#everyone misses unus annus

[fagbearentertainment]

What the heck is unus annus?? I see it everywhere and how much everyone misses it.

But what is it??!

Omg I forget not everyone was there for unus annus ok let me give you a (very simple) rundown

Unus Annus was a channel started by Ethan Nestor and Markiplier in iirc November 14 2019 and lasted until November 14 2020

The catchphrase for the channel was “Memento Mori, Unus Annus” which roughly translates to “Remember Death, One Year”

And basically the whole gimmick of the channel was they would upload a video every day for a full year with no fear of demonetization, the first video was literally them making breakfast food with sex toys, and then to delete the channel at the strike of midnight (Pacific Standard Time) on the final day of that year

The channel ended up getting extremely popular, with the final live stream peaking at over 1 million live viewers, but it was still deleted at the end of that stream

Mark and Ethan asked fans not to reupload videos but they were fine with clip compilations so if you ever wanna check out what it was like you can search “unus annus funny moments” or whatever on YouTube to watch some of the popular jokes and moments!

[iam-unoriginal]

I cooked again

It’s been 3 years since Unus Annus ended and I am still sad about it :,D

This the art I did for today and I can’t express how much Unus Annus has done for me and how much I miss it

Memento Mori everyone

Unus Annus

[wouldntyou-liketoknow]

We'll miss you, MatPat.

Yes, I already made a post with my thoughts on this, but that was after the initial announcement. Things obviously feel different now.

Today's the day.

I've always been one to listen to things while I work, but Matt's content (whether individual Theory episodes or his and Steph's livestreams) was so, so special when I discovered it. Seriously, I can't understate how much it alleviated my near-constant stress from middle school all the way to college.

Imagine that: watching/listening to a funky guy gradually drive himself insane via animatronics and Nintendo oddities and what have you was the thing to help me whenever I felt numb or lonely or overstimulated. For years upon YEARS.

I won't lie and say I'm not sad to see Matt go. Trust me, there's definitely going to be some ugly tears on my part during the Final Theory.

But this is the best thing for everyone.

Matt will get an EXTREMELY well-deserved break. He'll get to focus on Stephanie and Oliver. His family will get more crucial quality time together.

Like he said before, he'll still be somewhere in the background, perhaps popping in on occasion. YouTube will never be the same without him, but that's not a bad thing when you really think about it. Change is inevitable for everyone; Matt and his family deserve this change. Besides, Tom, Santi, Amy and Lee are obviously going to do great things with each of the channels.

(Plus, let's all remember to be grateful that Matt isn't pulling an Unus Annus and having our new hosts start from scratch.)

And not only that, but this retirement isn't going to stop us fans from making stuff for/about him. Art, stories, memes, all the things that make a fandom community fun and wonderful! New things will be made for the new hosts, of course, but Matt is NOT going be be forgotten. Not by a long-shot.

Happy Retirement, MatPat. Thank you for all the content, memories, inspiration and help you've given your audience for so long.

[desire-mona]

seeing moots post about things you like or used to like is such a strange experience sometimes cuz why did i run into you while scrolling under the lunch club (😬) tag to see if people still post about them (https://www.tumblr.com/desire-mona/751507130224361472/do-me-a-favour-and-rb-with-a-reference-u-make-so?source=share)

(for the record if i ever saw you make this reference i would get it)

my unus annus is this blog

also im holding ur hands and looking deep inro ur eyes. we have a shared experience that is NOT GOOD and we dont even have to say what it is bc we both know. im forever pissed off that carsons channel was the home for a lot of the group stuff bc 1) the obvious 2) CARSON WASNT EVEN FUCKING FUNNY HE WAS JUST THE ONE THAT BROUGHT EVERYONE TOGETHER IN ONE VIDEO PUNCHES A WALL

what video do u miss most (out of all channels) mine is probably the zoo video ? OH or charlies vr minecraft series but i can watch that without guilt so its fine. and carsons gta video with josh and mason that was gold (for josh and mason reasons)

confession: i still listen to the heist episode once a year (the one w charlie schlatt and mason where they rob a bank) i stand by the fact that its the funniest ep

[legendfinder]

have u seen the new jacob geller video? seems like itd b up your alley. id be curious to hear your thoughts on the philosophy of archival he talks about

Oh it was DEFINITELY up my alley, as an (at the very least) above-average obsessed fan of archiving my life's work to the best of my abilities. Geller brings up a really good point I've had to wrestle with, myself: What's the extent to which I can, well, archive?

