Thread by @gamemakerstk

I haven't spoken about the Notch situation because it's stupid and boring and childish, but I just want to clear some things up.

Back in August, Minecraft maker Notch asked me to "drop the politics". I said I would if he deleted his Twitter account (the dude has posted racist, transphobic, and homophobic tweets, plus QAnon junk and more. He's a bad role model for the young Minecraft audience and should go)

Weirdly, he agreed - and deactivated his account. I stopped talking politics (not that I did much anyway, unless the existence of disabled people and women counts as political), and planned to do so for as long as his account was offline.

I got a lot of shitty messages - threats in my Twitter DMs, spam in my YouTube comments (I had to filter the word "Notch"), angry edge-lords in my email. Though there were a few good exchanges…

But Notch came back! If you delete your Twitter account you have 30 days to change your mind, and he did just that. He says he reactivated the account to keep this (at)notch account, but then lost his willpower and started tweeting too.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/1314502358626430976

It wasn't because I said anything political or broke my side of this mad "deal". He said as much in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/notch/status/1314501870023520256

He just didn't want to give up the attention and fame.

Now he's back, I guess I can be political again. So, black lives matter. Crash Bandicoot is a war criminal. America, please vote for Biden this week. Etc etc.

I only made this thread because some people thought I broke the deal. Nope, I was happy to take one for the team. But it was in vain because Notch is addicted to social media and doesn't care who he hurts or offends in his narcissistic grab for fame.

Turns out money can't buy compassion, kindness, or - in this instance - a backbone. Byeeee