ignChucky – The Crazy History of Minecraft’s 1 Character Names

How’s it going guys it’s Chucky here many of you may know that minecraft is some of the richest and deepest history out of any other game out there from stuff as simple as just the updates and Easter eggs in the vanilla game to ten-year-old servers with huge communities and what I personally sees

The most interesting thing the accounts I’ve talked about plenty of this stuff on my channel before but I don’t think any topic I’ve covered his quite as much history and mystery behind it as this one does there are a handful of accounts whose names consist of just a single

Letter number or other characters these are called one character accounts and are some of the rarest and most valuable in the game and as I said possibly the account with the most history behind them from everything ranging from how they were created to what happened from

That point on and there’s also a whole lot of mystery behind some of the accounts relating to how they were even made in the first place then a good amount of this info hasn’t even been talked about on YouTube before so make sure to stick around for the whole video

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The button down below but enough of that please enjoy the video So it’s obviously not hard for me to explain of what one character names are as I said they’re just names that only have one letter number or other character in them there’s really not much else to it right well for the most part yes but if you start to look at

Exactly which characters existed then you start to realize that there might be a little bit more to all of course at one point every single one character possible existed but this is all in the very Alpha days of the game and many of them haven’t been made premium if you

Don’t know what that means don’t worry I will go into that bit later I’ll be going through all the characters that do exist at the moment though in more detail throughout the video but I’ll quickly break down the ones that did actually exist recently to start with

The letters G F are you sort of x y&z have existed along with the numbers 1 & 8 and finally the characters underscore and dollar sign since decoration each one has had its own unique journey that bought it to ever is now from being locked the name change or just rated

Deleted there is so much information to go into with each of these but first I quickly want to go into how they were all made in the first place if you see my video on two character iTunes then this will likely all be familiar to you I do likely know the

Minimum length the name can be is three characters Bob for apparently that’s okay obviously meaning the name shouldn’t be allowed to be one or two letters long but obviously that’s not the case minecraft has been around for a very long time though and in the last 11

Years things have changed a whole lot if you don’t know already what minecraft was in its very early days you could so to speak reserve a name meaning that you didn’t actually need to buy an account to fill up the name sock all the cities just create what’s called a non premium

Account all you had to do was provide an email and the username you wanted and you technically just had it reserved this obviously meant that the slots for many og accounts were filled up but I talked about that in another video what we’re concerned about right now is how

Way back in the Alpha days some of these non premium accounts turned out to be one character usernames but how does that help us they’re still taken and owned by someone who doesn’t play the game anymore so how do people get the names from there well in 2014 an exploit

Was discovered which allowed people to find out the email that any unmai grated on non premium account was registered to it was as simple as using a firefox extension known as tampa data which allows you to view a modifier request being sent between the website and the

Client essentially all you would do is go to the reset password page supply the username and request a password reset you density the email it was sent to in the template dated client because Mojang use an incredibly insecure way of doing password resets because it’s Mojang new

Fact this however did get fixed and turned out to be a mistake on bojong’s pop but it did end up leading to thousands of people losing the OG in semi OG usernames but even if you have the email address that’s only so far I still need to access it and get the

Password but that turned out to be really simple people would rear edge astir expired emails exploit into existing accounts or even social engineer email providers to gain access to the email account and get the password reset themselves and in case you’re wondering about how the social engineering worked many email services

Have incredibly low security levels so you’d be surprised at how much people could get away with so it really was as simple as that the method was tried on the wrong carriers it existed back then and they were just accessed I must mention though that there were a few of

The methods but this was the one needs to create most of the community owned ones I’ll start going into the other methods later but for now let’s talk about some of the accounts themselves starting off with two of the most famous and well-known out there

As I said eight and G are probably two of the most well-known one characters out there eight being the more famous of the two this is because of a mixture of reasons the first being that they are the only two one characters that are still confirmed as community-owned they

Both have three or four minecon capes on them and because there’s a multitude of videos made on them in the past such as X no stories video with over ten million views on dates but anyway these accounts would likely created using the same method said they were in the community

