Who is Steveee?
“Steveee” is a YouTube creator 1 who has recently appeared and started to rapidly create short ‘Minecraft meme’ videos that have raised them into YouTube stardom because, well, people like that kind of stuff… In fact, they have gained nearly two million subscribers in around three months, and earn an estimated £9.9K–£158.9K 2
Why do we need to stop them?
The catch, however, is that while most of these videos are just mass-produced, low-quality shorts hopping on trends, a significant amount of the videos feature a Datapack or Resource Pack, usually silly or joke ones. To put it simply, Stevee does not make these packs, they take other people’s creations and use them in their own videos without credit or appreciation for the original authors. Ordinarily, if one’s creation is featured in a YouTube video, it’s a really good thing; online exposure like that brings a wider audience to one’s work, but Stevee is denying that to the creators by not credititng them, the videos are usually 30–60 seconds long with lazy or nonexistent descriptions and equally uhelpful titles.
What can I do to help?
You could do whatever you are able to in order to raise awareness to the issue, even just popping little #StopStevees wherever they’re appropriate. You can find more info on how to help, chat with others and more in the #StopStevee Discord Server
UPDATE - 26 July 2021
I got hit! I never thought I would be targeted, since most of my creations are more practical and less jokey like a lot of the packs that were being unfortunately stolen, but today a new video was uploaded featuring my Resource Pack Uniform Utilities: Diamond was uploaded. It is estimated that Stevee has earned £251–£4K 3 from that video. What’s more, that pack was licenced under CC-BY-NC-SA!
Further Reading
- This video by YokaiS
- This PMC article by RavenVLemon
- This PMC article by Apocalyptapig about how to license your creations to protect them too.
- This twitter thread by 8onfire
Footnotes & Citations
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If you can call them that! ↩