Hello! I've been inactive due to the current events in the mcyt community, but I've been keeping up with the qsmp admin situation and I thought I'd share some opinions because the amount of doomposting I've seen the last few weeks has been more than I've seen in any fandom in a while and I feel like it's reached the point where people really need to chill the fuck out because they're not thinking straight and actively not helping. Everything I'm gonna say is based on stuff I've seen on both tumblr and twitter.

they should not promote/release merch! : one of the things that baffles me the most tbh; how do you expect any employee to be payed then? Merch is so far the only big source of income for the server besides q's own cc salary or whatever income they get through the official qsmp channel on twitch and youtube (which I don't think is a lot). "I get that they said they have no funds, but still it doesn't feel right"... sorry but at this point I don't know what to tell you, do you expect them to pull money out of their asses? You can't demand that they stop making merch and then complain that they can't afford the twitter admins at the same time. If you don't feel comfortable buying anything from them it's fine obviously, but if your reason for it is that you're helping the admins then I have bad news for you. I have seen people propose that quackity sets up a patreon, and while I think it would be a good idea, I understand why he's not doing it, since with the merch he can at least give something back to the people that choose to support his project instead of people just giving him money for free, especially with what's happening now. Also with how much hate he's been receiving simply for the merch I can't imagine that a patreon would be recieved well.

we don't know if the money is going to the admins/ they should not use pomme's likeness! : the money is definitely going to go to the employees and admins because otherwise the server would not last. And as much as I understand people feeling protective over pomme's admin, quackity studios is very much allowed to sell merch of the character because it is not the likeness of the admin, it's a minecraft model made by the people that work there. Would you have rathered they skip her character entirely? Do you really think that would have been okay?. Also correct me if I'm wrong, but I've seen posts and tweets saying that pomme's admin has been confirmed to come back with the other eggs whenever it happens by pierre, who talked with her admin.

the admins of the update accounts got fired, it means they want to fire everyone, they aren't making things better! : it sucks that the updates accounts had to end and I feel bad for every twitter admin that clearly cared a lot about the project, but unfortunately it had to happen if there simply isn't enough money to pay them adequately like they deserved and ultimately the update accounts were not essential to keep the project going, so it makes sense that they were let go unfortunately. This is not gonna be the case for the egg admins because if they got fired (which they didn't), the server would basically end. Just because a cc does not know when they will be back does not mean it's not gonna happen. Just because tubbo randomly said that he's not sure if they will be back does not mean they were fired; tubbo is normally not a reliable source of information, even less so when he's been live nonstop for the past 20 days, which is prior to everything happening. If you genuinely didn't expect a reduction in non essential staff considering everything, then you have unreasonable expectations on how this stuff goes. As I write this, I'm seeing people saying that "they would understand this decision if q had set up a patreon to pay the admins", and once again I don't understand how people don't realize why quackity might not be keen on the idea of having his fans pay his own employees for his own project instead of, you know, doing it himself; and, again, do not fool yourself into thinking it would be recieved well. That being said, it's fair to criticize how everything was communicated to the admins, but I'll get to this in more detail later.

quackity should not have uninstalled social media, he's trying to avoid everything! : he's not avoiding anything, he's been off social media for a while now, which is why it took him that long to remove wilbur from the server. He has every right to not want to look at social media, as his focus should be on restructuring his server instead of doomscrolling on twitter because people think he needs to see how much people dislike him. The only people that he should talk to are those that have important information to tell him, like josè with the document. He explicitly said on stream where to contact him if you have helpful information and I'm sure that despite multiple well liked posts saying not to spam his email, people are definitely doing it anyway, which is probably gonna slow the whole thing down even more. I hope josè's document is able to be seen with pierre's help as well.

quackity studios is not communicating with their employees and leaving them in the dark and that's not okay : I agree with this. i think a huge chunk of doomposting lately has been due the lack of communication not with the audience, but with the admins, and they deserve to know what is happening behind the scenes more then us since this is about their current or future job.... that being said, I do kind of understand why they're being so secretive and shutting everyone out, and that's due to all the "leaks" that have been spread online. I understand the anger but I really wish some people would realize that discussing leaked bts lore stuff in ccs discord servers does not help the situation at all and instead makes it seem like they're only doing this to rile up the fandom against quackity studios by using the lore of people's fav characters.

At the end of the day, I think people just aren't used to dealing with a situation that does not have a clear cut solution and someone to clearly hate, so the result is this doomposting and the over aggressiveness toward anything related to the project. Personally, I haven't witnessed anything that made me lose faith in the qsmp like some people have been saying, as every change that we've seen so far coincides with what quackity said on stream a while ago. I only wish things were communicated properly to the admins clearly, as they're the ones most affected, so I hope that's resolved soon. Ultimately quackity is singlehandedly restructuring the server from basically zero, has had to fire people that were misusing money and power and, depending on what josè's document said, is probably gonna have to fire some more. This is not an easy process, nor a quick one, you're not gonna hear about sunshine and rainbows for a while and doomposting about everything you hear because you expected quick change is useless. Think before you speak, have a clear head and most importantly have empathy.

