Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
okay i am still not really able to properly articulate everything i want to say about the admin situation but i'm seeing a lot of doomposting and also lots of people setting themselves up for disappointment with wildly optimistic assumptions so lemme just try to hit some bullet points
adding another new creator and language in this time of turmoil is not ideal, but he was leaked a while ago that he'd been accepted and waiting to join for a while before the whole situation dropped and leaving him in limbo after he's already set aside the time in his schedule for qsmp is also not ideal
we are probably not gonna hear anything more specific than we've already heard until negotiations are finalized. inviting The Entire Internet to comment on every single detail of the negotiations at every step of the way is not going to help
everything we hear from quackity will be as positive as possible. everything we hear from the union will be as negative as possible. it is their jobs to be this way. temper your reactions accordingly
both quackity and the union want a solution where the qsmp continues and the eggmins all keep their jobs and get paid fairly for reasonable labor in reasonable conditions. the union is not gonna be gunning to take down the qsmp
a lot of the negotiations are going to be over what reasonable labor and conditions actually look like for a job that necessarily includes weird and inconsistent hours and labor demands. this is going to take a while to figure out
the other main issue is going to be backpay for the labor that the staff has already done. this is going to be a massive chunk of change. it's also going to take a while to figure out who is owed what and whether it should be paid out all at once or over a period of time
all of these money issues are going to be complicated by the many different currencies and tax standards involved.
tl;dr: this is a complicated situation and it won't be solved any time soon and we shouldn't really expect updates until everything is finished which wont be for a while, but it's actively being worked on and solutions do exist
I come to the main tag with bad but important news.
Today, an ex-admin of the server came forward about her working conditions.
I will not show her name here just in case (but it can be very easy to find over on TWT).
She was fired for speaking with a CC personally (which she mentions, EVERYONE DOES, we've seen multiple CC talk about it). However, her discord was shown on stream and her superiors were not happy.
She was one of the French admins along with Pomme (she played Dansir, Tototte, Lapin...).
First of all :
There were only 2 French admins (her and Pomme). They had to translate everything and make stuff on the French side.
She was paid roughly 200$ a month (less in €, around 150€), and was often not paid for some in game art she did.
She mentions that admins did not have the right to share a group to talk to eachother, they got warned about things last minute (the update account people knew about Purgas on the day of).
She talks about some of the circumstances of some egg deaths (Pomme reversed death was planned at first for "content")...
Furthermore, the "roleplayers" and the update account people are not payed and get replaced if they are not available too often.
And Yes, by "roleplayers", she means the egg admins. She mentions "You did not get paid for roleplaying", (so I guess egg admins have extra work on the side to indeed get paid, but this is my speculation).
HOWEVER
I want to point out that in her words : "The QSMP admins are the sweetest people, I love working with them. Sad that the work of a few people higher on the team was affecting our good dynamics. My colleagues are amazing, they do a crazy job".
She answered a few tweets for clarification and :
-She believes Quackity is not aware of the attitude of the higher ups of his team.
- The CCs have now been informed of the situation and are actively wanting to discuss with the team, as they were unaware (Ex-admin mentions that the Higher ups often lied or hid things from CCs).
I will link the post of someone who did translate the Tweets HERE (Thank you OP !)
Anyways, Big love to the admins, they make this server and deserve to get they work well compensated !!!
Good things the CCs are now aware, let's hope that thing get better!
a super low-res version of the hug scene made by taking a video of my pc in the dark, taking frames of that video, cropping them, and then sending them to my pc