We are proud to release our official (fan-created) archivist master spreadsheet!!!

Essentially, this spreadsheet contains all the links to the QSMP streams, including official YouTube VODs and fan-uploaded VODs if the official ones have yet to exist. The QSMP streams we have tracked are listed in the spreadsheet. Feel free to spread the spreadsheet around and share this resource!

this might just be because i'm a bit older than your average mcyt fan, but it makes me kind of sad to see all these younger fans scramble to wipe their mcyt fanworks off the internet the second a content creator is revealed to have done something awful.

don't get it twisted, I'm a big believer in rescinding financial support to ccs you no longer agree with or admire by unsubscribing, deciding not to buy merch, or refusing to give them ad revenue by watching their content. if you don't feel comfortable giving someone money, don't give them your money. material support isn't what i'm talking about here - I'm talking about fanfic, fansongs, fanart. yknow, content that fans create for themselves and each other, stuff that's not for ccs.

in the past year (and especially the past week, obviously) i've seen tons of mcyt fans saying they're planning to delete their art (or that they already have deleted) because they don't want their work to be associated with content creators who behaved badly, and that they want "a fresh start." I've seen fan writers say the same thing about their fics. and like, this is fine, do what you want with your stuff, but i'll be honest...it does make me sad that so many younger fans seemingly have been made to feel such a high degree of responsibility for ccs that they're unable to enjoy fandom (a thing that is FOR US! FOR YOU!) or take any measure of pride in their past fanworks.

again, at the end of the day you should do what you want with your own shit. but what i will say is, if what you want to do with your work is delete it, at least think first about why you're considering the nuclear option. you aren't responsible for a cc's behavior, and that goes for literally anyone who's ever had a hand in making anything you like: books, movies, games, anything. you shouldn't be made to feel ashamed of having created fan content for a piece of media that a shitty person was involved in making. straight up, this kind of shame isn't something i believe should exist in fandom, because it's parasocial in the same way that positive emotions towards media/creators can be parasocial.

and also, as someone who's been involved in fandom for a long time, i can say with confidence that creators will keep disappointing you like this. there are shitty people out there. if you're searching for a piece of media with zero shitty people ever involved in the project, you will not find it. i'm not saying this to normalize shitty behavior on the part of creators, I'm saying this to emphasize that bearing the shame and guilt of every creator to this degree is not sustainable or healthy (and it's not how fandom used to operate, but that's a conversation for another day, perhaps.)

i understand why so many folks are considering deleting their fanworks, and if that's you...think about it before you do it. that's all i'm asking. you don't want to create a habit of divesting yourself of all evidence of having been passionate about art created by someone who sucks, because if you do get into that habit, then your chances of ever truly enjoying a fandom again are, unfortunately, pretty slim.

If I had a nickel for every time I joined a fandom with amazing fan art that often depicts a main character with eyes surrounding him and the theme of “watchers”, that also adopted a random band I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

Cellbit, head archivist of the Federation’s Census Bureau, Isla Quesadilla 👁️

TW EYES !!

hi. more clowns btw

[reblogs > likes!]

I put my wife (and a donkey, a desk, and a photocopier) in a void while she was working on a lore book.

Birdie: This book is getting out of hand. Me: Yeah. Yeah a lot of things have gotten out of hand. Birdie: .... Birdie: ...ok how did you get it UNDER me?

For the ask game, 2, 27, and 15?

2. What was the first SMP or cubito you ever wrote for?

Hermitcraft! I'm 99.9% sure it was Hermitcraft. My first big fic was Hound's Tooth, and it was Doc-centric. I might have written some one-shots before then? But I'm not sure.

15. Writing in first, second or third person?

Third person. I have never liked first person (fic or otherwise) and while second person is an interesting challenge, it's not something I enjoy working in for more than vignettes.

27. There is no 27 so I'll give you the most recent sentence I've written instead!

He seemed… embarrassed, in the same way he might be embarrassed to find a previously unnoticed stain on his cloak. Like his tenets had surprised him by mattering.

q!cellbit designs look like that joke about the mechanisms being jon sims’s college band send tweet--

Covers for my fic series, Learning to Live With Ourselves, which is a rewrite of the ending of the Dream SMP parallel to canon that explores C!Tubbo through the lens of Dissociative Identity Disorder! Each alter is based either upon an abandoned plotline or upon a persona C!Tubbo has!

Links beneath the cut to read!

Calling for Hermitcraft Archivists!!!

We want to expand our team to archive for Hermitcraft season 10 since there is more of an emphasis on streams lately!

If you want to contribute to preserving Hermitcrat VODs from disappearing and keeping history from being lost, sign up here! Even if you have little to no experience in tracking or archiving feel free to reach out and we'll teach you!

Note that we are not directly afflicted with the content creators. This is fan-ran project so none of us earn profit.