Qsmp situation update

What a fucking mess

I do think the events like today and the egg statue event would be better if the admins had given even just the streamers a schedule for the purgatory event. Wouldn't even have to show what the events are I think just having these days are event days so that they could plan would make it better. The streamers have a life they deserve to be able to plan stuff in advance without being punished for it.

I think this is a problem with the attitude the admin team has had with making everything a surprise. It is useful for a lot of story elements and genuine surprise for roleplay. For events like Purgatory though I do think the team should have been more explicit in how the event is run. In story there's meant to be confusion but that confusion should not be so extreme as not knowing which days are important to log on for.

Ok can I just say something

I know we’ve been talking about some of the decisions that the admins are making at the moment when it comes to story direction, and the thing that absolutely annoys me the most is how they’re not allowing some players to enter the server right now.

It’s for the story’s sake, I know. Some people like Baghera and Pol (who have both said that they are currently lore-locked) should still be stuck in purgatory, and I’m sure they have their reasons for telling Slime to wait but

It’s been like, three weeks??? Idk, I know the admins are constantly working their asses off, but I feel like making sure that players can log on should be at the top of their list.

I watched Forever’s pov from Jaiden’s dungeon quest since I’ve been seeing a lot of people upset about his suspicions on Jaiden and I can see why but it all stems down to the meta gaming knowledge we have as viewers and not being allowed to give it to him so that he won’t misunderstand Jaiden.

If you solely watch Forever, his and Maximus’ suspicions are valid. Guys you have to realize it doesn’t matter how sweet and nice she appears to other people in the server, no one knows her as much we do and as much as the few she interacts with the most in the island. If it was Roier of course he is never going to suspect her. Even if he was spying on her and Cucurucho that boat race day, it was out of concern and worry for her. But for Forever, unfortunately theres just too much coincidences going on that just makes his suspicions for her grow worse and worse. She just lost her son and is in a mental state where she can be easily manipulated. She distracted Baghera when Pomme died. She is working for Cucurucho who works for the feds. He sees that she has a good relationship with Cucurucho (headpats). She was seen talking alone with Quackity and a Worker for the federation. She built her house which Forever thinks is a shrine, in the middle of nowhere instead of near spawn but he doesn’t understand the significance of the Bobby fields to both her, Bobby and Roier. The truth of the situation is, he doesn’t know her as much as Roier or Bad or even Philza does that’s why he can’t fully dismiss these coincidences even after Jaiden explained it to him. You guys can’t just expect him to blindly trust someone he barely knows nor is it smart for him to do so. Remember how he still trusts Cellbit when he was in the same position? And the trust never left him until Cellbit broke his xp farm. Why trust Cellbit and not Jaiden when both of them are doing practically the same thing in his perspective? First of all, he knows how Cellbit ended up and it’s reasonable to believe Jaiden will end up in the same ditch. Second, He knows Cellbit on a deeper level than he knows Jaiden.

He thinks Jaiden is obsessed with Bobby and is willing to do dirty deeds for the federation in exchange for her son but the sad thing about that mentality is it implies that he will do the same for Richas. He can’t see Jaiden who is this attached to her dead son as sound minded because he sees himself in her, absolutely losing her mind to the point of taking the opportunity to have her son back at the expense of the life of others because deep inside he knows when Richas dies, he will do everything he can to bring him back just like her. We know Jaiden genuinely did what she did with good intentions because we saw her cope with grief but Forever didn’t and just sees her as a broken mother.

He spied on her and broke into her home with Maximus. Some people were upset that they did that. They are investigating on something they are suspicious about. Is it wrong? Maybe but is it reasonable? Yes. They don’t trust her, they have to find out more information so that their suspicions can either be confirmed or discredited. It’s unfortunate that he was too late both times and was caught by Cucurucho the last time. If he overheard their conversation, some of his suspicions may have been dismissed. If in the end Forever realizes on his own that Jaiden really is trustworthy and their relationship improves, imagine how much deeper his friendship with Jaiden will be after all they’ve been through. He is willing to protect and support Jaiden despite the suspicions, imagine if the suspicions were dismissed for him.

