TurbaneMC was born on April 30, 2011, in Edinburgh. He is British with Indian heritage through his parents and has lived in Edinburgh for nearly his entire life.

Minecraft became an important part of his childhood very early on. He spent large amounts of time playing Minecraft on Bedrock Edition and later became especially interested in Hive Minecraft server game modes such as Capture the Flag and SkyWars. PvP gameplay and fast decision-making would later influence the pacing and energy of his content style.

One of the earliest major goals he developed as a creator was obtaining YouTube Rank on Hive, which required 5,000 subscribers at the time.

The username “Turbane” originated from the automatically generated Minecraft username “UrbaneSundew589.” After receiving the name while first playing Minecraft around age nine, he thought adding a “T” to the beginning made it sound better, eventually shortening it to “Turbane.” The name later became his nickname in school gaming communities and eventually the identity used across YouTube.

When creating a Minecraft-focused channel, he added “MC” to the end, creating the name TurbaneMC.

In October 2021, shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns, TurbaneMC moved schools at age ten. Some of the friends he made had general gaming YouTube channels, which immediately made him interested in creating one himself.

At the time, he already believed Minecraft would be the perfect focus because of how much time he spent learning mechanics, updates, PvP strategies, and obscure game knowledge.

However, his parents told him he was not allowed to create a YouTube channel until turning thirteen. This frustrated him heavily, especially because he believed the content being uploaded by other kids around him was low effort and poorly edited.

Unable to upload himself, he spent nearly three years preparing.

Between 2021 and 2024, he obsessively studied YouTube:

• researching Minecraft creators

• analyzing view counts

• studying Shorts algorithms

• learning editing

• watching retention-heavy content

• understanding trends

• observing thumbnails and pacing

By the time he was finally allowed to upload videos, he already understood far more about YouTube strategy than most creators his age.

The evening before his thirteenth birthday, TurbaneMC used unofficial software to port Minecraft Bedrock Edition onto the family MacBook so he could prepare his first Short before officially being old enough to upload.

The video featured him using the newly added wolf armor alongside a wolf army to attack his sister, who was referred to as “my friend” in the title. Due to privacy concerns, the video contained no voice commentary and instead relied entirely on gameplay footage with background music.

On the morning of April 30, 2024, TurbaneMC officially created the channel TurbaneMC and uploaded the wolf armor Short alongside an automatic fish farm tutorial before his parents woke up.

Later that same morning, his parents gifted him a Windows laptop for his birthday. The laptop immediately became one of the most important parts of his creator journey because it finally allowed proper editing, recording, and content creation without relying on the limited family MacBook.

While at school that day, he repeatedly refreshed YouTube analytics using school laptops and discovered his videos had already reached around 500 views.

To him, this was enormous:
500 people watching a video felt unbelievable, especially because it exceeded the size of his school population.

Friends from school also subscribed to the channel, helping him reach roughly 14 subscribers on the first day.

The original wolf armor Short eventually reached approximately 2,400 views.

At the time, these numbers felt massive.

After continuing to upload Minecraft Shorts and gradually reaching around 45 subscribers, a friend suggested using AI text-to-speech narration to improve video quality and pacing.

On May 9, 2024, after school, TurbaneMC uploaded:

“Random Minecraft Damage Facts Part 1”

The video immediately performed far beyond anything he had uploaded before.

Within minutes:

• 3,400 views

Later that night:

• 7,000 views

The next morning:

• over 11,000 views

At school, nobody believed the growth was real because the channel had only existed for slightly over a week.

At the time, one of his friends had around 85 subscribers, and surpassing him became a major source of motivation.

That same afternoon, TurbaneMC uploaded:

• Random Minecraft Damage Facts Part 2

• Random Minecraft Block Facts Part 1

Initially, both uploads appeared to flop with almost no views. However, overnight both exploded:

• Damage Facts Part 2 — roughly 12K views

• Block Facts Part 1 — roughly 13K views

Subscriber growth accelerated quickly:

• 69 subscribers

• then 107

• then 127 within a short period

By the end of the first month, the channel had already surpassed 500 subscribers.

This period was one of the first times TurbaneMC truly understood how unpredictable Shorts algorithms could be.

After traveling to the United States for the first time in 2024, TurbaneMC began rapidly experimenting with different content formats instead of staying with one style.

One recurring format was a:

“Who Would Win?”

series where viewers guessed which Minecraft mob would win in a fight.

On July 15, 2024, he reached 1,000 subscribers.

To celebrate, he hosted a Minecraft battle royale tournament with a prize of 100 Robux. However, the event quickly became chaotic after participants teamed in what was supposed to be a solo competition and split the prize unfairly.

Following this, TurbaneMC entered what he later considered one of his “Camman18-inspired” phases.

