Minecraft Truman Show / Do You Think They Know?

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About

Minecraft Truman Show, also known as Do You Think They Know? or Do You Think He Knows? refers to a trend of Minecraft players recreating the setting of the 1998 film The Truman Show (starring Jim Carrey) with Minecraft villagers. The players make a village underground or in a dome resembling the stadium-sized dome shown in The Truman Show. The TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels following the trend originally surfaced in mid-2024. The creators often added a text caption reading, "Do you think they know?" to emphasize the absurdity of their task as well as the stupidity of the NPC villagers.

Origin

On June 25th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @thechosenknight posted a Minecraft video with text overlay reading, "Do you think they know?" The player had recreated the setting of The Truman Show in the game by placing a village underground in a sky-colored dome. The video's TikTok sound^[2] used a soundbite from the film in which Truman (played by Jim Carrey) says, "In case I don't see ya, good afternoon." Over 17 days, the video received roughly 3.4 million plays and 404,400 likes (shown below).

@thechosenknight Truman ahh moment #fyp #minecraft #meme #viral ♬ original sound – arthfilms

Spread

Other Minecraft players recreated the abovementioned video in the following days. For instance, on June 26th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @scliffler posted a similar video with text reading, "Do you think they know?" amassing over 38.6 million plays and 4.9 million likes in 16 days (shown below, left). @scliffler also posted the video to YouTube,^[4] receiving over 8.1 million views and 689,000 likes.

On June 29th, TikToker^[5] @randomnameidk01 posted their own iteration of the trend, receiving roughly 7.1 million plays and 486,200 likes in 13 days (shown below, right).

@scliffler Truman show in minecraft. Ib: @TheChosenKnight #minecraft #funny #joke #skit #trend #trumanshow #scliffler ♬ original sound – Scliffler

@randomnameidk01 This MIGHT be the truman show😭🙏 #minecraft #trumanshow #trumanshowedit #minecraftedit #sigma #3aminohio #babygronkrizzeduplivvydunne #skibidigyatt ♬ original sound – arthfilms

The trend continued to spread and evolve going into July 2024. For instance, on July 2nd, TikToker^[6] @notblazeybois posted a video that instead read, "I think he knows…" showing a Minecraft character escaping the dome. Over 10 days, it received roughly 4.3 million plays and 590,000 likes (shown below).

@notblazeybois bye bye truman #minecraft #fyp #truemanshow #thetruemanshow #minecraftmemes #viral #foryoupage ♬ original sound – arthfilms

Viral iterations persisted on YouTube during the same timeframe, such as a Short posted by YouTuber^[7] @iyfl on July 2nd, 2024, amassing over 1.8 million views and 146,000 likes in 10 days (shown below).

By July 12th, 2024, the trend's primary TikTok sound^[2] had amassed over 2,400 posts.