If you have any questions feel free to send them to the ask box or join our Discord to get more details about the role: https://discord.gg/DMGbFJspfF

obsessed w pixl's new empires character/concept, that's SO FUCKING COOL,

i've seen a lot of people talk about mcyt as a constantly burning library of alexandria recently, and to some extent that's true. people are constantly deleting their blogs, going scorched earth with animatics, fanfics, etc., that they made. but i've also seen people (three in the last few days!) make this claim about VODs, when talking about large fandoms like DSMP and QSMP, and.... guys. that was true in 2020. that's not true anymore. archivists have been working tirelessly for years now to make sure that isn't true.

the dsmp VOD masterlist is here. in november 2020, it's missing 16 VODs, if i am counting correctly--which is still a fairly small minority, but it's a lot, and it sucks!--but in november of 2021, it's missing one, and that's because the cc of that VOD does copyright takedowns, not because the archivists didn't save it. no one in the archivist project is deleting VODs off youtube with no backups the way people are deleting fanfics. three months ago, one of my dsmp archivist friends finished coding a tool that let them reconstruct VODs out of twitch clips, and reconstructed six tubbo dsmp VODs from 2020. not only are we basically not losing VODs anymore, we are actively gaining VODs that have been lost for years, that were thought to be lost forever. the library isn't burning anymore; it's being rebuilt.

the qsmp VOD masterlist is here. it is usually a month or two behind the present day, to give creators time to archive their own VODs, but... look at it. in january of 2024, every single qsmp vod was archived. the same is true of december of 2023, and november, and the vast majority of months for the past year.

i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem. just a few days ago, i realized that a lifesteal VOD from last year was missing--that its youtube upload was messed up somehow, and no one noticed and it wasn't mirrored on the internet archive and the person who uploaded it deleted the original file. and now it's gone forever. this made me super sad! like i said: i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem.

but... look at the lifesteal VOD masterlist here. lifesteal's a smaller fandom than qsmp or dsmp. open the 2022 tab and you'll see months and months of lost VODs, of no one's VODs being saved, because there weren't any archivists saving them. then open the 2023 tab and see: they lost four VODs, over the course of a year. even in smaller fandoms, archivists are working. they're making progress. they're saving VODs. in 2024, lifesteal archivists screenrecorded five streams on tumblr live to make sure they would not become lost media. mcyt may be a constantly burning library of alexandria, but the people with fire extinguishers are dedicated. they're making incredible progress. i know people with petabytes of VODs saved, who have spent money on extra storage for this. i know people who are constantly running up against their storage limits as they download/upload to the internet archive/delete for space/rinse and repeat. a decent fraction of the time, my internet at home is slow because it's downloading VODs.

and these aren't the only mcyt fandoms with archiving projects! the outsiders smp VOD masterlist is here. origins smp VOD masterlist is here. smp earth VOD masterlist is here. rats smp VOD masterlist is here. there are so many others that i just don't happen to know about. the older and smaller a fandom is, the more likely it is to not have an attached archiving project, or for the archive to be missing a lot of VODs. but... guys, we've saved a lot. there are people out there, working tirelessly to save even more. yes, mourn what we have lost--the archivists i know are also the ones mourning the most for the VODs that are, in fact, forever lost media. but don't dismiss how much people have saved. we are making progress. we are losing less and less every month. the vast majority of the dsmp and qsmp still exist, i am not going to say they're the same experience as watching live because they're really not, but.. they're out there. people have put in a lot of work to save them.

if you have publicly available VOD masterlists or other mcyt archiving projects that aren't on this post, please add them in a reblog. i want this post to serve as a reference for how much archivists have saved in this community; unfortunately, i'm not super connected to every community. but i know that--for every person deleting things, there are people working, tirelessly & with little external reward, in so many different mcyt fandoms, to save things. and we should appreciate that more often.

Okay so I was never really in fandom before I discovered MCYT, and one of the things that just delights me is how it seems that the longer you're in the fandom— three years and counting for me— the more likely you are to spec into some kind of job.

So like I've gone into event running and exchange participation, and then there are people who've specced into becoming archivists, and the people who do the wiki, and the people who run update accounts, and the people who reblog literally every piece of art in the tag for their guys, and the people who update a fic once a week, and the artists who take requests, and the people who organize and run zines, and the people who moderate fandom servers, and the people who liveblog, and the people who run RP blogs, and the tag wranglers and stats analysis people, and the people who do huevember, and the people who sign up for every zine, and like— we're all evolving like eeve pokémons into fandom stage "been here a while", specialization x. I just find that so fun.

So my question is, if you share my specific derangement and you gave yourself a job, what's your specialization What job did you give yourself?

spokeishere goodbye declaration. [explodes]

just noticed today FalseSymmetry seems to have had a lot of skins removed from her NameMC page, including all of her MCC skins :( the way namemc works, the skins are still be on the site, just no longer accessible from the account. @setacin has found a few, but there’s still a lot no longer attached to that account - if anyone else has links or knows a way to search MCC pls post what you have or reach out!

for any archivists/data hoarders - this is maybe a sign to start collecting links for skins you don’t want to disappear. grian’s namemc was also near entirely wiped, and that was completely salvaged through the work of fans, but for mcyts with smaller fandoms, there may not be anyone doing this :( i just hope it doesn’t become more of a trend, because namemc backlogs are so useful for artists and archivists

UPDATE: we have all but one MCC skins on a spreadsheet!

For folks who missed today's QSMP Movie Night or want to rewatch it with the original audio intact, I've uploaded the Movie Night portion of several members' VODs to a public Google Drive. I will keep these files up until Monday, December 4th, so be sure to watch and/or download whatever you need before then!

UPDATE: The lovely folks at @mcyt-archives have added all Movie Night 2 VODs to the QSMP Archivist VOD Masterlist. If you're still having trouble finding an unmuted version of the VOD you want to watch, check out their archive!

[ As a side note: thank you to everyone who left such kind comments & messages on the previous VOD Archival post. You're all so sweet, it made me feel really happy and appreciated :') ]