#mcytblr votes

[mcytblrconfessions]

not sure if something similar has been done before, but i’m curious

People that follow mcytblrconfessions, whats your main mcyt fandom? 🗳️

hermitcraft

dsmp

empires

qsmp

sdmp

smplive

life series

lifesteal smp

a POW creations smp

karmaland

other

apologies if these are poor options, i mostly stay in my own niches (dsmp, qsmp, karmaland) so im not very knowledgeable on what’s popular outside of that ;w;

[turboputt03]

SEMIFINALS TIME!!!

[theminecraftbee]

for anyone wondering where i've been: i got... distracted... by a potential huge project. I was considering running a mcrp project/smp project, inspired by stuff like fan life series servers, with the rest of the sexyman team! but... a different one. a very specific one, even.

now, I'm aware there are probably outstanding questions, so if you're uncertain, please read more event/server details below the cut and see if it interests you!

I don't know anything about Survivor–what would this show even be like?

so if you know nothing about survivor, it's easy to think it's a show about surviving on a deserted island. it is that, but it's not mainly that. survivor, at its heart, is a social deception game, about making close alliances, betraying people, and social dynamics under pressure–hence why i suspect it would be a great fit for mcrp.

the way the show would be structured is this: a certain number of contestants would be placed on a (slightly modified) survival server, set up to be difficult to survive on. they are placed into two "tribes", the teams for the first half of the show. every episode, they would spend time with their tribes bonding, surviving, searching for secrets, and base building. then, they would compete in challenges. the tribe that loses the immunity challenge must go to tribal council, where they vote on which member to send home. this continues with the tribes eventually merging together into one tribe and immunity becoming individual before there are only two contestants left. at that time, they go in front a jury of their former fellow contestants, who will determine who the sole survivor is.

while challenge performance is one key to winning (as it prevents you from being a target in the first place), the other, bigger key, as you can likely see, is forming alliances and voting blocks strategically to get your opponents voted out and yourself kept in. this makes a great vehicle for social emergent storytelling, where narratives emerge about who is honest, who is a liar, who is good at the social game, who is bad at it, and what people will do in order to become sole survivor.

in other words: it's kind of like what current-day mcrp is ALREADY about. except its a gameshow also, and the very construction of the thing is designed to cause tensions by its very nature.

it's great! and you wouldn't be required to know anything about survivor–our host would explain to the audience all of the mechanics as they came up, as would production staff to the players.

You keep calling it "a show"–what do you mean by that?

the result of this project would be an edited youtube series, like survivor, of likely around twelve episodes. each episode would show footage from the game, as well as a lot of "confessionals" shots of the players explaining their opinions, before ending in tribal council! unlike most mcrp series, this would not be a multiple pov affair. it would be one tightly edited project. (this editing, for the record, is the largest overhead; we expect the amount of footage to go through to end up being in the hundreds of hours combined between all the players.)

it's possible that after the show's finale releases we'll release the players to make their own highlights from any footage they take. but the product we're hoping to make is just a single TV show's worth!

what exactly does applying to be a contestant require?

if we get enough interest, once we have enough of the required plugins and builds created and have a better sense of gameplay, we will put out a casting call form. while this will ask a number of questions to help us get to know you as a potential player, you're going to be REQUIRED to have the following things: a tumblr blog that you can link us to, the ability to record an audition tape in minecraft to send to us (so that we can get an idea of what audio we'd be working with, mostly), enough free time for us to be able to schedule recording sessions into, and a willingness to agree to some rules about keeping things secret until the finale airs and about rp etiquette. that's it! there are no other requirements–you don't have to know survivor, you don't have to already do mcyt or stream, you don't have to have friends, none of it, and while we'll ask you for those details, we're going to be looking for a large blend of people from across mcyt! anyone (who can send us mostly clean audio) can be considered!

