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mcytblrsexymen · 1 year
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MCYT SEXYMAN WINNER JOE HILLS
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[ID: the sexyman bracket, showing that the final winner is Joe Hills]
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theminecraftbee · 1 month
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being in true sexyman nostalgia mode today (on account of. IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR BABY.) i think one of the most fascinating things about it is that we will never manage to do that again. like, not in a "we couldn't organize it better" way; there were better ways to do the spreadsheet, we would just turn off comments on posts and anon asks from day one so that we wouldn't then get people accusing us of censorship while we tried and failed to control the tide of things that ended up in the comments and inbox, we'd definitely have a WAY higher non-hermit contingent, both thanks to qsmp and thanks to the sexyman blog and medusa now having MUCH wider reach to other corners of the fandom and the original spread not all rooting at me, etc.
but the reason we couldn't do it again is that i don't know if we could ever replicate the exact circumstances that lead to it blowing up quite to the extent it blew up.
it was while tumblr polls and doing tumblr poll brackets on tumblr itself was still new-ish, and people were still excited about them. the idea of a mcytblr bracket was basically brand new; i won't claim we did it FIRST (because i have no idea if we did and doubt we did), but certainly we did it big first. so there's that; we can never again invent in real time "shit people are sending us threats about fraud lets legalize fraud because its funny, we can't stop it, and that neutralizes that drama as a thing anyone will take seriously", and then in turn accidentally invent a fandom culture of. um. wide-spread voter fraud.
(i don't know if we should apologize for, uh, causing the specific way mcytblr voter frauds. i still think it was better than the alternative at least, especially after seeing how so many other polls crashed and burned after us. there were MANY things we could have done better but i have seen SO MANY ways we could have done things worse since then so i think we came out looking pretty okay.)
but also: february 2023 was a very different time in mcytblr. we were in a hermitcraft dead period, where most of the hermits were either on vacation or playing tcg (which was fun, but didn't end up generating that much fandom activity by that time in february). the former dsmp crew was very much doing Nothing (and in that awkward space when the entire fandom knew dsmp 2 was never happening, but also people were still claiming it would happen, so it was just... busy waiting). qsmp didn't exist yet. there was no ongoing life series and wouldn't be for some time. i think even the dominioners and lifestealers were in a fairly dead zone. there was very little new for people to be excited about, mcyt content-wise.
enter: our poll. our poll which cleo then thinks its funny to call out on twitter. our poll, which was not only new mcyt content for the fandom to interact with (thanks to the fact we KEPT GETTING CC INTERACTIONS???), but participatory.
for about two weeks, we were the mcyt event de jour.
and like. the thing is. now we're in february 2024. mcyt is BOOMING. a new hermitcraft season JUST STARTED. we came off of vault hunters before that. meanwhile, qsmp just restarted and is, if i'm understanding correctly, booming. they just added a new guy! the two current juggernauts of the fandom are in FULL SWING. i honestly think we'd be somewhat overtaken by the fact things are actually happening in fandom. there's stuff to do that ISN'T go insane about a poll.
and it's not new, and we've seen it all before now, and frankly, it's hard to cause a mass hysteria event TWICE. lightning in a bottle, as they say.
i think part of the reason we all just REMEMBER mcytblr sexyman so much is that we could never, ever recreate it, so it remains crystalized in a single moment in time, impossible to replicate, forever memorable.
anyway: HAPPY ONE YEAR TO THE JOE HILLS SWEEP BABY,
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fence-time · 1 year
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This is how it currently feels
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ashiyn · 1 year
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okay then!
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turboputt03 · 1 year
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SEMIFINALS TIME!!!
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vitrines · 1 year
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cheesecrackery · 1 year
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The Once-ler Kinnies are fighting!!!1!1!111!
Insp. by this tweet lol
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ommmmara · 1 year
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(kinda late) valentine’s cards themed around the mcytblr sexymen finalists!!
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crabbbage · 1 year
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#scarsweep
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Why must we put two funky lil dudes against each other😔😔😔
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braxiatel · 1 year
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Rendoc diveorce real
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mcytblrsexymen · 1 year
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MCYT SEXYMAN TOURNAMENT ROUND FIVE
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[ID: the sexyman bracket, with fifth round matches as detailed below.]
The polls will go live starting at 10AM EST, Saturday 11 February.
If you are just here to vote, not from tumblr, check here.
If you have questions about the tournament, check the FAQ before asking.
You can check live vote counts here—thanks, @this-glittering-world!
MATCHES (quick links to each poll added as polls are posted):
GoodTimesWithScar (1) vs Docm77 (8)
Ethoslab (4) vs MumboJumbo (5)
ZombieCleo (2) vs BDoubleO100 (7)
Joe Hills (3) vs Quackity (22)
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localwheel · 1 year
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LETS GO SCAR!!!!!!!!!!!
GG Y'ALL
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panidanya · 1 year
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MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE
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VOTE FOR CLEO
VOTE FOR ETHO
VOTE FOR PEARL
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theminecraftbee · 1 year
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okay genuinely fascinating thing to me: despite the degree to which doing voter fraud became a meme, every poll/survey of people taken asking "did you do voter fraud?" has the answer being no for the vast majority of people. like, even after we, the mods, basically went 'we are not forbidding fraud and are tacitly encouraging it' people still didn't. and some of that had to be like me, ie, mostly laziness, right? but also it's FASCINATING to me that even given the fact we all said "you can break the rules all you want" most people didn't break the rules like what does that say psychologically i'm so. curious.
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congratulations its been a wild one
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