Would write from the stopped over time there was sold around the little and the Cape said it didn’t but oddly enough while they are easily the most famous accounts out there they have to lease back serve on them for the most part they’re just entirely normal Oh G accounts they obviously get huge

Reaction from servers and they easily some of the rarest accounts out there surpassing even many Cape accounts and most oh geez the most drummer in history comes with the past owners obviously these accounts are incredibly rare meaning they sell for a massive amount and if you need to these videos prepare

Yourself because when I mean massive I really need massive eights on its own famously sold a little while ago for $8,000 but that owner didn’t keep it forever people soon realized that eventually these accounts would eventually meet the same fate as many other god tier accounts such as Fox and

A constant and end up getting passed around the community faster than it could even be tracked and possibly even end up a scam accounts so someone eventually decided to put a stop to this and in 2018 eight and G were bought as a pair for twenty thousand dollars and by

The way I know I usually try not to talk about if an active account has been sold but seeing this as a video or there were 2 million views referencing it in the title and the accounts still isn’t locked I feel like I’m alright talking

About it but if it does happen to get locked up to this video then and [ __ ] me I guess but regardless since it was sold the owner has declined not a straight – but not any offers for each of the accounts someone messaged the owner offering $40,000 and didn’t even get a response

The owner is adamant that the accounts just will never be released back into the community but going by the story of this next one he seems to still were lucky that even still exists Ah it was on quite the opposite end of the spectrum to a Tingy while those are very well known not many outside of the community know of this one’s existence their reasoning for this is very simple the account just doesn’t exist anymore it can’t be viewed on MMC or anything of

The song so why is this well the account has a similar origin story to most community owned one characters it was made premium around 2014 but was soon sold to a guy named Stan MPL stand then put a 2013 cape on it and use it for a

Little bit even recording a few videos and uploading them to YouTube of him just running around showing off his cape in true OG account – and fashion now Stan was given the original email and transaction ID of the account the pom buying it as many accounts are if you’re

Unfamiliar with what these do essentially if an account gets locked you just selling out something similar you can email Moe junk support with these two pieces of information and have a decent shot of getting the account unlocked you can also use them to pull accounts back if the stolen hacked or

Whatever so they’re pretty important to have especially if you don’t know hundred percent trust the seller so after a little while Stan began to feel that the seller wasn’t being 100% truthful with him specifically regarding the tid to the account so he email Moe tech support and simply asked the tid

Was the correct phone for the account back then Mojang wasn’t this completely terrible as it is currently so a random support officer replied pretty fast simply saying that it would just wasn’t the right one so Stan went back to the seller and received a second tid being

Even more suspicious this time he went back to support and again was told it was false you could imagine at this point merging themselves might be starting to get a little suspicious the owner of a one-character ITN certainly messaging them twice in a row with to false transaction IDs not likely but

Regardless of this Stan went back to the seller expressing his frustration and letting the note that the tid was again fake and he would soon be opening a scam report this time he was given the correct tid to the account but just to be safe went back again to Mojang to ask

For the final time if it was the right one but instead of just any regular customer support agent responding this time with the one and only customer support the minister and content manager marked it and he didn’t just lock the account for being sold like he would most of their accounts he straight-up

Deleted the account from the database going way above and beyond the normal protocol for no obvious reason so quite simply that’s just what the story ends with the account now f is probably the accountant the most mystery behind them quite literally nobody knows the exact story behind it

It’s almost all just rumors if you look at the accountant name MC you can see it lies unclaimed with just a single skin and not defined cape on it and it’s been like that basically since its creation it also lays completely inactive on hypixel online flix leading most people

To believe that the owner disappeared or just gone in action for some reason this leads me on to my favorite and possibly the craziest yet most belief story about the account but as always with rooms and theories bear in mind that none of it is really confirmed regardless we do know

That the account was again likely created somebody with the 2014 method but that’s really all we know for certain in the rumor that I want to tell it’s said to have been created by a Russian player also on a popular form at the time but he didn’t really want to

