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micer2012 · 4 months
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a reflection on MatPat's plagiarism
Hello, my name is Della, or micer2012, and 2 years ago Game Theory plagiarized three Tumblr posts of mine, making a video that now holds almost 6 million views.
My posts explaining his plagiarism made their rounds on Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter, but despite the Hermits and Pooka commenting on it (generally in support of me or saying they don’t know enough details about the situation to say either way), MatPat and his team have never owned up to anything, and no mention of my name is present on the video. The one Reddit post they made denying it (which was made before my detailed takedown, which they have never responded to (though the mods on the r/GameTheorists Reddit were kind and made sure it stayed up)) didn’t even mention me by name, just referring to me as “a tumblr user”. (Though one of the screenshotted comments in the body of the post does say my name)
This experience was baffling, but it’s overall had a positive impact on my life. r/Hermitcraft gave me a Golden Apple Award (post of the year, 2021). My inbox was filled with excited fans, wanting to ask me questions or pose their own theories, far more than the hate I got. (Though the hate I got from Game Theory fans was VERY funny. I wondered why none of them gave me shit about saying “MatPat misgendered Evil Xisuma” before realizing none of them read that far into the post.)
And getting on a more personal, and much more important note, I met most of my current online friends through this, including my partner. It helped me grow closer with my irl friends as well and gave me an entertaining story that I tell whenever I have the chance. It was one of the first things in my life that really made me feel like my talents, my autistic hyperfocusing and analyzing of things I love, could be valuable. Useful. Exploitable. It blew my mind that MatPat thought an autistic kid’s ramblings about a Minecraft Youtube joke character were good enough to steal. To put an audible sponsorship on. To get 6 million views off of.
And that’s why I’m writing this post, this update years later. As you might’ve been able to guess, Hbomberguy’s Youtube video on plagiarism reopened this wound. It was really hard for me to sit through, it took days of pausing and taking breaks, because I had experienced everything he was talking about firsthand. 
In my 10 page long takedown post, I wrote about how his rewording of my sentences made him say things that were incorrect, just like Filip did. The content farm production style that made big companies like Cinemassacre take one creator (AVGN/MatPat) and turn him and his content into a brand, a voice that reads out scripts by other people with other opinions/theories, is a history shared with Game Theory. What really hit me was Harris talking about how big creators only do this to people they think they can get away with doing it to. How they view their victims as lesser, as not deserving of their words, repackaging them as their own to give to an audience that can gain from hearing them, but deserves better than to have to listen to the original victim.
That’s the thing, I 100% think a video version of my theory to expose to a bigger community than “Evil Xisuma Fans on Tumblr” is a great idea!! Near the end of the video Harris talks about how video adaptations of things could be a great market, even an accessibility tool, and I completely feel that about my posts. I wrote them quickly assuming the reader was someone well versed on Evil Xisuma lore, after not even watching most of the CarnEvil series, and the diagrams I made to explain them are even less comprehensible. Harris makes a joke that I completely agree with, 
“I’m sure some of my videos would do very well if someone translated them into English.”
I don’t think I would’ve ever made my posts if I didn’t have autism, and a special fixation on Evil Xisuma and Hermitcraft. I made them because I felt the character was being done an injustice, and because I wanted to share with other superfans this theory that might explain it away. I do think that MatPat plagiarizing me was ableist. I used to wonder a lot if this would’ve happened if my posts were articulated better, if they had been peer reviewed, if the posts themselves had been spread to a wider audience before MatPat made his video. At one point when the discourse was fresh (before I had the time to write out my 10 page rebuttal), a bigger YouTuber (100k subs at the time) messaged me and started talking on Discord, interested in possibly making a video on the discourse, but I think my style of typing and general enthusiasm drove him away. You can tell by a single look at my blog (or my original 3 posts!) that I don’t usually type like this. This post you’re reading now has been peer reviewed and edited, and took me hours to format correctly. That video could’ve been huge, the entire outcome of this MatPat situation would probably be much different.
