"Being racist" or fascist or homophobic or whatever isnt a checkmark binary. You can "be racist" while having black friends, aou can "be homophobic" even if you dont see gay as an insult. Theres no one or two checkmark boxes that determine fascist yes/no. But a tweet saying "you cunt deserve to be shot" in order to defend heteroPride IN ITSELF deserves the harshest opposition, completely independently from the larger mindset of the person who made it. And on a personal level I completely dont understand why you would go to bat for someone making such a tweet, benefit of the doubt or no.
The more I grow up the more I think that I don’t need to know about celebrities because I won’t meet them and even if I did it would probably make them uncomfortable that someone knows a lot about them.
Most often, people tend to make absolute asses of themselves when meeting their favorite famous people, not recognizing that they're just as hideous and flawed as the rest of us. Nice pfp by the way
that's the problem with modern society these days: ppl tend to see certain public figures as perfect and everything they aspire to be, but when said public figures do something that they don't agree with, that reality shatters. fans become toxic and disrespectful towards the PF they loved because they publicly made a controversial statement that goes very strictly against watever ideals the fans have. ig u could say the problem with social media can be summed up in one word: idealism
This is true. It's very much one way. In the end you'll probably end up with the feeling that they don't care about you. ... Because it's true, they don't actually know you or in most cases care enough to find out.
kinda sad and that you think that way, i was really not convinced about this video. anyways, i just need to learn to separate the artwork from the artist.
@@Thesamurai1999 look at the dates on the tweets and blog posts, the bigoted ones are from 2017 to 2019 and the changed view ones are from like 2013 to 2014. he changed for the worse.
@@cubeography Well that sucks, but I still can't form an opinion off of someone based upon tweets alone. He hasn't stated these things vocally as far as I know.
@@th3_ph4ntomreborn31 facts, I cant wait for the caves, thank god something that is helpful,(I dont count the OP gear, Ifeel like diamond gear should be end game imo)
@@d4s0n282 Their development was beyond abysmal for a long time but they've definitely picked up the ball recently. I'd completely forgotten what it even felt like to be *excited* for an update. I also really like that it seems they're experimenting with upping the difficulty a bit with the warden as a way of competing with the OP gear we have now, hopefully we reach the point where mobs in general become an actual threat again. Never played bedrock so I have no idea what the situation is like on that side.
The internet is supposed to give you a idea of having fun but people instead to use it to ruin others life without them understanding what is truly happening
@@Xominus and reddit. The website that has people that harrass CHILDREN for liking tiktok, fortnite, roblox or even emojis are apprently cringe. Praise The Lord! Humanity needs Jesus!!!
@@isakayyik966 stop with the jesus stuff to begin with. But everything on the internet is bad. Reddit is just one of a few websites making sure people know the toxicity.
it IS "real life", but a very specific domain of it. the problem is that many people dont acknowledge and/or dont understand the significant differences between online actions and interactions and offline ones...
The real problem is the opposite... the Internet is real life but people treat it as it's not. So people believe they can get away with things they'll never do IRL.
One of the big problems, and there are many, is too many people feel their personal opinions are fact, or at least wish to impress upon others that their opinions are facts. This problem is compounded when it is a lie being spread around by many as though it is a fact. Is why, even though we have free speech, we are not free to commit slander or libel, for it illegal due to it can damage a person's life with the lie. I'm sure you have known the saying, "The pen it mightier than the sward." For words have real world real power. That goes for what anyone may say online about anything or anyone. The net is part of the real world. And what anyone may say or do in it, can have some very drastic real world consequences.
Public perception failing to factor in truth doesn't just apply to our culture, but every culture that was or will be. Sure, social media increases the amount of public figures (who are judged for things that are not always factual), but this issue existed far before the internet, and will likely follow to whatever communication channels we create next.
I would argue that at least local pockets of exception to this rule arise, but the very same problem means they don't necessarily get recognized for what they are since their images are subject to the same phenomenon, and the cheater strategy can arise anywhere, potentially causing an internal breakdown. You can have a very truth-oriented group or even organization, but once the stable core of dedicated and honest people is broken up or they pass away, confusion reigns supreme once again, and the reputation of the group potentially fails permanently.
The internet is unique due to its interactive nature. For instance, in addition to people's natural tendency to seek out information sources and other people they agree with, the way the algorithms are designed intentionally funnels people more examples of the sort of content they have shown a history of liking in the past. It rapidly becomes a self-perpetuating echo chamber that only tells people what they want to hear. 30 years ago if you were some idiot who thinks the earth is flat you were isolated and alone in that opinion and most of the time those around you would eventually convince you of its foolishness. Now in 2021 if you are an idiot who thinks the world is flat you go online and find the 10,000 other idiots who think it's flat all the media they have produced that "proves" it. You join their flat earth echo chamber reinforcing the fallacious belief. It's similar to a cult. Essentially they are brainwashing themselves. It's the year 2021 and we are witnessing a radical INCREASE rather than a decrease in the number of ignorant fools who think the Earth is flat. It is all fun and games when it's a flat earther we can laugh at, but it stops being funny when start to see things like 80% of one of your major political parties believing transparent and blatant lies being championed by Qanon cultists on the internet. It stops being funny when people start getting murdered by these idiots.
I would like to add these two truths to what you wrote Social media are hyper-stimulants when it comes hierarchical group dynamics (aka "social warfare") Idol worship is dangerous, you lose yourself as you project your desires onto someone else. Quoting my favorite quote from man from earth "Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons. "
True. Look at JK Rowling, Limmy from Limmy's Show, and now Notch, one of my fav idols becuz he made Minecraft. But Twitter messes everything up so bad all the time. I'm never making a twitter account, even if I'll never be famous enough to gain attention of about 5 people.
Yeah, it's completely unfair. It doesn't matter what is views are, let the man celebrate his game and legacy. He made many, many people's childhoods. Baring him from taking part in that... it's wrong, it's so wrong. And they weren't even really justified.
maybe if it was specifically said to all the people who went there, that they banned Notch, maybe people would've decided to pass and they'd understand why is he such a big part of minecraft
KJV John 3:16-17 " 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
As someone who grew up playing Minecraft from a small age, Notch was my hero. I saw him as a great figure who had created my favorite game. I was too young to know that there were such controversies and instead was mad that he had sold the game to Microsoft and thought (at the time) that they were ruining the game. I am a bit older now and understand that not everything is black and white like that but because of the way I grew up Notch is still highly respected in my head.
@@Nova-ol5jh You definitely should care what he says or does. But it should not affect your view of minecraft as that is so seperated from him today. However it is also ok to be doubtful and think of him as innocent untill proven guilty. But dont support him if he commits murder or something of the like.
@@MichaelMoore99 basically off camera and sometimes on camera she was really rude to her coworkers it's one of the main reasons why her show got cancelled
@@nevergonnagiveyouup1853 welp if you said "someone is good" you have nothing more to say but if you started drama you will get people attention and can stretch it for so long and get more views, and guess what 90% of people only care about money and there self only
@Bruh Moment Twitter is an excellent pool of human misery. It is where dreams go to die. Having a designated graveyard keeps us from burying everyone in our yards and overflowing. So... I think we need Twitter, because it wastes idiots' time so that the rest of the internet doesn't have to deal with them as much.
@@lucasharvey8990 You're both right and wrong there. Right because Tumblr is now a friendly place since all the toxicity got drained down to the twitter sewers; Wrong because if you keep feeding the Twitter monster it might become unstable and become uncontrollable
I actually asked notch a couple of days ago if this was the same notch from Minecraft, and he said that he made the game, but the same, he doesn’t know.
@@strangedogthatisslightlyan7860 White people, as a collective race, haven't been seen & treated entirely as inhuman deviations throughout history. Black people have. Not that complicated.
Literally same. I'm learning code right now and one of my first code project goals is actually to make a mod for Minecraft, as a way to give back to and thank the community for all the fun that I have had. Thank you Notch, for making so many childhoods :')
Im not working on the mod now lol, I have a while to go before I get to work on that. For now I am trying to understand different code concepts and get the hang of things. :/
It's nice to know there's a video that shows the two sides of the story instead of the same old one-sided story every time a video drops on Notch, I link this video every time telling them to watch it for a more fair assessment of Notch story. I really appreciate this video.
"You don't know the streamer or youtuber you've watched for endless hours" *me who watches my school friends TH-cam videos for endless hours* "you dare oppose me"
@@Fishian. I'm a stranger on the street I'm a stranger on the internet. its very different. would you answer a question that was said towards some stranger in the street by some other stranger in the street, and then start an argument with him over what the feeling of stranger A could be?
Unless you're Nux Taku, in which case it's the perfect place to flex on people. And I'm not fucking joking, the guy actively tries to get himself canceled just to fuck with the Twitter mob.
@Homunculus All of reddit is too left wing and if you say something slightly inconvient about BLM or LBTQ+ Stupid Antifa mods ban you. All reddit mods are honestly gay and whenever you try to argue you get a perma IP ban. Twitter is better than Reddit I hate reddit! Fuck that place!
