The Story Behind Minecraft When I was in 2nd or maybe 3rd grade, Minecraft was SOO popular. Everyone was playing it, everyone was talking about it. I begged my parents to let me play, and my mom was firmly against me playing "Mindcraft" as a good Christian mother should. I was so sad,me and my siblings woul watch so many YouTube videos, I still remember DanTDM and LittleLizard like it was yesterday. I had this one friend who really wanted me to play Minecraft with him, and he gave me $40 to buy the game card myself, and I wrote down a Server IP on my forearm. $40 in 3rd grade?? I was amazed. At the time, the cost for Minecraft was around $27 dollars? They had the little download cards everywhere too. The only issue I had now was to find the opportunity to get it. I mean, I was like what 10? NO WAY WAS I TEN? Anyways. I spent most weekends with my grandma, out of free will of course my parents loved me, and I figured Ama wouldn't think much of me buying some video game card versus my mom being VERY suspicious of me purchasinf a video game card for a game she very much doesn't approve of. but my friend GAVE me money for it! I basically had to buy it. So, when the weekend came I looked everywhere at Goodwill for the download card. I'll tell you now that there were no amounts of Goodwills I could've scoured to find a fucking MC download card but that is really funny to look back on. My next attempt was to just.. Buy it at Randall's.. and hope no one noticed. The one bad trait I have though is being an inherent rule follower, and when we got to Randall's I kep thinking about how there was no way I'd be able to pull it off. I saw a Girl Scout cookie stand, and I really wanted some of the Savannah Smiles cookies. (Can I just say how satisfying it is to fact check all of stry, ad find out I'm not hallucinating a stupid story from 12 years ago??) I figured $40 could buy me the cookies and the card. So, while my mom and dad and siblings were just strolling through the aisles, I had walked off, handed over a $20 and walked back with my box of cookies. Honestly I guess a 10ish year old walking up to a Girl Scout cookie stand with $20 isn't that weird. I walked back to my mom with my cookies, and this is where it gets foggy. I assume my parents were pretty confused, and asked me how tf I bought cookies. I remember eating them in the car, and I ended up surrenduring my Minecraft funds. My parents insisted they'd give it to my friends parents, and that he must've stolen it from them. I didn't think that was likely, and I could've gave him the money back myself but nope, I still remember my Minecraft funds just laying on our kitchen counter for the longest time. When I saw my friend next, he asked if I had bought Minecraft yet, and I was like no... and his friend was like, she probably spent it on shoes! and I'm just there like, well actually it was cookies. RIIP Savannah Smiles. I'll never forget. Anyways, this is all really fu(nny. Off topic, but I get homeschooled for the remained of elementary/ middle school, and when I go to high school, my friend is there! He never said anything to me. but I'll never forget that dude either. I'm pretty sure everyone from elementary school forgot about me the second I left, which is nice since I'm already mentally prepared for the abandonment you feel in military friendships when it's inconvient to be friends, so then you're not!) How much ventin is allowed on a blog post no one will read? Back to Minecraft, I continued to beg for this game. All the kids at school have it! It's not "Mind"Craft but MINECRAFT! Mining like a cave. To no avail. I remember I came back from a weekend with Ama, and my brother ran up to me playing Minecraft on my dad's phone. MINECRAFT!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I only felt happy, but I was very annoyed that Iwasn't the one to havegotten Minecraft. Anyways, this was a revelation. So now we entered our phase of Minecraft Lite/ Minecraft Pocket Edition. I still remember the janky ahh graphics,and I was in love with the wool colorings. One of my friends had told me about villages being added to Minecraft, so I'd make new worlds and search for them forever. Which I never did find a village. At leastnot for a long time after being told about them. When they added Enderman to pocket edition, I was literally horrified and wouldn't play or explore at night. I loved Minecraft. I was able to get the download card after a while, I feel like it might've been Christmas but that could be a stretch. I had booted it up on my dad's PC he used for college, and I remember thinking how cool and amazing it was. To use a keyboard to play, I was able to shift and change viewsl ike in YouTube videos! There were villages! I remember the first time I went mining over a lava pool ,ad didn't shift correctly, and fell straight in. I remember it so clear, like I still remember that map. On pocket edition, me and my sibling played on this one map called "My Duck" forever, until my mom got a new phone. NEVER FORGET. The pocket edition worlds were so funny too, they had borders so it wasn't an endless owlrd. I'm not sure how wer stayed entertained on one map for so long, I Stillremember my long house with a chest hidden behind a painting. Nice. So, then I had Minecraft on PC. I remember everyone watching me fight the enderdragon, I put it on creative like everyone else my age.I had this one snow world where I had a cottage, and like 30 dogs, and pretended I was in like Alaska or something. I had a whole logbook in that world too. I shared the PC with my sister, and for a while I would prank her by playing on her world, writing a sign pretending I was Herobrine, then letting