I also used to stress a lot about “being the one who ruined Evil Xisuma’s story”. If you didn’t know, to me S8 Evil Xisuma’s story got wrapped up pretty quickly and unsatisfying (in my personal autistic opinion). (though this might’ve been due to s8 being experimental and ending early with moon big) There was no real culmination of the plot points and arcs going on, and I don’t want to blame myself, but when Xisuma said on stream (when the MatPat thing was first going on) that he didn’t want to focus on the discourse or draw more attention to it, it makes a lot of sense to me that he just wanted to wrap it all up as quickly as possible. For a while I beat myself up about it, of ruining the story of this character I love, but it’s not my fault. If anyone’s, it’s MatPats, but I don’t think it’s useful to just blame someone else. That’s how the story ended up going, and that’s fine. This is Evil Xisuma we’re talking about, their inconsistent lore is what made them such an interesting character. And notably, Pooka made an animation with an awesome culmination of Jeff, the Dreamer, Evil Xisuma, and his own sona’s story, and it makes me so happy to watch. Whatever Pooka does is of course his own choice, but I’m glad he got to give this personal story his own ending (if it is an ending, and not just the start of a new chapter!). 
Typing this all out and getting it off my chest has made me feel a lot better. For a while I wanted to make my OWN video essay about Evil Xisuma’s lore and CarnEvil’s lore, actually going episode by episode to explain it instead of just assuming you knew as much about Evil Xisuma as I did. That idea is still not off the table, but MCYT isn’t something I’m that into right now. Maybe if something else comes out about Evil Xisuma I’ll get back on it, but for now I’m fine with letting that go. But I want to make other videos, share other theories and analysis… if I have the freetime I’d love to make YouTube videos, and if I don’t have the time I’ll continue posting to my tumblr and infodumping to my friends. Apparently my infodumping is valuable enough “content” to steal! Writing this out has made me feel a lot better though, I’m really glad I got it out.
If anyone ever wants to talk to me about the things I’m obsessed with, or reach out to me as a source in a bigger discussion about Game Theory or other channels, my inbox is more than welcome :] Thank you for reading! 
Sincerely, a tumblr user.
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galaxygermdraws · 3 months
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Oh god Evil's Fault Brainrot is back. I mean this is a queue'd post so by the time yall see this the brainrot may have calmed down BUT IT'S STRONG AS I'M DRAWING THIS. I miss my 2021 Ex fixation...
(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)
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waterfall-ambience · 8 months
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on the topic of including modern media in perpetua: how the heck should i go about this
reasoning for doing it-
on some level, it is a story about stories. actually talking about media that the audience is familiar with helps keep the discussion 'legible'
referencing other media properties is commonplace in mcyt stories
not saying that i necessarily want perpetua to become (traditionally) unpublishable, but there might be a level of thematic 'merit' to making it so. right now, in the mess of ideas and Everything, there is a bit about how the characters struggle with or fail to meet the expectations that are placed upon them, and simply exist as themselves. perpetua only existing as something too complicated/unfinished/referential to be traditionally published could help drive this point home (but to lean into it? not sure).
potential methods:
reference whatever whenever, the things they watch are exactly as they are in our world.
similar to the above, change names and titles but keep plots and events the same
make up stories that only exist in their world, broadly analogous to stuff irl but don't go into it too much
no references, all stories in perpetua only exist to them, fuck it we ball
currently leaning towards references (3rd option) but im not sure bc i don't want it to come across as 'tacky' or ham-fisted
if ever, referenced material is limited to public domain and classics, but otherwise they must meet the following requirements:
ideally 10 years or older
reasonably popular (if you talked to someone irl about it, would they have at least heard of it? in cases of nerd culture, someone needs to have made fan-merch of it )
story has been completed
memes can be included but they need to naturally come from the characters themselves (eg avery's 'would you still love me if i were a fish' in an older draft of chapter 19)
exceptions to this must have enough narrative value to justify being included
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cyberrsystemm · 2 years
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behold, the hermitcraft server
a mess of different flavours of mental breakdowns occurring at the same time, most of which are because of a giant rock floating in space
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helsknight · 3 years
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goodnight sweet prince...