I remember when CGP Grey was complaining about USB cables and made the mistake of saying "Why is my life so hard?" in another tweet. Never jump to conclusions.
@@TheFlankFrustrater Yeah, it was a series of genuinely harmful tweets from a man whose creations were (and still are) an enormous part of peoples' childhoods. It really sucks when someone you used to look up to believes you don't/shouldn't exist. I wish more people understood that.
Still gonna respect the man for making up my entire childhood tbh. Not just in making Minecraft, but giving TH-camrs content for their viewers. PopularMMOs, GamingWithJen, Stampy, DanTDM, SkyDoesMinecraft, SSundee, CaptainSparklez, ExplodingTNT, all of them there cuz of Notch.
@@maridomi8303 as a trans person, my heart was not torn apart. I will say a lot of trans peoples were but look, do you think thats a healthy way to see it? I mean, watch the video with an open mind and youll see, its mostly how the media represented it. At the end of the day we still had fun playing the silly block game so go back to twitter and cry about it
@@crockgobbler i honestly just dont care anymore, i dont remember what this video was about nor have i seen the comment i made to trigger your response, just forget i ever said anything, i was probably very mad at the time.
9:20 Genuinely curious why the word conspiracy is censored here. I've been seeing a lot of TH-cam creators censor words oddly like this. Why is it bad to say the word conspiracy? is there something in the algorithm that flags it?
Yeah it gets flagged sometimes ever since TH-cam cracked down on conspiracy theory videos. Best to not say it at all just in case because that's how TH-cam is.
Facebook and Twitter blocking legit news articles. TH-cam flagging videos for containing words like conspiracy... At this point we are *really* close to China's level of Internet censorship. I remember people fighting for net neutrality and against SOPA but the censorship level has been creeping up without much opposition.
@@poorsvids4738 It's because we can fight laws, but what a company does is their thing. The problem is that we've allowed consolidation into 2 or 3 giants instead of spreading out into smaller companies, so once there's no competition, consumer loses because there's no risk in making the consumers angry. Oh and also collusion is rampant.
Definitely agree with the sentiment that we are too quick to judge people and act upon those judgements when really in most cases we don't know nearly enough about that person to know whether we're correct or not. I try to notice that and hold myself back from letting my potentially wrong judgements dictate how I behave, but I'm definitely not perfect at that
@nono-yw3tv blast from the past. This is still something I try to apply nowadays, having the ability to put those things behind you for a moment, can help a lot in more or less any situation imo
@RealQuarlie I'd say it depends on the POV. From my POV as a half white half Hispanic, seeing what's going on these days, it seems like it means "Hey let's not treat anyone differently due to color...it's ok if you're white" because so many companies give other races special privileges or hire more of them just because they are minorities. You should judge people on their character, not their race!
@RealQuarlie if saying things like "it's okay to be white" and "white lives matter" is racist, then saying things like "it's okay to be black" and "black lives matter" must also necessarily be racist. The pendulum swings both ways.
This is sort of an issue with the phrase. Saying "it's okay to be white" implies that people are being told otherwise, the way "black lives matter" implies that some people believe they don't. One of these arose because of a bad history of racism in the United States (which is what the world revolves around) - you can tell which one. This phrase of "it's okay to be white" is often said in relation to the topic of racism directed at non-white people, ie the black lives matter movement, which equates saying "black lives matter" with "it's not okay to be white" - THIS is the racist bit. saying that ethnic groups who are systemically discriminated against are against white people purely because awareness is being raised about said systemic discrimination is wrong, sews distrust and leads to hate brewing. it IS okay to be white. you do not need to repeat it like you're under attack for being white. nobody is coming after you for being white.
I do know that I don't know what you know about what you know, but I also know that you will know about how I know that you feel better about knowing about how you don't know what you don't know, and how we now know what we don't know we really don't know, after you read this comment of mine talking about what I know of what I know and of what you know and will know.
I admire Notch because his imperfections and blunt honesty about his views make him feel way more "human" and relatable than most other e-celebs. Not to mention he can actually take a step back and admit when he's in the wrong
Yeah, hes said he doesn't exactly like Minecraft anymore, but he has admitted in a tweet that he thinks the new cave generation for Minecraft is excellent. So yeah, he can indeed admit to being wrong when he is.
I wouldn't call the unfiltered spouting of vile beliefs a plus point. Has he ever apologized for the white nationalist, misogynistic, transphobic talking points and Q-Anon conspiracies he spread over the better part of a decade?
Notch has suffered from being unable to shut his mouth on Twitter. How you can tweet these things and not expect an angry mob or backlash is beyond me. I'm not saying he's everything the media portrays him as, of course they're lying (like they always do). It's just that, he gave them fodder. You have to be careful on that website every time you tweet. It's like a landmine field. It's probably best to not even use that platform at all but hey, we are all addicted to social media by today anyway.
Yeah, especially the one about heterosexual pride day. You know the Twitter community will eat you like a pack of wolves if you say something like that, the way he said it.
@@Ferrichrome as someone who is part of the lgbt and who has loved minecraft since about 2011-2012 I seriously don’t know how to feel about any of this lol. I mean the tweet itself is wrong, if you look into why “heterosexual pride” is a thing, it’s pretty bad, but I feel like maybe it was just him saying stuff when he was uneducated about all that, admittedly I have said things before I looked into stuff properly and have different views on them after educating myself. I like to see myself as a forgiving person but I don’t think loads of lgbt fans would not forgive him, I think many people part of the lgbt really upset and angry, but how I see it is there is evidence on both sides and I can’t tell what’s right. At the same time seeing those kind of tweets as a lgbt fan does throw me off a bit so I’m not sure.
@@SonicTheHedgehog007 yea I have been playing since around that time too and I used to really look up to notch. Imo, the "you deserve to be shot" part is perhaps the most gruesome part when you consider how that could affect groups of people who are already vulnerable as it is. I appreciate that some people are willing to forgive him as I think he has grown but also if you don't, I understand that.
God I love humanity getting pissed at the smallest things and not understanding other humans, and that social media screws up everything we think about people Also very good video
You call years of spreading hateful white nationalist, misogynistic and transphobic alt-right arguments, small? Spreading anti-democracy propaganda through Q-anon conspiracies, that caused the death of people, is a small thing to you?
@@youdonegoofed In my own understanding, I think he was testing how far people on Twitter can be, whether through littlest things, or through stupidest things, people are always gonna judge and cancel someone without even fully understand what he really is in real life and wasn't afraid to speak up all of his thoughts throughout his Twitter account, while also being open-minded to those who misjudge him or other people. Also I speculate that he also did these controversial statements so that he may indirectly separate himself from the game he created due to the backlash he got from 2014. People tend to judge people quickly without knowing that certain person's action outside social media. If you're open about anything, they'll cancel you. If you're a public figure who breath, people will still cancel you. That's my point of view though. It's not like his trying to be controversial nowadays. Besides, he did mourn a trans woman named Sophie back in Jan 31, saying "RIP you beautiful person! Thank you for your music, and you".
@@jamestimothybryanjones1379 Wow, I didn't expect to read such a well-written comment on TH-cam today. I totally agree with you, cancel culture is a disease that needs to be cured.
So he's a regular dude that occasionally has both bad and good takes and ideas. Crazy, it's almost like that is a core part of being a human being. Twitter is such an awful platform
@@mateonikolic6984 3 things 1- I said nothing about the lgbtq+ community why are you bringing it up just to be an idiot 2- Religion is far more pushed than the lgbtq+ community 3- no one is forcing the lgbtq+ on you all people are asking for is respect you don’t need to do anything more than that
@@devilsoup3718 "all people are asking for is respect" No my man. They are demanding respect. And they define what "respect" is. If a guy one day wakes up thinking he is now a woman, he demands that I call him "she" *or else...*
Because it implies that, if given the right reasons, you would judge them, which is a big no-no nowadays when certain groups are unjudgeable and can do no wrong.
Everybody wants to be a game designer but nobody wants to sit down in front of their computer and make a damn game. Notch serves as a reminder that any fallible man or woman could be making something great on their own right now. Too many recent gamedev graduates blaming a toxic industry for gatekeeping or the economy for a lack of available work. Maybe they only ever liked the 'idea' of making video games.
@@PondScummer Yeah. The videogame industry is kinda fucked up in a lot of ways, especially in the big companies. There is also a huge sexism issue and it is an industry with some of the highest suicide rates. It also takes ages to make a game and deal with bugs while managing the design and programming
I think those who use social media have a misconception that those who have 'unpopular' opinions or that doesn't align to the current dogma equates to the person in question being a bad person. I have Immense respect for Notch because he dares to give his own take regardless of if someone else disagrees. Nobody is lesser of a person for that.
@@glizygxbler3131 Do you realize you are an example of what OP is talking about? Saying controversial stuff one time doesn't mean someone is literally a neo nazi geez
@@glizygxbler3131I am extremely late but I'm going to tell you right now you never apologise on the internet that is an admission of guilt which is the confirmation of you doing something bad which means the mob will feel justified in attacking you
it's a dogwhistle thing. tl;dr it implies that people are being told it's _not_ okay to be white, and is usually said in response to stuff about ethnic minorities raising awareness about the racism they face. nobody is saying it's not ok to be white, and the reason it's said is an excuse for racism to hide behind, because they can just claim that you're racist for calling them out because "are you saying white lives DON'T matter?" - which nobody is.
I happen to like Notch more now than before. Never really knew the guy, only that he made Minecraft. But now, other than his know how with computers, I feel him and I share much of the same basic opinions. And I know some do and some do not like my opinions. But everyone has them. Good to see Notch is not shy about expressing his.
Feels like most of the smart people have opinions like this and are based asf.....now I respect notch more i like how based he is he a chad doesnt give a fuck. His opinions and personality also match with mine.
I honestly think that although he said some homophobic and racist stuff. He isn't neither, he's trying to keep an open mind and understand those community by some capacity. The transphobic stuff,, ehh that's more difficult to defend.
what did he say that was racist? what did he say that was homophobic? I understand the transphobia but in my opinion he just straight up didn't say anything homophobic or racist
This was a nice clarification that Notch isn’t actually bad as I thought, but also a good reminder that we can’t effectively judge people when we don’t know them and joining the mob mentality is really bad for our own freedom and individuality. Great video dude
When Notch was still with Minecraft, I was so young I knew nothing about him or anything. Now that I’m older, seeing videos like this make me like him more. Although sometimes he seems to say bad things, the fact he’s saying what he thinks and believes makes me respect him all the more. Censoring yourself for the public world is frequently necessary, and the fact he isn’t makes me feel like I can do the same.
Glad such a video was made because i think we live in an era where there is an obliviousness on the contrast between actually understanding someone or something compared to making a judgement (the latter which i think is too rapid and easy to do, and can never substitute the first step of actually understanding something).
- Do you think *insert name* is *whatever*? - I don't know that person enough to say. Damn, I wish more people would think like that instead of jumping to the nearest conclusion in sight.
@@Ninjamanhammer Well, that's up to you. Make it easy as possible for yourself. Not defending the guy. But I like that mindset in general, it would make the world less judgemental and maybe a better place too, who knows? 🙂 Anyhow, have a good one!
@@Ninjamanhammer Well, he is being called out for it so what's your problem? And why is he an asshole again? I'm not saying we should let people get away with more but why so eager to find people to point the finger at and call out "he's a bad guy"?
For short answer notch Is a real legend without him our Minecraft memories won't be created His image was destroyed by his own players Notch has suffered from depression because of how many hates he have received from his players. Plus he wasnt even invited to the 10 anniversary game he made
@@Ninjamanhammer lol no “saying” racist or transphobic things don’t make you those things plus it’s on the internet they could easily be making a joke or playing a persona that isn’t actually them it’s when you actually mean the things you say is what makes you a transphobe not defending it but your still wrong
I commend his ability to come back and apologize for a mistake and really enjoyed following him on Twitter for many years. But also, I got super annoyed when the drama in his tweets just wouldn't stop. I unfollowed him mainly cause of his habit of writing super cryptic stuff making it seem like he was all so clever, like he was asking for people to misunderstand him. That was quite possibly never his intention, but I sure don't need that in my life either. Edit, a few months later: Just realized Notch has vocally supported QAnon in March 2019, which this video for some reason glanced over (even though tweets from around the same time are mentioned at 7:40, but it is then claimed transphobic tweets were the sole reason for MS' actions.) He even specifically said "I might be the most serious I've ever been" about QAnon... This should not have been excluded from such a video, whether it was ignorance or intention on the uploader's side.
2 years late to the party, but I have to say: this video is phenomenal. Whilst it's focused on Notch, the core messages about the issues about social media and parasociality are really amazing, and, despite me thinking I was quite open-minded, it really has enlightened me to soem things and has altered my mindset to making opinions on public figures. Nice one!
@@randomantguy24 key word is "can" in *"Can* you hold controversial ideas and be a good person?" It doesn't mean that you definitely ARE a good person if you hold controversial ideas, it means you may or may not be. Most usually people with controversial statements aren't good, and that's why this quote is important. You may be a very good person and hold good ideas which have to be analyzed before judging. But the stupidity of masses makes you look bad FOR the masses, because/therefore the masses are the people who artificially make the ideas controversial. They don't know how to analyze, they just judge.
@@CoolVictor2002 he still is lol. this guy just leaves out all the other tweets. Notch just spiraled down an alt-right rabbit hole with his mensa IQ. Sad and ironic.
@@snowballeffect7812 So you're gonna judge him over what he says on social media, without understanding who he truly is in real life? People nowadays... geez
@@Player-jh4ko What he said on Twitter doesn't mean he meant those words. Twitter is just a social media app. People are treating like if it IS real life when it's just suppose to be a retreat from real life.
Incredible video. Came here because I was remembering that a friend of mine told me notch was homophobic and I was doubting that there was really enough to support that. I will be attempting to share this with them. Thank you for the insights!
I still don't see any truly compelling evidence of him not being transphobic. He literally said trans women aren't women. Now, before you come at me like "WELL HE'S RIGHT BIOLOGICALLY", he's technically right in a very specific way, but just saying that they aren't women replying to a post saying that they should be validated as women, is undeniably transphobic. He might have changed, but I haven't seen evidence for it. And if he hasn't decided to apologize for any transphobic comments he made, it's hard to believe he changed.
To be fair tho, he did mourn and respect the death of Sophie, which is a trans woman back in Jan 31. It tweets like: "RIP you beautiful person! Thank you for your music, and you." So I guess it's enough to think of him less homophobic and transphobic.
Y'know, I gotta say, I did not expect Celeste's music to wind up in a video about Notch... Okay, yes, I know Lena Raine composed both Celeste's soundtrack and Minecraft's Nether update, but it still caught me off guard. haha Edit: I also wasn't expecting Crash Thompson to wind up in this video either. >.
It seems like Notch fell slightly down the alt-right pipeline, which is completely understandable in 2016-2017. He's probably better, and I doubt he was ever a bad person. 11:23 This kind of "mob mentality" existed way before the Internet. Even if people couldn't express their opinions to the world as easily, word of mouth combined with media outlets still heavily influenced politics, and public figures have always had to try to keep their image clean. (Edit:) It's just that the Internet made slipping up so much easier for public figures, since the moment you click one button is the moment your image is inextricably altered. Edit 2: And, well, rumors and misinformation spreads so quickly that media outlets can't catch up.
Nothing he said was wrong, and "alt-right" pipeline is just a derogatory political label used to underhandedly accuse someone of being bad or having bad opinions. I don't think he needs to be better, i think he was perfectly fine the way he is. He pointed out the hypocrisy the woke crowd has. And yes, the woke crowd do have hypocritically bigoted opinions.
@@TheJaguarthChannel Except MANY things he said were wrong, and its not wrong to admit that. He was denying the fluidity of the gender spectrum, bashing trans people, being a sexist prick, among many other things. Stop falling into extremes, and stop choking down the redpill already.
Eh. It is interesting that all the tweets that are supposed to counter the main stream view of him are seemingly made before the problematic ones. At least the ones shown here. Which leads me to believe that he has changed his views over time.
he did say "if we were to discuss iq differences between populations there'd be fewer conspiracy theories" when asked on what he thinks of Jews and he did say transgenderism is a mental illness in march 2019 so you can't make the the argument that changed that much since then.
I wish notch never left Minecraft, Even Microsoft is thinking that they can't invite the creator of Minecraft. It wouldn't have been 10th anniversary of Minecraft if notch hadn't created it. I just wish if notch could come back.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Microsoft's perception of minecraft is different than Notch's. The game would have been different, but that doesn't mean it would be better
so wait, why did this video never talk about the qanon posts he made..? or the fact his response to a question asking what he thought of jewish people was "i think we should study the iqs of different races" ? really poorly made video that doesn't care to look into the actual context behind any of his tweets.
Twitter really only cares about winning and complaining about famous people without not knowing them. I just find it so dumb when people on Twitter try to fight against fucking millionaires and celebrities. Do you really think they care about your personal problems?
@L Twitter is a shithole and I don’t care what anyone has said there. All I know is that he has had a positive impact on my life, and thus he’s in my good books.
@@psytube2438 Words on Twitter of all places can’t have an affect on your life unless you let them. To the best of my knowledge Notch hasn’t actually done anything such as participate in an alt-right rally. On the other hand, he made a game that impacted millions of peoples lives. Actions speak louder than words.
i think my main issue with this video is that all of your "positive" examples of Notch's takes don't just cancel out the bad ones. it isn't math. Most of your examples of his "anti-racist" or "pro-LGBT" takes were taken from headlines or articles from years before the tweets they supposedly contradict came up, which can easily lead one to believe that he's changed for the worse over the years (especially that take on critical race theory, that's pretty inexcusable). you seem to downplay a lot of what Notch says as just him "being honest" or "not conforming to a squeaky-clean, family-friendly persona" while completely ignoring that someone can do both of those things without resorting to racism or blatant transphobia i'm not just going to outright say i know who Notch is as a person because clearly i don't, and i never will, but the lens through which he *CHOOSES* to portray himself on social media does not make him a figure i respect at all. i'm not going to simply look past some of the terrible things he's said just because he made a game i liked a lot as a kid. i don't really see a main thesis or idea to this video that's any deeper than just "sometimes people say bad things on the internet, but don't judge them for it", which might be relevant if any of Notch's takes were taken out of context or have since been taken back, but none of them were. and i don't WANT to hate Notch, as i'm sure many replies to this are going to assume; i really do wish that the man who made my favorite game growing up was a positive role model and a cool guy, but i just don't see any evidence as to why i should believe that at all
dang youtube compression making all my videos look worse
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thank you for pointing all this out dude.
your entire statement and argument embodies why i stay away from twitter.
I honestly hate how youtube does that
"Being racist" or fascist or homophobic or whatever isnt a checkmark binary. You can "be racist" while having black friends, aou can "be homophobic" even if you dont see gay as an insult. Theres no one or two checkmark boxes that determine fascist yes/no. But a tweet saying "you cunt deserve to be shot" in order to defend heteroPride IN ITSELF deserves the harshest opposition, completely independently from the larger mindset of the person who made it.
And on a personal level I completely dont understand why you would go to bat for someone making such a tweet, benefit of the doubt or no.
Bro your video quality and editor is way to good for the amount of subs you have, you deserved at least 2 mill
didn't expect to see Dr. Peterson in your video. Happy coinincedence.
So... the story is that Twitter should’ve never been created..?
Twitter is just a one of the problems social media as a whole is a problem
World would be a better place without it
I think twitter is just god stubbing his toe
@@flippy9641 it's bad that you think you shouldn't exist
@@panborysek5264 youre right, sorry
The more I grow up the more I think that I don’t need to know about celebrities because I won’t meet them and even if I did it would probably make them uncomfortable that someone knows a lot about them.
Most often, people tend to make absolute asses of themselves when meeting their favorite famous people, not recognizing that they're just as hideous and flawed as the rest of us.
Nice pfp by the way
that's the problem with modern society these days: ppl tend to see certain public figures as perfect and everything they aspire to be, but when said public figures do something that they don't agree with, that reality shatters. fans become toxic and disrespectful towards the PF they loved because they publicly made a controversial statement that goes very strictly against watever ideals the fans have. ig u could say the problem with social media can be summed up in one word: idealism
He doesn't even know we exist bruh
This is true. It's very much one way. In the end you'll probably end up with the feeling that they don't care about you. ... Because it's true, they don't actually know you or in most cases care enough to find out.
@@hajagameznstuff6956 And of course there has to be someone acting like the last generation is better.
Great video, loved your conclusion that you don't know Notch enough well to form an opinion on him, this should be a more common way of thinking
kinda sad and that you think that way, i was really not convinced about this video. anyways, i just need to learn to separate the artwork from the artist.
Hello misterepic
It is because most people jump to conclusions without thinking. Maybe because half the world has an IQ below 100.
@@Thesamurai1999 look at the dates on the tweets and blog posts, the bigoted ones are from 2017 to 2019 and the changed view ones are from like 2013 to 2014. he changed for the worse.
@@cubeography Well that sucks, but I still can't form an opinion off of someone based upon tweets alone. He hasn't stated these things vocally as far as I know.
Honestly notch did a pro gamer move by selling minecraft to Microsoft no matter how bad or good they handled it afterwards
Fr he the goat
tbh I agree, its quite sad how shit microsoft is using and devoping mc tho
@@d4s0n282 whit the latest updates they are redeeming a bit
@@th3_ph4ntomreborn31 facts, I cant wait for the caves, thank god something that is helpful,(I dont count the OP gear, Ifeel like diamond gear should be end game imo)
@@d4s0n282 Their development was beyond abysmal for a long time but they've definitely picked up the ball recently. I'd completely forgotten what it even felt like to be *excited* for an update. I also really like that it seems they're experimenting with upping the difficulty a bit with the warden as a way of competing with the OP gear we have now, hopefully we reach the point where mobs in general become an actual threat again. Never played bedrock so I have no idea what the situation is like on that side.
The internet is supposed to give you a idea of having fun but people instead to use it to ruin others life without them understanding what is truly happening
especially twitter, full of stupid rules
@Bruh Moment And cringy weirdo's that are literally too dumb.
@Bruh Moment and idiots that push other people to depression and self-harm
There is so many bad shit out there
@@Xominus and reddit. The website that has people that harrass CHILDREN for liking tiktok, fortnite, roblox or even emojis are apprently cringe.
Praise The Lord! Humanity needs Jesus!!!
@@isakayyik966 stop with the jesus stuff to begin with.
But everything on the internet is bad. Reddit is just one of a few websites making sure people know the toxicity.
No matter what people think of him, I still admire notch for making my childhood the best!
Still playing minecraft
True,i think so too i started playing that game when i was 5 like at 2013 notch will always be a person in my childhood
I admire him
@Andrew Simpson I played in my brothers account in 2015 when 1.8 just came out I dont really remember
@Andrew Simpson I just started playing now again
I swear Notch is one of the few respected fedora guys out there.
Agreed.
Indeed.
He looks damn good with one on.
The only guy i know that looks good in one.
Seriously he might aswell trademark the fedora since he looks so good in it
People forget that Notch is still a Persson.
heyoooo
woooow
Ayy lmao
this pun makes me feel laughter and a mild amount of pain
@@JSmokesII same
The bigger problem is that people think the internet is real life.
it IS "real life", but a very specific domain of it. the problem is that many people dont acknowledge and/or dont understand the significant differences between online actions and interactions and offline ones...
The real problem is the opposite... the Internet is real life but people treat it as it's not. So people believe they can get away with things they'll never do IRL.
Communication has implications in real life you dingus
One of the big problems, and there are many, is too many people feel their personal opinions are fact, or at least wish to impress upon others that their opinions are facts. This problem is compounded when it is a lie being spread around by many as though it is a fact. Is why, even though we have free speech, we are not free to commit slander or libel, for it illegal due to it can damage a person's life with the lie.
I'm sure you have known the saying, "The pen it mightier than the sward." For words have real world real power. That goes for what anyone may say online about anything or anyone.
The net is part of the real world. And what anyone may say or do in it, can have some very drastic real world consequences.
It is, at least now it is, we did this to ourselves even though we always knew we shouldn’t
Public perception failing to factor in truth doesn't just apply to our culture, but every culture that was or will be. Sure, social media increases the amount of public figures (who are judged for things that are not always factual), but this issue existed far before the internet, and will likely follow to whatever communication channels we create next.
I would argue that at least local pockets of exception to this rule arise, but the very same problem means they don't necessarily get recognized for what they are since their images are subject to the same phenomenon, and the cheater strategy can arise anywhere, potentially causing an internal breakdown. You can have a very truth-oriented group or even organization, but once the stable core of dedicated and honest people is broken up or they pass away, confusion reigns supreme once again, and the reputation of the group potentially fails permanently.
The internet is unique due to its interactive nature. For instance, in addition to people's natural tendency to seek out information sources and other people they agree with, the way the algorithms are designed intentionally funnels people more examples of the sort of content they have shown a history of liking in the past. It rapidly becomes a self-perpetuating echo chamber that only tells people what they want to hear.
30 years ago if you were some idiot who thinks the earth is flat you were isolated and alone in that opinion and most of the time those around you would eventually convince you of its foolishness. Now in 2021 if you are an idiot who thinks the world is flat you go online and find the 10,000 other idiots who think it's flat all the media they have produced that "proves" it. You join their flat earth echo chamber reinforcing the fallacious belief. It's similar to a cult. Essentially they are brainwashing themselves. It's the year 2021 and we are witnessing a radical INCREASE rather than a decrease in the number of ignorant fools who think the Earth is flat.
It is all fun and games when it's a flat earther we can laugh at, but it stops being funny when start to see things like 80% of one of your major political parties believing transparent and blatant lies being championed by Qanon cultists on the internet. It stops being funny when people start getting murdered by these idiots.
I would like to add these two truths to what you wrote
Social media are hyper-stimulants when it comes hierarchical group dynamics (aka "social warfare")
Idol worship is dangerous, you lose yourself as you project your desires onto someone else. Quoting my favorite quote from man from earth "Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons. "
this makes sense, and i appreciate that.
let's be real, all problems with famous people start from having a twitter, that website is so fucked
if i was in their shoes i woulda chose reddit and youtube community posts ngl
@@maskboy2743 Reddit is even worse 😂
@@td6768 nah reddits better than twitter atleast
@@td6768 Only if u play fortnite tho-
True. Look at JK Rowling, Limmy from Limmy's Show, and now Notch, one of my fav idols becuz he made Minecraft. But Twitter messes everything up so bad all the time. I'm never making a twitter account, even if I'll never be famous enough to gain attention of about 5 people.
Imagine being banned from a 10 year celebration of the game you made.
that's such an instant regret for me.
Splash potion of instant regret II
Yeah, it's completely unfair. It doesn't matter what is views are, let the man celebrate his game and legacy. He made many, many people's childhoods. Baring him from taking part in that... it's wrong, it's so wrong. And they weren't even really justified.
maybe if it was specifically said to all the people who went there, that they banned Notch, maybe people would've decided to pass and they'd understand why is he such a big part of minecraft
They could have just said that he couldn't do like a panel or something but barring him from the event seems kinda extreme
I love how you present a bigger idea through the example of notch. great video!
KJV John 3:16-17 " 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
@@rezwittkerchester2055
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As someone who grew up playing Minecraft from a small age, Notch was my hero. I saw him as a great figure who had created my favorite game. I was too young to know that there were such controversies and instead was mad that he had sold the game to Microsoft and thought (at the time) that they were ruining the game. I am a bit older now and understand that not everything is black and white like that but because of the way I grew up Notch is still highly respected in my head.
@@Nova-ol5jh That's pretty extreme.
@@Nova-ol5jh You definitely should care what he says or does. But it should not affect your view of minecraft as that is so seperated from him today. However it is also ok to be doubtful and think of him as innocent untill proven guilty. But dont support him if he commits murder or something of the like.
@@Nova-ol5jh kudos for admitting you were wrong and correcting yourself. many people are too afraid to do that today :)
these replies are so chill oml :'v
@@frederikja2210 wait a conflict that was maturely resolved, i havent seen one of these in years
"squeaky clean celebrity"
*shows Ellen*
Um, yeah, about that...
?
@@starbreaker6740 Ellen runs a toxic work environment for her employees.
@@starbreaker6740 What’s that supposed to mean?
@@LuckyStarFan2005 google the definition of a question mark lel
@@MichaelMoore99 basically off camera and sometimes on camera she was really rude to her coworkers it's one of the main reasons why her show got cancelled
Its funny how this video didn't got as much attention as the others showing the bad side of Notch. Just like you said in this video about twitter
it's like they want bad things about notch
@@nevergonnagiveyouup1853 welp if you said "someone is good" you have nothing more to say but if you started drama you will get people attention and can stretch it for so long and get more views, and guess what 90% of people only care about money and there self only
@Bruh Moment Twitter is an excellent pool of human misery. It is where dreams go to die. Having a designated graveyard keeps us from burying everyone in our yards and overflowing. So... I think we need Twitter, because it wastes idiots' time so that the rest of the internet doesn't have to deal with them as much.
Drama always bring out more views than good news. Always has been like this since the dawn of journalism
@@lucasharvey8990 You're both right and wrong there. Right because Tumblr is now a friendly place since all the toxicity got drained down to the twitter sewers; Wrong because if you keep feeding the Twitter monster it might become unstable and become uncontrollable
I actually asked notch a couple of days ago if this was the same notch from Minecraft, and he said that he made the game, but the same, he doesn’t know.
Cool
What?
@@Minecraftboy270 he means he isn’t the same person 12 years ago when Minecraft was being made.
@@zepppp2 oh i get it
@@zepppp2 I mean, we all change over the time right? Its just the question if the change is good for us and the people around us, or not.
0:19 the complete opposite of what that last tweet said happened lol
Hi
you here? again? lol
Oh hey its you.
yeah, yikes
p2w servers are scams
Notch is still the creator of many childhoods, even what people think of him.
This is easily my favorite video of yours. I like how you talk about how social media fame is based on “extremes.”
"It's okay to be white."
R A C I S T
"It's okay to be black."
W O K E
Really don't get it.
@@strangedogthatisslightlyan7860 hypocrisy is everywhere my friend
@leafyishere's mom that’s why famous ppl exist. They’re inaccessible figures to judge all you want without repercussions
@тхе иксцкл Wtf?
@@strangedogthatisslightlyan7860 White people, as a collective race, haven't been seen & treated entirely as inhuman deviations throughout history. Black people have. Not that complicated.
In all honesty Notch is one of my "heroes" that I look up too. He's a major part of me wanting to become a programmer
Literally same. I'm learning code right now and one of my first code project goals is actually to make a mod for Minecraft, as a way to give back to and thank the community for all the fun that I have had.
Thank you Notch, for making so many childhoods :')
@@noahboddy1484 what mod do you make rn ? what version ?
Im not working on the mod now lol, I have a while to go before I get to work on that. For now I am trying to understand different code concepts and get the hang of things. :/
@@noahboddy1484 ah i see, i thought you're making a mod lol
Some day soon, I will ^^
Dang I had the opposite problem. I never knew Notch was in so many "controversies" over the years
yeah same
Hi MasterEth! :D
@@MetroAnimates hi! do you know me?
@@MasterEth You're part of the cowmoonity, so I've seen you around quite a bit! :)
@@MetroAnimates oh yeah, cool!
It's nice to know there's a video that shows the two sides of the story instead of the same old one-sided story every time a video drops on Notch, I link this video every time telling them to watch it for a more fair assessment of Notch story.
I really appreciate this video.
Google would ban such a video
@@MrEdrftgyujianti.prophet still isnt banned.
Next misunderstanding of game creators: Since there aren’t many cats in UnderTale, that means Toby Fox hates cats and eats them alive.
How about "Why isn't Frisk black waaaaa"
Isn't Temmie a cat?
Temmie be like: 0___0
Then the other side
Since theres no cats in undertale he loves cats since they dont exist in games and therefore cant get hurt
@@ruok6506 catty and that one other cat in the hotel: *guess I'll leave*
"You don't know the streamer or youtuber you've watched for endless hours"
*me who watches my school friends TH-cam videos for endless hours* "you dare oppose me"
whats their channel name
@@אלוןשיינפלד i doubt that he will tell you that
@@Fishian. why not, wouldnt he want to make his friend more popular? are you that friend
@@אלוןשיינפלד for personal reasons, i mean would you tell your youtube chaneel to a stranger you met on the streets?
@@Fishian. I'm a stranger on the street I'm a stranger on the internet. its very different. would you answer a question that was said towards some stranger in the street by some other stranger in the street, and then start an argument with him over what the feeling of stranger A could be?
Twitter, also known as, a place, where if you say one bad thing, your entire life will go to a dark place.
Oh i want to make a meme about ninja and dbillion thx i wont share the meme
Instead cancelled on Twitter,
How about cancel the Twitter instead
Reddit is worse honestly.
As people make whole subreddits to hate...
Unless you're Nux Taku, in which case it's the perfect place to flex on people. And I'm not fucking joking, the guy actively tries to get himself canceled just to fuck with the Twitter mob.
@Homunculus All of reddit is too left wing and if you say something slightly inconvient about BLM or LBTQ+ Stupid Antifa mods ban you.
All reddit mods are honestly gay and whenever you try to argue you get a perma IP ban. Twitter is better than Reddit
I hate reddit! Fuck that place!
Notch will always be a legend in my eyes. That guy made my youth.
word
Same here
agreed
same
based
moral of the story is, don't use twitter because one small tweet will guaranteed to be taken out of context and will mess up your whole reputation
If I could erase one thing from existence Twitter would easily be up there.
I remember when CGP Grey was complaining about USB cables and made the mistake of saying "Why is my life so hard?" in another tweet. Never jump to conclusions.
Lol it was way more than one small tweet buddy
@mlg noob ditto
@@TheFlankFrustrater Yeah, it was a series of genuinely harmful tweets from a man whose creations were (and still are) an enormous part of peoples' childhoods. It really sucks when someone you used to look up to believes you don't/shouldn't exist. I wish more people understood that.
Still gonna respect the man for making up my entire childhood tbh. Not just in making Minecraft, but giving TH-camrs content for their viewers. PopularMMOs, GamingWithJen, Stampy, DanTDM, SkyDoesMinecraft, SSundee, CaptainSparklez, ExplodingTNT, all of them there cuz of Notch.
Tell that to all the trans people who had minecraft and those youtubers as their childhood too, see how their hearts tear apart
@@maridomi8303…well I am pretty sure the comment simply was not referring to anyone else but the original poster.
@@Tyranitar. correct, i swear they don't read the comments and actually comprehend them...
@@maridomi8303 as a trans person, my heart was not torn apart. I will say a lot of trans peoples were but look, do you think thats a healthy way to see it? I mean, watch the video with an open mind and youll see, its mostly how the media represented it. At the end of the day we still had fun playing the silly block game so go back to twitter and cry about it
@@crockgobbler i honestly just dont care anymore, i dont remember what this video was about nor have i seen the comment i made to trigger your response, just forget i ever said anything, i was probably very mad at the time.
"Yo I'm getting tired of these 12 year olds, make me billionaire now"
@@snas708 as in a joke notch speaking about his game and why he sold it, i think
9:20 Genuinely curious why the word conspiracy is censored here. I've been seeing a lot of TH-cam creators censor words oddly like this. Why is it bad to say the word conspiracy? is there something in the algorithm that flags it?
Yeah it gets flagged sometimes ever since TH-cam cracked down on conspiracy theory videos. Best to not say it at all just in case because that's how TH-cam is.
@@SlushTV But conspiracies are an actual thing. This is just mental.
