[News] Notch vs Yogscast [MineCon] 7
Woke up this morning to see the chaos going on about some events at MineCon. If you haven’t heard anything let me fill you in.
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What was everyone’s first guess? Unfortunately it was the Yogscast. Yes their highlight reel had cursing in it from previously recorded videos, but surely Mojang knew of this. They typically do a screening at these kinds of things to make sure everything follows the guidelines, right?
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WARNING: There might be a drop or two of the F-bomb ahead.
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So it’s been confirmed, the Yogscast are the culprits. Notch hasn’t released any details yet, so our best bet is waiting on an actual response from Simon and/or Lewis. We saw it coming though, the only real possibilities were the Yogscast or Deadmou5 and seeing as how they weren’t mentioned when Notch was thanking people and were unfollowed on twitter…
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Yeah, that’s exactly what happened.
https://yogscast.com/showthread.php?37623-Notch-mad-at-someone-for-f-bombing-kids-at-Minecon/page5
Look at Lomadia’s (Hannah’s) post in response:
“I find the words ‘work with’ to be very interesting in this – you will see why when Lewis gets home and makes his v-log of Minecon.
He used masturbation jokes in our videos, but then criticises us for using old footage with swearing in, when we have limited resources to edit the footage in Vegas, and also neither Mojang nor IGN gave us any guidelines as to what we were and weren’t allowed to do – the people in the panel and on the livestream chose to come and see us – so you’d think they’d know swearing is likely.
We did about six hours of signings and photos in general – no kid or parent complained to us about swearing.
I won’t say more as Lewis’ v-log will expose everything in wonderfully high definitioned rage, so give us a few days to get our thoughts in order. ”
edit:It appears she has edited out a chunk of it leaving only the first line
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So now we have something. According to Hannah (with the Yogscast) there weren’t any guidelines set up in advance. If anyone is to blame its the people who planned this event and invited the duo known to be a bit raunchy. Sure, knowing kids would be there it was a poor choice to have swearing included in any part of your panel, but this public calling out on twitter is really immature and unprofessional. You could have settled this over Quake or not have mentioned it at all. Sure the parents may have been upset, but where were they when their kids were watching the Yogscast on YouTube?
I’m going to end this post with Totalbiscuit’s response. When we get any more information we will be sure to post it up.
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[click here for part two: the details]
[click here for part 3: the interview]
[click here for part 4: the response]
Nov 21, 2011 @ 15:41:00
I must say I’m starting to get tired of Notch’s vague, sensationalist tweets- playing carrot and stick with his followers constantly just to get some attention. Its just like the Bethesda debacle; daring them to settle a legal dispute over a quake deathmatch was just self-aggrandising and needlessly provocative.
Who knows, maybe it is true- it’s certainly possible the Yogs have got a bit big for their boots- they have a lot of sway in the online community. They are the reason I personally bought minecraft.
Nov 21, 2011 @ 15:25:55
What the hell? Who needs guidelines to realize you should act like a lady/gentleman on stage in front of thousands of people? Good lord, this generation is seriously deteriorating. (By the way, I’m younger than the Yogscast folks, but I seem to have more social grace and tact than all of them combined.) Why do they feel compelled to swear in the first place? And it doesn’t seem like swearing was the bulk of the problems either, going by what notch said in his latest tweets.
Nov 21, 2011 @ 17:25:44
Are you one of those people who gain 2+ points in humanity whenever you hear a small child say please and thank you? I know I am….
The problem probably stemmed from writing “F*ck you” on an autograph. That’s bad taste, and a poor representation of the human race in general.
Nov 22, 2011 @ 16:18:38
‘Poor representation of the human race” and who exactly are we trying to show up? Seems like someone needs to spend a little less time playing video games. Notch had no right to go flaming on his twitter about this indecent. It is so minor it isn’t even worth mentioning. Instead of talking to the Yogscast about it he decided to go to the Internet. Notch needs to act much more professional, He is the head of a company.
Nov 22, 2011 @ 16:20:38
I would advice you to look more into the issue. Your opinion has obviously been swayed, I would recommend checking other sites or actually reading the posts before you go on a bad mouth people.
Nov 21, 2011 @ 14:11:06
Notch defiantly could have handled that situation a little better. However, I want to know if the Yoggscast folks were actually being jerks. I want to know what they said behind other’s backs.
Nov 21, 2011 @ 14:41:42
There has been a few updates and people coming out with “inside stories” all I can recommend is to keep checking Twitter and Reddit/r/minecraft. I’ll post more as soon as I can.