#mine: minions

[bchargoistheartist94]

Woody Woodpecker, Shrek and Struart the Minion are Universally BEST FRIENDS ✨✨✨

I’ve wanted to draw my favorite animated Universal Studios characters together in one snapshot drawing for a long time and here it is! Whatcha think, y’all? 😍😍😍💚💛❤️ Aren’t they adorable together as best buds?

• Woody Woodpecker (c) Walter Lantz Cartoons & @universalpictures

• Shrek (c) @dreamworksanimation & @universalpictures

• Minions (c) Illumination & @universalpictures

#art #fanart #mine: post #mine: art #artists on tumblr #mine: pencil art #mine: universal pictures #mine: woody woodpecker #mine: shrek #shrek #woody woodpecker #mine: minions #minions #universal pictures #universal studios #cartoon crossover #crossover art #pencil art #mine: fanart #illumination #dreamworks animation #walter lantz #color pencils #cartoon art #cartoon fanart #movie fanart #movie art #character art #character illustrations #group shot

[micer2012]

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.

#exiavojtmmc #hermitcraft #matpat #gt #game theory #hc #mcyt #evil xisuma #hbomberguy #plagiarism #james somerton #jeff the minion #mine #micer2012 #hcs9

[artykyn]

Megamind was 9 days old when his parents shipped him off the planet. His species is full of super geniuses, Megamind canonically remembers what was happening on that day.

We don’t know how old Minion is but regardless of that, what we do know is that Megamind’s parents trusted him to be a fully capable and responsible caretaker. So whatever he is and however old he is, we can assume he also has a good memory of their home planet and what happened.

Metroman, on the other hand... he has incredible physical powers, but definitely no impressive mind powers. Or else Hal would have become smart. There’s no reason to believe that Metroman’s intelligence or childhood mental development was any more impressive than the average human.

...what I’m saying is that there’s a nonzero chance that Metroman has absolutely NO idea where he is from. Parents probably didn’t have time to leave a note in his capsule. Dude probably thinks he’s just a super special human or some kind of lab experiment and that Megamind and Minion are the only two aliens in this situation. Doesn’t realize he was their galactic neighbor.

Just. Imagine them all hanging out as friends sometime after the events of the movie, and Metroman asks Megamind and Minion how they met each other. A totally innocent and normal question to ask.

But it snowballs into a much different conversation

#IMAGINE #megamind #metroman #mine #minion #space #galaxy #movies #parents #planets #super powers #babies #aliens

[canonicallysoulmates]

Armand: *opens his mouth*

Daniel: Disregard

#he is so done with him 😂 #devils minion #daniel x armand #iwtv 2.01 #iwtv s2 #iwtv spoilers #interview with the vampire #non spn #mine #iwtv

[herproblem]

Devil/Angel Armand

(Source)

#iwtv #armand #interview with the vampire #assad zaman #devil’s minion #art #mine

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

I Would laugh. maybe even giggle. if it was revealed that Devil's Minion didn't actually happen in the 70's like everybody thinks it did. I mean. I dunno. I think that modern day Daniel could handle a stalking. I do, I think that he could handle it!!

#I really would love a 70's run though #but like #that would be fucking hilarious #if that's what happens #interview with the vampire #devil's minion #armand #daniel molloy #cloey talks iwtv #mine

[thefairylights]

Armand is like Daniel hereeee watch this to stir your memory because you don’t believe me and it’s legit sex tapes the two have recorded in the 70s during Devil’s Minion era. And Daniel’s like damn what position is that and is it why I’ve got back issues also :| LOML :|

#leave me alone #interview with the vampire #daniel molloy #the vampire armand #assad zaman #eric bogosian #iwtv #devil’s minion #armandaniel #mine

[fyeahsmokinhot]

Umm.....What happened next?

#amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #the vampire armand #daniel molloy #iwtv edit #iwtv s2 #devils minion #assad zaman #eric bogosian #jacob anderson #iwtv season 2 #iwtv 2022 #my shit #iwtv mine

[raspbee]

memory is a monster.