her play the world again and pretend I knew nothing. Once I was homeschooled, and I was like 13/14 maybe, I really got into Bedwars. Now this is a whole other flavor of Minecraft. Instead of being cutesy family bonding, I was online talking to people, and being very competetive. This was a very vital phase in my life. I had Shopkins bedsheets, pink curtains, a fluffy fox bean bag thing, and I'd be posted up against my bedframe on the floor, my own laptop from Ama plugged into the charger, for hours playing Bedwars. I wish I could say I regretted it. I'd wake up, go to the kitchen, I had two choices of breakfast at this time. Teensy cinnamon rolls or microwave pancakes with a DISTURBING amount of butter and syrup. omg... i can taste them both.. With chocolate milk. I think I weighed 160/170 ish and honestly, very clear why. I ate an insane amount of Doritos Dinamitas, too. Whole bags. My keyboard endured much Dinamita dust during my bedwars rounds. Bedwars, dinamitas and the FatRat unity playlist ONLY. As well as the CoCo play list.(So yea, just about to be 15) This probably sounds sad, but you had to be there. Unfortunately, I was really good at Bedwars. I had a really high rank, and everyone knew who I was. I felt like a celebtrity all the time, I'd join a round and it'd be Acxrn!!! Hey!!! Join our party!!! I had maxxed out my friendslist. I had a group of close friends too. It was a highlight of my teen years, and I know that's cringe, and I don't care. Being that guy in Minecraft made up for being the horrible social anxiety ridden person I continue to be in real life. Period.I got $100 for my birthday that year, I spent it on a life long membership to that bedwars server, and now that server is gone, and turns out it ain't life long membership if it's on Bedrock. Kinda cringe. I'm skipping a lot in this Minecraft phase too, but trust it is necessary. I remember telling the guy I sat next to in art that I spent $100 on a Minecraft server membership and he thought it was really funny. Now that guy is a whole canon event. This dude. I don't even remember all the details anymore. I was 15 and generally happy in life, he was a Sophomore so automatically I thought he was cool, he told me he was offered to be a model before, so I assumed he was attractive. (I was 15, and felt like I was a lesbian, this is a really long story, but let's just say I didn't want to be lesbian, and just wanted my mom to be happy) I let this dude into my wonderful Bedwars world, which sounds way more sus than it should, I don't remember this that well, thankfully, but he either asked me out or asked me to be his girlfriend while we were in queue for a game. I was like, wow rizz, since Minecraft means everything to me. I'd see those videos where people get proposed to on Minecraft, and I'd be like that should be me. We had a world we'd play together on Bedrock, me using my Nintendo Switch Lite now (upgrades!) and we had a lot of fun. As fun as you can have being 15/16, and long distance. Honestly, what is a 15 year old even like? I felt really grown at 15. If anything, I'm not insanely different, I feel like I was well spoken then. Lots of critical thinking, and reading. Can't say the same for this next generation. We dated for like 6 months, and I was completely obsessed with this dude, as all 16 year olds act in relationships. When we broke up, I opened up our world and fought the ender dragon and I lost. Horrible experience. I was laying on our living room couch at like 8am? 7am? Sobbing. Being a parent sounds hard, I don't know how I would've delt with myself. I remember Kobe Bryan dyng on this day, and we got this bruger place called Top Notch. I ate like three bites. This was also a day after mys dad's birthday, o extra sad. That's a whole canon event, and this is about Minecraft.At this point, I played a lot of Minecraft with my cousin, Yolanda. Shout out to Yolanda!! We would play together a lot, I still remember when she couldn't quite speak in full sentences or anything so it was a bit of a struggle to play together. but it was so much fun. Me, my sister, Yolanda, sometimes her sister and sometimes our other little cousing Amelia. Also, Pewdiepie had that Minecraft series going on here which kinda made Minecraft pop off out of nowhere. I thought it was awesome! Since I had been a long time Minecraft lover, and the general public was appreciating its glory all over again. Then I started working at Chipotle, and this is around whereDream was getting popular too.I'd get off of work, and watch Dream and eat the Dinamitas. Lots of Dinamitas. Minecraft kinda stayed as something I'd play with Yolanda, and that's really it. Then I joined the military, and when I got out of bootcamp, I played Minecraft with Yolanda and I was really surprised because she could like actually talk.Very awesome! Then I had Minecraft bedsheets in my barracks room. Then I moved to Pensacola, and had Minecraft bedsheets. I had a Minecraft birthday when I turned 18! I have Minecraft blankets now. I'm like 19/20 with Minecraft bedsheets, eating Minecraft cereal and Minecraft pringles, anything Minecraft, I bought it. I played Minecraft mainly when there was big updates to see what it was. Honestly, I still haven't gotten to beating the deep dark dude,ummm. THEN! Minecraft movie. I watched it with my brother and sister. True cinema. I ate so many Minecraft Meals. I really loved the nether sauce too. I think I ended up watching the Minecraft movie like 3 times? It was a fun little event that was like perfectly timed with my brother and sister staying with me for a little while, so we had a lot of fun with it. Then I got the Minecraft Poppi's and those were really yummy.