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Minecraft Steve Trolling People refers to a series of humorous IRL video game edits of fail videos in which the character Steve from Minecraft is edited into them to make it seem as if his actions are responsible for the fails that take place. Made by an Instagram meme page, the edits saw viral spread online in November 2024.

Origin

On November 6th, 2024, the Instagram^[1] page funcutss posted a humorous IRL Minecraft edit of a FAIL video in which a man falls from the top level of a bunk bed while sleeping. In the edit, Steve destroys protective barriers on the side of the bed, causing the man to fall. The edit (shown below) garnered over 5.6 million likes on Instagram in 10 days.

Spread

On November 7th, 2024, 2024, the X^[2] account @LocalBateman reposted the video, with the upload (shown below) gaining over 18.1 million views, 43,000 reposts and 384,000 likes in eight days.

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— Your Typical Local Man (@LocalBateman) November 7, 2024

On November 8th, 2024, the X^[3] account @weirddalle reposted the edit, with the post gaining over 350 reposts and 3,800 likes in seven days.

Following the viral success of the first edit, Instagram page funcutts posted more edits based on the same premise. For example, on November 8th, funcutss posted an IRL Minecraft edit of another FAIL video that garnered over 1.2 million likes on Instagram^[4] in one week (shown below).

This and further edits posted by the account were widely circulated on social media in November 2024.

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