Ok I know this is a one off funnie post but I'm running on less than 3 hours of sleep and enough last life brainrot to rot 10 brains and I actually have theories about this
Without fail, every hardcore multiplayer Minecraft series I've watched has been at least 90% gayer than anything else the creators do (usually in a platonic flirting-with-the-bros kind of way of course) and here's what I think it is:
- Just the sheer nervous energy of having lives you can lose at a moment's notice tends to make people whose stress response is "flirt" all the more flirty (best examples are Zedaph in Hardcore Hermits and Mumbo in Last Life)
- The impermanence of life in a semi lore- and plot-based series like Last Life makes it thematically a good idea to lean hard on affection and bonding with the knowledge that it can be ripped away at any second (that's just good entertainment)
- In-universe point 1 also makes it 100% easier to be gay with the homies and credit it to stress if they question it lol
- Last Life is more gay than 3rd Life because of the Boogyman. The extra element of a volatile unknown that could be anyone at any time increases the stress level and also makes it a very smart move to, one, be flattering towards people who you don't know if you can trust in the hopes that they will spare you, and 2, know your allies well enough that you can sense if they've been chosen (this can usually be achieved by staring directly into their eyes while inches apart for a full minute every morning while the Boogyman is chosen, an entirely normal and heterosexual activity /s)
3rd Life is more gay than Last Life fact is actually incorrect. Husbands Scott, who must have at least one husband in every universe, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Finally: the nature of series like 3rd Life, Last Life, and Hardcore Hermits is that footage is recorded much more naturally and the editing ranges from minimal to fully cut-free. This means that general informality is a lot more common - and it also means that there's a margin of error based on the unknown quantity of lighthearted homoerotic subtext that is present in other series but cut for the sake of episode flow. So yes, Last Life is gayer than Hermitcraft...but we have no real idea of by how much. :)
Hermitcraft is just as gay as Last Life fact is actually incorrect. Homoeroticism Rendog, who must flirt with every person he collabs with 24/7 especially if their name is Doc, is an outlier and - you get the idea
So in conclusion: permadeath mechanics = gay rights, thank you for coming to my ted talk
