September 27 2020 a video was released on the official minecraft youtube channel entitled minecraft live introducing new mobs for the first time the world is introduced to three new mobs one of which will be added to minecraft these are the moo bloom the isolager and the glow squid at this Point in time no one understands the importance that these three will one day mean to the minecraft community it’s just the next iteration of the mob vote soon after the release of the initial announcement video mojing posts a series of short videos explaining each of the Candidates the moo bloom is first it’s a cute cow who would live in the flower forest and be a friend of the bees the moo bloom had made its first appearance before in the ill-fated minecraft earth the next day the video for the icologer was released this would be a mob who Would call the mountaintops home attacking enemies with flying ice once again it is not unknown to the community it was released just a few weeks earlier in the creeping winter dlc for minecraft dungeons then something interesting happens on september 29th 2020 we see something somewhat new captain sparkles a popular Minecraft youtuber makes a brief tweet with the words vote chillager about 15 minutes later he expands with another tweet comparing the three options moobloom yellow cow low squid a squid chillager a mob from minecraft dungeons with a unique attack mechanic that spawns in an area that will synergize With the snowy mountain volume overhaul and could provide a cool risk slash reward for a new item drop tell me why i’m wrong this as far as i can tell is the first major creator to make a comment on the mob vote at the time captain sparkles Has over 4 million twitter followers and 10 million subscribers far from a small voice in the community while his tweets receive relatively modest support it opens the door for something much much bigger to come on september 30th the glow squid announcement video was released agnes and yinz find themselves snorkeling Under the ocean agnes asks yinz if he wishes that minecraft’s oceans were glowier jens responds with a darkly ironic quip about wishing for world peace then it appears the glow squid agnez and yins are hypnotized by its luminescence and vubuy must come in a submarine to snap them out of it the Glow squid video has notably little information about what the mob actually does and a mission that would prove to be frustrating for many the live stream is set to occur on october 3rd and the day finally arrives the event is scheduled to begin at 12pm eastern time things kick off without a Hitch after a 20-minute pre-show the main event is well underway various exciting announcements are made with the caves and cliffs update being the crown jewel of the show the response is great the community is super excited to finally finally get a cave update everything is going as planned but There’s another popular creator who has some thoughts on the upcoming vote dream is a minecraft youtuber who in the year of 2020 has exploded onto the minecraft scene his rise to fame has been nothing short of meteoric he’s gained over six million subscribers in the past three months alone and he’s just posted Something on his twitter team glow squid it’s a response to puns a moderately popular streamer who has also posted a team glow squid tweet dream has followed in the footsteps of both puns and captain sparkles and has decided to make his personal decision known for whatever reason dream and puns have settled upon The glow squid as their mob vote candidate of choice another minecraft creator filza also agrees however the conversation is joined by tommy init who says cow made of piss is funnier tubbo live a collaborator with tommy also likes the moo bloom but for a different reason it loves flowers however these Responses failed to convince dream who soon thereafter posts another tweet vote glow squid minecraft live once more tommy and it and tubble latch onto the tweet responding piss cab was funnier like if you agree tubbo informs the world that they have liked the tweet throughout this entire exchange Minecraft live has been continuing it’s 1336 and vu bui begins the first mob vote segment he gives a short history of the past several votes and then reminds every one of the three candidates and at this very moment twitter voting opens for the first round but the pool will Only be open for 20 minutes so the community must decide quickly who to eliminate captain sparkles quiet on twitter for the past few days returns with a pair of tweets promoting the icologer imagine voting for a retexture squid this message brought to you by chilladra gang minecraft live Soon thereafter another tweet of support chillager isologer come on oh yeah remember how the main attraction of the glow squid was that it glows well it turns out it doesn’t at least not in the traditional sense minecraft doesn’t have dynamic lighting so it’s not possible to have a moving light source This has been known for a while a blog post from four days ago says that the squid glows in the same way that the inner man’s eyes do krinios a moderately sized creator reminds the world of this with a resounding agreement from captain sparkles yet dream is not convinced to Change his vote he fires off a pair of tweets one with a simple glow squid and one with many many vote for glow squids tommy remains steadfast in his response vote for the cow don’t ruin this for the people there are 15 minutes of voting remaining and rumors start to swirl Dream is offering a deal a deal what could that mean we hop on over to his alternate account and find that dream has posted a now infamous tweet following people who have proven they voted for the glow squid that’s right dream is decided upon a different tactic a supposed twitter follower for voting For the squid it’s hard to know for sure if he’s serious however he does respond to a handful of people who post screenshots of their glow squid vote with things like good job soldier let’s go and worthy he’s obviously convinced some people to vote and among these People is mr beast who tweets dream told me to vote for the squid is dream actually following people though on october 1st he was following 232 people and tomorrow once the dust is settled he’ll be following 238 people so in retrospect it would appear as though The famous tweet was not meant to be serious it doesn’t seem as though he actually meant that he was planning on literally giving out follows for votes but in the moment no one knows for sure captain sparkles tweets a meme promoting the isolager this whole time tommy has Been unleashing a barrage of moo bloom tweets smaller creators time dayo and ant frost have also chosen the moo bloon dream tweets several more messages of support including we win these dttwt this is a reference to dream team twitter including dream george not found sapnap and bad boy halo however none of The other three are posting on twitter during this vote this is dream’s game and finally after a long and chaotic 20 minutes the vote closes the mu bloom will be eliminated finding itself in a distant third place celebrations ensue for the squid supporters after a few minutes vu bui Returns to minecraft live to make the official announcement it’s a two horse race now between the glow squid and the ice solider the second and final round of voting is now open with the moo bloom out of the race its supporters must choose a different side if they wish to continue voting captain Sparkles welcomes the mublim crowd with open arms to join the icologer team dream also tries to convince people to switch tweeting mubloom supporters and glow squid supporters rise up against the ice idiots and we can all agree that both moo gloom and glow squid are much greater than ice guy tommy crushed by The third place finish at the moo bloom must make a choice and it’s the glow squid this sparks reply from captain sparkles who says you are not of legal voting age this generates the response you are old teppo has apparently switched from the moo bloom to the isologer and they defend captain Sparkles with the captain may be old but he is also wise and powerful to which tommy says he is also stupid dream has been silent recently but new voices have entered the conversation xqc tweets don’t let dream win vote for the darn ice solider adding themselves to The ice team there are a few more captain sparkles tweets but the second round is much quieter than the first and it isn’t long until the 20 minutes are up the vote is over the glow squid is victorious winning with a slight but decisive margin a few minutes later minecraft life Concludes the live stream with the final segment which confirms the results the icologer has been eliminated the glow squid is the mob vote 2020 champion captain sparkles is upset as he makes clear in a couple of tweets dream is excited as he makes clear in a tweet it’s all in good fun Voting has 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people made videos about who should win and literally told entire live streams who to vote for stay mad at one it was the superior mob glo squid supremacy and He’s not incorrect several youtubers did make videos suggesting which mob was superior including of course captain sparkles but also waddles another isolator fan but the outpouring of hate on twitter has clearly bothered dream and he posted several more times regarding the matter first he posted a meme mad kids when i Tell people to vote a mob even though every single other creator told people to vote for a mob and live streamed and made videos saying to vote for a mob but i’m bigger so i can’t several days later on october 5th dream finally offered his most serious Response to the situation just for the people who were actually annoyed i thought it would be funny to do an over-the-top campaign for a minecraft mob that i don’t really care about at all i saw other youtubers streaming saying to vote for the mobs and other youtubers that had made videos saying to Vote for mobs i shouldn’t have said the follow thing but it’s something i’ve done in the past on twitter so my audience would know it’s a joke and if that would have influenced them they were probably voting for what i said anyway at the end of the day i didn’t Really care what mob would be added as they’ll probably all be added anyways and there was a lot of amazing features so it’s just a bonus i just thought going crazy for a squid in minecraft would be funny and to me it was i didn’t mean to ruin the community vote or Anything and i don’t think i did also i didn’t tell mr beast to do anything he’s just a supportive friend and saw my tweet so he decided to reply but i’m sorry to anyone i upset by influencing the vote my community is part of the minecraft community too and we don’t Really care about a dumb squid we just care about coming together and having fun and i didn’t realize this would be taken so seriously plus i actually think it’s the best choice but that’s just my opinion love you guys dream also posted on reddit but it said essentially the same thing he mentioned Several other creators by name including filza and tommy he also argues that the people who are blaming dream are even more toxic than the people who voted squid because of dream and that basically concludes our story Okay there’s a lot to unpack in the mob vote 2020 story when i started making this video i wanted to answer one question did dream rig the mob vote like so many people say in some minecraft communities it almost seems like a given that people accept that dream influenced the vote in some Unfair way i did an informal pull on my discord server and about half of the respondents selected the option dream rigged it the glow squid won unfairly because of dream much of the debate revolves around dream’s tweets he’s accused of being