What is Diggy Diggy Hole?

Diggy Diggy Hole is a song that began as a short improvised chant by Yogscast's Simon Lane during a February 2011 Minecraft Let's Play, later developed into full studio recordings and fan covers.

Where did Diggy Diggy Hole come from?

The song came from 'Shadow of Israphel Part 8,' a Yogscast YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2011, where Simon Lane sang about being a dwarf digging a hole at the 10:07 mark.

What does Diggy Diggy Hole mean?

The lyric describes a dwarf's love of mining underground, originally sung in a mock-dwarvish accent as a joke during a Minecraft session, and later turned into a full dwarf anthem by Yogscast and metal band Wind Rose.

How do you use Diggy Diggy Hole?

People use the song as a soundtrack to any mining, tunneling, or dwarf-themed clip, and the chorus works as a caption on image macros about going underground, like u/MellowThePotato's December 2020 r/memes post.

Is Diggy Diggy Hole still popular?

Yogscast released 'Diggy Diggy Hole 2: Coming Home' on November 29, 2025, as a sequel single that reached over 582,000 views in its first two days.

Diggy Diggy Hole

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Published October 25, 2026

On February 3, 2011, Yogscast members Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane were recording a Minecraft Let's Play when Simon improvised a dwarvish song about digging a hole1. Fan edits spread across YouTube within weeks2, and Yogscast released a full studio recording in July 2014 that reached 65 million views4. The dwarven anthem returned on November 29, 2025, with 'Diggy Diggy Hole 2: Coming Home,' a sequel single on the Yogscast channel7.

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Overview

Simon Lane's improvised dwarvish singing voice and the lyric about tunneling underground gave Yogscast fans a chant to work into music videos, image macros, and animations1. Yogscast's 2014 studio recording with proper vocals, orchestration, and animated Minecraft dwarves became the version most listeners know today, while Italian folk metal band Wind Rose later recorded a cover in June 2019 that played the Minecraft gag as a Tolkien-style dwarf ballad4.

Standalone image macros set the song's chorus against screenshots of dwarves, miners, or anyone heading underground, from Lord of the Rings scenes5 to Hololive VTuber clips6.

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Origin & Background

Platform

YouTube (Yogscast Let's Play) / Yogscast studio releases (viral spread)

Creator

Yogscast

Date

2011

Yogscast members Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane posted the eighth episode of their Minecraft Let's Play series, titled 'Shadow of Israphel Part 8: Diggy Diggy Hole,' on February 3, 20111. Around the 10-minute mark, Lewis asked Simon to sing about being a dwarf digging a hole, and Simon delivered a short improvised chant in a 'dwarvish accent' at the 10:07 timestamp1. That episode has since reached millions of views1.

How It Spread

Yogscast fans picked up the chant quickly. On March 29, 2011, YouTuber Ceeraanoo posted an animated remix that reached 4.6 million views, one of the earliest known Diggy Diggy Hole edits2. The May 2011 colony-management game Dwarfs!? included a direct song reference and voice work from Simon as a tribute4. Yogscast then uploaded a fan-made remix with an original music video on August 15, 2011, that reached 23 million views3.

Reddit meme formats followed as the song aged into a nostalgia reference. On December 28, 2020, u/MellowThePotato posted an image macro to r/memes that collected over 19,000 upvotes5. On February 2, 2021, u/Sunfenmu posted a Hololive-themed variant to r/hololive6.

Yogscast released 'Diggy Diggy Hole 2: Coming Home' on November 29, 2025, as a decade-later sequel. It reached over 582,000 views in its first two days7.

Timeline

2011-02-03

Yogscast uploads 'Shadow of Israphel Part 8' with Simon Lane's improvised dwarvish song.

2011-03-29

YouTuber Ceeraanoo posts an animated remix, one of the earliest Diggy Diggy Hole edits.

2011-05-04

Colony-management game Dwarfs!? ships with a Diggy Diggy Hole reference and Simon's voice work.

2011-08-15

Yogscast releases a fan-made remix with an original music video.

2014-07-11

Yogscast posts an original studio song version of 'Diggy Diggy Hole.'

2019-06-06

Italian folk metal band Wind Rose releases a cover of the song.

2020-12-28

Redditor u/MellowThePotato posts a 'Diggy Diggy Hole' image macro on r/memes.

2025-11-29

Yogscast releases the sequel single 'Diggy Diggy Hole 2: Coming Home.'

How to Use This Meme

To make a Diggy Diggy Hole reference, people typically take a scene of someone mining, tunneling, or heading underground, then overlay the song's chorus or caption with the lyric. Image macro versions often mix the song's chorus with scenes from Lord of the Rings dwarf characters5 or VTuber mining streams6. Yogscast's 2014 studio recording is the common soundtrack choice for fan edits.