CaptainSparklez' "Revenge" — Minecraft Steve in diamond armor looking shocked while a creeper sneaks up behind him

CaptainSparklez' "Revenge"

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Published November 14, 2026

"Revenge" is a 2011 Minecraft parody of Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" written by YouTuber CaptainSparklez and sung by TryHardNinja, swapping club-night romance for an in-game Creeper encounter. The video passed 175 million YouTube views by May 2019 and sat at the top of the most-viewed Minecraft uploads on the site. By 2017, YouTubers were posting Lego brick-film remakes, Nightcore edits and distorted "ear rape" versions as a running tribute sub-genre.

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Overview

Fans quote the opening couplet, "Creeper? Aw man, so we back in the mine," as copypasta inside Minecraft forums, Discord channels and YouTube comment sections1. A typical tribute swaps the vocals, the visuals or both: Lego brick-film animations restage the mine-dive sequence2, while Nightcore uploaders pitch the chorus up into the high-speed anime style common on remix channels3. The hook treats a Creeper's point-blank explosion like an Usher-era heartbreak, which drives most of the joke.

Versions range from careful shot-for-shot remakes to deliberately broken edits that overdrive every sample past clipping5. Compilation channels gather dozens of them into single uploads4, so the song functions as both the subject and the raw material for ongoing Minecraft music jokes6.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube
Creator
CaptainSparklez
Date
2011

CaptainSparklez, the YouTube handle of Jordan Maron, uploaded the "Revenge" music video to his channel on August 11, 20111. He wrote and produced the track as a parody of Usher's 2010 single "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love," with vocalist TryHardNinja handling the lead performance6. The storyline follows a Minecraft player's counter-attack against a Creeper mob after an in-game ambush.

Copyright friction forced an early recut. Maron swapped the Usher-derived backing for an original composition to keep the upload live, then reverted to the parody arrangement once the dispute cleared6.

How It Spread

View counts climbed steadily through the 2010s. By May 3, 2019, the upload counted more than 175 million plays, giving it the highest view total of any Minecraft video on YouTube at that point6. A community wiki devoted entirely to "Revenge" tracks the lyrics, derivative animations and tribute uploads6.

Tribute videos picked up early. Thesupermoviestudios posted a brick-film Lego parody that recreated the mine sequence in stop-motion2, and Pixel Muffet uploaded a Nightcore remix that sped the vocals into the high-pitched style popular on anime remix channels3.

Remix activity spiked again in the late 2010s. Dank Compilations assembled a "Revenge" meme reel on March 28, 20174. On April 1, 2017, JFBGaming posted an "ear rape" April Fools edit that overdrove the audio into distortion and reached over 48,000 views5.

Timeline

2011-08-11

CaptainSparklez uploads the "Revenge" music video to YouTube, with vocals by TryHardNinja.

2017-03-28

Dank Compilations posts a "Revenge" meme and parody compilation.

2017-04-01

JFBGaming posts an "ear rape" April Fools edit that reaches over 48,000 views.

2019-05-03

The original video's view count passes 175 million, the highest of any Minecraft upload on YouTube at the time.

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