I'm typing this on a very gamer keyboard, not made for typing, so excuse the amount of typos that I know are about to poof into existence...
All right, this post is for everyone, boy, girl, nb or other, I appreciate all your answers!
Lately, I've been getting recommended a couple videos on the subject of gender disparity in the Minecraft content creation scene, noting that around 90% of creators are male, and that it's non-representative of the actual Minecraft player base. The problem is that it's really hard to track, even though mojang/microsoft does collect this data, it's not public, therefore we must turn to other sources, but these are sometimes biased, the best we have is amount of Minecraft.net visitors, but this is obviously not all players. other sources are polls on websites like twitter or reddit, but the problem is that girls are more likely to visit those websites, do the demographic is still off, nevertheless, from here stats we can conclude that around 40% of Minecraft players are female, around 2% is nb and 1% falls under "other." which matches up with the steam data stating around 40% of gamers are girls (ofc there's gonna be guys putting a fake gender but that goes both ways, so let's just consider it accurate enough)
Besides this rudimentary data, the stories we hear from successful female content creators are pretty terrifying, making fun of their voice, bullying like "pvp isn't for girls" "girls can't play games" etc, or just straight up sexual harassment are also a problem,. and I think its a bigger one, but they're related. There was this study (I highly forgot who did that and idk how accurate it is) saying that a minority is considered "normal" when it reaches around 30% of the population, which sounds pretty accurate (ex: you're in a meeting and there's 10 guys and 1 woman, she's an odd one out, but as soon as you reach 3-4 women, it feels more equal/normal. So the solution seems pretty clear: more girls should make content, in spite of all the harassment, but is this true?
Another point I see being made by both women and men is that girls are just naturally less interested in pvp, thus the gap, or less interested in creating content, which is why less of them do it, however while I could believe the first part (obviously that doesn't apply to everyone, maybe it's a stereotype) I have trouble believing the second part, as other games are able to collect a more sizable female creator space, and content creation is a topic people of any gender can express an interest towards, even if it may be a bit more sketchy for girls and it has it's own problems, the demographic is more equal. What I'm trying to get at is that there's something wrong with the space, something that's either preventing girls and other from entering the space or from growing their channels, or both. We can confirm this in the comments of the videos explaining the matter, many people either getting inspired by these videos or sharing their similar story. here are the main two videos at the moment:
https://youtu.be/vZuiDteERsg?si=UURqixJlziuqH8jk
https://youtu.be/tqk_r0WTwJ4?si=abRdPzIxkSfSPh0w
However, since we're literally looking at a video that gathers all the people that experienced something like this in one place, the comments might not be the most unbiased place, so I'm looking to collect some more data, to make my own video (full transparency I'm 16M and wanna bring some more light onto this issue, but I know that I'm also partially responsible for this problem, porting mostly guys in my videos, partly because I don't have that many non-male friends to play with but nevertheless, I wanna help, and if you think its out of place for me to be making this type of content, I would love to hear your recommendations of how I could help a different way, maybe even this post is enough for a girl or someone more qualified than me to make a good video, since the last similar post to this topic was posted around 12y ago lol)
Regarding the Marlowww situation (if you don't know, she was the best piper in Minecraft and owner of the testing system, but she got exposed and is mostly regarded as a cheater now, and even accused of actually being a dude, dangermario (notorious hacker) with a voice changer) was she actually your idol ( if you're a girl enjoying pvp ) like many p[eople are saying, or do you genuinely don't care? how do you think this affects the community? I heard someone say that she was actually not as influential as people make it out to be, hence the question. plus, in the expose videos it's said that he acted as a girl to get more traction on YouTube, but as stated beforehand, this doesn't work... maybe just a way of standing out?
TL;DR:
Girls are unrepresented in the YouTube creator space.
As a minority, what is your experience on the mines raft YouTube space, do you make content or wanted to? are you mostly a lurker? do you enjoy pvp? how do you see a way out of this situation? do you reckon it's not that bad? What's your opinion on the situation basically...
If you are a large content creator, of any gender, would you be willing to share some stats of your YouTube channel? maybe run a poll? dm me here or on discord (itscookieking)
if you have interesting experiences and are willing to maybe do an interview for my video, also dm me