@@eneco3965 YT wants to decide what you can think about
Facebook and Twitter blocking legit news articles. TH-cam flagging videos for containing words like conspiracy...
At this point we are *really* close to China's level of Internet censorship. I remember people fighting for net neutrality and against SOPA but the censorship level has been creeping up without much opposition.
@@poorsvids4738 It's because we can fight laws, but what a company does is their thing. The problem is that we've allowed consolidation into 2 or 3 giants instead of spreading out into smaller companies, so once there's no competition, consumer loses because there's no risk in making the consumers angry.
Oh and also collusion is rampant.
Definitely agree with the sentiment that we are too quick to judge people and act upon those judgements when really in most cases we don't know nearly enough about that person to know whether we're correct or not. I try to notice that and hold myself back from letting my potentially wrong judgements dictate how I behave, but I'm definitely not perfect at that
Yeah, As much as I agree with this. This didn't age well. And now, Today people completely lack any self control online.
@nono-yw3tv blast from the past. This is still something I try to apply nowadays, having the ability to put those things behind you for a moment, can help a lot in more or less any situation imo
“he doesn’t have a clean reputation”
*shows a picture of ryland*
And to a lesser extent Dream "The Cheater".
Saying "It's okay to be white" Isn't racist, and It's racist to say otherwise.
@RealQuarlie I'd say it depends on the POV. From my POV as a half white half Hispanic, seeing what's going on these days, it seems like it means "Hey let's not treat anyone differently due to color...it's ok if you're white" because so many companies give other races special privileges or hire more of them just because they are minorities. You should judge people on their character, not their race!
@RealQuarlie if saying things like "it's okay to be white" and "white lives matter" is racist, then saying things like "it's okay to be black" and "black lives matter" must also necessarily be racist.
The pendulum swings both ways.
it’s racist in a certain context but bc if you say this in a discussion of BLM or police brutality it’s awful and racist
This is sort of an issue with the phrase. Saying "it's okay to be white" implies that people are being told otherwise, the way "black lives matter" implies that some people believe they don't. One of these arose because of a bad history of racism in the United States (which is what the world revolves around) - you can tell which one. This phrase of "it's okay to be white" is often said in relation to the topic of racism directed at non-white people, ie the black lives matter movement, which equates saying "black lives matter" with "it's not okay to be white" - THIS is the racist bit. saying that ethnic groups who are systemically discriminated against are against white people purely because awareness is being raised about said systemic discrimination is wrong, sews distrust and leads to hate brewing.
it IS okay to be white. you do not need to repeat it like you're under attack for being white. nobody is coming after you for being white.
@@theAstarrr How about, It doesn't depend at all..... If it's ok to say you're black. Then SURELY there should be no issue to say it's ok to be white.
Well you don't know what you don't know, and now we know what we don't know we really don't know. I feel better knowing that, great video!
Well said!
I do know that I don't know what you know about what you know, but I also know that you will know about how I know that you feel better about knowing about how you don't know what you don't know, and how we now know what we don't know we really don't know, after you read this comment of mine talking about what I know of what I know and of what you know and will know.
@@luucy025 Wait, Windows can handle problems? ;)
Another banger dude! I played minecraft for like 10 years now and didnt know much more about Notch other than "block game maker guy."
I admire Notch because his imperfections and blunt honesty about his views make him feel way more "human" and relatable than most other e-celebs. Not to mention he can actually take a step back and admit when he's in the wrong
Yeah, hes said he doesn't exactly like Minecraft anymore, but he has admitted in a tweet that he thinks the new cave generation for Minecraft is excellent. So yeah, he can indeed admit to being wrong when he is.
@@loumona76 mostly ppl who deserve it
I wouldn't call the unfiltered spouting of vile beliefs a plus point.
Has he ever apologized for the white nationalist, misogynistic, transphobic talking points and Q-Anon conspiracies he spread over the better part of a decade?
@@MrBell-iq3sm "vile belief"
@@MrBell-iq3sm Nothing wrong with being proud of being White and wanting your country to remain White.
notch isnt racist or homophobic he just doesnt know how to voice his opinions in a way that doesnt involve himself in it.
Truer words have not been spoken
I strongly suspect Notch may be high functioning autistic.
I hope this goes viral so people can learn about this kind of stuff
Notch has suffered from being unable to shut his mouth on Twitter. How you can tweet these things and not expect an angry mob or backlash is beyond me. I'm not saying he's everything the media portrays him as, of course they're lying (like they always do). It's just that, he gave them fodder. You have to be careful on that website every time you tweet. It's like a landmine field. It's probably best to not even use that platform at all but hey, we are all addicted to social media by today anyway.
Yeah, especially the one about heterosexual pride day. You know the Twitter community will eat you like a pack of wolves if you say something like that, the way he said it.
@@Ferrichrome "You know the Twitter community will eat you like a pack of wolves"....isn't that like ....the actual problem?
@@b0rt119 I mean yeah it's a problem, but I still don't think you can tweet shit like he did and expect to get away with it.
@@Ferrichrome as someone who is part of the lgbt and who has loved minecraft since about 2011-2012 I seriously don’t know how to feel about any of this lol. I mean the tweet itself is wrong, if you look into why “heterosexual pride” is a thing, it’s pretty bad, but I feel like maybe it was just him saying stuff when he was uneducated about all that, admittedly I have said things before I looked into stuff properly and have different views on them after educating myself. I like to see myself as a forgiving person but I don’t think loads of lgbt fans would not forgive him, I think many people part of the lgbt really upset and angry, but how I see it is there is evidence on both sides and I can’t tell what’s right. At the same time seeing those kind of tweets as a lgbt fan does throw me off a bit so I’m not sure.
@@SonicTheHedgehog007 yea I have been playing since around that time too and I used to really look up to notch. Imo, the "you deserve to be shot" part is perhaps the most gruesome part when you consider how that could affect groups of people who are already vulnerable as it is. I appreciate that some people are willing to forgive him as I think he has grown but also if you don't, I understand that.
Love it, you did some research man! That blog post was really eye opening
“sorry you can’t make money off of a game that isn’t yours”
“WHAT THE HELL THIS IS AN OUT RAGE YOURE GOING TO START WWIII”
Notch: "ok bye I'm not dealing with this, I'm gonna go enjoy my fortune while you guy have to deal woth Microsoft"
What a Chad
honestly I find it sad that a lot of modern mc players wont ever know who he is. Acknowledging history is important in my humble opinion
Frl
True
Shit today’s actually the 7th anniversary of that tweet
No matter what person he is, I will be thankful for creating this game, that was and still is a masterpiece, and a major part of my childhood.
God I love humanity getting pissed at the smallest things and not understanding other humans, and that social media screws up everything we think about people
Also very good video
Couldn’t have said it better
You call years of spreading hateful white nationalist, misogynistic and transphobic alt-right arguments, small?
Spreading anti-democracy propaganda through Q-anon conspiracies, that caused the death of people, is a small thing to you?
Bro this is a really fucking good video!
I hear somebody say language from america
true
@@BFF.Studios i understood that refrence
I think notch is just experimental in his thoughts while also being very open on what he thinks
So, he's acting like a normal human being? What does "being experimental in one's thoughts" even mean?
@@youdonegoofed In my own understanding, I think he was testing how far people on Twitter can be, whether through littlest things, or through stupidest things, people are always gonna judge and cancel someone without even fully understand what he really is in real life and wasn't afraid to speak up all of his thoughts throughout his Twitter account, while also being open-minded to those who misjudge him or other people. Also I speculate that he also did these controversial statements so that he may indirectly separate himself from the game he created due to the backlash he got from 2014. People tend to judge people quickly without knowing that certain person's action outside social media. If you're open about anything, they'll cancel you. If you're a public figure who breath, people will still cancel you. That's my point of view though. It's not like his trying to be controversial nowadays. Besides, he did mourn a trans woman named Sophie back in Jan 31, saying "RIP you beautiful person! Thank you for your music, and you".
@@jamestimothybryanjones1379 Wow, I didn't expect to read such a well-written comment on TH-cam today. I totally agree with you, cancel culture is a disease that needs to be cured.
@@youdonegoofed Yup! Cancel culture is a disease.
@@youdonegoofed damn first time i saw someone get convinced online
So he's a regular dude that occasionally has both bad and good takes and ideas. Crazy, it's almost like that is a core part of being a human being. Twitter is such an awful platform
Dude hes not a good person lol
He has literally openly said he believes in Qanon and he is nearly a neo nazi
@@devilsoup3718 I agree with him that LBTQ is pushed nowadays. You do you, but don't push it onto others (exactly what is happening today).
@@mateonikolic6984 3 things
1- I said nothing about the lgbtq+ community why are you bringing it up just to be an idiot
2- Religion is far more pushed than the lgbtq+ community
3- no one is forcing the lgbtq+ on you all people are asking for is respect you don’t need to do anything more than that
@@devilsoup3718 "all people are asking for is respect"
No my man. They are demanding respect. And they define what "respect" is.