Lately I've had to omit archiving multiple versions of my art because there's just... so many. Often I found myself erasing old versions just to put new ones in, only occasionally regretting it months or years later. There's some physical doodles I just haven't been able to archive, some that are probably lost forever. Sometimes I go about my day and check Discord only to find something missing I can't quite put my finger on; another server, deleted. How much do I archive of myself? Every word? Every pen stroke? Every conversation? Every thought, every dream, every morsel of food, every footstep, every blink, every fucking breath I've ever taken? Where does it stop?

The answer is it doesn't stop. At least, if you want a full archive of yourself. Different people have focused on different things, yeah. Some make dream journals, others make food diaries, others digitize their notebooks, others have github repositories or the like. But by god, is it hopeless to do everything.

I've tried to back those servers up, but, well... They get updated every day. I can't make backups of every server, every day. Archiving takes time, immense amounts of time, out of my day. Lately, I've been going to class lectures only to spend the time archiving my mind-boggling collection of notebook doodles from high school, for a purpose that isn't really that important right now. I'm not saying it's a universal experience, but to me, the process and goal of archiving puts me violently in the past and violently in the future, and rarely in the present.

I find myself just scrolling through my Everything Drive aimlessly, taking in the same colors I've already looked at for years, and it just feels like... I'm getting nothing new done. And then I continue building up this Everything Drive, for some unforeseeable unattainable "ideal" state that will never happen. I look back and I look forward constantly and sometimes I forget I can just step back and take in the moment as it is, without having to save an audio log of it, without having to record a video of it, without having to be constantly in fear of the decay of my memories. (Note that I have nothing against recording videos of things. I mean, I do that. A lot. That's why I bring it up. It just gets a bit too much after a while. I have 2000 videos and 2000 audio recordings on my phone. I barely ever check them.)

Callie, you probably have a few art pieces that might not be accessible anymore, because you might have put them in a discord server and just... Never kept a copy on your computer. Even for the art you made that is still accessible... How will you even go through the effort of collecting and archiving them, now? I got lucky to start my Everything Drive project relatively "early", in 2020, because Unus Annus scared lil ol me. Even then, I had a lot of work before me. I can't imagine starting that same project now, 3 years later.

On a slightly related note, sometimes a friend's hard drive just gets wiped. Sometimes someone's art hosting site gets taken down. Sometimes there's even something as mundane as someone quickly deleting their discord message as a joke. Things get deleted all the time, outside of my control.

I try to archive as much of myself as possible, but that's basically where I stop. Just myself. I can't archive everyone else to the extent I do for myself. I just hope they get to archive at least a small piece of themselves, their own way.

Back to Geller's video, though. I wanna say, The Internet Archive isn't fully a forever archive. People can try, yeah, and with enough people, something could very well last forever. But with individual items, it's a different story. I used to be very into the Archie Sonic comics, all for one specific character (if you want to know, it's Shard the Metal Sonic). Internet Archive, at that time, had a collection of pretty much every archie sonic comic, neatly organized and easily accessible straight from the website. It was a beautiful thing. Months later, trying to find a panel of a comic to take a screenshot of, I realized the collection had been taken down for copyright reasons. Sure, there's other collections of Archie Sonic comics, but those often fail to capture... Everything. Even the one I was looking at probably failed to capture everything. Some only have the early era of the comics, some only have the comics from Ian Flynn onwards. Some omit the spinoffs, others omit the end pages of the comics with fan mail and whatnot. One collection appears to be the most substantial, but seems to have forgotten a few pages in a few issues. It's just... Impossible, really. To get everything, and make it out in one piece.

I can't capture my paper doodles as accurately as they appear; in the Everything Drive, you zoom in enough, and you see pixels. There aren't pixels in real life. If I were to preserve every page of my high school notebooks, the scale of the collection would become gargantuan and completely inaccessible; just like Borges' map. I don't currently have the resources to download every video I've ever put on youtube or every stream I've done on twitch, and keep them on some external hard drives. I certainly don't have the space or even the time to preserve everything I love, everything I wish could stay just a little bit longer on this Earth. We all have our times to go, and all we can do is move just a few centimeters higher on this sinking ship.

