#c!mcytwt critical

[uncertaininnit]

AHHHHH every time mcyttwt does this I want to lose my fucking mind. Tommy didn’t do jack-SHIT, he educated himself WITHOUT BEING PRESSURED TO DO SO and tweeted about it. And somehow, that’s wrong, and that’s bad. What do they WANT from him? Seriously?

He isn’t at all like Dream. Dream takes every accusation and goes out of his way to debunk it. It doesn’t get to him, doesn’t get in his head. But it gets to Tommy! We’ve SEEN it before, when the ‘KSI transphobia’ thing went down. As shown by his initial apology, he didn’t even understand what he did wrong. He thought he made a transphobic joke himself. He didn’t even understand but felt terrible, like he wronged people. It wasn’t his fault but he took the damage from it anyway.

He’s young, and doesn’t know everything, and he’s privileged, which isn’t any fault of his either. He’s genuinely trying his best and you can see that. They can’t... keep punishing him for trying to learn and help? He learned about conversion therapy, was repulsed, and tweeted about it. Spreading awareness. Not one lick of his behavior on the subject is harmful. 

Please, like, I’m begging all of these people to fucking refocus their efforts. Why are they getting mad at a 17 year old boy who PLAYS GAMES FOR A LIVING for not just... knowing about this terrible thing going on already, when they could be mad at THE PEOPLE MAKING IT HAPPEN?

I hate this, I hate them. What the fuck? 

You all know how Wilbur has his no reply email that he checks sometimes, for people to just send him nice shit and stuff? I wish Tommy had something like that. God, I fucking wish. I just want to let him know that he shouldn’t be subjected to this fucking bullshit, and that there are in fact people who don’t think he’s a cunt for trying. I just want to have some- ANY- way to reach out to him. Because I’m scared he’ll take these things too hard. And he doesn’t deserve to bear the weight of the absolute bullshit mcyttwt piles onto him daily.

#woah! Watch me rant #watch me yell-yell #now watch me be pissed #watch me scream into the void-void #oh! Watch me #watch me #tommyinnit #discourse #mcyttwt #c!mcytwt critical #c!mcyttwt critical #WJBDHS #mcyt #dream smp #dreamsmp #dsmp

[txbbo]

I've been debating making this because this is definitely not what my blog is known for and I was worried that people wouldn't want to see it, but with the amount of shit im seeing on twitter it's compelled me to make this because I'm so frustrated.

I feel like I could make 100 posts about 'Cancel Culture' and it wouldn't be enough, so I'm just going to focus on what caused me to write this tonight - the Tommy situation. *Warning for a VERY long post below*

To be clear, Tommy has been in 'hot water' on twitter for the past couple weeks, roughly starting with the KSI collaboration where he made a joke about dream stans.

Last week, when the SBI 'exposing account' got made and twitter hyped it up, someone made a Tommy account and made a thread of things he needed to be '''educated''' on: https://twitter.com/idktommyinnit/status/1379158964148002821?s=20

I'll let you read it for yourself (and come to your own conclusion) but to me.... half of this stuff does not require a twitter thread? Breaking it down accusation by accusation:

1) 'The Mexican accent' - the clips show he is clearly only doing it when copying big Q (who famously exaggerates his own accent) and there is zero malicious intent (Big Q is also IN the 3 clips mentioned in the thread, and obviously didn't tell Tommy it was offensive). There's debates in the comments from people who think it is offensive and people who don't, so I'm not trying to pick a side. To avoid accidentally offending anyone, maybe it is best for him to stop, but the way twitter acts as if he was purposefully doing this to offend people is just not true.

2- 'Making a slave joke' - Even saying that feels wrong, because it suggests Tommy is doing something awful. Instead, they are referring to the 'bit' that Tommy, Techno, Tubbo and Ant were involved in, when Tommy and Techno took Tubbo and Ant as their slave. People are taking this vod and using it to accuse Tommy of being insensitive to Black people, but I think people are just assuming the worst. Slavery existed long before the transatlantic slave trade and still exists today. This is a role-play server - Tommy 'forced' Ant to work for him and used the word slave, which to me is exactly what was happening? People 'murder' others on the SMP, people 'kidnap' on the SMP, people are 'terrorists' on the SMP, and all happen without issue. To add, Ant is a WHITE man. Tommy taking a WHITE man as a slave is not something uber problematic.

