Happy 18th Birthday to Hatsune Miku, creator of Minecraft and the world’s 7th most famous singer
That’s not correct, Minecraft was created by some guy named Markus Persson.
I am somewhat aware of both Minecraft and Miku, and vaguely aware that sometimes people claim “Miku made it” when they don’t wanna think about the actual person who made something….
But in this case I think the actual name sounds more like a fake placeholder than anything anyone could put there.
A person named Persson.
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and ….Markus Persson.
Gah. It’s as bad as a kangaroo named Kanga, or an elephant named Ella, or a human named Hugh
Long story short: Swedish programmer Markus Persson, AKA Notch, created Minecraft, sold it to Microsoft, became obscenely rich, and started tweeting awful political opinions. Which lead to this joke by awesome video game maker Zaratustra (of “Eversion” fame):
son: this minecraft game is great dad
dad: it is indeed son
son: who made it?
dad: no one. it came from space
And then Microsoft actually updated the title screen to say:
