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It certainly does! My commiseration fruit tag has a couple of other peoples' grievances... But it's the new year, we could do with a fresh harvest!

Hi, Minecraft community! Are you annoyed by MCYT (minecraft youtuber & streamer) fan-media in the #minecraft tag? Sound off in the notes of this post or send this blog an ask, and don't be afraid to get specific— it'll help next time I need to answer asks like this one 💜

When I hear Minecraft AU/fanfic I assume you're asking about one of two things:

Fanfiction that elaborates on the implicit lore of Minecraft (basically a theory about, idk, the society who originally lived in the Trail Ruins, presented in narrative form)

Crossover fics that feature characters from another media, either playing Minecraft as a video game or being transported to the world of Minecraft, isekai-style.

Both cases are about Minecraft as a game, so by the logic I've been using with this blog they'd belong in the #minecraft tag. However, while tagging a lore-adjacent fic with #mineblr makes sense, I would avoid using it for the crossover types.

More generally, if a fic is written out in the body of a post (instead of just being a link to AO3 etc.) it's best to put it under a read more / line break, so people can scroll past it easily if that's not what they're looking for. And of course, fanfiction about mcyt servers / series / smps / etc. does NOT belong in any #minecraft tags.

So if it helps, I've corrected the tag on my post

https://www.tumblr.com/0l33theog/803910786167783424?source=share

Thanks for creating this blog xd you're a big help in seperating the yt from mc

That's correct! This blog is all manual, so a heads-up for removal like this is hugely appreciated as I rarely have time for a thorough check of the backlog.

No everyone's always been pretty much lovely and normal and— hold on what was that sound

I want to show off the new skin I made for my yt persona and also the house interior I'll be using for video intros?

(no I'm not gonna self promo)

Hello! Appreciate your removal of the tag, I'll remove the end crystal right after I finish this reply (also I love the art! Clockers family beloved and the way it's framed with the explosion is so well done).

For your question: yes, filtering the mcyt tag gets rid of many posts that #minecraft users don't want to see. But that requires all posts about mcyt to actually be tagged with #mcyt (which is not the case). Besides, filtering out all #mcyt posts isn't feasible for mcyt fans who also like to scroll #minecraft (like myself!)

Also I got an anon ask with essentially the same question so this is a two-for-one, sorry ^^;

It's a fair question, but. I don't think it helps them? Engagement and Number Go Up doesn't necessarily mean that more people will see the posts-- Tumblr's lack of an algorithm helps me out here. The only "extra" people that are seeing the mistagged posts would be people who follow this blog, which isn't many.

I have no intentions of being hateful. I'm not running this blog out of a desire to shut down all mcyt fan expression— I'm an mcyt fan myself!

The logic I'm working with is that posting about your own or a friend's experiences with the game (builds, skins, OCs, minesonas etc) is the intended use of the minecraft tag.

The issue with applying the same logic to youtubers* is that the audience for MCYTs is massive. So instead of a handful of people showing how they imagine themself in-game, it becomes hundreds of mcyt fans talking about their guy's latest upload. A guy that the average Minecraft player might have never heard of, and has no interest in seeing in the tags of a game they like.

And sometimes, said upload isn't even that focused on Minecraft as a game (in the case of more rp-heavy things like the Life Series, Vampires SMP etc). In those cases the fanworks etc tends to be centered mainly on character dynamics and the YTer's personal lore, i.e even less related to Minecraft.