Mystreet Lives In A Vacuum And Things Just Simply Don't Exist Until Aphmau Touches It. - Tumblr Posts

I have some pent-up mommy-issues with that series fr.

I resent how everything got dumbed down bit by bit to accommodate for the growing (maybe-maybe not-predatory) brain-rot era taking over Minecraft content.

How every character slowly burned into a parody of themselves with one-note personalities and no depth at all. How the plot got more extreme but somehow more shallow. How every feeling, every character, every storyline had to be spoon-fed to the audience in palatable market-sized doses.

I can't help but feel insulted by that.

I know Jess' audience has always been young, and that her content of course has to accommodate that, but young DOES NOT equal dumb. Kids deserve complexities in their stories just as much as adults, IF NOT MORE SO. Stories have given kids a space to be entertained and be exposed to complicated situation for generations. They deserve the same dignity in the stories they consume as we do!

Heck, WE were kids when Diaries Dropped!

Even though I enjoyed Mystreet as it was coming out too, it always felt like a placeholder- a seat warmer to Diaries.

As a kid I remember specifically how "Emerald Secret" felt like the answer to my prayers and a slap in the face at the same time. There was a notable tone shift when that dropped. It felt like it was trying to be Diaries. And they are just not the same.

Diaries is an entire immersive world lore and world-specific characteristics.

Mystreet is whatever the Heck Jess says it is.

Mystreet lives in a vacuum and things just simply don't exist until Aphmau touches it.

(Like Kim, where did she come from)?

Mystreet, after "Emeral Secret" felt like it was chasing after the greatness of the sister-series, while still carrying the Mystreet-Hype audience. But that kind of storytelling didn't really fit with the easy-going world she had made around Mystreet.

Mystreet was just not ready for that kind of shift at the time, characters were one-trick-ponies, drama was in all honesty not-that-deep, there were no villains to slay, no battles to win. But it happened anyway. And it was a mess. A lot of things had to be shoved in suddenly without warning to raise the stakes and further the plot.

Now that isn't to say that because of the nature of the world-building in Mystreet that bigger plots than- say a furniture store- were not possible. Werewolf racism, complex, engaging and fits in the universe. That Ro'Meave vs Lycan family stuff was kinda juicy. Gene if we actually treat that seriously. Even some Magical Lucinda shenanigans are engaging and fit smoothly within the story provided.

But Emerald was a HIT! Regardless. You can say what you want about Jessica, but I do believe that she is a fantastic storyteller. Maybe not a good storywriter, but a good storyteller. I think of her as D&D adapting Game of Thrones vs GRRM who wrote the books. She understands pacing well enough and knows what fans want most importantly.

Unfortunately, with Emerald being a HIT that kind of set that awkward-messy-dramacore as the standard for future content. As long as its EXTREME and there is a whole lot of SUFFERING that means its very good (very much like Game of Thrones actually).

In summary the parody became a parody of itself again and again until we got Cocomelon-Core "Today On My Minecraft Server, Pregnant Mod!!!"

I am about to say something controversial, please don’t come for me!!

I really really resent Mystreet.

Now listen, I don’t hate it per say… But the fact that Mystreet came out after MCD, using MCD characters and was only meant to be like a funny modern au and then turned into all THAT honestly makes me really sad.

Just that fact that it got SO much more popular, to the point that some Mystreet fan don’t even know the source material is really disheartening to me.

I know how silly this sounds, I mean even I watched Mystreet growing up and enjoyed it, and it helped Jess get even more popular. Like, I know it’s not that deep..

But now that Aphmau’s back and talking about how she’ll be bringing an old series back.. Realistically I know it’ll probably be season whatever of Mystreet. I mean, that would be the logical move right? Bring back the most popular series. And I mean, that’s what everyone’s begging her to do right? But I honestly wish she’d listen to the four of us MCD fans and continue the series that made our childhood and left that empty hole in my soul.

Does anyone else feel like that? Just me..?

I just really hate how Mystreet overtook MCD