If a guy one day wakes up thinking he is now a woman, he demands that I call him "she" *or else...*
How did we get to a point where saying you don’t know someone well enough to judge them is perceived as a fundamentally wrong way to think?
study before you make an argument
scour the internet then make an argument
i don't know we may have to get rid of the internet or fix it or temporarily get rid of it then when it's fixed boom you bring it back
Because it implies that, if given the right reasons, you would judge them, which is a big no-no nowadays when certain groups are unjudgeable and can do no wrong.
Everybody wants to be a game designer but nobody wants to sit down in front of their computer and make a damn game. Notch serves as a reminder that any fallible man or woman could be making something great on their own right now. Too many recent gamedev graduates blaming a toxic industry for gatekeeping or the economy for a lack of available work. Maybe they only ever liked the 'idea' of making video games.
My videogame is the project I've been the most invested in ever.
Steam has more greenlit projects than ever before.
@@PondScummer Yeah. The videogame industry is kinda fucked up in a lot of ways, especially in the big companies. There is also a huge sexism issue and it is an industry with some of the highest suicide rates. It also takes ages to make a game and deal with bugs while managing the design and programming
I think those who use social media have a misconception that those who have 'unpopular' opinions or that doesn't align to the current dogma equates to the person in question being a bad person. I have Immense respect for Notch because he dares to give his own take regardless of if someone else disagrees. Nobody is lesser of a person for that.
He thinks black people are lesser than him
@@glizygxbler3131 Cite your source please.
@@glizygxbler3131 Do you realize you are an example of what OP is talking about? Saying controversial stuff one time doesn't mean someone is literally a neo nazi geez
@@waffleyumboyr5342 he has never walked back his statements or apologized if he did I would forgive him but he is still saying things like this
@@glizygxbler3131I am extremely late but I'm going to tell you right now you never apologise on the internet that is an admission of guilt which is the confirmation of you doing something bad which means the mob will feel justified in attacking you
"Its ok to be white" whys this tweet regarded as inappropriate? Its fookin ok to be what you were born as.
it's a dogwhistle thing. tl;dr it implies that people are being told it's _not_ okay to be white, and is usually said in response to stuff about ethnic minorities raising awareness about the racism they face. nobody is saying it's not ok to be white, and the reason it's said is an excuse for racism to hide behind, because they can just claim that you're racist for calling them out because "are you saying white lives DON'T matter?" - which nobody is.
Do people actually take twitter seriously?
Unfortunately most of the generation does, yes
Go look at benshapiros Twitter replies
@@JSmokesII "Most of generation" is actually hating on it
Idk which world is that where everyone think every teen is a SJW 👀
@@atanaZion in retrospect I was referring more to millennials than gen z but I honestly forgot that we were past gen z and even at alpha now
I happen to like Notch more now than before. Never really knew the guy, only that he made Minecraft. But now, other than his know how with computers, I feel him and I share much of the same basic opinions. And I know some do and some do not like my opinions. But everyone has them. Good to see Notch is not shy about expressing his.
Feels like most of the smart people have opinions like this and are based asf.....now I respect notch more i like how based he is he a chad doesnt give a fuck. His opinions and personality also match with mine.
@@biljxmusics5352 I would've made a sarcastic reply but this is so fucking idiotic I can't tell if you're being sarcastic yourself.
@@biljxmusics5352 *shits herself*
based
@@biljxmusics5352
So you can't publicly disown nazi's?
Got it... very based bro you must be super cool loool
@@jamesa.646 you must have watched a different video
I honestly think that although he said some homophobic and racist stuff. He isn't neither, he's trying to keep an open mind and understand those community by some capacity. The transphobic stuff,, ehh that's more difficult to defend.
what did he say that was racist? what did he say that was homophobic? I understand the transphobia but in my opinion he just straight up didn't say anything homophobic or racist
@KS eat lead
This was a nice clarification that Notch isn’t actually bad as I thought, but also a good reminder that we can’t effectively judge people when we don’t know them and joining the mob mentality is really bad for our own freedom and individuality. Great video dude
literally anyone: "say fortnite is bad"
notch: "fortnite and communists are bad"
anyone: say fortnite is bad
notch: Fortnite and minecraft are bad
Fortnite bad minecraft good
i'm not
based
you're mom 😎
Love or hate the guy. I think it’s BS they denied him from coming to the 10 year anniversary of the game he’s responsible for creating
"and you don't know notch"
what if jeb was watching this video lol
I personally think that jeb doesn't care much anymore. They seem rather disconnected.
They cancelled Scott Cawthon developer of a game from 2014 FNAF i think you all know that game
Yep Twitter destroyed him
@@napoleonbonaparte7172 yep its sad
when i was a kid he was one of my childhood hero, and now i see him even more as a hero
@@Ninjamanhammer Fuck yeah
@@Ninjamanhammer Fuck yeah
@Chillbayne based an notchpilled
@@Negev999 Based, get that crown, king.
@Chillbayne how is it based
Notch is a true gamer as we can see
ignoring his mental health until he gets extremely depressed waiting to hit rock bottom?
@@Gamez4eveR You misses the ppint of the video dude
@@joel3399 what was the point?
@@Gamez4eveR Thate don't have enough information about him to talk like we know him.
@@joel3399 ridiculously naive perspective
When Notch was still with Minecraft, I was so young I knew nothing about him or anything. Now that I’m older, seeing videos like this make me like him more. Although sometimes he seems to say bad things, the fact he’s saying what he thinks and believes makes me respect him all the more. Censoring yourself for the public world is frequently necessary, and the fact he isn’t makes me feel like I can do the same.
Your respecting someone who thinks other races are lesser than him he thinks Jews control the media
@@glizygxbler3131 if you ask me- that's an act to make people avoid him. I think he intentionally ruined his reputation
“Microsoft buys minecraft for $2.5 billion”
What idiots, I bought it for $20.00
Wow i never heard that joke
Please stop it
Karen Moment
Karen
Ha
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"We don't know if Notch is a bad person"
*shows Ellen*
Shots fired.
Glad such a video was made because i think we live in an era where there is an obliviousness on the contrast between actually understanding someone or something compared to making a judgement (the latter which i think is too rapid and easy to do, and can never substitute the first step of actually understanding something).
I am a swedish game developer and notch will always be an inspiration to me whatever else the media says.
- Do you think *insert name* is *whatever*?
- I don't know that person enough to say.
Damn, I wish more people would think like that instead of jumping to the nearest conclusion in sight.
@@Ninjamanhammer Well, that's up to you. Make it easy as possible for yourself.
Not defending the guy. But I like that mindset in general, it would make the world less judgemental and maybe a better place too, who knows? 🙂 Anyhow, have a good one!
@@Ninjamanhammer Well, he is being called out for it so what's your problem? And why is he an asshole again?
I'm not saying we should let people get away with more but why so eager to find people to point the finger at and call out "he's a bad guy"?
@@Ninjamanhammer didnt he say he hates racisam
"they only show the public their good side"
(shows picture of dream)
For short answer notch Is a real legend without him our Minecraft memories won't be created
His image was destroyed by his own players
Notch has suffered from depression because of how many hates he have received from his players. Plus he wasnt even invited to the 10 anniversary game he made
I still admire Notch , he made mine and many other's childhood.
Same, they should still put notch on the 10 year celebration at least
Notch was always cool. Never thought he wasnt.
M2 man
@@Ninjamanhammer did he tell he was transphobe
@@Ninjamanhammer when tho
@@Ninjamanhammer watch the video
@@Ninjamanhammer lol no “saying” racist or transphobic things don’t make you those things plus it’s on the internet they could easily be making a joke or playing a persona that isn’t actually them it’s when you actually mean the things you say is what makes you a transphobe not defending it but your still wrong
I commend his ability to come back and apologize for a mistake and really enjoyed following him on Twitter for many years. But also, I got super annoyed when the drama in his tweets just wouldn't stop. I unfollowed him mainly cause of his habit of writing super cryptic stuff making it seem like he was all so clever, like he was asking for people to misunderstand him. That was quite possibly never his intention, but I sure don't need that in my life either.
Edit, a few months later: Just realized Notch has vocally supported QAnon in March 2019, which this video for some reason glanced over (even though tweets from around the same time are mentioned at 7:40, but it is then claimed transphobic tweets were the sole reason for MS' actions.) He even specifically said "I might be the most serious I've ever been" about QAnon... This should not have been excluded from such a video, whether it was ignorance or intention on the uploader's side.
QAnon thing was probably a joke. Though I wish he clarified.
Who cares if he believes in Qanon lol.
2 years late to the party, but I have to say: this video is phenomenal.
Whilst it's focused on Notch, the core messages about the issues about social media and parasociality are really amazing, and, despite me thinking I was quite open-minded, it really has enlightened me to soem things and has altered my mindset to making opinions on public figures.
Nice one!
I wish i saw this sooner. Thank you.
same dude, people hate him for no reason, fuck those guys and i hate them
Can you hold controversial ideas and be a good person? Yes.
Depends, usually there is a correlation of sorts
Being a nazi is a very controversial view and I haven't met any nazis I'd consider good people
@@randomantguy24 key word is "can" in *"Can* you hold controversial ideas and be a good person?"