Sell the account due to a couple reasons such as it being so rare but rumor has it he was later arrested for something completely unrelated to minecraft and either hasn’t gotten out of jail yet all just had a with the priorities than his rare minecraft account it’s worth

Keeping in mind that the story has been around since before locking was even a thing in the community all the way back before 2015 before even named change day happened so it’s easily one of them all classic stories behind to any account there are a few of the theories but none

Of them really have any concrete evidence behind them it’s at the point where this account is basically just 100% rumors so if you think you know anything about it keep in mind it’s likely not completely correct but from here it gets really interesting the follow that I’ve covered so far have

Been the normal ones so sit tight and get ready for some of the strangest accounts that I have ever talked about I’ve talked to multiple people about these accounts and then a decent amount of research behind them itself and even now I’m still just baffled by how these accounts are how they are and gripping this [ __ ] together as they are very similar accounts for multiple reasons to

Start with both of them sadly have been name changed from the one character one is now fruity underscore cake and underscore is spaced four one two three four five secondly both of them have a 2012 mine concave on them and last but most confusingly they’re both used to

Have invalid uu IDs they were way shorter than a regular year UID and had letters that weren’t supposed to be in them if you look at a few accounts on the MMC it’s fairly obvious that uu IDs only use the letters A to F and the numbers one

So when these accounts showed its having letters like Y in them it was clear something was up these accounts were first discovered around June of 2019 when a few people were running scripts to check for what are known as uncashed capes which are essentially just accounts with capes that nobody really

Knows about yet and on the list that it returned when they were searching for them were these two accounts one an underscore everyone was obviously super confused for starters there isn’t nobody knew but in the fall is when you search them on the MMC it just came up with an error

500 possibly related to the cryptid year you IDs but it could have been any number of things including how the names have been changed before they were even discovered but what about the accounts themselves well for a bit of context mojo has been known to tamper with names

And accounts in the past the names oof and w0w are a good example of this if you look at the time the names were changed on the various accounts and you can see something is up with them but I might go more into that in a future video

I had written a massive paragraph and all this but I realized the video would just get super long if I read the whole thing out so I’m gonna put it as simply as I can taking a look on the website MC skin history com you can see that

Something is wrong with these accounts there are two instances of these names on different accounts the first being the one with the invalid EU ID and the second one being the one that exists now regardless of whether or not this is because there was two separate accounts I’ll just because the site shows

Separate uu IDs like that if you try to click on the account in the bottom it just brings up another error but regardless of that the obvious conclusion to come to is that these names are also emerging around why well if we look at some of the imbalance that

Would change in the last purged mojo has a pattern of changing the name to something vaguely related to these name just with a few numbers on the end this would explain why underscore was changed at a space one two three four five and of course I can’t think of any other

Account that’s ever been made with an invalid UUID they seem system Oh John was doing some testing similar to how they’re well with oof and w0w and we’re trying out one character names invalid uu IDs and apparently he’ll Minecon Kate’s work with these as well for whatever reason it’s super unlikely that

Someone found their massive exploit in the name system and use it solely to create to one character names and just leave it at that without telling anyone and on top of that somehow having the ability to get a couple 2012 Kate’s on them as well let me know in the comments

If you want me to go into some more detail on these accounts as I feel like I could probably talk for a while on these alongside oof and Wow These two probably have the easiest to explain histories if you look on taxes named MC profile well yeah it’s owned by mark there’s not much I can say about it mark has always expressed interest in the og community both in creating named himself and in capes whose account simply for it to

Look cool and by being the main employer that locks ogia counsel being told he might not have that title but that’s how it is but zed is a little bit harder to explain again with mark’s obsession with OG accounts he’s also been known to change the capitalization of names to his

Preference and then just delete the previous version of the name he’s stillness with his main account and as it turns out he also did it with ex sadly I can’t show you proof of this as he straight up just deletes the name change from the database so I suppose

