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#JEFF THE MINION
micer2012 · 4 months
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a reflection on MatPat's plagiarism
Hello, my name is Della, or micer2012, and 2 years ago Game Theory plagiarized three Tumblr posts of mine, making a video that now holds almost 6 million views.
My posts explaining his plagiarism made their rounds on Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter, but despite the Hermits and Pooka commenting on it (generally in support of me or saying they don’t know enough details about the situation to say either way), MatPat and his team have never owned up to anything, and no mention of my name is present on the video. The one Reddit post they made denying it (which was made before my detailed takedown, which they have never responded to (though the mods on the r/GameTheorists Reddit were kind and made sure it stayed up)) didn’t even mention me by name, just referring to me as “a tumblr user”. (Though one of the screenshotted comments in the body of the post does say my name)
This experience was baffling, but it’s overall had a positive impact on my life. r/Hermitcraft gave me a Golden Apple Award (post of the year, 2021). My inbox was filled with excited fans, wanting to ask me questions or pose their own theories, far more than the hate I got. (Though the hate I got from Game Theory fans was VERY funny. I wondered why none of them gave me shit about saying “MatPat misgendered Evil Xisuma” before realizing none of them read that far into the post.)
And getting on a more personal, and much more important note, I met most of my current online friends through this, including my partner. It helped me grow closer with my irl friends as well and gave me an entertaining story that I tell whenever I have the chance. It was one of the first things in my life that really made me feel like my talents, my autistic hyperfocusing and analyzing of things I love, could be valuable. Useful. Exploitable. It blew my mind that MatPat thought an autistic kid’s ramblings about a Minecraft Youtube joke character were good enough to steal. To put an audible sponsorship on. To get 6 million views off of.
And that’s why I’m writing this post, this update years later. As you might’ve been able to guess, Hbomberguy’s Youtube video on plagiarism reopened this wound. It was really hard for me to sit through, it took days of pausing and taking breaks, because I had experienced everything he was talking about firsthand. 
In my 10 page long takedown post, I wrote about how his rewording of my sentences made him say things that were incorrect, just like Filip did. The content farm production style that made big companies like Cinemassacre take one creator (AVGN/MatPat) and turn him and his content into a brand, a voice that reads out scripts by other people with other opinions/theories, is a history shared with Game Theory. What really hit me was Harris talking about how big creators only do this to people they think they can get away with doing it to. How they view their victims as lesser, as not deserving of their words, repackaging them as their own to give to an audience that can gain from hearing them, but deserves better than to have to listen to the original victim.
That’s the thing, I 100% think a video version of my theory to expose to a bigger community than “Evil Xisuma Fans on Tumblr” is a great idea!! Near the end of the video Harris talks about how video adaptations of things could be a great market, even an accessibility tool, and I completely feel that about my posts. I wrote them quickly assuming the reader was someone well versed on Evil Xisuma lore, after not even watching most of the CarnEvil series, and the diagrams I made to explain them are even less comprehensible. Harris makes a joke that I completely agree with, 
“I’m sure some of my videos would do very well if someone translated them into English.”
I don’t think I would’ve ever made my posts if I didn’t have autism, and a special fixation on Evil Xisuma and Hermitcraft. I made them because I felt the character was being done an injustice, and because I wanted to share with other superfans this theory that might explain it away. I do think that MatPat plagiarizing me was ableist. I used to wonder a lot if this would’ve happened if my posts were articulated better, if they had been peer reviewed, if the posts themselves had been spread to a wider audience before MatPat made his video. At one point when the discourse was fresh (before I had the time to write out my 10 page rebuttal), a bigger YouTuber (100k subs at the time) messaged me and started talking on Discord, interested in possibly making a video on the discourse, but I think my style of typing and general enthusiasm drove him away. You can tell by a single look at my blog (or my original 3 posts!) that I don’t usually type like this. This post you’re reading now has been peer reviewed and edited, and took me hours to format correctly. That video could’ve been huge, the entire outcome of this MatPat situation would probably be much different.
I also used to stress a lot about “being the one who ruined Evil Xisuma’s story”. If you didn’t know, to me S8 Evil Xisuma’s story got wrapped up pretty quickly and unsatisfying (in my personal autistic opinion). (though this might’ve been due to s8 being experimental and ending early with moon big) There was no real culmination of the plot points and arcs going on, and I don’t want to blame myself, but when Xisuma said on stream (when the MatPat thing was first going on) that he didn’t want to focus on the discourse or draw more attention to it, it makes a lot of sense to me that he just wanted to wrap it all up as quickly as possible. For a while I beat myself up about it, of ruining the story of this character I love, but it’s not my fault. If anyone’s, it’s MatPats, but I don’t think it’s useful to just blame someone else. That’s how the story ended up going, and that’s fine. This is Evil Xisuma we’re talking about, their inconsistent lore is what made them such an interesting character. And notably, Pooka made an animation with an awesome culmination of Jeff, the Dreamer, Evil Xisuma, and his own sona’s story, and it makes me so happy to watch. Whatever Pooka does is of course his own choice, but I’m glad he got to give this personal story his own ending (if it is an ending, and not just the start of a new chapter!). 
