#qadmins situation

[ace-apple]

>be professional french labor union >get told about worker rights violation in a minecraft server project >dont contact person we're talking about >get mad that he hasnt answered your twitter callout post yet >sue

[pommunist]

New testimony from ex Head writer and model artist (amongst other things) of the QSMP, @/Elkcrown on twitter ! and on tumblr @elk-scribe

Link to the Gdoc, long but has a lot of interesting insights especially about the writing side of things

Link to OG thread, check it out for pictures of the work he did for QSMP it’s so so so cool

https://x.com/elkcrown/status/1785299898625089618?s=46&t=fDVoT5qDN_AAqnxYhZF3uQ

édit : extremely important addition by op

[sweevanna]

One month later.

Spanish version

French version

Portuguese version

[greyyson-but-no]

ohhh eggos. huevos. ovos. what a fucking journey its been, that's for sure. from the first day we met you, you won our hearts over. silly little admins playing silly little children eggs that caused just as much mischief as their parents (nearly). let's not forget that philza nearly got dapper instead of chayanne, that would have been a completely different outcome, for sure.

it's really sad that people like cellbit and felps never got to say goodbye to richas. or that missa never got to say goodbye to chay and llulah. or that roier and mariana never got to see pepito again. and it's really fucking sad that this all happened after we (aka me) thought everything was getting better. oh how wrong I was.

though, I am glad that the admins got to leave on their own accord. that they said, hey, this has been great but its time to leave. and while it is sad, let's be happy for them as look forward to the future of qsmp (I say with tears streaming from my eyes lmao)

in honour of the egg event ending, here's a couple of my favourite moments. (most of these will be chay and tallulah since I main phil):

chayanne and phil showing llulah rose's sanctuary

richas, pomme and philza planning to go rescue cellbit and baghera from purgatory

chayanne and missa getting robbed and held at gunpoint by ratackity

every time cellbit gave lullah a flower when they greeted each other (underrated duo for sure, there's so much behind them)

just in general, those times cellbit took care of lullah and chayanne when phil was away

philza seeing code!chay and code!llulah and immediately knowing it wasn't actually them (we love a good father)

phil officially adopting lullah (both times)

slimecicle meeting sunny for the first time and somehow still managing to misclick

misclickduo and juanaflippa in general

all of the dead eggs actually, juana, trump, tilin and bobby chingon!!

bagi screaming at the purgatory!worker when em lost a life during the post-purgatory fights with morning crew

niki and chayanne speaking german together!

every single death family moment, no matter the context, they really were the perfect family, and I will miss them with everything I have

it's very late for me now, so I'm going to end this here, but I don't think this is the end of qsmp. I don't think this is the end of the ccs shenanigans, or hardcore!philza lore he'll bring over, or bbh!demon lore. I don't think it's the end of events or anything like that.

now, more than ever, we need trust. just because the beloved ovos are gone, doesn't mean qsmp ends. we need to understand that wasn't the point of the server, and though it may have become that, now it will revert back to its original purpose: uniting languages and people from different countries. it will continue. just without the eggs. we'll miss you eggos, and

thank you admins for everything you did. it couldn't have been the same without you all o/

[sharptoothed-gaze]

Rant about qsmp management below:

After reading the testimony of the ex-head writer of the qsmp and other past admins I’m so confused. Like,, who the fuck was the one making calls saying “this specific task has to be done within a day” out of nowhere???

For what purpose?? It makes zero sense to me how you could require /any/ team to come up with so many assets so quickly when the head writer, designers, social media accounts, AND translators all had no clue what they were ultimately going to be used for. Where the fuck was the crunch coming from? There isn’t a rule saying mc servers must have a rushed event every specific number of days, so nothing /had/ to be done this way.

I’m just so fascinated by the short sightedness of this system?? Especially because these dates and deadlines were made up entirely internally. Fans didn’t make up when Purgatory /must/ go live. The social media accounts were only told about the event a bit before us, much to their panic and confusion. Then, that sudden announcement results in fans getting excited for a new event, all while the head writer was being told they had a day to write scripts for everything. I’m so confused how a project could so consitantly create its own issue. Workers were clearly suffering this way and for no reason. A basic level of scheduling, a simple calendar, would fix this. Hell just put dates on the discord server in a shared channel only used for announcements so people can see.

This entire failure is something so solvable too which is probably what gets me! Like wtf, person at the top of the pyramid, you’re the one making the rules?? The dates are what you make them to be higher ups! Nothing was stopping the decision makers from pushing their expectations back a bit and giving people even just a week to work.

This entire thing reads like a non-creative with zero management experience being in charge of the project. That’s the only way I can wrap my head around someone thinking script writing, modeling, and website design could happen /consistently/ within a few hours notice.

That’s the kind of opinion my mom would have about anything art or creativity related. It’s disheartening as fuck when someone essentially thinks you press a button and then you just instantly spit out work. It shows that they don’t understand the time and effort required to make something good.

Such a blatant lack of understanding or appreciation like that grinds my gears. No matter how you cut the cake, after a certain point it shows an unwillingness to care and a lack of respect. WHICH SUCKS BECAUSE THIS IS A CREATIVE PROJECT!!! The qsmp /required/ a high level of care about these fields if they wanted to maintain the image they had.

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Anyway, I know this is a negatively skewed rant and it’s very frustrating, but I want it to be clear that Creatives will always deserve better. Everyone deserves better than a manager who doesn’t understand/give a shit about their craft. If that is the case, they at the very least, need to hire someone who does.

[nocinovae]

If they were gonna do this why didn’t they just do it from right after the short shutdown.

Like if I remember the planning for all the start of the server took a while and even tho it’s not a complete start of a server they’ve lost like all their big writers, developers, admins.