You’ll just have to take my word for this one anyway X’s capitalization and wealth change on the 7th of February 2015 the same day as Ed’s coincidence I think not that was [ __ ] cringe but regardless this essentially just tells us that that is very likely also at least owned by another Mojang employee

If not mark himself but oddly enough these two along with one underscore and possibly a couple others I’ll be talking about soon are likely the only ones owned by Mojang but they used to be rims of another Mojang owned one character username but these ended up turning out

To be entirely false I’m talking about possibly the most viable username out there and dollar sign I have covered dollar sign before in my oldest video under ballot accounts but I didn’t go into anywhere near as much detail as I can now to start with this is the longest lasting of the two

Invalid 1 characters it’s been around for a super long time yet as of right now we’re not 100% certain on how it was created but sadly in the invalid wipes that happened a few weeks ago Donelson was caught and changed to just changed one but let’s go back to everything we

Knew about dollar sign before it was deleted the account had been learn about for quite a long time but nobody had any idea who owned it where it came from or if it was even still active so a rumor started that it was owned by Mojang after all how else would have been

Created someone even interviewed gab about her and asked if it was owned by them and he said yes in late 2018 a huge trend of accessing accounts by brute forcing them started many accounts began being hacked including invalids and eventually someone in the community had the idea of

Going for dollar sign most people obviously thought that it was just never gonna happen even if it wasn’t owned by Mojang you’d have a very strong password right well this turned out not to be the case as a little while later it was accessed and that strong password I mentioned earlier

Yeah that didn’t exist the password protecting this account was simply just chi-ching in all lowercase and when looking at the original email and IP of registration it was clear that the account was not registered or created by a merging employee I can’t mention exactly where but the IP could be

Tracked down to the USA there was a few of the things that I’d tell the count mentioned that proves that it wasn’t so within not being a merging account and turning out to be completely inactive the account was brought on to a few servers and sold around a lot even at

One point being sold for around $2,000 to the owner of a Tingy I’m gonna keep his last 2-shot as the last four days of my life have been consumed entirely by writing all eight pages of this godforsaken script but moving away from that why is another name has had a little bit

Of confusion around them for a long time this account had this girl skin on it which has since been removed it’s been there literally since name MC even started cashing scenes back in March 2016 but alongside that the account was also shown as Sun migrated for a very

Long time because of this people were constantly trying to hack into the account by brute forcing it but will met with little success soon after though someone noticed that something very strange happened with the account if you went to the minecraft Launcher and entered the username along with any

Password it show the message account already migrated the same thing also happened specifically with the account diamond which also used two shows on migrated in lemon see this is obviously really strange but in late 2016 both Y and diamonds lost their a migrated status at around the same time and the

Skin was just wiped from the account why which is why the skin defaults to an Alex skin when viewed on MMC but as you can probably predict this again leads to the fact that the account is likely owned by someone at Mojang again as nobody in their right mind would migrate

That one letter account remove the skin and then just never touch it again so currently there is a little bit of research going into which merging employs the owner so I may be bringing this up in a future video And finally to end this video off we’re gonna talk about the one that we really just don’t know much about the dull you I also mentioned this one in a few of my older videos but a few years ago around 2015 people started to realize that there was another invalid one letter by

The name of yeah that you with two dots over it it seemed to be inactive with just as Steve can hone it on with the account migrated but a few months later around 2016 people realized that completely out of nowhere the name was changed to just irregularly you the

Original name was wiped from everywhere so it was clear this was one of Mojang’s actions against him ballots but it’s still unclear who owned them which is just an account created in an exploit always owned by Mojang all along I’m gonna leave this question up to you guys

In the comments section what do you think the history this account is let me know and I reply to some of my favorite answers but apart from that if you did enjoy the video please make sure to LIKE and subscribe this video took easily the longest time off any of my videos to

Produce and it’s been in the making for over a month now but I think I did manage to cover everything I wanted to but if you do have any more questions feel free to either DM me on Twitter at IGN Chokey I’ll leave a comment below

But I’m not gonna keep you guys any longer I’ll see you in the next video