sideblog for mcyt // he/him, 23 // i suck at minecraft. like i am so bad. but i have fun so actually i am doing fantastic // i hope you're having a swell day
Did you know, almost every time a skin is used, the artist isn’t paid for it? Despite them being used in monetized videos? Did you know for both the Impulse and BigB pins, the original artists for the skins didn’t know and weren’t compensated?
Most of the time the artists aren’t even shouted out in the videos and aren’t given links in the description or in a pinned comment.
Just food for thought. 🔥
IMO, I think skin artists should get a shoutout in the video, compensation, AND a link in the description so it’s easy for people to find the accounts! People give more credit to redstone machines than their skin artists! 💔 (which both deserve credit obviously, I’m just saying!)
Real. I think this just needs to be a cultural shift in the mcyt and mc community in general. I’m not going to blame any one creator for this because honestly, no one does it, except apparently Scar (I don’t know I don’t watch him) (and they should credit). Honestly, as a Minecraft player and watcher, it never occurred to me despite knowing how much artistic skill and time goes into making skins, I never thought “maybe ccs who are making ad revenue should credit these people” because it’s such a passive thing and non monetized Minecraft players have been stealing skins for over a decade. By no means does this make it right to not credit, though, I only say this to explain the mindset and why we need a full overhaul of the current mindset on skins today.
We should view skins as art that needs to be used with permission and potentially compensation if it’s going to be used as branding/in a monetized video.
I hope this sentiment gets to BigB and Impulse as well as the rest of the mcyt community because I don’t think it’s maliciousness but more so ignorance that I was victim to as well.
Minecraft skin makers, you are appreciated and deserve proper credit and compensation for all the hard work you do for the community.
The basics are that piglins have a three part naming convention that includes a family modifier, personal identifier, and then a job or role.
These are usually two syllable names with the job at the end.
Tec-Hno-Blade
Tec: Family, sounder and where he came from
Hno: Personal identifier, added later in life and notes age and personality
Blade: Job, in this case fighter
This also scans for Cyberknife fun fact.
Cy: Family name
Ber: Personal identifier
Knife: Job, either cook, or possibly assassin
Adding the actual breakdown below the cut since its long and I get into MC game mechanics:
Anyways, so a little background first so this make sense, but I usually headcanon and write Techno as a full piglin so this interacts a decent amount with cannon Minecraft mechanics (not that there's much there in terms of language or concrete culture but I love them).
Obviously Technoblade is a kinda odd name, especially if you consider the existence of guys named things like Phil, or Sam or Tommy (as examples) who are usually depicted as human or human adjacent. So, assuming piglin Techno that means that one, piglins have their own naming conventions and two, that they almost certainly have their own language that differs from that of overworld languages.
Pulling from Minecraft mechanics for a moment: the fact that you can trade with piglins for enchanted books, means they clearly have some kind of written language or access to magic (potions, enchants) but it's different from overworld magic because there's no legitimate way to get an enchantment table in the nether. So, language, possibly written, because they also snort and grunt to each other and the player if you're wearing gold or trading with them. They also have a noise for 'I'm mad at you and going to stab you,' so it's clearly a complex language that we just don't understand.
Anyways back to names, so different language and culture means that we can now examine how a piglin might be named. So, if Technoblade is a canon piglin name that can act as the basis for the naming conventions. Breaking that down further we have the basic, Techno and Blade - he's been called both in different situations and chat love replacing both elements of his name for the purpose of memes (technoplane, technomean, etc.) I've also seen people break it down further into 'Tec' and sometimes going the opposite way with hyphenating the name (meannoblade) so we have three distinct parts of the name to work with: Tec, Hno and Blade.
So, piglins have hyphenated names consisting of two single syllable sounds and then a modifier. Assigning meaning to those is the fun part where we get to mix in some level of like... world and culture building.
We'll start with Blade since that's the most recognizable in the context of real actual words. Going back to MC mechanics, there's three types of weapons piglins use in game. Regular piglins use swords and crossbows, Brutes use axes. Blade could refer to either a sword or an axe but usually those are used for defense - so in the context of a culture that values hunting, wealth (gold) and group protection Blade becomes a modifier denoting a piglin's role in society. In the case of Technoblade - he's a defender, fighter and possibly a Brute (protector and respected position within bastions). This fits with the character, as a fighter and plays in nicely with playing around with things like the blood god, chat etc.
Using that, we then have the obvious modifiers: Blade and Bow. But this could apply to other jobs in piglin society - merchants could be referred to by their wares, potion brewers, scholars, etc. Some options I've come up with are Pick, Tusk, Hoof, Smith and so forth. These could also really easily be translated into other languages since they just refer to a job - so Technoblade can be a name denoting a job and position in society in the nether calling him just The Blade strips him of the other parts of the name but is easily recognizable by people outside of that culture - fun implications.