(this piece is dedicated to della @micer2012 because of her absolute dedication to the exiavojtmmc community) (and also because he said that he liked this style and every time i see him post comments on my art it makes me happy)
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micer2012 · 2 months
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hi :D
xisuma talked about the theory (the one game theory stole) about 38 minutes into the latest stream! (Feb 4)
he once again mentioned that yeah, he belives game theory plagiarized it, but he also mentioned that your theory included the point that was based on a rendering issue (and GT "made the same mistake") and idk if he mentioned it before but now I'm wondering what that part is 🤔
that's it ty byeee
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
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2/4/24 Hermitcraft 10 | First Stream with Sicksuma! 31:48:
“Hey X, big fa[n], wanted to know if you watched the Hermitcraft game theory and what you think about it.”
Yeah I did see it, and…
I still, I still have very mixed feelings about it. I don’t wanna get dragged into, yknow, um… A sorta calling people out or anything like that, but the explanation, that we were given about that had never been satisfactory for me. 
I-I really think that that was plagiarized. Um- The biggest reason I think it was is because… Apart from the theory being SO on point with this fan theory, like beat for beat, the fan theory, the original one, has a detail in it, which is a complete and utter misunderstanding of something that was just a rendering issue? There was a rendering issue in the video that this fan extrapolated into meaning something. And then, so did the Game Theorists, um… fan theory or whatever you wanna call it, right? They made the same extrapolation on a rendering error, to me it was just… too uncanny, and… supposedly, no, the writers never did that, uh, y’know I’m not here to say they did or they didn’t, it’s of course entirely possible and you can never know, it’s just it never satisfied me, it never felt right. 
So um, yeah, I-I still feel not too great about that. Like it was nice to have my story in a big video, that- that felt really cool, but the way in which it happened, not cool I don’t think. It just, uh, I don’t buy it. 
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34:35: “X doesn’t buy his own lore, that’s so damn cool” says memcbest- I don’t know what you mean by that, I’m not saying I don’t buy my own lore I’m saying- I think- I think it was plagiarism. I really do. Like I said, an uncanny amount of similarities, like beat for beat with this fan theory, and then even misinterpreting a rendering error the same way, it just- it didn’t feel right AT all. It really felt like this had been ripped off. 
…So yeah, so therefore, I feel bittersweet about it. Like it’s cool that there’s a video out there on Evil X, but it… it should’ve been made by someone else, y’know. Or with the original theorist’s consent. That’s how I feel about it. 
Later on he goes on about other channels not citing their sources and furthering the same misunderstanding/false info because they’re just plagiarizing from each other, but it’s not directly related so I won’t transcribe it. He says plagiarism is an interesting topic to think about. He also talks about how AI will make it worse, and about having seen the hbomberguy video ^^
I THINK. THE RENDERING ERROR HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS the point of EX's eyes reflecting as Jeff's i put at the end of my first post:
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BUT ANYWAY. THIS MEANS A LOT TO MEEE THIS REALLY DOES MEAN A LOT. the stance xisumas given before this to my knowledge is "it looks suspicious but we cant know unless they say something" so to hear. someone who absolutely has all the facts, is unbiased towards either of us, say firmly game theory's statement doesn't hold up and it's Obvious it's copied from mine. IT. MEANS A LOTTTT
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micer2012 · 3 months
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della matpat is gone he is finally gone
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micer2012 · 1 year
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I love your theory that the reason EX is obsessed with getting diamonds in s8 because of King Midas' curse but consider: the real reason he wants diamonds is so he can buy as much Wormman merch as he can
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micer2012 · 4 months
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oh my goddd this hbomberguy video is really hitting me. its almost hard to watch. im sure you guys cant imagine whyU89YT76RDTRFCGVHBJKL
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micer2012 · 4 months
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Hi, i was trying to find the game theory video of your theory about hermitcraft, but i cant find it, do you have a link to it?, do you know if they take it down??, i really wanted to look deeper in this
this comment got me a bit excited because i went to the get the video and it also took me a Bit to find it ?? but it’s up, not sure what that’s about.