So here I am, carving out my own corner, displaying only a select few categories of what I wish to preserve about myself. And in this corner, I'm happy.

Sorry if this rant is unhinged. I'm not deleting any of it. Guess I'm staying true to this topic, lmao.

I want to end by saying that if anyone wants to scroll through my Everything Drive (a google drive collection of as many digital + physical things ive made as im able to find and archive), I can send you a link! Just dm me if you wanna. Haven't fully finished organizing some recent art projects and a vast majority of my notebook doodles, but there's still already a fuck ton of shit in there.

Also my music streaming platform of choice is VLC Media Player

[the-magnus-archives-institute]

Hello! We've decided to go ahead and make a TMA kin/fictive sideblog since the tag is mostly dead. We also participate in Popculture Paganism, specifically geared towards our source. Here's a list of everyone you'll see and their tags on the blog!

Jonathan Sims - Statement recorder, avatar of the Eye and the Web.

He/him

"See the sun the shadows cast, from all the times I floated past, see the ocean spinning out, with all the hope and all the doubt"

#the archivist

Michael Shelley/ The Distortion - :) I am perfectly safe and harmless these doors are perfectly normal :)

He/they/it/none

"See how I circle, imaginary mind, imaginary lines, let the maze of my design carry you on. See how I fly away (away, away, away, away)"

#the distortion

Gerry Keay- I'm the distortion's special little guy he picks up like a ferret :] Desolation avatar, "The fire that consumes"

He/him

"The crow offers me a smoke. He says, "It'll take you for a joyride.""

#gerry

Melanie King - founder of the Blind Bitches Club

She/hxr/they

"I have nothing to say to you."

#melanie

NotThem - a NotThem that sometimes takes the shape of others. Currently Pamela

All pronouns

"I am the mockery of a memory"

#notthem

Martin - headmate whose fictionkin of a vast avatar Martin.

He/they/sky

"For our bones in the ocean forever will be"

#martin

Pamela - also referred to as Hive, Corruption avatar Chonny Jash fictive.

He/him

"This life did not choose us. It chose to consume us"

#the hive

Flurry - Vast/Lonely avatar Ghostbur fictive with a connection to the archives

He/her

"Cold and winter air and mountain rain combining"

#the frost

Helen Distortion/Richardson - :)

She/her

"Little miss, this isn't the deal we had!' Oh, did I mess it up? Well, then, that's just too bad!"

#helen

Nikola Orsinov - The ringmaster of the Circus!

It/he/they

"She knows you heard her staging music murder!"

#nikola

Sasha - Archivist Sasha who was killed

She/they

NotSasha - The Sasha that replaced her

She/they

Stratus - TMA Heart fictive, avatar of the Lonely

He/it

Nimbus - TMA Mind fictive, avatar of the Dark

He/it

Noctilucent - TMA Soul fictive, avatar of the Buried

He/xem

Joel - Smallishbeans Life series fictive who kins Tim

He/him

Annus - Unus Annus fictive, associated with the End

He/hxm

[suenitos]

its rlly interesting hearing everyones canon events for what got them here the diversity in peoples reactions to dream or dnf or dteam and parasocialism etc is actually breathtaking. anyway here's mine (with most of the journey as a bonus) that no one asked for. WARNING IT'S LONG:

i was more of a slow burn in that i first became aware of who the hell dream (i think george too?) was during summer 2020 when the maia thing was happening (i think it was trending or something and EVERYONE knew her from prom dress so i was like hey i know her!), though i dont remember all of the details i just remember thinking "ok!" then closing the twitter app. didn't pay it any mind.

