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And when the world needed it the most ... I come back with some doomed yuri ... 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌈 (Yes it's a redraw)

I miss them soooo much 😔💔

Also here's a small bonus :

“It's hard not to be demolished by the thought of her because I have lived in a body that has loved her and eyes that have witnessed her. She is part of my muscles, my tissue. She is unforgettable.

Presumably, if she ever remembers me, it is only when she catches a perfume that is vaguely familiar, and it takes her hours to recognize it as mine.” ― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"You are Heaven made flesh, you have been the greatest fire of my life. It's not good enough, I know, but for every time I made you feel inadequate, I have died a hundred deaths. I'll love you until the earth finishes." — Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

(Please note, I'm not a professional or a journalist. This post is half regular person wording things for other regular people who were also regularly confused by corpo-speak and half me writing things down as it helps me remember it lmao)

Weren't staff just volunteers?

Yes! But also no. Basically they had this trial system before you got paid (yeah, red flags immediately, you get it now?) where for one week they did the work unpaid until they were either accepted and paid or weren't excepted and were fired. Volunteers, officially and on the "we're hiring!!!" things posted on twitter, only existed for that trial and were a temporary stage before employment. OR!!! That's what was *supposed* to happen, basically QSMP Studios staff kept making up excuses to extend that one week deadline, claiming stuff like "your behavior is strange, we're just gonna keep an extra eye on you for a while before we make a decision" and then it dragged on and on with people being stuck in the volunteer phase for months in some cases. which is unpaid labor. which is scummy af. think unpaid internships, but with even less safety nets in place.

Weren't the Staff paid and Volunteers unpaid, because well, they're just volunteers?

Ok so basically people had official jobs and what they were being paid for (at abysmally low rates, mind you) and then were also asked to do other not-their-job things, so "artist" staff and "person who did art for qsmp" are not the same thing, translators drew art unpaid, roleplayers did translating unpaid, etc etc. List of QSMP Staff/Volunteer wages: Paid Staff: 150€ (171 USD) per month - Keep in mind that the server was open and had people working on it pretty much 24/7 over a year, someone who was a paid staff member throughout almost the entirety of the servers runtime, a year, would have been paid 1800 euro ($2056 USD) for months of being on call pretty much 24/7 which surmounts to an hourly (on-call or working) rate of about 24 cents. These were the paid ones. Roleplayers/Actors: Unpaid Builders: $5 USD per hour Commission pay for art done by non-artist staff: Unpaid Developers (Unknown what is meant by "developers", could be backend, webdev, modding etc): Some were reported to have been paid as little as 1 Euro ($1 USD) per hour Twitter Account Admins: Unpaid Web Developer: Between $5-22 USD per hour Video Translation: $1 per minute of edited video, (The minumum wage per minute in my country is 5 times that btw, I was gonna give the USA one as an example but its abysmal, but they were paid less than that anyways so ugh) Video Translation done by non-translator staff: Unpaid 3D Modeling (Commission pricing examples from one Model Artist): Small model - ~5-10$ Player-size - ~15-20$ Large - ~30-60$ Unusual sizing - 60$+ Rush Fee - 15$+ This is lower than commercial pricing. Writing: $200-400 USD per month - writers were just as on-call 24/7 as other staff types, last minute changes happened frequently, needing changes a days or even hours before going live. Hourly rate calculates to about 40 cents per hour.

Staff were paid from Quackity's personal Paypal account, rather than an official business transaction. Paypal transaction fees were not covered by QSMP Studios / Quackity. (Side note, one (maybe more) of the QSMP actors were underage, and unpaid due to being an actor so yeah unpaid child labor.)

(Side side note, the "NDA" they had to sign was the first result of typing "NDA" into google lmao)

It's just minecraft, they're getting paid to pay minecraft, they're lucky!

Staff were uber overworked, on call 24/7, and made to do sooo many things outside of their official designated/paid jobs. The idea of an admin with a specific job is nebulous at best. That was what you were on paper, in reality admins did a bit of everything. Actors did art, writers did translation, builders did writing, it was all over the place. Remember the jokes about admins being online for 13+ hours a day? It was funny at the time, "they're being paid to play minecraft, wouldn't be online all the time?" In reality they had no choice.