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germ’s google doc of the timeline should be useful too, in here there’s also a download of this episode and a Transcript of it 👇 :]
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micer2012 · 1 year
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happy matpat-iversary :] stan carnevil 🤍
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micer2012 · 4 months
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The r/hbomberguy subreddit has a pinned thread dedicated to sharing queer creators, especially ones that have been victims of plagiarism in the past. Would it be okay if I or anyone else posted a link to your blog in that thread, along with a brief outline of what happened regarding MatPat? Will not post there if you don't give approval. Hope you're doing ok!
oh sure, that's very kind!! :l> i assume its mostly for youtubers but im sure itll be fine to link my reflection post and blog n explain :D 👍
(sidenote I was wondering if i could post this to a reddit since the original post going to r/hermitcraft and r/gametheory (and twitter) was how it got a lot of its mainstream attention.. but i dont think i could post it to either of theres so i was wondering if there was like, a community sparked by his video or something.. so this seems great!! this seems like itll bring more mainstream attention to it.. i wonder if me being an autistic minor not even publishing Public work, just posting online will add to the conversation, yknow.. yeah, this sounds great :] a link to my reflection post n blog would be appreciated!!! 🤍)
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galaxygermdraws · 1 year
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Wouldn’t be a spooky themed month without arguably the creepiest thing in Hermitcraft Lore(other than. a lot of other things). This was supposed to be day 20′s piece, but I decided to post it as the day 17 piece instead. :)
(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. I made an alternate version so I’ll put it under the cut. Thankyu)
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Thanking @micer2012​ for the over fixation on using CRT filters.
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micer2012 · 1 month
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my friend refuses to believe that matpat plagiarized you. How the hell do I convince him? Ive shown the evidence. it's a petty argument but like I'm determined to prove it
the biggest things for me are the fact that both Pooka and Xisuma agree with my evidence that it's plagiarized, theyre the people who would have the most insight into the situation, and no reason to have a vendetta against matpat or game theory. pooka specifically was a fan who wanted him to cover hermitcraft months earlier, they have no reason to side against matpat if my evidence wasn't obviously more substantial then game theory's "JUST TRUST ME BRO".
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micer2012 · 1 year
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looking around wildly. i'm not caught up w s9 whats going on w the midas curse theory in there
9098YT67TFYVHJBIOJ IM NOT CAUGHT UP EITHER i just know. ren is doing a King Bit crown given to him by bdubs. where he is controlling the finances of the server and recently going a little insane and greedy and corrupt and needing to be taken down. and i think this is spoilers i dont think hes used this skin yet but. on his namemc.
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for how jeff is connected to ren's s8: x x
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micer2012 · 1 year
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Hey, in regards to your EvilX iceberg, when did Keralis die and not get mourned or remembered?
O! that is in Carnevil 3, Xisuma, Pooka, Biffa, tsxcom (pooka's brother i think?), The Dreamer, Generik and Keralis are all in a group running away from the Jeffpocalypse, and Biffa and Keralis are captured.
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Now, of the main 4 people are captured on screen, 3 of them are remembered by one of the survivors as the person who they have the strongest redstone bond (power of love/friendship) with and who's spirits help them fight back against Jeff, Kolumi for Pooka (his wife), Bdubs for Generik, and now Biffa for Xisuma. But Keralis is NOT. anyone's power of love fridged wife like the others. he gets revived/freed alongside all the other hermits at the end of CE3 but I think it's very funny he dies like 2 seconds after Biffa all Dramatically and he is Not remembered and his love used to power up someone like Biffa is to Xisuma9I0VDU8SYIVOSD. sad. well theres other guys
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