These Shorts used:

• Minecraft facts

• Lavender Town music

• fast pacing

• mystery-style hooks

The videos often reached around 10,000 views and helped grow the channel further, but eventually he began disliking the content himself, later describing many of the videos as “unwatchable.”

He then moved into another Shorts trend involving Japanese music tracks, which temporarily boosted the channel to around 2,500 subscribers before the format became repetitive and “brainrot” in his eyes.

In November 2024, he briefly experimented with Geometry Dash content by uploading two Minecraft-themed level videos on November 13 and 14.

Although both videos received around 3,000 views, the support was not strong enough to justify continuing the format, causing him to abandon it shortly afterward.

After approximately 150 days without uploading consistently, TurbaneMC returned on April 13, 2025, with a better AI voice and a much stronger understanding of pacing and editing.

Inspired by creators such as Prismblock, he began creating extremely fast-paced Minecraft Shorts:

• under 15 seconds long

• highly oversaturated visually

• rapid editing

• aggressive pacing

Some uploads reached:

• 40K views

• 50K views

However, despite strong view counts, subscriber conversion was terrible.

One Short with around 50,000 views reportedly gained only around five subscribers.

This period taught him that views alone did not automatically build an audience.

On June 15, 2025, TurbaneMC traveled to India.

During this trip, he shifted into Minecraft “trap-style” content.

Although these videos usually received lower total view counts than earlier Shorts, engagement improved massively:

• higher like ratios

• more comments

• stronger subscriber growth

One of the best-performing trap videos achieved:

• around 15,000 views

• over 1,200 likes

• approximately 250 subscribers gained

This became one of the best subscriber-to-view ratios of his entire career along with the first video to recieve more than a thousand likes.

Around this same period, he began experimenting with Minecraft modding videos inspired by creator Fireydude.

One major upload focused on the Crackers Wither Storm Mod and achieved:

• 24,000 views

• 2,400 likes

The strong engagement made him believe modding content could become the future of the channel.

However, another modding upload released on July 29, 2025, failed badly.

The poor performance discouraged him enough that he abandoned the original TurbaneMC channel entirely despite being only around 900 subscribers away from his original Hive YouTube Rank goal.

The abandoned original channel was later renamed:

TurbaneMD

One of the most important turning points in TurbaneMC’s creator journey came during July 2025.

While in India, he discovered creator Infinity72 after seeing a Minecraft Short with roughly 66,000 views.

On July 2, 2025, Infinity72 created a Discord server that would later become one of the most influential communities connected to the MineTube creator scene.

TurbaneMC joined the server shortly afterward.

Inside the server:

• Several people already recognized his videos (Especially Archaic Krayon)

• He became deeply involved in the community

Over time, Infinity72 promoted him to moderator status.

This gave TurbaneMC direct access to Infinity72 through Discord DMs.

Originally, Infinity72 intended conversations to remain moderation-focused and even told him:

“This’ll probably be more business-y with quick DMs.”

However, TurbaneMC repeatedly brought YouTube strategy into conversations anyway.

Through these discussions, Infinity72 gradually taught him:

• analytics terminology

• audience retention

• algorithm behavior

• viewer satisfaction

• Shorts performance patterns

This knowledge became one of the foundations of TurbaneMC’s later success.

Around this same time:

• Infinity72 uploaded a viral Short surpassing 340K views

• Infinity72 surpassed 15K subscribers

• Infinity72 began livestreaming Hive Minecraft

Because of TurbaneMC’s strong PvP ability, many viewers in Hive custom servers became nervous whenever he joined games during streams.

One especially important moment occurred after TurbaneMC uploaded his last video which failed and Infinity72 commented:

“You’ve definitely got potential, keep it up :)”

TurbaneMC later described this comment as one of the major reasons he regained motivation to continue creating content seriously.

Within Infinity72’s Discord community, creator Jozza09 once mentioned being bored and wanting people to play with.

TurbaneMC invited him into a survival world with friends, leading to the beginning of a close friendship.

At this stage, TurbaneMC believed AI narration was limiting the emotional quality of his content and knew he eventually needed a real human voice.

He created a Discord hiring template searching for voice actors and showed it to several people for feedback.

After seeing the template, Jozza09 asked if he could take the role himself.

TurbaneMC accepted.

The partnership later became one of the defining parts of the channel’s identity.

On August 30, 2025, shortly after returning from India, TurbaneMC launched a second channel called:

TurbaneMC2

By this stage, his editing had improved dramatically compared to the original channel.

The first upload:

• reached around 11K views on day one

• helped the new channel reach around 80 subscribers almost instantly

The comments were overwhelmingly supportive, which motivated him to upload much more consistently.

The third upload became another success:

• 33K views

• 1.4K likes

Infinity72 commented:

“I feel like a proud father. Nice job! These look amazing!”

