Sixteen years
of Guude on YouTube

Guude posted his first video in February 2010: five minutes of World of Warcraft. He went quiet for eight months, came back with Minecraft, and kept uploading for sixteen years. The catalog ends at 9,851 videos, 4,150 hours of published runtime, and 164 million views, with the public record closing in May 2026 after his arrest, charges, and removal from Mindcrack activities.

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Overview

Eight numbers

Every public upload on the channel. Numbers from YouTube's API.

▸ Videos uploaded
▸ Lifetime views
▸ Published runtime
▸ Likes
7.7M positive marks
▸ Comments
left under the videos
▸ Avg length
long-form, every era
▸ First upload
▸ Latest upload
▸ Active days
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Uploads Over Time

Sixteen years, month by month

Guude went daily in late 2010 and held that pace through the 2014-2015 boom. Output tapered after 2017. A 293-day silence in late 2024 marks the longest pause. The Mindcrack Rebirth SMP broke it.

Monthly

Uploads and views, every month

Bars: uploads. Line: views earned that month.

Views by year

2012-2014 generated 60% of lifetime views

Average views per video

A 2013 upload pulled 47K. A 2023 upload pulls 1.6K.
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Most Viewed Videos

By view count, all-time

Mindcrack season premieres and MineCon panels run the leaderboard. The top video is Mindcrack S4E1 from July 2013. It crossed a million views.

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Series Breakdown

What he played

Minecraft Mindcrack outruns everything else by an order of magnitude. Guude also ran dozens of long-form side series, from Don't Starve to Space Engineers to The Sims.

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Frequent Collaborators

Names in the title bar

Arkas appears in more Guude titles than anyone else. Nebris, Guano, and Coe sit just below. All four are Mindcrack regulars with hundreds of episodes apiece.

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Career Eras

A career, in chapters

Seven phases across sixteen years. A WoW raid clip starts the timeline. The 2025 Mindcrack revival ends in May 2026.

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Upload Patterns

Patterns in the metadata

Two release-time spikes at 2 PM and 6 PM Eastern time. Day of week barely matters. Tuesday tops Saturday by 65 videos.

Upload hour (ET)

Two distinct release windows

Upload day of week

A near-flat distribution across 16 years

Longest videos ever

Project Ozone took five hours, four times

    Most-liked videos

    Personal moments lead the like leaderboard
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      Timeline Milestones

      Dates worth marking

      Fourteen moments along the timeline, from channel creation to the final public break.