3- 'His reply to Techno's 'murder is bad' tweet'. - I get people saying that Techno's initial tweet was insensitive, but saying Tommy's agreement to this from almost over a year ago is something notable and worth addressing is just super nitpicky and is clearly only in there to pad out the thread. It also makes me wonder what other CC's interacted with it and if THEY should be cancelled too (according to twitter).

4 - 'The saying slurs' tweet / jokes about 'whats the worst word you know' - This one I can kinda see how people might not like it. However, it's clearly a 'poke' at his friends, making them seem like bad people. To me, its in the same vein as 'Tubbo is a Tory' or when Tubbo shoots back that 'Tommy is a Nigel Farage fan'. They're obviously not, but its making fun of your friends by saying they are, and mockingly making them out out to be bad people.

5- 'Covid jokes' - People are taking jokes he made about him 'having covid' and saying he shouldn't joke about this, even going as far to linking it to asian hate crimes. I don't even know how to explain that that this is just? not a 'cancellable offence'? I'm sorry but if I hear anyone in my family coughing I make a little joke that 'they better not have covid' and I know other people do. I have someone in my family who is extremely vulnerable to Covid and if they caught it, would quite literally die, but I can understand that jokes like these are harmless. The whole internet had a running joke that we were in a 'panoramic' or 'Panera' or 'insert any word that sounds like pandemic.

This thread got a lot of attention and anything he tweeted afterwards was spammed with the link and there were so many people upset that he hadn't addressed it. I saw so many people say how 'upset' and 'disappointed' they were in him.

Going on to today, this happened: https://twitter.com/khasiid/status/1380611890104139776?s=20

I get it, it looks bad. But for context (which the tweet doesn't give), the reply was only up for less than a minute. It was obvious to me, even BEFORE Tommy addressed it in his stream (clip here: https://twitter.com/cowrpse/status/1380640046202593283?s=20 ) that it was a mistake. In the clip, he clearly acknowledges his mistake and seems embarrassed. To me, this situation should just be laid to rest because a mistake does not need this much attention, but twitter disagrees.

In case it wasn't obvious by now, the tide is turning against Tommy and people are less willing to ignore genuine mistakes and assume the worst.

Today, during his birthday stream people were clearly already waiting for him to mess up. Around half way through, he started saying 'finna' out of context and Tubbo joined in. This led to tons of tweets telling him he was misusing AAVE, and while there were plenty of people willing to be patient and educate, there were also people seeing this as an example of him being a 'bad person' and someone who should be 'without a platform'. I think people forget that not everyone has the same internet upbringing as they do. In general, I think its noted that the misuse of AAVE is something that has just recently been brought to attention. I learned about it through tiktok and stan twitter, and I don't think it's unimaginable that a British 17 year old boy (who is not active on either) has never heard of 'African American Vernacular English'.

Just for a fuller picture, today has also brought about another 'criticism' that I just had to address.

1) 'Tommy made a KKK joke' - Like the 'slavery' point, saying this is extremely misleading. It makes people think the worst. Here's the clip: https://twitter.com/ghostburz/status/1380673589612011522?s=20

Here, Tommy and Tubbo are both joking about Tubbo's 'bit' of naming his alt streams 'aaaaaaaaaa', 'bbbbbbb', 'cccccc', etc and how it would've been bad if it was 'kkkkkkkk' (for obvious reasons). That is literally it. It is a less than 20 second clip. Acknowledging that people woulda thought about the 'KKK' is not him 'not understanding Black issues', its a throwaway joke about the obvious.

Lastly, someone on twitter has made a tommyinnit (address asap) doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tZEZtBzikS-EYYkssfFtwVOoFqOwCK0zhStLe6H1wCc/edit

I've basically already covered everything in this document, but I wanted to mention how extremely 'guilt trippy' the whole thing is. I struggled to come up with the perfect word for the situation, and I am open to hearing other peoples opinion, but as I have mentioned none of these things Tommy has been accused of were done with malicious intent, and some I believe don't even need addressed at all.

