In early April 2025, A Minecraft Movie overtook Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in terms of opening weekend box office sales. By some estimates, the popular game has over 200 million active players worldwide.

The meme mayhem started after the live action film, A Minecraft Movie, hit the screens. A particular scene in the movie became viral, and guess what? It was the scene featuring the Chicken Jockey.

The video-game adaptation succeeded at both things cinema struggles to do consistently: sell gobs of tickets and get young ...