#evil evil xisuma

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what a cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

[poorlydrawnmcyt]

Xisuma is forced to play hit video game That’s Not My Hermit by Evil Xisuma every day

Part 2

[shepscapades]

[Part 1] [PART 2] [Part 3]

The unexpected return of a face Xisuma never thought he'd see again.

[micer2012]

a reflection on MatPat's plagiarism

Hello, my name is Della, or micer2012, and 2 years ago Game Theory plagiarized three Tumblr posts of mine, making a video that now holds almost 6 million views.

My posts explaining his plagiarism made their rounds on Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter, but despite the Hermits and Pooka commenting on it (generally in support of me or saying they don’t know enough details about the situation to say either way), MatPat and his team have never owned up to anything, and no mention of my name is present on the video. The one Reddit post they made denying it (which was made before my detailed takedown, which they have never responded to (though the mods on the r/GameTheorists Reddit were kind and made sure it stayed up)) didn’t even mention me by name, just referring to me as “a tumblr user”. (Though one of the screenshotted comments in the body of the post does say my name)

This experience was baffling, but it’s overall had a positive impact on my life. r/Hermitcraft gave me a Golden Apple Award (post of the year, 2021). My inbox was filled with excited fans, wanting to ask me questions or pose their own theories, far more than the hate I got. (Though the hate I got from Game Theory fans was VERY funny. I wondered why none of them gave me shit about saying “MatPat misgendered Evil Xisuma” before realizing none of them read that far into the post.)

And getting on a more personal, and much more important note, I met most of my current online friends through this, including my partner. It helped me grow closer with my irl friends as well and gave me an entertaining story that I tell whenever I have the chance. It was one of the first things in my life that really made me feel like my talents, my autistic hyperfocusing and analyzing of things I love, could be valuable. Useful. Exploitable. It blew my mind that MatPat thought an autistic kid’s ramblings about a Minecraft Youtube joke character were good enough to steal. To put an audible sponsorship on. To get 6 million views off of.

And that’s why I’m writing this post, this update years later. As you might’ve been able to guess, Hbomberguy’s Youtube video on plagiarism reopened this wound. It was really hard for me to sit through, it took days of pausing and taking breaks, because I had experienced everything he was talking about firsthand. 

In my 10 page long takedown post, I wrote about how his rewording of my sentences made him say things that were incorrect, just like Filip did. The content farm production style that made big companies like Cinemassacre take one creator (AVGN/MatPat) and turn him and his content into a brand, a voice that reads out scripts by other people with other opinions/theories, is a history shared with Game Theory. What really hit me was Harris talking about how big creators only do this to people they think they can get away with doing it to. How they view their victims as lesser, as not deserving of their words, repackaging them as their own to give to an audience that can gain from hearing them, but deserves better than to have to listen to the original victim.

That’s the thing, I 100% think a video version of my theory to expose to a bigger community than “Evil Xisuma Fans on Tumblr” is a great idea!! Near the end of the video Harris talks about how video adaptations of things could be a great market, even an accessibility tool, and I completely feel that about my posts. I wrote them quickly assuming the reader was someone well versed on Evil Xisuma lore, after not even watching most of the CarnEvil series, and the diagrams I made to explain them are even less comprehensible. Harris makes a joke that I completely agree with, 

“I’m sure some of my videos would do very well if someone translated them into English.”

I don’t think I would’ve ever made my posts if I didn’t have autism, and a special fixation on Evil Xisuma and Hermitcraft. I made them because I felt the character was being done an injustice, and because I wanted to share with other superfans this theory that might explain it away. I do think that MatPat plagiarizing me was ableist. I used to wonder a lot if this would’ve happened if my posts were articulated better, if they had been peer reviewed, if the posts themselves had been spread to a wider audience before MatPat made his video. At one point when the discourse was fresh (before I had the time to write out my 10 page rebuttal), a bigger YouTuber (100k subs at the time) messaged me and started talking on Discord, interested in possibly making a video on the discourse, but I think my style of typing and general enthusiasm drove him away. You can tell by a single look at my blog (or my original 3 posts!) that I don’t usually type like this. This post you’re reading now has been peer reviewed and edited, and took me hours to format correctly. That video could’ve been huge, the entire outcome of this MatPat situation would probably be much different.