EDIT: we would ALSO REQUIRE YOU BE AT LEAST 18. sorry i forgot this before! this is for a number of reasons i don't want to get into, but will be prominent on the actual applications.

what exactly would being a production staff member entail?

we're mainly looking for two things in production staff: a willingness to run replaymod for us and act as cameramen by following contestants around getting footage on the actual recording days, and a willingness to work with us on what's likely to be a fairly intense editing and "scripting" period during and after recording, during which we're going to have to scrub through massive amounts of footage and form it into a coherent narrative. we may, depending on how bad we realize we've bitten off more than we can chew, also end up looking for build team members for the production crew. if these things sound fun to you (they sound fun to me god help me), then go ahead and select this option! just know it's mutually exclusive with playing; no one in the production staff will be considered for the contestants. this includes my friends and myself who've already agreed to help me.

these applications would come out before the casting call, since even before casting call we're going to need to do playtests and dry runs and have things mostly ready. so keep an eye out!

will this be run on your blog?

nope we're going to make a new blog (and youtube channel) (and branding!) for this eventually, just want to interest check before we go through all the branding steps. (also, i've even gotten us a specific gmail for this that we will likely end up using for certain communications.)

for now that's all the FAQ i think that is required. let me know if you have more! and i hope you all are interested in this baby of a project that's taken over my mind for the past few weeks!

[ommmmara]

(kinda late) valentine’s cards themed around the mcytblr sexymen finalists!!

[hauntedbagelpizzacroissant]

Why must we put two funky lil dudes against each other😔😔😔

[summertideempire]

Round 6:

[greenscreen-dress]

Vote Joe Hills for MCYTblr Sexyman I spent four hours on this :D

... admittedly 1 of those hours could have been saved had I figured out how layers work on Dotpict a bit quicker lol. Fun though! Biggest thing I've ever pixelarted so I'm already proud ^^

Anyway there's a bit over an hour left so go go vote Joe!! If they beat Quackity I'll make an improved version of this with uuuh more frames? Better glowy bits? Touhou rainbow crystal wings?? Vote and find out later, idk!

Vote here thankyouu~♪

[shepscapades]

He’s crying because you voted for Scott btw. If you even care

[chambers003]

oh man i’m slammed back into life series mode and i cant stop it even though i full well know it could be a scam. but it might not be. and i need to do something about it!

so i’m holding my traditional poll. i’ve held this three times, [poll 1], [poll 2] and [poll 3], with the most recent one being when we knew secret life was coming.

PLEASE ramble in the tags i LOVE hearing your thoughts and i LOVE getting weird justifications for smps i’ve never heard of. and it doesn’t have to be just smps either, someone submitted the hunger games on one of these it was great i respect it

[sleepytiredrobot]

VOTE JOE HILLS

[mcytblrconfessions]

Should the minecraft womens kiss? 🗳️

[thatonecode]

okay but its been INSANE that polls have been this close considering the difference in sub counts like youre telling me joehills ??? joe "159k on youtube" hills is almost DEAD tied with quackity ??? quackity "6.32 MILLION on youtube" hq ??? quackity "top twitch viewership surpassed all of joehills subcount" hq ?????????? AND THEYRE TIED ALMOST EXACTLY 50/50 ?????????? ive been monitoring the live vote count and its been between less than 50 votes for a few hours now and at one point got down to six votes difference

vote joehills. literally every vote counts at this point

[bdoubleowo]

one reason you should vote for Cleo in the mcytblr sexymen polls is that crowning her the best/sexyiest mcyt on tumblr is a fun and petty way to get back at the people who harassed them off the site

[catmaidetho]

VOTE FOR ETHO. THIS DEFINITELY TOOK ME LONGER THAN 30 MINUTES. YEP.

links to the all the art and artists are under the cut! :D

ranartical / redixis / wolfythewitch

binibiningdarna / saphusia / lunarcrown

beethubs / ranartical / babygirlbdubs

[waitingawhile]

basically what’s happening right now

[wisecrackingeric-2]

You know you wanna vote for him. You wanna vote for him sooooo badly. That man is on twitter and twitch BEGGING to win. You wouldn’t let Joe Hills down, would you?

Also my partner described him as “looking like what an awesome guitar riff sounds like” if that’s not convincing enough idk what is