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I literally never draw him but I’m watching wild life and I really like his skin :D

If you can't bear anyone else playing with the toys you make in ways you don't specifically approve of, don't be a toymaker. Once they're out in the world, in other people's hands and governed by their imaginations, they will do things you didn't intend. They will bury the toy in sand, or they will make the toys kiss, or they will draw all over the toy in permanent marker.

If someone is mailing you pictures of the assorted ways they've destroyed your toys, that's weird and you can and should ban them from doing so. If you're collaborating with other toymakers professionally, it would be perfectly reasonable to ask them to interact with your toys publicly in proscribed ways- that is both a professional business arrangement and a genuine one-on-one relationship.

But the toys themselves aren't yours anymore.

Everyone who sees a performance or movie or stream has a sliver of the idea of that character in their head, and you don't get to tell them what to do with it once it's there. That isn't how telling stories works; it's never been a right anyone could claim.

Helena, Montana.

Hytale

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draculism

wait im deeply charmed by the idea of bdubs being an out and proud bisexual man for a decade and then etho comes out as a woman and bdubs then has to come to terms with the fact that he really is actually straight. etho's like well you still like men don't you and bdubs looks at her with tears in his eyes like you don't understand all this time the only guy i liked was YOU etho im a FRAUD

draculism

bdubs says etho i was really looking forward to being an old queen with you. etho's like we can still be old queens together. bdubs just looks out the window and sighs miserably and says. you can't be a queen if you're straight. it's not the same.

betweenlands

was gonna type a far longer post on this but don't really need to tbh. basically: MCYT fandom has a huge whiteness problem in large part because broader social structures make it very hard for non-white creators to become even slightly popular without being ignored/sidelined, demonized/nitpicked to death, whitewashed, or some combination of the three.

this is a hard sentence to grapple with, because "it's a structural issue" is something very hard to fix and "it's recreating existing social bias" puts the reader in a situation where they have to grapple with the fact that they may be unconsciously reproducing and spreading that bias.

in an ideal world, people would have all the time and effort and bandwidth needed to combat that issue by going out and actively seeking out more varied creators, but a lot of people will bristle at being told they have to put in a lot of effort to combat bias in what is supposed to be their relatively low-stakes space of engagement. whether or not that bristling is justifiable, we don't particularly care to talk about. that is not the point of this post. the point here is that we would like to propose something small that is a little more than "the bare minimum" of not being actively and willfully racist, something that should not take much more effort than MCYT fans are already putting in to find new creators they might enjoy anyway.

ready? okay.

treat recommendations for non-white MCYTers just a tiny bit more seriously than you would in passing.

that's it. seriously. if you get a random YouTube rec, treat it like a very tentative "you might find this cool" from an acquaintance. if you get a distant or tentative recommendation from a friend, consider it a little more strongly. if something seems "kinda up your alley", put it on the shortlist to watch sooner. if a friend is already going "drop everything and watch this now" then you were probably going to check that thing out anyway. in general, just... give things a tiny bit more of a chance when they are made by creators of color (and other marginalized demographics, but let's focus on one thing in particular here), understanding that those creators have to put in a little more effort to get to the same space as their more broadly acclaimed peers in the first place and they may even have to disguise things with clickbait.

you don't have to like everything you end up checking out, but give things a shot if they compel you. if you have a "guilty pleasure" kind of MCYT video -- low-effort machinima, snarky lists, crashing pay-to-win servers, some other drama -- then YouTube might serve you some similar stuff from a non-white creator at some point. show a little more interest. you might not find the world's next most best hidden gem, but you will probably find something you enjoy at least a small bit.