The staff have been paid now!

I have seen zero evidence of this being the case, the closest Ive seen is a he-said-she-said of posts saying that Quackity told Philza and Tubbo who mentioned it on stream. I have seen zero clips of them saying this, but even if they have, it needs to come from Quackity.

(March 14, 2026)

As of me writing this, it’s been a little less than a week since I had published this project. Before I say anything else, I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelmingly positive response—I had, surprisingly enough, received pretty much zero hate. There’s been a few responses clearly made in bad faith, which I do not care about—I’m not gonna dignify people who do not care to engage with my argument with a response—but otherwise, everyone has been incredibly kind. For that, I thank you all.

This positive response to the project, however, has been the only good thing to happen in regards to QSMP 2.

Despite my best hopes and the traction this project has received, none of the creators have taken any responsibility or demanded any kind of accountability. Furthermore, Quackity Studios continued to show their ass by using stolen GenAI backgrounds for their announcement posters and inviting known bigots to their server. This, of course, is not surprising in the slightest. As Ana has expressed on Twitter:

the last thing i'll say on the matter is: don't expect someone to foster a safe space for marginalized people and/or care about artists when you saw how they treated people "without platforms" both behind the scenes and publicly. some people only care about their bottom line. this is just what they did before in another font: disregarding people in search of personal glory and financial gain, fuck people's safety and comfort bc who cares about other human beings. someone who treats people like shit, will turn around and do the same to you. trust me, we would know.

A lot of people came out of the woodwork to protest the use of GenAI in the announcement posters—which is all well and good, but, really? You can excuse workplace abuse, but you draw the line at GenAI? Do you think artists having their art put into generative models are the only people having their labor devalued in this situation? Why is that? Why would you qualify the others' devalued labor as not real labor or deserving of lower wages in comparison?

Some of the participants referred to “legal processes” as their reason for not talking about workplace abuse. This is a non-defense. There’s no “legal side” to this. Thinking there is any kind of lawsuit going on is, at best, naive: in what alternate universe can Quackity Studios both launch a massive, (seemingly Twitch-sponsored) project and be in the middle of a lawsuit at the same time?

Some of the participants said that they’d talked to Quackity and were reassured that everything was fine. This is also a non-defense: not only Quackity is (by everyone’s admission!) not part of the administrative team (and is therefore, apparently, not in control of the workings in his company), he is the person at fault here. If you found out someone was a victim of domestic abuse, would you be asking the abuser if everything’d been sorted out? No! Why would the perpetrator tell you the truth?

(And this behaviour is especially gross for the creators who are colleagues with some of the exploited ex-workers—is supporting a server run by people who exploited and abused your co-worker not at least a little bit embarrassing for you?)

At this point, even if any of the participants end up pulling out, I do not care. These creators have proven that they do not care about victims of abuse; that they refuse to engage with any kind of critique; that they’re irresponsible and cannot be trusted even with an ounce of influence. 

Which isn’t to say, of course, that them pulling out would be a bad thing—I still encourage everyone to pressure their favorite creators to rescind their participation and lower the risks of any further workplace abuse taking place. But even if Tubbo decided to quit QSMP 2 tomorrow, I already know how he treats serious issues, and cannot trust him ever again.

I feel very dramatic saying all of this, but this is how I feel. Watching these creators has been a huge part of my life for the past 5 years, and seeing this behaviour feels like having a part of my heart ripped out and stomped on. I am grateful for all the connections and friends I’ve made, but I don’t think I can ever go back to properly enjoying MCYT content after all of this.

Teaduo when they were in purgatory! I had this draft since christmas lmao. I just haven't worked on it in a while. This and the comic idea had stayed in the back of my mind but I just can't get myself to finish them. Then I heard they won the mc yuri tournament or smthing (I am not on twitter) so I locked in. I did it secretly after I finished my homework.

¡Bienvenida al QSMP 2!

Hi, I’m A.D. 🐻‍❄️, and I would like to welcome you to this brave new era within the Minecraft community!

The QSMP 2 is the world’s second multilingual Minecraft server, home to creators from all over the globe! Don’t ask what happened to the first one!

I miss my qsmp yuri … so I made plushies out of them