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Dream: I know you were here. I found your stick near a crafting table.

George: ‘Play dumb’ What’s a stick?

George *internally panicking*: ‘NOT THAT DUMB!’

Dream: ?????

https://youtu.be/X1OXNSCfgUQ (8:50)

RaccoonInnit

This child just digs out a cave “room” under TECHNOBLADE’S house and starts stealing from him like a damn raccoon. He has no fear. (Or, more likely, is just very dumb...)

Found this on Twitter and I felt that it was important to share here:

Edit with all the things that people are telling me:

BBH and Sapnap don't like to be shipped together.

Dream doesn't like people puting pressure on him for a face reveal, it makes him anxious.

Eret doesn't like to be shipped with people from the Dream SMP.

Tommy is ok with people using his face as pfp but he'll probably mute you on twitter because it overwhelms him a bit.

Tubbo only lets Tommy call him by his real name.

Oh and btw, there's this really cool blog ( @smp-boundaries (hope you don't mind the @) ) which is way more complete that my post, and has way more mcytubers and stuff.

you should totally check them out.

Look, Imma say it: headcanons about real CCs is super WeirdChamp. It's psychoanalytical and invasive and not at all the same as heacanon'ing for characters. When one makes headcanons for a character, one is basing them upon a fictional person's fictional personality, dynamics, relationships, in the context of their fictional world, etc. But when one headcanons about a real person, one is making assumptions about their real personality and history, trying to extrapolate one's own interpretation of their words, actions, relationships, etc. And there's just something about that sits very poorly with me. It just feels so... ahhfjgkg I can't properly articulate why it feels so gross and invasive right now.

Two more things, though. First of all, by headcanons about irl CCs, I basically mean theorizing, analyzing, and truthing. There's so, so many examples of these things in this fandom, but off the top of my head, some examples include theorizing about CC's sexualities, potential familial/home situations, academic situations, mental health, career goals, and interpersonal problems. And by theorizing, I mean coming up with one's own conclusions about the aforementioned things, without the CC having explicitly given evidence for those conclusions.

Second of all, I feel like discussions in this fandom tend to be framed around how detrimental certain things are to CCs. While I think that's an important discussion to be, had for sure, and that CCs deserved to be treated better, with respect and as humans, I personally think it's a lot more important for us to talk about why certain things we do are bad for us, as viewers. To get so invested in real people who do not know us, to use streamers as such an emotional crutch, that we invest so much of our own lives and mental efforts to learn everything we can about their lives and then take it a step further and try theorizing about them, cannot be healthy. There are so, so many things this fandom does that is representative of just how much we use CCs as unhealthy coping mechanisms, and it's really concerning to me. I am not exempt from this. Part of the reason I'm making this post is because I've realized that I need to reevaluate my own life and engage with media more healthily than I currently am, if I've gotten to the point of entertaining some of the headcanons about irl CCs that I see on Tumblr and Twitter. To go beyond simple observation and fan indulgence to this level of obsession - and that what it is for most of us, obsession - is something else entirely. I mentioned a couple months ago, back when I was engaging in a completely different kind of discourse that my sisters and I had come up with a theory: that a majority of the people in the MCYT fandom are using this to escape problems in their own lives. And I still think this is probably true. I think this, like many other forms of media, is being used as a form of escapism for many ND minors/young adults, minors who are going through abusive/unstable households, people traumatized by the effects of this pandemic, queer people handling their own oppression and trauma, etc. And that's not bad, in and of itself. But escapism taken too far, in a desperate attempt to completely detach one's self from one's own life and entrench one's self in a fictional or idealized space instead, is just not healthy. This isn't healthy.

Anyways, as usual, some disclaimers: this post is not in response to any specific person or instance on Tumblr or Twitter. I only ever made one vague post on this blog that was directed at someone, and I will never do that again. This post was just something that's been simmering in my head for a few days now, and I finally wanted to articulate it. Also, I am not an expert on anything I talk about ever. I'm just some loser with some opinions, so don't take my word as the end-all-be-all. Discourse, sans attacks, is welcome.

lately i’ve been thinking abt how love maybe doesn’t exist. like,,, people pretend to be in love to feel better about themselves.

then i remembered that philza minecraft said he doesn’t regret dying to the baby zombie in his hardcore world because it gave him enough exposure to bring kristin to him so they could get married

then i kept thinking, about tommy and tubbo planning on moving in together after tommy graduates

sapnap, dream and george planning on moving in together when they’re able

ranboo donating over $100k to the trevor project for his cousin

dream wanting to wait to face reveal until he’s with george

wilbur calling tommy his best friend

wilbur helping tommy ‘break into his office’ for his vlog

wilbur getting out of bed just to talk to tommyinnit

karl, george, sapnap, dream and quackity falling asleep over a vc call

ranboo making sure to warn his chat about jump scares, flashing lights, and potential triggers

maybe love isnt dead

If you ship real minors:

Get the fuck out. No one wants you here. You are the problem. Re-evaluate yourself.