manipulative and as a result swaying the Vote enough in the direction of the glow squid that it emerged as the ultimate victor do these accusations have merit is dream to blame did dream have any sort of actionable influence at all there are a couple of approaches to this while it would be great to have minute By minute data of the votes unfortunately that doesn’t seem to exist instead i’m going to do some back of the napkin calculations using the numbers that we do have i want to be abundantly clear from the start i’m not a statistician and this is not a rigorous Analysis in fact if there are any stats people in the comments i welcome your input on if there’s a better way here for this analysis we’re going to be looking at the tweets of content creators and counting the number of likes there are several important assumptions i’m going to make first one Twitter like equals one unit of loudness this ignores the fact that the same person can like multiple tweets and multiple creators we will be comparing absolute numbers as there’s no easy way to account for crossover second we’re going to assume that the creators i am tracking are representative of the Voices who are most likely to be influential however it’s totally possible that there are other important people i missed or deletions i don’t know about with that out of the way let’s dive in we’ll start with round one when all three mobs were in play i tracked the Tweets of the following creators putting their tweets into a category depending on which mob they supported then i compiled all the tweets that were in favor of a certain mob or against another mob from time before the first round up until voting closed at 13 59 eastern time this chart shows the number Of tweets from each creator dream is obviously important here but he’s far from the only one in fact his 366 000 likes in favor of the glow squid are only slightly in front of tommy’s with 342 000 likes this means that from this data set dream accounted for about 36 of The total likes whereas tommy was about 34 percent remember tommy and dream are voting for different things at this point in time tommy is a moo bloom fan whereas dream is a glow squid fan we can look at the rest of the creators to see the total numbers for each mob glow Squid is certainly in front with 53 of the likes and the moo bloom is behind with about 43 yet bizarrely isola drew is a distant third while captain sparkles was a supporter from the beginning it seems as though he failed to gain any sort of momentum in terms of getting other big Creators to latch on it’s always possible i just missed them but at this point it appears to be a 2 horse race between the glow squid and the moo bloom that is until we look at the actual votes it turns out that the icologer was far more popular than the creator Suggested and the mublin was far less popular despite having a substantial number of like tweets the mublin finds itself in a distant third place this is intriguing it appears as though the true influence of the moo-bloom content creators was less than expected this returns us to one of our big questions Do the tweets of large youtubers cause any actual tangible effects on the way that people vote at least in the case of the moo bloom the answer seems to be no within our current creator group the moo bloom was quite popular but within the global group of voters the moo-boom was Not very popular this seems to imply that the number of likes on creator’s tweets is not a representative metric for how the true vote is going to go to put it another way strong support for the moo bloom did not equal strong support in the polls at least not enough To change the result it’s foolish to argue that these youtubers had no effect whatsoever but i really have to question if their influence is anywhere close to the level people seem to think surely the mublin would have had a stronger showing if that were the case right Let’s move on to round two we’ll be looking at tweets that occurred after the conclusion of the first round the moo bloom is now eliminated leaving only the ice solider and the glow squid it’s here that creators who supported the moobloom can either remain silent or switch teams to support one of the Remaining mobs we can look at a new chart here from this sample the overwhelming number of supporters of the mooblem switched to the glow squid the icologer gained one prominent voice in xqc but even so creators rejected the new illager overall now it’s not so close a dominant 83 tweet like number Percentage blows the 17 percent of the isolator out of the water the creators have spoken the glow squid is easily the best with such a crushing majority of creators supporting the glow squid we would expect their influence to lead our luminescent friend to an easy victory in The official poll but when we actually look at the results the margin of victory is much much slimmer the glow squid ends up winning but not by much just 2.7 percent and once again we have to ask ourselves if it’s true that the content creators have such an overwhelming amount of influence then Why didn’t the squid win easily there has to be at least some influence as there are screenshots of people voting for the squid because of dream but i have to wonder if their true power is overblown it wasn’t enough to give the moo bloom a fighting chance and it Wasn’t enough to give the glow squid an easy victory either despite overwhelming influence or support now i want us to continue to remember our assumptions i’m assuming that our group is representative but i’m also assuming that one tweet like is equal for everyone one could argue that dream’s Opinion has at least some amount of increased value for a big reason the tweet where he promised to follow people who voted for the glow squid a skeptic may say that this very thing means we should throw out this analysis since there’s no way that a captain sparkles Like is equal