It doesn't mean that you definitely ARE a good person if you hold controversial ideas, it means you may or may not be. Most usually people with controversial statements aren't good, and that's why this quote is important. You may be a very good person and hold good ideas which have to be analyzed before judging. But the stupidity of masses makes you look bad FOR the masses, because/therefore the masses are the people who artificially make the ideas controversial. They don't know how to analyze, they just judge.
@@theseangle no shit, I was providing a counter point
@@randomantguy24 that wasn’t a counter point since his point still stood. That was just a nobody asked statement
@@qvindicator lol yeah, poor choice of words on my part
Wait Notch was being called all that shit? That's crazy
Thats why I hate social media. Do your research before destroying someone's life.
Microsoft scrubbed notch from Minecraft. But we won’t forget he made Minecraft
he was scrubbed because he's a transphobe and a white supremacist.
huh, i didn't watch the whole thing, apologies.
They did that for a reason you know. Notch said some really terrible things and you can't have a creator of a kids game be homopobic and racist.
@@CoolVictor2002 he still is lol. this guy just leaves out all the other tweets. Notch just spiraled down an alt-right rabbit hole with his mensa IQ. Sad and ironic.
@@snowballeffect7812 So you're gonna judge him over what he says on social media, without understanding who he truly is in real life? People nowadays... geez
@@Player-jh4ko What he said on Twitter doesn't mean he meant those words. Twitter is just a social media app. People are treating like if it IS real life when it's just suppose to be a retreat from real life.
Nice to see Notch still doing fine these days
I never really saw the good side of his Twitter, so this is nice
Incredible video. Came here because I was remembering that a friend of mine told me notch was homophobic and I was doubting that there was really enough to support that. I will be attempting to share this with them.
Thank you for the insights!
Do you want to kill him because he hates her?
Much is literally the only person who can actually pull off the look of a discord moderator
I still don't see any truly compelling evidence of him not being transphobic. He literally said trans women aren't women. Now, before you come at me like "WELL HE'S RIGHT BIOLOGICALLY", he's technically right in a very specific way, but just saying that they aren't women replying to a post saying that they should be validated as women, is undeniably transphobic.
He might have changed, but I haven't seen evidence for it. And if he hasn't decided to apologize for any transphobic comments he made, it's hard to believe he changed.
To be fair tho, he did mourn and respect the death of Sophie, which is a trans woman back in Jan 31. It tweets like: "RIP you beautiful person! Thank you for your music, and you." So I guess it's enough to think of him less homophobic and transphobic.
I mean now I know why I can just breed the same animal infinite times no matter what.
If I was granted three wishes:
- delete Twitter
- delete Microsoft
- delete alphabet gang
what is alphabet gang
how about just delete their alphabet religion, not them themselves
@@undecimus5554 He's talking about the LGBTQ, I'm pretty sure he's just scared of gay people lol
@@undecimus5554 LGBT69420ABC
@@AkiraIsMissing _"scared"_
I think notch is a great guy, not rascist, not homophobic, and not transphobic, because this is twitter we are talking about
The MOST toxic community in the world
he literally is tho. He still said all those things
@@maggotsinyourshoes once again, hes just stating facts dude, cry about it.
@@TheLawnMowingMan nah
@@maggotsinyourshoeshow about nahhing your delusions?
Y'know, I gotta say, I did not expect Celeste's music to wind up in a video about Notch...
Okay, yes, I know Lena Raine composed both Celeste's soundtrack and Minecraft's Nether update, but it still caught me off guard. haha
Edit: I also wasn't expecting Crash Thompson to wind up in this video either. >.
It seems like Notch fell slightly down the alt-right pipeline, which is completely understandable in 2016-2017. He's probably better, and I doubt he was ever a bad person.
11:23 This kind of "mob mentality" existed way before the Internet. Even if people couldn't express their opinions to the world as easily, word of mouth combined with media outlets still heavily influenced politics, and public figures have always had to try to keep their image clean. (Edit:) It's just that the Internet made slipping up so much easier for public figures, since the moment you click one button is the moment your image is inextricably altered. Edit 2: And, well, rumors and misinformation spreads so quickly that media outlets can't catch up.
Nothing he said was wrong, and "alt-right" pipeline is just a derogatory political label used to underhandedly accuse someone of being bad or having bad opinions. I don't think he needs to be better, i think he was perfectly fine the way he is. He pointed out the hypocrisy the woke crowd has. And yes, the woke crowd do have hypocritically bigoted opinions.
@@TheJaguarthChannel Except MANY things he said were wrong, and its not wrong to admit that. He was denying the fluidity of the gender spectrum, bashing trans people, being a sexist prick, among many other things. Stop falling into extremes, and stop choking down the redpill already.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 ok
@@bottlebeard look at cool guy over here ^
@@TheSaintsVEVO srry
Eh. It is interesting that all the tweets that are supposed to counter the main stream view of him are seemingly made before the problematic ones. At least the ones shown here. Which leads me to believe that he has changed his views over time.
he did say "if we were to discuss iq differences between populations there'd be fewer conspiracy theories" when asked on what he thinks of Jews and he did say transgenderism is a mental illness in march 2019 so you can't make the the argument that changed that much since then.
He replied to me "Don't fall for it" when someone told me he's transphobic lmao
So yea he still thinks transgenderism is a mental illness
here's the link to the thread if you wanna see it twitter .com /notch/ status/ 1345500169501081602 ?s=20
it used to be in the DSM
Getting cancelled because Notch has an opinion, that's Twitter alright
I wish notch never left Minecraft, Even Microsoft is thinking that they can't invite the creator of Minecraft. It wouldn't have been 10th anniversary of Minecraft if notch hadn't created it. I just wish if notch could come back.
Maybe he could make Minecraft even better than before, if he didn't quit.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Microsoft's perception of minecraft is different than Notch's. The game would have been different, but that doesn't mean it would be better
@@davidalexandrepoulin I mean, you're not wrong.
@@teacoffee42 Yeah, for a while MS was making a bad descision after another. it wasnt until 1.13 that the game was starting to look up
so wait, why did this video never talk about the qanon posts he made..? or the fact his response to a question asking what he thought of jewish people was "i think we should study the iqs of different races" ? really poorly made video that doesn't care to look into the actual context behind any of his tweets.
feels bad man, it seems like all these Twitter people aren't realizing how many memories and friends Notch has given us
Twitter really only cares about winning and complaining about famous people without not knowing them. I just find it so dumb when people on Twitter try to fight against fucking millionaires and celebrities. Do you really think they care about your personal problems?
@L Twitter is a shithole and I don’t care what anyone has said there. All I know is that he has had a positive impact on my life, and thus he’s in my good books.
@@jerry3790 that's not really a good way of looking at it, just cause he positively affected you doesn't mean he hasn't negatively affected others
@@psytube2438 Words on Twitter of all places can’t have an affect on your life unless you let them. To the best of my knowledge Notch hasn’t actually done anything such as participate in an alt-right rally. On the other hand, he made a game that impacted millions of peoples lives. Actions speak louder than words.
Nah those platform is completely f-up, I no longer care about twitter except for development of the game I really enjoy...
Twitter just cancels everyone. Fudge those fans that made him leave. How do u feel now
Twitter will cancel a baby that breathed incorrectly for a moment
@@h3xad3cimaldev61 ikr
People make mistakes.
As I see it if your mistakes don't hurt anyone and you apologize for your actions you should be forgiven "eventually".
@@HatedxAngel notch is notch
@@h3xad3cimaldev61 the people that use it, not the website
i think my main issue with this video is that all of your "positive" examples of Notch's takes don't just cancel out the bad ones. it isn't math. Most of your examples of his "anti-racist" or "pro-LGBT" takes were taken from headlines or articles from years before the tweets they supposedly contradict came up, which can easily lead one to believe that he's changed for the worse over the years (especially that take on critical race theory, that's pretty inexcusable). you seem to downplay a lot of what Notch says as just him "being honest" or "not conforming to a squeaky-clean, family-friendly persona" while completely ignoring that someone can do both of those things without resorting to racism or blatant transphobia
i'm not just going to outright say i know who Notch is as a person because clearly i don't, and i never will, but the lens through which he *CHOOSES* to portray himself on social media does not make him a figure i respect at all. i'm not going to simply look past some of the terrible things he's said just because he made a game i liked a lot as a kid. i don't really see a main thesis or idea to this video that's any deeper than just "sometimes people say bad things on the internet, but don't judge them for it", which might be relevant if any of Notch's takes were taken out of context or have since been taken back, but none of them were. and i don't WANT to hate Notch, as i'm sure many replies to this are going to assume; i really do wish that the man who made my favorite game growing up was a positive role model and a cool guy, but i just don't see any evidence as to why i should believe that at all
Yo my boy Innuendo Studios changin' the world over here!
He is just genuine, people find that hard these days. I know controversal to say.
@RealQuarlie true. but, truly who cares. he's a guy, who did stupid things. like most people have. no one is perfect, a harsh reality I must admit.