a tribute to the dsmp

haiii updated this page so it reflects my thoughts and opinions on the dsmp etc in a better way. i have mostly moved on from the bigger side of the fandom. still kicking and crazy abt ctommy ( and actual real life tommyinnit too sorry guys ) and everyone in relation to him, reading fics / rbing fanart on tumblr but you know. dsmp is dead. and i really genuinely cannot get myself to give a shit about wilbur soot or ranboolive like boring ass man sorry. i hate dream as he is apparently literally satan reincarnated. rewrote this main page as a tribute to my love for the server :) keeping the other pages up for nostalgia. ctommy solos.. peace out

Circa early 2020, two of my childhood best friends got obsessed with dsmp. Literal crazy batshit insane obsessed. Every time i came over there was something new about the dsmp they told me about. at one point they made like a 60 page slide show to explain the lore to me ( did not work). we always had different interests, and that year i listened to everything they wanted to tell me, even when i thought it was very cringe-y ( i loved anime at the time. like girl who r u to say that. ) whilst in the recent years they have drifted away from the whole mcyt scene and i am still stuck here, we still mainly bond over games. the roles have been reversed and i am not happy about it ( one of them sent me an insta reel of ranboo recently and said “cannot believe i used to like him”. dsmp is like this annoying ass ghost that follows u everywhere. u can never repent for your sins of liking cringe 2020 interests !!!!!!! )

i don't really keep up with streamers anymore. dsmp is dead and i'm too lazy for qsmp tbh... but i still love the community through and through. people love this fandom and i love it too. this community has garnered such a talented and passionate group of people and i'm so proud 2 be a part of it. dsmp shaped who i am. no joke. i KNOWW how it sounds like cringe minecraft server changed lives? but the people i met through this fandom and the things i have seen being created for it has changed my life trajectory. i got into coding bcs of the dsmp. i started writing bcs of the dsmp. i fell in love with life and i learned to enjoy it thru this fuckass server bro. i will always love the dsmp. i dont even gaf about the streamers anymore. but i still have this gut wrenching feeling whenever c!wilbur is mentioned. i know a lot of my friends have moved on to different interests ( and i have too) but i see no purpose in being embarrassed about something i loved so deeply and dearly. this community will always be a part of me, and for that i'm endlessly grateful

regarding ccs personally, aside from the lore and characters, these days i only care about tommyinnit and tubbo. 2 and a half year long fan of tommyinnit unfortunately. i'm not proud of it okay :( but a girls gotta do what he's gotta do!!!!!! sometimes you gotta like white men who don't have one funny bone in their body !!!! he's my babygirl. my girlfriend. he has rotted my brain. everything i do i do for ctommy. TOMMYYYY

what even is streaming?

Streaming is simply a way of broadcasting audio and video over the internet in real-time. Streaming has a few constant elements that make it different and special. The live chat, a way for the people watching the stream to communicate with the streamer, is a vital part of it. The authenticness is another one, with streamers broadcasting from their bedrooms with little to no professional production. The most popular streaming platform in the world is Twitch, followed second by youtube gaming. Streams are special when they are live, but if the streamer chooses to share them, you can also watch the "vods" (video on demand), which are the streams in full video format, uploaded to other platforms (mainly youtube) to be watched offline.

Twitch is an American live streaming platform, including but not limited to gaming, just chatting, creative media, music, and live events. Twitch was the platform that boosted and supported most of the streamers that are successful right now.Twitch was also the first platform to support a lot of extentions to their platform, allowing the community to curate and make the twitch experience better. Streamers on twitch can enhance the chat experience by using extensions like BetterTTV and 7tv to upload channel exlusive emotes (basically twitch emojis) and badges signifying the chatters status. Badges can signify a couple of things; like how long a chatter has been subscribed to the streamer, if they have ever lead a hype train, and so on. Subscriptions (also called subs) on twitch are paid, and there are three tiers you can subscribe with. Subscriptions come with perks like no ads, exlusive channel emotes (different than the emotes uploaded with the extensions which can be accessed by anyone). There are other ways to support streamers if you don't want to renew your sub every month, like dono's (donations) and Bits. Dono's mostly come with messages that the text-to-speech reads aloud to the stream, and Bits are essentially a virtual currency that is used by Twitch. Hype trains happen when there is a spike in Bits or Subscription activity in a channel coming from different viewers within a specific time frame. Twitch has garnered and created a very big sense of community with their streamers and chatters ("offliners" being a term coined by the community, a name for people who chat in streamers' chat even when they aren't online). As a streamer, if you fill out a set of requirements you can also partner with them and be a twitch partner which has it's own special perks.

Unfortunately, in the recent years, Twitch has lost the spark that made it so special. Listening to the community and prioritizing their thoughts and opinions was what made Twitch so different than the other platforms in the first place. As Twitch keeps gaining popularity, it has stopped caring about their community, with increasing adds, pathetically sloopy management and weirdly motivated bans on streamers. Thus Twitch has lost a lot of streamers (to youtube gaming) who MADE twitch is the first place, like ludwig, Valkyrae, Sykkuno, LilyPichu, and the late Technoblade.

Servers and so on

SMPs are survival multiplayer game servers where a bunch of people can play in the same world together. Servers are a big part of the minecraft community, hypixel being the most commonly known. Most of the servers cc's play on are private and whitelisted. This tab will just be a place i store all the resources i want to on these servers; including dsmp, qsmp and origins.

dsmp!

while being portrayed in minecraft does add a bit of separation from reality to it, the dsmp involves a lot of triggering topics. here is a general content warning:

* Violence

* Foul language

* Language and imagery surrounding war

* Death, including those of major characters and animals/pets

* Themes of grief

* Abuse

* Depression and suicidal thoughts/tendencies

* Dereality/unreality

* Torture

* Religious institutionalsim

* Cult worship and indoctrination

* Addiction to drugs/alcohol/gambling

* Cannibalism

* Sacrifices

* Themes surrounding martyrdom

* Human experimentation

* Dealing with PTSD/character-specific triggers

snatched this list from moonsbig neocities!

transcripts of some lore streams can be found here and lore analysis essays can be found here
the wiki with all of the lore is here

to differentiate the streamers and the characters they play, the fandom puts c! infront of the names. cc! means content creator. my favorite characters are down below. hover to see their names and click on them to see their wiki page!

qsmp! (VERY OUTDATED. TOO LAZY TO UPDATE.)

created by one of the dsmp members quackity, the qsmp is the newest server with LIVE TRANSLATION, being the first multilingual server in the history of minecraft. It is currently very new, and most of the members are live daily! it currently has three different languages; english, spanish and portuguese! content warnings of qsmp ahead!

* grief

* death of children

* murder

the wiki can be found here and there are official update/translation accounts linked to quackity, which can be found here

here are my favorite qsmp characters!

lore based

you can find the dsmp lore vods in order here but it is very outdated. blueberry tv has edited alot of vods into the lore heavy parts here but their videos also miss the spark of friendship and joking around that made dsmp special in the first place.