later i started to get dteam content on my tiktok fyp from compilations and thought why the hell not and started to watch them on youtube. i found the mc tag video and was HOOKED with the solo dnf challenge videos. fell out of it for a while because online school then came back officially on november 16 when unus annus ended and lmanberg exploded and i needed something else to obsess over to cope with isolation. i dont quite remember when quackity came into the equation but he was THE reason i got into cdnf (and lore too i guess) because he gave us the only pov of the dethronement and that was the first lore stream i watched live. i remember recognizing him from the raids and discords got talent videos and got more into him and dteam at the same time especially as 5/5 became a thing (so you can see why i was hurt really bad when april happened lol)

another part of it was heat waves.. i was pretty opposed to it at first because after dan howell's coming out i thought rpf was inherently invasive to content creators. and to be fair there was a lot of freaknasty shit written about phan that made them uncomfortable! but since i have no morals i caved and read it anyway under the justification that everyone kept saying this is really good characterization and writing so why not! (up until chapter 3 was released at this time) i finally decided to register for an ao3 account along with thousands of other people (before the waiting list got really long lol) and read it and well. here we are

the parasocial drontroversy was happening around this time too and i sort of talked about it but that indirectly caused me to lurk for the entirety of 2021 mostly on tiktok and twitter and twitch (i knowwww. it was pretty bad). part of that too was because of the drontoversies so i avoided engaging directly until i knew for sure that dream wasn't the evilest man ever. i was really cautious about him because i had this assumption of his character (white cis het (lol) man raised republican) but after seeing his growth and learning a bit about him i grew out of my initial timidity and embraced the stan label (in secret). i was also a big youtube viewer too i loved the animations people made and still do! a xanyleaves manhunt animation also convinced me to watch manhunt and dteam (any object show fans here lol?) i got sick of doing that and not dumping everything in my brain somewhere my irls wouldn't see so i lurked here for a while and officially joined in january 2022. it was pretty fun! but then after a while you could tell the wheels were falling off the wagon!

i left for probably a month following the drituation drop (still lurking for updates etc) but then decided to come back with a different account because 1. i decided for myself that it was ultimately a nothing burger after seeking out evidence when i was ready 2. i was sick of using that blog as a sideblog and this is all i blog about anyway 3. i was lonely :( i missed the few mutuals i had and seeing life on the dash. i also just wanted to help build something healthier from before. i think the christmas streams were the first time i felt READY and sure to actively come back and my time here here has been really wonderful for the most part. this is MY toxic radioactive echo chamber dumpster and i love being a bacteria living in it.

[artsy-book]

for the ask game: what got u into hermitcraft/how did u get into hermitcraft? :D

if you want you could talk about how you got into other mcyt series c:

OH I LOVE THIS QUESTION!!

okay, so I'm going to start with how I got into other mcyt series, bc that happened BEFORE hermitcraft. so I never really interacted with anything minecraft related, not even the game until like dec of 2020. like, unus annus ended not to long ago and I didn't have a consistent form of content to consume. and I was also using Instagram a decent amount, and I kept seeing art for this one series I knew nothing about. I liked the art however but didnt interact further. then I started hearing people at school talking about the dsmp and dream's manhunt series. now I have no idea how, but somehow I got to ranboo and Wilbur soot before anyone else on the dsmp, and I very quickly was watching basically everyone on the server.

from the dsmp I started watching techno's minecraft mondays, I started watching techno and wilbur's mccs and later watched them live, I started watching cogchamp smp when it started (and I miss it every day since), and I also started watching tommy's fun mod videos.

Now, let's get into what got me into hermitcraft specifically ^-^

I dont remember what the first video I saw from grian was, but grian was for sure the first hermit i watched. i want to say it was one of the videos he had done with mumbo and that was how I started to watch both grian and mumbo. but I remember one day I decided to start grian's season 7, because season 8 was currently under way and I dont like jumping into the middle of things once they are started. i do know that I had started watching season 7 before Oct 2021 because I remember watching the afk prank video and wanting to finish season 7 even faster just to watch season 8.

but I have no idea what led to grian, but grian led to all the hermits and life series peeps and that wilbur/ranboo led to all the dsmp peeps ^-^

ask game

[echo-echo31]

Love the influx of Ethan reblogs we’re getting here ;3 it’s both making me miss Unus Annus and very happy at the same time

~ @sammys-magical-au

you and everyone else spam reblogging me rn :3 /pos

because you know I'm not watching compilation content bc how could I do that from a redacted channel?????????????

nobody judge me I never got to watch it the first time

[merlyns-corner]