#armandaniel #iwtv #iwtvfanart #iwtv fanart #armandaniel fanart #devil's minion #armand #the vampire armand #daniel molloy #mine #*

[mothmage]

lesmand and devil’s minion are equally strange and obsessive but in different ways. armand is obsessed with lestat for the pursuing, and daniel for the having. like, lestat is the one armand wants to crawl inside of and consume. but daniel is the one that he actually whips out the knives and surgical implements on.

#mine #lesmand #devil’s minion #the vampire armand #vc

[transexualpirate]

but seriously the whole plot of the original movie is that megamind is so utterly lonely that having defeated his nemesis aka the person he's supposed to despise he gets bored. if you don't count minion and his prison uncles, metroman and roxanne were his only friends in... forever. that's not just a vital part of his backstory and therefore personality but it is also what kicks the entire plot of the original movie. if megamind wasn't lonely and used to isolation, he wouldn't be bored after defeating metroman. if you're gonna make a sequel, try not to change any minor things like, you know, the entire fucking story. and pay your writers and give them time to work while you're at it

#mine #not to be taken seriously #megamind #megamind 2 #megamind 2: syndicate of doom #syndicate of doom #roxanne ritchi #metroman #minion #(im not calling him ol' chum.)

[cryingeevee524]

i can't see why anyone would choose zombies over skeletons as minions. sure, zombies can usually take a couple more hits but neither of these are front line soldiers! they're SERVANTS and lemme tell ya, zombies are TERRIBLE servants. for one the smell is AWFUL and it spreads EVERYWHERE as flesh falls off and leaves a trail wherever they've been, secondly they're WORTHLESS at servant work! "oh minion, could you pass me the forbidden book? yes, the blood magic one" congratulations! ancient secrets have been smeared and ruined from zombie residue! "oh minion, cook me a meal would you?" you WILL get several diseases. "minion, sweep the halls, they're quite dirty" it will be DIRTIER than when it started. the only thing they have over skeletons is you only need one to carry something heavy meanwhile you need 3 or 4 skeletons for the same job. but THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE FLESH ABOMINATIONS! carefully cleaned and prepared as to not rot, choice pieces expertly stitched together for strength, and SUPER customizable! save yourself the pain and strip all the flesh and organs and whatnot and just raise that corpse as a skeleton.

#sorry to rant but i just found out a so called “colleague” of mine has her tower full of the rotting bastards! #their go to minion! #at least zombies are fun to set on fire i guess... #wizard posting #necromancer

[micer2012]

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.

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. 

[...]

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:

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

#XISUMA #EVIL XISUMA #HERMITCRAFT #HERMITCRAFT SEASON 10 #S10 #HC #HCS10 #JEFF THE MINION #MATPAT #GAME THEORY #MCYT #EXIAVOJTMMC #PLAGIARISM #MINE #EX

[loelett]

they're judging you asf

#daniel's outfit is mine and armand's is cupid vagabond angel's :3 #i hauvent made a drawing in so long... #and the first thing i make is a boring redraw boooo #armand #daniel molloy #devil's minion #the vampire chronicles #my art #vc

[canonicallysoulmates]

I JUST NOTICED THAT WHEN LOUIS WAS PUSHING DANIEL ABOUT ALICE ARMAND TRIED TO STOP HIM

AND LOOK AT HIS EXPRESSION AT SEEING DANIEL IN PAIN YOU CAN'T TELL ME HE DIDN'T FEEL BAD, YOU CAN'T TELL ME HE DOESN'T STILL LOVE DANIEL, YOU CAN'T TELL ME HE DIDN'T TELL HIM THAT ALICE HAD WANTED TO SAY YES AS A WAY TO TRY AND COMFORT HIM ARGUE WITH THE WALL

#these two make me insane #devils minion #armand x daniel #iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #iwtv 2.02 #apologies for the low quality gif but it's the best I can do right now #mine #non spn

[herproblem]

Interview with the vampire is literally my favourite show and all I ask

Is it be bold and fully go there with these two. The audience is as sick and twisted as the vampires and yes we want to see him fuck that old man!

#that’s all I ask #devil's minion #armand #IWTV #Eric is very unironically Anthony-Bourdain-hot to me #and Assad is the most beautiful cherubic person I’ve ever seen #so yes we’d like to see it please #in hd #assad zaman #eric bogosian #mine #daniel molloy #be bold and graphic too with it