I also used to stress a lot about “being the one who ruined Evil Xisuma’s story”. If you didn’t know, to me S8 Evil Xisuma’s story got wrapped up pretty quickly and unsatisfying (in my personal autistic opinion). (though this might’ve been due to s8 being experimental and ending early with moon big) There was no real culmination of the plot points and arcs going on, and I don’t want to blame myself, but when Xisuma said on stream (when the MatPat thing was first going on) that he didn’t want to focus on the discourse or draw more attention to it, it makes a lot of sense to me that he just wanted to wrap it all up as quickly as possible. For a while I beat myself up about it, of ruining the story of this character I love, but it’s not my fault. If anyone’s, it’s MatPats, but I don’t think it’s useful to just blame someone else. That’s how the story ended up going, and that’s fine. This is Evil Xisuma we’re talking about, their inconsistent lore is what made them such an interesting character. And notably, Pooka made an animation with an awesome culmination of Jeff, the Dreamer, Evil Xisuma, and his own sona’s story, and it makes me so happy to watch. Whatever Pooka does is of course his own choice, but I’m glad he got to give this personal story his own ending (if it is an ending, and not just the start of a new chapter!). 

Typing this all out and getting it off my chest has made me feel a lot better. For a while I wanted to make my OWN video essay about Evil Xisuma’s lore and CarnEvil’s lore, actually going episode by episode to explain it instead of just assuming you knew as much about Evil Xisuma as I did. That idea is still not off the table, but MCYT isn’t something I’m that into right now. Maybe if something else comes out about Evil Xisuma I’ll get back on it, but for now I’m fine with letting that go. But I want to make other videos, share other theories and analysis… if I have the freetime I’d love to make YouTube videos, and if I don’t have the time I’ll continue posting to my tumblr and infodumping to my friends. Apparently my infodumping is valuable enough “content” to steal! Writing this out has made me feel a lot better though, I’m really glad I got it out.

If anyone ever wants to talk to me about the things I’m obsessed with, or reach out to me as a source in a bigger discussion about Game Theory or other channels, my inbox is more than welcome :] Thank you for reading! 

Sincerely, a tumblr user.

[anonymousacres]

even sillier

part 1 / part 2

[plushtive]

when the hyperfixations hyperfixate

[binibiningdarna]

The Wet Cat and The Brat

[nightshadeowl]

Hey folks! o/ Here's my Hermitcraft TCG art. I was invited to create the Rare card for Xisuma's alter ego- Evil Xisuma >:]

I feel so lucky that I got to participate in Season 2 of TCG. CREO has been absolutely lovely to work with, and now I feel more excited than ever about the fact that Beef has managed to bring his game to life (in such good hands).

Process images and tag list below the cut:

Sketches and early colors:

(Xisuma liked the top left composition best, so I took that and adapted it.) The bare-bones version:

If you're wondering why the final art is flipped when none of the prior work is, it's because I realized the card type token in the top left and EX's health stat would've covered his horns and the lightning! Decided it was best to ensure we got to see the more visually interesting parts.

A special thank-you goes to @helsex for getting all of the image descriptions written out for me.

Thanks for reading all of this, and I hope you found it interesting. Let me know if you pull my card when everything ships out! 🤍⚡️

Tags: @helsex @fakezircon @0jaybird0 @tangy-soup @soup-guy @mimmit @chelblue @12u3ie @syn4k

[awoart114253]

pretty much the mood lately

[kingscourthouse]

Something silly I've noticed recently

[fence-time]

:(

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

I don't think evil xisuma would ever come out as non binary. I think they would be bothering xisuma one day while he's trying to make some stupid farm and they would say to him You know it's funny how all these hermits assume I'm a man just because you are one. They didn't even ask me. Bit inconsiderate, isn't it. and xisuma would say Huh. I never thought about that. Um. Well. Are you a man? and evil x would say Not really. so xisuma's like. Oh okay. well are you... a.. woman? and evil x says No. and xisuma's a little bit lost at this point so he says alright. well. do you want me to ask everyone to not... call you "he" anymore? and evil x says No. and xisuma's like Well alright. I'm not quite sure what the point of all this was then. but he probably keeps that last part as an inside thought. And then evil x tries to lightning strike him but they miss. and that's really embarrassing for them so they run away.

so then later when xisuma sends evil x a minemail (minecraft email) invite to help with his next snapshot overview video, and for some reason evil x agrees, x refers to evil x using they/them the whole time because he's pretty sure that's what he's supposed to be doing. And evil x seems to like that because they don't even try to kill him with lightning the entire time. And so xisuma is like Ok then.

[poorlydrawnmcyt]

Another episode of That’s Not My Hermit bc I’m obsessed

Part 1

[shepscapades]

[Part 1] [Part 2] [PART 3]

The beginning of a delightful new partnership!

Bonus below:

[kiwinatorwaffles]

baldsuma part 3: end my misery

part 1, part 2

[sweetest-honeybee]

Thinkin about hels stuff as usual