But seriously, they were among the few things that got me through 2020. It was a really rough year for everyone, but I had also lost someone who was a second father to me and had to finish my senior year of high school in 2020. I seriously miss it so much, but I can still look so fondly upon it. I hope this can serve as a testament to what Unus Annus was and still is to many. (I still wear my Unus Annus winter hat and split hoodie all the time and have the pin proudly on my bag). I sobbed during the live stream and had my friend over reminiscing about the year because he had also watched all of the days of Unus Annus. Truly, nothing else can encompass the emotions associated with Unus Annus, and being updated about the anniversaries of the episodes brings a smile to my face every time I see them. Memento Mori. 🤍🖤💀

happy 3rd death day / 4th birthday unus annus. i still miss you.

unus annus website // @acrobaticcatfeline // goodbye. // o'death, frances molina // the lovers of voldaro // unus annus // memento & mori, crankgameplays & markiplier // memento mori, crywank // goodbye. // this video is unavailable

[browzerhistory]

18. What's your favourite clothing item/accessory that the system owns? 23. Do you like engaging with your source/content about it? 26. Talk about whatever you want, relevant to the rest of the questions or not!

for whoever wants to answer :3!!

(peter and charlie at front. i think)

18. i (peter) like this old unus annus hoodie that we have. we don't wear it often lately because it's thick and all black, but when winter comes around, we'll wear it more often. i (charlie) don't really have a preference on clothes. i do like the bead stuff we make though. those are fun :]

23. i (peter) might have mentioned it on this blog before, and i've definitely talked about it on headhold, but i don't really like thinking about my source. or interacting with it. i (charlie) don't really mind, even though there are some... not great memories, with it, because it's not all bad, and it's part of who i am. though i don't often interact with content or anything because people tend to get weird about fictives.

26. i (peter) miss my snake :( that's one of the only things i miss from source. her name's rat, she's a hognose and so sweet and niceys. i'd go back for her sake alone. i (charlie) don't really have much to say except i have a PERSONAL VENDETTA against the real slimecicle. my source has changed TWICE because of his shenanigans and frankly i'm tired of it. my appearance has changed the most out of everyone in this system and i'm the fourth newest. charles 'charlie slimecicle' dagleish when i catch you.

[glass-ghost]

I posted 2,769 times in 2022

That's 2,101 more posts than 2021!

17 posts created (1%)

2,752 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@miss-galaxy-turtle

@thenarator

@wearewatcher

@lady-raziel

@shy-marker-pliers

I tagged 1,597 of my posts in 2022

Only 42% of my posts had no tags

#dimension 20 - 385 posts

#watcher - 310 posts

#reference - 182 posts

#ride the cyclone - 157 posts

#ofmd - 129 posts

#the umbrella academy - 112 posts

#markiplier - 66 posts

#stranger things - 34 posts

#bnha - 31 posts

#unus annus - 29 posts

Longest Tag: 87 characters

#first date has to be my favorite song of theirs though just because of how catchy it is

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.

- Augustus Caesar

0 notes - Posted April 1, 2022

#4

You are wonderful.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

0 notes - Posted April 1, 2022

#3

0 notes - Posted July 26, 2022

#2

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

- Richard Feynman

0 notes - Posted April 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Happy holidays everyone, enjoy Jacksfilms' video and start a new holiday tradition!

1 note - Posted December 5, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[that-sweet-almond]

hey! just curious, what do Unus and Annus in your bio mean? I haven't seen those words before

Oh man, I havent updated my bio in so long, im going to cry. I think around two years ago, there was this channel called unus annus, and the whole point of it was to make videos every single day, for 365 days, and then delete it all in the end. In one of the videos, the two people involved with the channel (im simplifying, there were a lot of people behind the cameras taking care of the project as well), markiplier and crankgameplays divided the fanbase in two, the annus and the unus depending on this short list of characteristic and personality traits, and at the time, everyone obcessed with it changed their tumblr logos and bios to say which one you were. I just got, stuck in the past cuz i havent found a better image to change into sfdl

[paperbaghero]

It’s been long time coming and it was all worth the wait too!!

Here’s a link to watch the premiere

[sualne]

It’s 9:30am I only slept one hour so far, today is going to be fun, I regret nothing though, was there for the beginning of the unus annus I wanted to be there when it died. What a year.

[eternal-carat]

Where I started vs. The Last Video