Most of the players aren’t really interested or too much have stuff going on now so like are they getting new people? That takes a while to gather and plan?

Also I don’t feel like they’ve even tried to regain trust or show us they’ve changed. They just wave shiny new things in our faces. I’m so cautious towards anything from QStudios bc all I can think is “did the creator get paid” “are the admins rn treated okay?” I mean they haven’t even compensated or communicated anything or hell even just an apology and acknowledgment of what the admins went through this past year.

It’s so frustrating bc I want to like it. It’s still my hyperfixation as hard as I’m trying to throw myself into other content (bless the shelter mwah).

It drives me insane because regaining trust could be pretty easy. Like now we can even hold the CEO accountable bc we don’t know anyone behind the scenes in charge of QStudios. Which to me just makes me even more wary of trusting them.

Gah I could rant for days. It makes my brain feel like it’s gonna explode ffs

[antimony-medusa]

Today in “apparently communication is impossible in 2024” the French union never contacted Quackity beyond a Twitter call-out???

[catsinaspacesuit]

Quackity is giving some updates about QSMP structural changes:

- He has been on many calls and reading comments, but is still not done.

- People who were in charge some of the financial and administrative wrong doings were fired.

- The QSMP wouldn't last much longer if I had kept going the way I was doing.

- He is basically restarting the administration almost from zero

- There won't be more individual update accounts for each creator or each language at least for a while

- There won't be any eggs or npcs **TEMPORARILY**

-Creators will be in charge of their own lore and the team is not going to intervene in that anymore

- The competitive level is going to slow down

- The server will be in basic terms

- The server might be re opened but that doesn't mean everything is fixed

*feel free to add the things i forgot*

[anachronistic-falsehood]

leans into the mic. the qsmp streams and events are not to distract from the admin situation. the new admin team (which likely includes some admins who stayed from the last one) likely just want to have fun on the server they’re on. they’re allowed to do that. thank u <3

[trashfangirlsworld]

I think it's important for people that aren't from the US to know that quackity having his address doxxed isn't just dangerous because crazy fans might show up at his door.

It is incredibly dangerous for any cc that lives in the US to have their address leaked because they can be swatted with just a 911 call, and it can happen more then one time.

I greatly suggest watching qtcinderella's interview with anthony padilla where she specifically talks about multiple experiences with swatting, that were so bad she got actual ptsd from them.

It is extremely important to note that qt and ludwig are white and this is how traumatizing those experiences were for them, even with their privilage. Quackity is not a white man, quackity is a mexican man, living in a country with a police force known for their racism and xenophobia, which has actively gotten many innocent people killed simply because of their race or where they came from. Swatting is danger for any cc, but for quackity it is even more so.

So no, what happened to quackity wasn't just a tiny oopsy daisy, as accidental as it may have started, and I think people that try to justify it or dismiss it are disgusting and I please ask that you stay away from this blog.

[ace-apple]

im genuinely so baffled i cant help but fucking laugh histerically cuz how the FUCK is this real. labor union trying to discuss legal matters through EXCLUSIVELY twitter callout post. i cant believe this.

[pommunist]

Here’s the english translation of Lea’s interview that she did for Nat_ali’s stream on twitch (Avril 7th 2024).

For those who don’t know, Léa used to be an admin at Quackity studios. She was an actor, writer, builder, translator, illustrator and community manager on the QSMPGlobal twitter account. She played many characters such as DanSir the capybara and Lapin the french rabbit (blue tie).

Huge, huge thanks to @pikmininaplane and @valictini who helped translating this ♥️

I’ll also add that I don’t think Twitter has made a translation of the interview yet, so feel free to share it over there as well.

[missycolorful]

i hope any non-english speakers on qsmpblr know that they are welcome here, and that they are not obligated to speak english to be part of this community. anyone who tells you otherwise can go fuck themselves. no one should feel scared or ashamed in speaking their native language. the qsmp is about breaking language barriers, forming bonds with people that we might not have communicated with before, and despite everything going on right now, that has not changed. we had a language day last month, where everyone wrote posts in their first language, and it was fantastic and maybe we can have another day like this in the future, but we should also encourage more people so they can feel comfortable doing this every day.

[hey-i-am-trying]

"I saw some of you commenting about qsmp here, I will come back to the server once they regularize the situation of empanada's admin (that was my condition to them)! All the feedback she and other admins made I made a point of personally passing it on to the team, to guarantee they are being heard. We made some calls with quackity too, so I know he is trying his best to make the most people happy.

I truly hope all is fixed soon and we reach a point where everybody is comfortable and happy to be in the project, which I believe was the purpose since the beginning"

[marsstarsnstuff]

/gen

Do people understand the reason Q cannot apologize about the situation right now? Or are people a bit confused?

It's basically something in the US court system, that when someone is involved in a case and apologizes for the issues and takes the blame (rightful or not) the others in the same case can use it to put all the blame on one person and the others would get off scott free.

That is something that does actually happen, and I have had experience with. I can explain a little if people want but the circumstances are different as mine is around family and inheritance mostly.

So, yes, while the admins, 100% deserve explanations and apologies, due to leaks of private messages (that they are in their own right to show) I personally do not think an apology will be given until any of the higher up issues have been resolved.

*Edit*

Thanks @qsmpbutwithsignlanguage :

"An apology is considered a complete admission of guilt in the court of law in the United States of America, for more specific terminology. "

I forgot the specifics when writing this

[nocinovae]

The more I hear about the details and testimonies of the qsmp admins (specifically rn Lea’s interview on Nat_Ali’s channel) the more the existence of and seeing them having fun on The Shelter makes me so happy.

It warms my heart to see something good that came out of this and they were able to find each other.