Typing this all out and getting it off my chest has made me feel a lot better. For a while I wanted to make my OWN video essay about Evil Xisuma’s lore and CarnEvil’s lore, actually going episode by episode to explain it instead of just assuming you knew as much about Evil Xisuma as I did. That idea is still not off the table, but MCYT isn’t something I’m that into right now. Maybe if something else comes out about Evil Xisuma I’ll get back on it, but for now I’m fine with letting that go. But I want to make other videos, share other theories and analysis… if I have the freetime I’d love to make YouTube videos, and if I don’t have the time I’ll continue posting to my tumblr and infodumping to my friends. Apparently my infodumping is valuable enough “content” to steal! Writing this out has made me feel a lot better though, I’m really glad I got it out.
If anyone ever wants to talk to me about the things I’m obsessed with, or reach out to me as a source in a bigger discussion about Game Theory or other channels, my inbox is more than welcome :] Thank you for reading! 
Sincerely, a tumblr user.
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kikunai · 1 year
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curse of greed
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manyminded · 5 months
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is this anything
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awoart114253 · 4 months
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animation by th3pooka song The Living Tombstone | Gypsy Bard [remix] edit using Sony vegas 17
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galaxygermdraws · 3 months
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Oh god Evil's Fault Brainrot is back. I mean this is a queue'd post so by the time yall see this the brainrot may have calmed down BUT IT'S STRONG AS I'M DRAWING THIS. I miss my 2021 Ex fixation...
(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)
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it's just your brother
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autistic-evil-xisuma · 7 months
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something happened after season 8. something happened after season 8. evil x isn't just free from jeff. they're fully aware of him. they're with the dreamer in the real world now! they called jeff by his name!! up until now ex has Never called jeff his name. in their moments of awareness of him, he's only ever been "evil voice". not now. they know who he is. they know what he did. they told him to SHUT IT!!! what HAPPENEDDD!
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sweetest-honeybee · 2 years
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Leaving this one as is without the rendering because I kinda like the textured scribbly/unfinished look
Anyways giant menacing skeleton Jeff becauseee 👀👀
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helsex-moved · 6 months
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Lonely eyes
[I.D. A digital drawing of Evil Xisuma from the mid back up. Their back is to the viewer at an angle and they look over their shoulder, they aren't wearing a shirt. There are high contrast shadows and green lighting to one side. Their eyes glow bright green and a sort of green fog comes from them, under the left eye the usual black branches are orange now. There is a dark background and a chromatic aberration effect on the whole piece. END I.D.]
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cryingteacup · 2 years
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How the creepa kiss (+ i have a very open inbox, send me stuff!)
Jeff-
He doesn't kiss its a full on assault on your mouth.
Its always very random too. Like you'll be minding your own business, talking with someone and he'll just grab your jaw and full on attack you with his mouth. He thinks he's being "sexy 😈😈😈" and "rough😩😩😩😩" but its just messy but you think its too funny to tell him. Very rarely though you'll kiss him and when you do, chaste, romantic kisses make him MELTTTTTT. Because of his outwardly violent and crude personality no ones ever very soft or sweet with him unless they're scared or they want something. So you coming in with a nice change of pace is always welcome. <3
Toby-
Probably did some dumb shit like make out with his pillow to try to be a good kisser for you when you started dating. Masky caught him and he had to pay him $80 and do alll his chores for 3 months. When you do get into a more *heated* kiss it usually starts sloppy, lots of teeth. But hes a quick learner and learns to melt into it quickly. Hes much taller that you. Hes always been on the lanky-er side so lots of quick head and forehead kisses<33
Masky-
Full grown ass man. He knows his stuff. I mean like not toooo well he studied film in college lol. But hes had a few partners he knows the basics on what to do. When he kisses instead of taking the mask all the way off he keeps it sort of half on so he can still wear it. Hes also got a stubble which kinda hurts but whatever. Lots of cuddling kisses. You guy will be chilling with a movie or tv show or something going on in the background and just kissing and cuddling.<33
Hoodie-
He hasn't kissed since his girlfriend in like, the 7th grade. If he kisses you first he like squeezes his eyes shut before he leans in. If you do it first his eyes are blown out wide he has no idea what the fuck is going on and he thinks you might try and stab him or some shit. After the initial shock though he does much better. He's always been good at reading people and picking up feeling in a room. And right now that room is you two kissing. <33
Ej-
In my head, he's like full blown demon, human enough so im not tooo much of a weirdo for liking him but he still has sharp ass teeth.
