@sarajw 💯 same. Not only is the voice annoying, the quality is also Not Very Good™.

I find it particularly difficult to explain to my kids why I want them to stop watching it without letting on that it annoys me, because I don't want them to suddenly realize they can irritate me on-demand.

@sarajw I don’t have great news for you.. my kids are 7 and 9 and very much into Minecraft and watching YT Minecraft channels. The 7yo is a fan of Milo and Chip, but luckily the 9yo thinks it’s annoying, too. So I want to say there’s light at the end of the tunnel if you wait it out, but the thing I’ve learned from the 9yo is that Minecraft YouTubers are a gateway into what I consider a worse load of content: Mr. Beast.. I think Mr. Beast was hanging out with some other Minecraft YouTubers so my kids have gotten into it by association.

Now when they watch episodes where they go on million dollar vacations or do contests and hand out money I wind up lecturing the kids about how this isn’t how real people interact with each other and how it’s all just entertainment.

It’s sort of sad and I’m still trying to figure out how to work through it. Hope the best of luck and I’d be interested in what other folks say are alternatives.

@sarajw I am a child of the Minecraft era, and thus hopefully well equipped to answer this.

The version of Minecraft available on Android is referred to as the ‘Bedrock’ edition. Most YouTubers play on the original version of Minecraft which is only available on PC and is called the ‘Java Edition’. Both codebases are developed and maintain relative parity while getting the same updates. Some specific things might not work, and far less mods are available for the bedrock version, but they’re largely the same.

When I was young, Stampy was a go-to of mine. His Stampy’s Lovely World series is scripted, kid friendly, respectable, and long-running. He also created an educational children’s series titled Wonder Quest. You might find his voice and laughter a tad grating.

More recent active creators I’m familiar with include Grian and Mumbo Jumbo. Both are active and members of a large community Minecraft multiplayer sever titled ‘Hermitcraft’. Hermitcraft Season 11 is about to start very soon (Nov 8th). The seasons are all independent of one another, and while there are callbacks to older ones, one needn’t have watched them for a full experience.

There are a wide assortment of members of the Hermitcraft server. Some are targeted towards younger viewers, and some are more targeted towards mature viewers (though aren’t adult in nature). Watching some of the more mature YouTubers creating content on the server could give you a common ground with your kids if you’re so inclined.

Grian is rather mischievous and focuses much more on building, and Mumbo Jumbo is much more into redstone, which is the technical/engineering part of Minecraft. Both are family friendly and have large backlogs.

Happy to answer further questions and provide more recommendations if needed.

@sarajw

I remember stumbling on this before and thought it was pretty cool - they have some old videos that show how things within Minecraft work too: https://www.youtube.com/logicalgeekboy

Then there are also peaceful build channels (or often called 'no commentary') where you don't have to worry about grating voices at all 😅

https://www.youtube.com/@Peaceful-craft

They can be quite calm and often showing interesting builds - but perhaps not enough to engage kids

(might be good to send them to sleep though! 😅)