Next we look at Tec and Hno - I think you could just treat it as one name but that's no fun and the name Techno doesn't really compute well because one this isn't cyberpunk and two MC doesn't have computers. So, going back to piglins in game for a second, they usually travel in groups and it's rare to see piglins alone. We can also pull a little from real life boars which usually travel in family groups. So piglins are probably highly group oriented and have big families. I could write a different essay on piglins probably being very polyamorous because more kids is better and more partners means more food but we'll leave that for another day.
The obvious jump here is that we have a family and a personal name. I take it as Tec is a family name - it denotes which sounder (family or group of piglins) you are a part of and is the first name a piglin receives. Personal modifiers are added, usually connecting you to something culturally significant, in this case Hno, and that makes up the person's full name until they get a job and therefore a job modifier. Personal modifiers I have currently are, Hno (large or first), Ber (gold, wealth), Te (small or second), and Her (Fire).
This also scans with Nether as word (I could make this a language... but I won't). Net- Her - Net denoting location (below) and Her meaning Fire - so The Fire Below. Technoblade in this case would mean The first of the Tec sounder, defender if translated.
So Techno - using this as a basis I think we can also infer that it's rude to refer to a person just by the personal modifier since that strips them of both job and family connection - hence why it's normal for people to call him Tec or Techno but not just Hno and why calling him Technoblade or just The Blade shows different levels of formality. Tec is for people close to him or other family, Techno is a little more formal but still close, Technoblade is a sign of respect and The Blade wraps right around into you are someone I have hired to do a job for me relating to your role in society.
So! To make your own piglin name all you need is a family name (one syllable), a personal name (another syllable) and then a role! Using my blog as inspiration my name would probably be: Nethberpick or golden of Nether, builder.
I also have decided that piglins will shorten visitors names and then add 'za' on the end to denote that they are not of Nether and are a stranger - so Philza actually translates to that guy Phil who is not from here. Techno called him this for years after they first met and Phil just never asked him why, liked how it sounded so that's his name now.
Anyways, this was long, I hope people enjoyed this and I'd love if people shared their own piglin names because I've thought way too much about this.
Absolutely! You (and anyone else who is interested) is more than welcome to use this formula for all your piglin naming needs!
Also, yes!!! Chat was very important to my considerations, I like to think of them as a cultural thing, the voices of their ancestors hence why you have the various degrees of formality and the willingness to play around with the name and giving him new titles in the moment.
man. remember when phil was chilling in techno's house and left the doors open so a creeper wandered in and exploded in his face like 15 minutes before lore was scheduled to start, so he and ranboo had to frantically reassemble the whole room including trying to piece together all the map fanart before techno got home. cannot believe we got an absolutely top tier character moment out of philza minecraft zoning out and forgetting to close the doors while he talked to chat. just absolutely impeccable.
in honor of 2k notes on my silly reminscing, some additional details i remember:
people have pointed out that phil did not in fact just zone out, he was having technical issues with his stream and was alt-tabbed fixing things, and just. forgot that he was still logged into the server at the time. you hear the explosion of the creeper while he's in full-screen facecam, then he switches back to game view to a scene of complete devastation.
(it was, however, still his fault for leaving the doors open. sorry phil, can't defend you for that one.)
phil pulled up the same video tutorial that techno used for his cabin for reference during his repairs, and had a good laugh over discovering the fact that the maker of the tutorial had changed the title to include "technoblade's house"
ranboo enters the scene to phil frantically piecing together map art and just. looks on in horror for a good few minutes before they eventually join a call together. he futilely attempts to message phil in the game chat that the art he is working on requires an extra row of item frames. it does not work.
techno starts his stream in the nether and begins by saying that for Some Reason, his dogs have teleported to him. he has no idea why this could be. (it is because the explosion broke the boat they were sat in.) his entire chat is filled with people saying NO SNITCHING, to which he acts very confused.
when techno finally makes it back home, it is largely fixed up, and he is greeted by an overly cheery phil and ranboo. at some point into the conversation, he casually says, "why does it smell like gunpowder?" and phil and ranboo quickly usher him outside.
this will not be the last time techno references the incident; later, when he tours ranboo's house (shortly after ranboo finally adds walls to his shack), they discuss having parrots, and ranboo brings up the annoyance of constant creeper noises, saying that he would rather not just get desensitized to the sounds of creepers in his home. techno replies by saying, "yeah, but it's not like a creeper would actually get in my house, you'd have to leave the doors open for that". ranboo laughs and quickly changes the subject.
i think whats so funny about clown and sneeg as a duo is that the only real explanation for them is that they clocked each others absolute looney tunes vibe and immediately threw hands to decide which one of them is bugs bunny and which one is daffy duck, and then proceeded to become an inseparably bonded pair about it. like a real zero to one hundred ride or die relationship for no reason but the slapstick comedy potential of it all.
no offence but i used to think you run weird and then i started watching supernatural again and jared padalecki runs weird and he's like 6 2 so do tall people all just run the same?
I don’t run weird I run FAST it looks weird because ur eyes just can’t comprehend it so leave me and my buddy Jared ALONE
online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.
and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.
there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.
i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.
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