to a dream like unfortunately it’s hard to know for sure how much of an effect this had there are anecdotal reports of the vote swinging when dreams started to tweet but without minute by minute data it’s not easy to get a sense of his true influence is it Really that much stronger than any other creator i’m not so sure this might be a good point in the video to mention that i am neutral on dream i’m neither a dream lover nor a dream hater so i do think that i’m approaching this from a fairly unbiased standpoint Considering this whole situation what conclusions can we draw for one the overwhelming hate towards dream and dream only is not fair there were many different creators with different fan bases who pushed for certain mobs dream wasn’t the first captain sparkles puns and waddles all beat dream by at least a Couple of days dream wasn’t the biggest either he and captain sparkles had roughly the same number of subscribers and captain sparkles had over four times the number of twitter followers it’s worthwhile to note that mr beast was influenced by dream and he’s on a whole different level of popularity with 44 Million subscribers at the time of the vote however it’s not really fair to blame only dream for mr beast’s post while dream was mentioned mr beast himself was also pushing for a specific mob so he isn’t guiltless either despite all of this none of these creators received serious backlash except for Dream why was that why was only one person blamed i think there are a couple of elements first dream was in the middle of a rapid rise to fame and with that came a huge number of new fans there were some out there who considered these fans to be immature or toxic for Those people dreams served as an easy lightning rod a convenient target to blame it doesn’t appear to me that dream received any benefit of the doubt from the community but that’s why i’m making this video i want to look at this situation in retrospect with a clear Mind the most obviously suspect move by dream was to promise to follow people who voted for the glow squid this understandably ruffled some feathers especially amongst those who already considered dream’s fanbase to be toxic from that point of view dream was unleashing his army of loyal stance to Swing the vote unfairly in his favor his initially aggressive response certainly didn’t do much to win people over either however i think it’s worth it to seriously consider dream’s longer response from a couple days later there’ll probably be some who think that this is just a reaction to the hate he Received but as i said i’d like to try and give him the benefit of the doubt here he claims that he did this whole thing for fun and he didn’t mean to ruin the vote the following people who voted promise is apparently something he’s done before although i couldn’t confirm That he did however regret that tweet ultimately his argument is that what he did was really not that much different from other creators and i’m actually inclined to side with dream here i think if you view these tweets as someone who’s just having fun messing around They fit the prototype i also agree with him that people who would have been influenced by the promise of a follow probably would have listened to him anyways it’s really hard to know for sure but i don’t think that it’s a certainty that the promise of a follow Made a huge difference but for the sake of argument let’s say that all of this was done maliciously what if dream was trying to unfairly sway the vote even if so i don’t believe there’s strong enough evidence to show that he made a tangible change in the final numbers throw in the Cacophony of other creators and it grows increasingly unlikely that this single person was able to completely change the outcome of the vote from the data we have i just don’t see a strong enough reason to believe that dream and only dream caused the vote to go towards the squid So did dream rig the mob vote well he certainly didn’t rig it in the sense of him hacking twitter and stacking the votes in my entire exploration of this i’ve seen zero evidence of that perhaps a better question is did dream’s actions unfairly sway the result i would argue That there isn’t enough evidence to say that they did while the promise to follow was not a good move to truly rig it would mean that his actions would need to completely change the outcome and for the reasons i mentioned i don’t believe that happened however it’s Important to reiterate that the data i used may not be enough to tell the whole story this is just the conclusion i reached using what i had this situation can teach us about how we relate to creators we enjoy there can be this temptation to view those on the Internet as our idols people who are amazing and famous yet we’re all human dream is a human captain sparkles is a human retro gaming now is believe it or not a human and humans make mistakes of course it’s fine to be a fan of a creator we just need to be careful not To put people on a pedestal just because they’re famous like i always say think for yourself Anyways this video has gone on long enough i hope you all enjoyed it please leave a comment with your thoughts what do you think do you agree with my analysis disagree i’m really curious to hear also since this is such a contentious topic i ask that you remain Civil in the comments section don’t attack people for disagreeing with you instead listen to what they have to say with an open mind it’s tough to do but i promise you’ll have more fulfilling conversations that way we’ll go ahead and end with that this has been retrogaming now thank you so Much for watching and i’ll see you all in the next episode have a great day You Video Information
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The 2020 Mob Vote is an infamous moment in Minecraft history. Some consider it to be rigged – but was it?
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