Ultimately a story without conflict is like a rollercoaster on a straight track. In order for the rider to feel thrill and excitement, there has to be ups and downs, fast and slow moments and loops. This type of misunderstanding causes conflict within the lore of the island. It keeps the story interesting and ultimately will make the resolution that much more satisfying.

being a hispanic fan in qsmp is so upsetting because not only do we barely get content, half the time the streams are like 30% spanish and 70% english since esp streamers never log on at the same time + convos usually happen in eng. im so glad im bilingual but it feels like this

print more hispanics PLEASE its just very sad we never get stuff :( you cant force the streamers already in the server to play BUT ALSO I WANT TO HEAR MY LANGUAGEEE

ok, I'm gonna say this.

I understand we all want to know what's going on with the admin situation and that we want to see progress. I know we want things to be worked on and all that.

But I think it's not as simple as you guys think it is.

This isn't like a public issue, it's more private and I'm sure they don't want this to all go out in public more than it already is.

They want to resolve this whole issue behind the scenes and even may be making sure things are gonna work out fully before even thinking about updating about it to the public.

Also with this issue, it's going to take time and with that there's also plans for the server. Sure they probably should close the server until everything is resolved but plans sometimes have to keep going especially if it was delayed for too long.

And seeing that no cc's have talked negativly about the issue and even Aypierre is still playing the server it may be a sign things are being situated even if we aren't seeing it.

I think overall we just need to be paitient with Quackity and the team that's working with him to resolve this whole situation and wait and see what happens.

Especially as the union is involved now I'm sure they are working on it but it's gonna take time and I feel we all should rember things aren't as simple as we think even if we can think of so many solutions.

Please take care of yourselves and if this all is upsetting you I reccomend taking time off the internet and doing anything else and same goes with if the qsmp is stressing you out. Take as much time away from it and enjoy something else.

Hope I explained well.

Before I say this I need to assure that I adore so many of the things on the qsmp and am very thankful for the admins putting in so much work (though they should be working normal hours and getting paid for it).

Gonna be honest though, there are definitely things that probably cost a fuck ton of money or take so much effort for the people putting it together that really isn't necessary, CERTAINLY not more necessary that the admins' livelihoods.

The full animatics every time a lore related thing happens? Unnecessary. I don't know how they're creating those things but they LOOK expensive and very time consuming. Maybe instead, an npc can give the information during the event, instead of having to make a whole extra video. Or even, film your lore videos in actual minecraft and just show the clip instead of the fancy camera angles and such.

The puzzles at every lore event? Look....some ccs like this sort of thing, but it seems like a lot of work to create for something most of them aren't all that interested in

Speaking of, lore events themselves do not have to happen so often. The amount of times one has happened that I've come out of feeling...underwhelmed? Don't hype something up and keep your poor creators and mods and even fans up wayyy too late just for it to be unnecessary. Sure, learning new information is good, but how about everyone just finds it out in their own time instead of them (usually French ccs or those in similar time zones) having to stay up til like 3am for nothing.

Maybe don't require so many ccs to do stuff together. It makes a lot more sense to have just 1-5 ccs at a character specific-event than the Whole Server

Like, it was pretty immersion breaking to establish a "stealth mission", and then have the entire server go to it.

And, of course, the infamous Disliked lore event: that goddamn MAZE. Don't make the event, or even GETTING to the event tedious or frustrating

Not to be totally negative though, examples of events I really enjoyed: festa junina, Halloween, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. I find my favourite lore usually isn't one that happened during an "event", because its impossible for good roleplay when there's so many people there. I feel like there needs to a separation of "this cc wants to do some story roleplay" and "we want to have what is basically a party in minecraft"

* I have some thoughts about this event as a whole and it might be classed as like crit or neg so just want to pre-warn in case people want to avoid it! *

I understand that this is purgatory and the point is for everyone to be ruthless and sad and it’s hard and bad and difficult for a reason etc etc I understand. I just think that the general over arching story of the qsmp for the past few months has been so so angsty and dark with very few wins or hope. The eggs are missing, parents are grieving, Cellbit is on a murder spree and pushing everyone except roier away, Phil was kidnapped and is now never sure what’s real or not, BBH has just been continuously spiralling since the eggs left, Pac has suffered about a million traumas and so much more like it doesn’t really matter who you watch there’s not a lot of hope rn. So to then throw in this really intense “everything is supposed to be bad and hard and kill and die” it’s honestly kind of draining, for me personally anyway. Like I’ve been watching since day 1, I love this server sm so I’m saying all of this because I want to keep loving this server and the stories. I really think some sort of reprieve needs to happen soon, it doesn’t need to be happy, fun, sunshine and rainbows 24/7 but maybe just some pay off for some of the mysteries or something that shows that their is hope for the eggs or the islanders literally anything. I genuinely think that’s why so many people are only really watching the red team povs because they’re not taking the event too seriously and they’re making it fun and silly in the ways that they can. Idk just my thoughts on it all and I like to just vent sometimes 🫶🏻

