
But I watch it too.
- The demographic between 12 and maybe 25: everybody games.
It's like Justin Bieber times five.
- Because it's relatable.
There's things that they have done that you want to do.
Or there's things that they have done
that you didn't know you could do.
And it's entertaining to watch them explore
and see them react to things and find out new things.
When you're watching TV,
you're basically watching people react to things.
And if you're watching The Walking Dead,
you're watching people react to a zombie apocalypse.
If you're watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians,
you're watching the Kardashians react to whatever thing
happens to them that day.
So it's just like the same exact thing.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
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- (odd British accent) Bye, my little lovelies.
- Tssssssssss...
(boom!)
♪ (punk rock music) ♪