Minecraft wiki entry for Lydia_Winters, associated text: Winters graduated in 2008 from Florida Atlantic University with a bachelor's degree in "Elementary Education and Teaching".[2] She then taught fourth grade for a year before delving into photography, often shooting local weddings.[3] Later, she discovered video blogging after attending a photography workshop, and began making daily videos about random topics. Despite her style becoming popular, which also led to her raising $10,000 for breast cancer research, she then decided to focus her videos on videogames after consulting with friends.[3] Although Winters had played only one video game by then, The Oregon Trail, she decided to play Minecraft as her friends thought it would be hilarious. On November 15, 2010, she uploaded her first video to YouTube under the name "MinecraftChick" as "Minecraftgirl" was already taken.[3][4]