The fifth upload later surpassed:

100,000 views

This became one of the first moments where TurbaneMC truly felt his editing quality had reached another level.

TurbaneMC then set himself a challenge:

reach 1,000 subscribers within only ten uploads.

For the tenth upload, released January 6, 2026, he created a Minecraft escape room challenge involving creators including:

• Archaic Krayon

• Infinity72 

At the time of upload, the channel had roughly:

800 subscribers

The video exploded:

• 1.8 million views

• massive subscriber growth

• channel jumped to around 2.8K subscribers

The upload also significantly boosted Archaic Krayon’s audience simply from appearing in and commenting on the video.

However, despite the huge success, the like-to-view ratio disappointed TurbaneMC because it was far weaker than Infinity72’s highly successful Shorts.

Several follow-up escape room videos failed to replicate the success and mainly revived the original viral upload instead.

Around this period:

• TurbaneMC2 became the main active channel

• original TurbaneMC became TurbaneMD

• TurbaneMC2 was renamed to TurbaneMC

Soon afterward, TurbaneMC discovered creator avomu, who produced highly edited Minecraft Shorts inspired by Zack D. Films.

He became obsessed with the format and wanted to create similar videos but initially lacked the editing skill required.

Later, he discovered creator ANZOH, who had previously built a German Minecraft channel to around 16K subscribers before transitioning into English content.

After connecting through Discord, ANZOH helped TurbaneMC improve his editing significantly.

TurbaneMC then uploaded his first Zack D. Films–style Minecraft Short.

The growth was explosive:

• first upload — 500K views

• second upload — 1M views

• third upload — 4.5M views

The third video became one of the defining moments of his career.

The Short spread heavily across TikTok and YouTube and was eventually watched by creator DrDonut.

The virality became so extreme that people began recognizing TurbaneMC whenever he commented on other creators’ videos.

Following one especially successful upload, creator AVOMA directly messaged him on Discord.

As TurbaneMC’s channel continued growing throughout early 2026, the rapid increase in Shorts views eventually allowed the channel to qualify for YouTube monetization. The first major milestone came after reaching over 3 million engaged views, a metric based on viewers actively watching and interacting with videos rather than simply scrolling past them. Reaching this requirement unlocked Stage 1 Monetization, which allowed TurbaneMC to enable features such as channel memberships, Super Chats, and other fan-support systems during livestreams.

Shortly after unlocking these features, TurbaneMC hosted a small test livestream where viewers unexpectedly joined and donated money through Super Chats. The experience became one of the first moments where content creation felt financially real rather than just a hobby, especially because viewers were willingly supporting the channel directly (They only stopped donating because he told them to).

The second major monetization milestone came after surpassing 10 million engaged Shorts views, which unlocked Stage 2 Monetization and full advertising revenue sharing on YouTube Shorts. Soon after being accepted into the full YouTube Partner Program, one of TurbaneMC’s newly uploaded Shorts reached approximately 2.2 million views, generating around £200 GBP (roughly $275 USD) in ad revenue from a single video.

Around 21–25 April 2026, TurbaneMC received the first official YouTube payment. Receiving money earned directly through Minecraft videos marked a major turning point in the creator journey, proving that the years spent studying editing, algorithms, pacing, and content strategy had finally begun turning into something sustainable.

Throughout his creator journey, TurbaneMC developed connections with multiple Minecraft creators, including:

• Infinity72

• ANZOH

• supermj767

• Pianicam

• AVOMA

• Dubious Duckling

He also appeared briefly in a video by Evident and became recognized within several Minecraft creator communities.

TurbaneMC has repeatedly credited Infinity72 as the single most important influence on his YouTube success, stating that without Infinity72’s Discord server:

• he would never have met Jozza09

• he would not understand advanced Shorts analytics

• he would not have learned how algorithms and retention worked

• and many of the connections responsible for his later growth would never have happened.

On February 8, 2026, TurbaneMC uploaded another Zack D. Films–style Minecraft Short at around 5 PM.

Within roughly seven hours:

• 1.8 million views

The upload ranked on MrBeast’s analytics platform ViewStats and became:

• most-viewed Minecraft Short globally that day

• #1 UK gaming Short

• #6 overall in the United Kingdom

The video later surpassed:

5.6 million views

Subscriber growth exploded:

• February 7 — roughly 5K subscribers

• next morning — around 8.9K

• shortly afterward — surpassed 10K

• rapidly climbed beyond 15K

Around this time, TurbaneMC surpassed Infinity72 in subscriber count.

Eventually, the channel reached roughly:

28.5K subscribers

However, interest in the format later declined sharply.

Some newer Shorts struggled to surpass:

10K views

Despite this, TurbaneMC stated plans to evolve the content style yet again into a different variation of Zack D. Films–inspired Minecraft Shorts.