giving her testimony in a public bathroom

hi im pepper

[qsmpen]

hey guys if anyone who isnt on twitter has questions about qsmpen and how it was handled i kind of have a feeling yall will have funnier/better questions so i'm happy to answer things!

*i will not be giving names or testimonies of people who are not myself, as i respect their privacy immensely. (also not going thru a defamation lawsuit)

-as of a few minutes ago, an ex supervisor for the twitter team.

[qsmpen]

lol is this proof or

[hopefghniki]

With QSMP 2 just around the corner, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation going around in regards to the infamous "QSMP admins scandal" of 2024, and there hasn't been a convenient and accessible way to familiarize yourself with the situation... until today.

How Quackity Studios Got Away With Workplace Abuse provides a timeline of the events that transpired between March 3, 2024 and May 24, 2024, a detailed description of the issues revealed by the ex-admins, and addresses some discourse concerns that I’d seen floating around.

You can read it as a Google document, or watch it as a YouTube video. (Though please note that the video version will not contain any information or changes added to the document post initial release and might have different wording to accommodate for the different format.)

Special thanks to everyone who had supported and helped me with this project! <3

[qsmpen]

their lack of background checks this time around are shocking to me considering as a supervisor i saw how anyone who was even vaguely political or supported palestine publicly would be rejected from being an unpaid updates admin... how interesting how interesting

[qsmpen]

i was only selected because i hardly used my twitter pre-selection, if they'd been actively reviewing tumblrs too my ass would NAWT have been welcomed onto the team

[qsmpen]

their lack of background checks this time around are shocking to me considering as a supervisor i saw how anyone who was even vaguely political or supported palestine publicly would be rejected from being an unpaid updates admin... how interesting how interesting

[hopefghniki]

With QSMP 2 just around the corner, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation going around in regards to the infamous "QSMP admins scandal" of 2024, and there hasn't been a convenient and accessible way to familiarize yourself with the situation... until today.

How Quackity Studios Got Away With Workplace Abuse provides a timeline of the events that transpired between March 3, 2024 and May 24, 2024, a detailed description of the issues revealed by the ex-admins, and addresses some discourse concerns that I’d seen floating around.

You can read it as a Google document, or watch it as a YouTube video. (Though please note that the video version will not contain any information or changes added to the document post initial release and might have different wording to accommodate for the different format.)

Special thanks to everyone who had supported and helped me with this project! <3

[alltheghostiesart]

animation of qsmpen, qsmppor, qsmpfra, qsmpglobal, qsmpes, and qsmpkorea to celebrate the hard workers and to honor pomme, ramón, and dapper.

in all honesty, it was an honor to work on qsmptwt, and i'm grateful for the opportunity and what i learned. that said, it was kinda fun to use cucurucho and the resemblance of lore to the situation that took place to make this!

(here's a valentines day card i made the teams so you can tell them apart-)

all of them except korea are bears instead of bunnies but yeah :]

@elq has my testimony and more info about my experience, enjoy the animation!

[alltheghostiesart]

someone had to do it. perhaps more have. the updates accounts have been personified. (3/5) (portuguese and french im coming for you next)

[qsmpen]

feels much easier to do this on tumblr, if anyone has any questions about it was like to work on the qsmp social media team the first time around, feel free to ask questions! I worked on @/qsmpen on twitter and co-supervised the english team and updates, fully volunteer work for about 4-12hrs per day. I also supervised the green team updates during purgatory 1.

you might be seeing posts saying "let's hope there isn't a repeat of the unfair work conditions that happened the first time around," and i'd be happy to provide my two cents as someone that was part of that first time around. feel free to send questions to the inbox!

[qfitpac]

hi so i’ve got no idea what happened to qsmp and i was considering getting into it in the second one that might be happening, but i see you’re posting about workplace abuse involved in it. I was just wondering what happened?

So, for a bit of background, there were a lot of "NPCs" played by people who weren't public ccs, as well as a lot of people making assets, writing storylines and plot point, and doing graphic design for various events and the server as a whole for qsmp. Given the multilingual nature of the server there was also a lot of translation work. These workers were generally called admins although most of them didn't actually fill administrative roles.

Towards the end of the server, it came out that there were a lot of problems behind the scenes. They were expected to be "on call" basically 24/7, people were getting paid wildly different amounts or not getting paid at all, miscommunication was common, rules weren't enforced equally depending on whether the higher ups liked you, and admins rarely if ever got credited for their art, writing, 3d modeling, or acting.

This isn't just fan speculation to be clear: many many of the admins publically released statements on the things they endured working for quackity. If you want to read firsthand account the qsmp wiki has a page compiling links to them here.

A lot of the admins were really excited to work for the qsmp and make money doing what they loved, only to find themselves breaking their backs for meager pay, if the checks ever came at all. Quackity took advantage of people who were some of his most dedicated fans, willing work for pennies (OR NOTHING), and his company still treated them with so much disrespect.

There's a good chunk of qsmp fans that don't care about this for various reasons. Quackity was young and didn't know any better. The admins should have been grateful for the chance to play with their favorite ccs or have their art featured on the server.

Talking about this sort of thing ruins the fun: can't we just let people enjoy what they like?

But I think it's important to not let quackity sweep this under the rug: there is damage here that he still has the power to fix and he is choosing not to do so. Not only that, he is setting up a QSMP 2, which benefits from the strong branding and reputation of the QSMP that the admins were essential to. He is still actively, monetarily, tangibly benefitting from the work that the admins did, while they see none of that payoff.

[thelissbliss]

Sorry to be annoying but what actually happened with the qsmp admins ? I saw one video on it and I don’t trust it so I was wondering genuinely what happened.

well, in short:

- they weren't paid, despite some of them working for 10 hours a day every day

- the workplace environment was incredibly closed off to the point that they were not allowed to communicate between each other and with ccs (they did anyway obviously)

- some of them were fired without ever being communicated about as to why

- everything started being revealed when one of the french admins was noticed talking to aypierre, she was fired, and then the other french admin (Lumi, who played Pomme) was also banned from the server and kept in 'we are investigating state for weeks after that

- after coming out with their stories, the admins got harassed online, which was encouraged by higher ups of the server (including, inadvertently, quackity)

- French Labour Union investigated this shit, just to add to the gravity that it was /bad/

But overall, I suggest you search for statements from admins themselves.

Some of the statements I could find quickly:

- Forest/Chunsik

- Lumi/Pomme

- Ana

- Elk

- Hoot

- Bipeo

[sewiders]

Sorry I am a hater until the end. Those employees still haven’t been paid.

[qsmpen]

me as fuck right about now

[mc-pumpkin]

Charlie after he tried to talk to people and got killed immediately:

"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANY OF IT? NO ONE'S TALKING, NO ONE'S COMING TOGETHER, NO ONE'S EXCHANGING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. THIS ISN'T PURGATORY, THIS IS HELL. THIS IS HELL. EVERYTHING WE HAVE, EVERYTHING WE KNOW, HAS BEEN THROWN AWAY. IT'S OUT THE WINDOW. THEY DON'T CARE. THEY DON'T WANT TO. EVERYTHING I LOVE, AND EVERYTHING I STAND FOR, IS GONE. DUST IN THE WIND. FOR TWO WEEKS. TWO WEEKS OF THIS"

".............................................."

*re-enters vc*

"hiya :D"

[annimator]

It’s been a while since I made one of these

[qsmpen]

follow up to the ask about knowing if anyone has been financially compensated (should have just put it all into one ask, sorry), do you know if anyone has at least received an apology from Qstudios/been asked about their feedback on working on asp in order to not repeat the same mistakes?

also, to you and the others twitter admins, i wanna say a big thank you! what you were doing really added to my personal qsmp experience, making it easy to follow what was going on and highlighting all the best moments. It’s something I dearly miss when following another smp now. thank u <3

no twitter admin was ever given anything, especially not from q himself. one of the people trusted to manage the social media supervisors did say "we greatly appreciate your love for the project! this by no means reflects negatively nor does it diminish in way all the incredibly amazing performance of every one of you" which was sweet in concept but more or less soulless as a message in a channel no one could reply to.

no reply, no acknowledgement of us being removed from the account (and likely replaced with robots or one single staff member for a minute there), and no apology. just given that previous quote, brief notice that the account would not be reinstated, and then kicked from the server. i was just lucky enough to have left an hour or less before on my own terms.

[qsmpen]

can you tell us if you or any other unpaid/underpaid admins have been financially compensated for your work since the qsmp ending ?

if any of them have, I don't know about it.

there's an argument to be made, definitely, that since we did go in under the title of volunteer that we did not deserve to be compensated. however it was a very strict work environment where you had to be showing up for at least a full time job's worth of work (or more, if you were like me and a few others on the various teams), and due to the strictness the teams were greatly understaffed.

genuinely really disappointing to find out that the intention for someone working as much as myself and my team did (I covered tubbo and badboyhalo most often, sometimes foolish, meaning that I was up for majority of my days watching and updating streams amidst classes and work) was to eventually get paid, only for us to get let go very simply and with 0 thanks from a single person.

if anyone has been compensated, I know they weren't on my team, but a lot of them are successfully doing work for some really cool streamers now!

[quackitytheduck]

Hi sorry to come forward but qsmp admins the new ones and old ones are once again coming out against Quackity and Charlie for work exploitation still happening:(

ah. who would've thought

[quackitytheduck]

hey anon re original tags can i get those sources