You wanna know what also made me sad yesterday? Qphil and chayanne ended up having a conversation about the chayanne and qmissa therapy session that happened a while back and chayanne told phil about people calling missa a bad dad

Qphil immediately denied this and said that qmissa is not a bad dad because it’s not his fault he can’t be there since he’s so busy and that next time they happen to see him they should show him how great he is

I completely agree with this, but the fact that this is not applied to qwilbur as well considering it’s the same situation (and qwilbur even has a canonical reason for his absence) is just sad, even if I understand tallulah’s feelings

I hope qphil has a similar conversation with tallulah at some point, because otherwise I don’t see a positive resolution in sight

They really really should not have put a majority of the fan-favorite popular CCs with huge followings on one team. Bad and Tubbo are getting harassed every day on Twitter and in their own damn chats it’s not even funny. it’s really really discouraging actually.

Like. I'm sorry but this is fucked up enough that I genuinely don't think I'll be able to tune into the QSMP anymore until that part of the modpack is removed. It's so disturbing.

Okay... I think I'm starting to come to terms with this whole concept a bit. But like, I'm not sure how I feel about this. Don't get me wrong, it's super cool! It's super well done, with so many cool additions, and I feel like it's a really really cool way for this to go! But I feel like this is gonna be really stressful for the fans and especially the creators, like, so many different rules and the fact that one team is cursed but we don't know who, and the possibility that not every egg will get to come back? I don't think I'll be okay if I never get to see certain eggs again, man, and the creators certainly won't.

Also, I just hate seeing friends (The Brazilians, the French, Cellbit and Roier, Phil and Missa, etc) being forced to go against each other. I know it's a really good plot point, and this is just personal preference.

I really wanna know your thoughts on this concept.

I don't understand why they added the people who NEVER LOG ON to teams. I'm not talking about someone like ironmouse who logs in sporadicly

Like Wilbur's not logging in ever, why is he on a fucking team? Could they not leave them out? Some of them DIDN'T EVEN GET TICKETS.

honestly this whole admin situation is getting out of hand. Like specifically the qsmp fandom has become one of the most toxic groups I've ever seen. Like I understand the anger and frustration. I understand we want answers we want things to go how we want them to. But at the end of the day the admin situation is something that unfortunately can't be instantly resolved. Work issues like this will take a while to resolve. Especially of the union is involved.

I honestly dislike being apart of fandoms because of toxic people, like I want to enjoy stuff without being in the fandoms because all I see is negative things and hate. Sure what I'm seeing is understandable that we all are upset. But even when I block hashtags that have these topics I still have only seen mostly stuff about the admin issue and I am curious to where I wanna know what's going on. I should just leave because I feel this fandom is going to be too toxic.

I want to love it as it updates me on things like what's going on on the streams and has the best pictures that people take and the fanart/animations are amazing!

But it's just not healthy for me to be in the fandoms and I should fully leave the qsmp fandom, I again still gonna enjoy qsmp as long as it excists as it's the only server all these cc's mainly interact on and I love the bond that have been made because of the server, but I'm forcing myself to never cone back because I dont think this fandom will ever improve as harsh as I may be sounding.

To those who are in a similar feeling as I am, if u need to leave u should if this all is hurting u. Take time away if u wanna come back and if even getting into the content is not helping u take time to find other content to enjoy, we all need to handel this whole situation in a healthy way because being upset is understandable but at the end of the day we can't really do a lot and harrassing people won't help at all even if we want to see action being done fully, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes and so those who are staying.

Please think before u speak, please be kind to one another, and to those who makes art and shares pictures of moments, please continue, u all make my day when I see some positivity on the qsmp hashtag, i may never come back (depending on what's happening after a while) but there are others who may be staying and/or taking a break and need some nice things to look at.

Sorry if this sounds like I'm angry at anyone, I'm just tired of this all as much as u all are probability and I just want u all to remember that even tho action needs to be made and for us to know some info.

This isn't a easy issue to resolve as it has layers and the union being involved will be resolving it take more time and there may be legal reasons to not share what's happening. We don't know the full story and what's happening behind the scenes.

So if u need to relax I reccomend doing anything else until we know what's going on. We'll eventually get answers it'll just take longer than we think.

But if this is my last goodbye, I wish everyone luck and I'm sorry that this all is upsetting u, I am feeling as upset and stressed as u all may be feeling. Take care of yourself and know that things may seem like life will never get better but it will. It just will take time. Don't worry about what may not occur but just focus on the present as we can't predict things.

Here's a picture of my most fave egg, Richas to make u all smile even just a little bit.

But take car everyone and thank u for the positive community we all tried to make :)