And hes very aware of that.
He never really initiates kisses unless they're small ones on the forehead or cheek. (Mostly head and forhead tho. Hes a demon. Hes like 7 feet tall)
But when you kiss him he doesn't move much because he doesn't want to scrape the inside of your mouth. He kinda just lets you do your thing. Makes up for it because his hands are always on you like 24/7 very very touchy it like kisses without a mouth. Always on a shoulder or a hip.( He totally uses your head as a arm rest)
But also when you guys kiss his hands just trail every where on your body.<3
Thanks for reading! Ive had this in my notes for a bit because i forgot i had a tumblr but i remembered and im going to be writing more so follow me if you wanna ill make a master list n stuff too :))
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fantarain · 2 years
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evil x just wasted military money
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micer2012 · 2 months
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hi :D
xisuma talked about the theory (the one game theory stole) about 38 minutes into the latest stream! (Feb 4)
he once again mentioned that yeah, he belives game theory plagiarized it, but he also mentioned that your theory included the point that was based on a rendering issue (and GT "made the same mistake") and idk if he mentioned it before but now I'm wondering what that part is 🤔
that's it ty byeee
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
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2/4/24 Hermitcraft 10 | First Stream with Sicksuma! 31:48:
“Hey X, big fa[n], wanted to know if you watched the Hermitcraft game theory and what you think about it.”
Yeah I did see it, and…
I still, I still have very mixed feelings about it. I don’t wanna get dragged into, yknow, um… A sorta calling people out or anything like that, but the explanation, that we were given about that had never been satisfactory for me. 
I-I really think that that was plagiarized. Um- The biggest reason I think it was is because… Apart from the theory being SO on point with this fan theory, like beat for beat, the fan theory, the original one, has a detail in it, which is a complete and utter misunderstanding of something that was just a rendering issue? There was a rendering issue in the video that this fan extrapolated into meaning something. And then, so did the Game Theorists, um… fan theory or whatever you wanna call it, right? They made the same extrapolation on a rendering error, to me it was just… too uncanny, and… supposedly, no, the writers never did that, uh, y’know I’m not here to say they did or they didn’t, it’s of course entirely possible and you can never know, it’s just it never satisfied me, it never felt right. 
So um, yeah, I-I still feel not too great about that. Like it was nice to have my story in a big video, that- that felt really cool, but the way in which it happened, not cool I don’t think. It just, uh, I don’t buy it. 
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34:35: “X doesn’t buy his own lore, that’s so damn cool” says memcbest- I don’t know what you mean by that, I’m not saying I don’t buy my own lore I’m saying- I think- I think it was plagiarism. I really do. Like I said, an uncanny amount of similarities, like beat for beat with this fan theory, and then even misinterpreting a rendering error the same way, it just- it didn’t feel right AT all. It really felt like this had been ripped off. 
…So yeah, so therefore, I feel bittersweet about it. Like it’s cool that there’s a video out there on Evil X, but it… it should’ve been made by someone else, y’know. Or with the original theorist’s consent. That’s how I feel about it. 
Later on he goes on about other channels not citing their sources and furthering the same misunderstanding/false info because they’re just plagiarizing from each other, but it’s not directly related so I won’t transcribe it. He says plagiarism is an interesting topic to think about. He also talks about how AI will make it worse, and about having seen the hbomberguy video ^^
I THINK. THE RENDERING ERROR HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS the point of EX's eyes reflecting as Jeff's i put at the end of my first post:
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BUT ANYWAY. THIS MEANS A LOT TO MEEE THIS REALLY DOES MEAN A LOT. the stance xisumas given before this to my knowledge is "it looks suspicious but we cant know unless they say something" so to hear. someone who absolutely has all the facts, is unbiased towards either of us, say firmly game theory's statement doesn't hold up and it's Obvious it's copied from mine. IT. MEANS A LOTTTT
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kingscourthouse · 1 year
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The quote is from my fortune cookie this morning. Thought it sounded funny so I drew Ex with it :D
Sorry if its a bit weird to read, for some reason I didnt do them on separate pages. BUT- I tried to make my handwriting legible instead of using the text box thing so I'm proud of it!
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evilxdoodles · 2 years
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prompt, if you need it: either ex meeting joe of the hills (of nashville tennessee)
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theyre not the sharpest tools in the shed
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lindentree · 6 months
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If I was Ex I'd 100% fall for Jeff's manipulation his voice does some cocomelon ass shit to me
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galaxygermdraws · 8 months
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Decided I would do a redraw of this piece from 2021, which WOW it's been that long?? And I realize a lot of people in present day Hermitblr won't understand some of this. Uh. I have a lot of thoughts still.
(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Can't wait to see people ask me about this lol. Thankyu)
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