'slavery is a source of astronomical trauma for black people, and isn’t something to be taken lightly if you’re to look into the horrors of the slave trade."

and "Oftentimes they are the last words we hear before we die and it really is not Tommy’s place to joke about words that affect us so negatively."

Are extremely emotional words for a 17-year-old boy to hear on his birthday, for stuff that I believe has been taken out of context and blown out of proportion.

I really feel bad for him, because such a large proportion of twitter (which ofc is the loudest side of the fanbase) is angry at him and is demanding (as the document says) ''either a stream or twitter thread/twitlonger to addressing this' and 'a long and serious apology instead of a short statement pre-stream'.

We all know how twitter works, and unless his apology is perfect (which to me means apologising for stuff that he should't have to, as explained in the thread), twitter will continue with this weird hyper focus on everything he does, and it's not going to end well.

Twitter's mentality of 'putting everything this person has done that could ever be considered problematic' into one neat little thread is so unhelpful and counter intuitive. I got overwhelmed reading some of the stuff people were saying about him, I can't imagine how he feels.

I feel like I have more to say but at risk of writing an essay longer than my actual work I have to do, I'm going to end here.

#this was incredibly cathartic to write #turns out im not just a c! Tommy apologist LMAO #tommyinnit #dream smp #tommyinnit neg #tommyinnit critical #tommyinnit crit #Tommy crit #Tommy neg #twitter neg #cancel culture #mcyt crit #mcytwt crit

[mizmatched]

Hello, I saw your post on Tumblr etiquette! I was wondering if you could give an overview on it, as I’m p new here, i didn’t come from mcytwt, my arrival alongside them was a coincidence lol-

hello! i think i covered the most important stuff in the etiquette post, but heres a couple of notable things: 

tagging

-tag your trigger warnings! add tw (subject matter) or (subject matter) tw, and same thing for content warnings

-if you find yourself wanting to filter any content you can go to your settings and find the tag filter section

just add any tags and any content that is tagged with that will be blocked. make sure to add many variations of that tag, just in case. 

-if you’re here for mcyt content, and you plan to make mcyt content, do not tag “minecraft” or add minecraft to any of your tags

-if you make a critical post, don't tag the creator or character its about! tag 

#(person) critical or #c!(person) critical 

this way it does not show up in the main tag, and bother the people who are just trying to look at cool fanart. even if its important discourse, even if you’re looking for a difference of opinion, don’t main tag critical stuff!

-make sure to add “c!” in front of a content creators name if you are talking about their character, or “cc!” if you are referring to the creator themselves. its not really a nessicary every time, but if you’re regularly switching, its important to let people know who you’re talking about. i’ve seen people on other platforms use smp!(character) or rp!(character) too, but c! or cc! is the most common on on tumblr. 

reblogs

-make sure to reblog the posts you enjoy, likes do nothing! 

-art and fanfics thrive off reblogs!

-you don't need to add tags or any comments, but leaving kind words for the creator is very nice!

-you can make a tagging system if you’d like, for example tag with “my art” on the art you post, or “reblog” when you reblog something. this way, you can easily find your content when searching though your blog. its not nessicary, but it helps with organization.  

thats all i can think of right now! i hope this helps <33

#miz replies #tumblr etiquette #mcyt

[cuuno-moved]

Hi, I'm sorry to bother, but can you explain tagging? I'm from mcytwt and there really isn't a tagging system? What tags should I use for content? Again, sorry for bothering you!!

you're not bothering me, im more than happy to explain!

so, there a few categories of tags:

first of all, the simple content tags: #dreamwastaken, or #hermitcraft. this helps your posts show up in the tags. it also helps people who have those blocked for personal reasons. you don't necessarily have to tag them on reblogs, but a lot of people do.

triggers should be tagged with #tw [trigger] for example: #tw blood or #tw death mention

then there's critical posts. that's actually the big one. whenever you make a post of any sort portraying a character in a negative light, use a tag. for example #c!philza critical or #c!dream critical.

hope this helps!