#mcyt sexyman shit

[hollowwish]

ETHOGIRLS WE RIDE AT DAWN GO GO GOOO

[hollowwish]

LITERALLY people arguing over sexyman definitions stared to annoy me. Tumblr sexyman is a very broad term and saying certain qualities are a requirement is wrong. I think it's more the vibe around the character + the way the fandom acts about them that makes them a sexyman, but that's MY personal opinion/definition of what a sexyman is, it's not gonna be everyone's.

I feel like the sexyman poll turned into a popularity poll and will need a redo but with a lot more secrecy sop people who do not know what a Tumblr sexyman is don't sway the vote with just a pure mass. Like a lot of the people voting just came from twitter or somewhere, made an account and voted and did not interact with anything else to do with it or the topic.

[snek-snacc]

As someone who watched both the dsmp and Karmaland, hearing the election announcement for the qsmp feels like being a veteran who survived WWI and WWII and was just told that now WWIII is approaching and I got drafted

[cherrywoodlife]

Remember to vote for Quackity to help avoid an all hermit finale

[jim-pickens]

VOTE GAME VOTE GAME VOTE GAME

(also is not letting me use hyperlinks so GO VOTE HERE: https://www.tumblr.com/mcytblrsexymen/708470532996218880/round-one )

[aquelondungeonmaster]

NOMINATE THE RED SUN FOR THE MCYTBLR SEXYMAN POLL I AM ASKING POLITELY

it is the bill cipher of mcyt: evil shape that talks in all caps humanized as a hot dude.  it comes from a classic mcyt horror series that is literally un-lost media, and we love it. 

IT NEVER SETS

[digdeepergravedigger09]

The fight between GoodTimesWithScar and Technoblade over the course of my work day

Look at that come back! Look at what the absolute madlads of GTWS fans have done!! And don’t lie to me tumblr that is NOT 50/50. They clawed that 47% up to 50 one percent by one percent.

There’s 2hrs left. Let’s see if Techno Voices will claw their lead back.

[eagle-warri]

I hadn’t made fanart for the competition yet, but the fact that this round was between the two characters the fandom had onceler-ed grabbed me by the throat, and now I have this.

Might as well propaganda it: vote Scar

[thatscrazyrandom]

I never know what to say when the polls end but known that I'm very excited that Joe Hills won.

[restnowyourhardshipisover]

The king of the Dream SMP lands grips their sword and rises slowly, chin held high. 

“This will be an honorable battle.”

Dead bones creek as the king of Hermitcraft cracks their knuckles. “Yeah. That’s not really gonna work out.” 

[hollowwish]

Ok hear me out

The onceler, the original sexyman. He is a pathetic little guy who was overtaken by greed and power

Jimmy's current Empires character is a pathetic little guy similarly being taken over by power and greed. He's a corrupt authority figure who's constantly being bullied. Literal God decided he was funny enough to mess with.

Also I'm (not) sorry but Scott is the obvious choice. He is what you would expect when picking a sexyman. Predictable. No flavor. I do NOT see mcytblr users losing their minds over Scotts tragic gay breakup with a goblin.

[arcsin27]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

HOW IS HE A WHOLE PERCENT BEHIND THEY WERE WITHIN HUNDREDS OF EACH OTHER FOR HOURS WHAT THE FUCK

ROUND 5:

ETHOSLAB (4) nominated from Last Life, Etho LP, Hermitcraft, Modded Minecraft, Mindcrack, Team Canada

vs

MUMBOJUMBO (5) nominated from Last Life, Hermitcraft

[amaranths-in-hobbitland]

Is now a good time to tell people I’m not dead and never was

[theminecraftbee]

being in true sexyman nostalgia mode today (on account of. IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR BABY.) i think one of the most fascinating things about it is that we will never manage to do that again. like, not in a "we couldn't organize it better" way; there were better ways to do the spreadsheet, we would just turn off comments on posts and anon asks from day one so that we wouldn't then get people accusing us of censorship while we tried and failed to control the tide of things that ended up in the comments and inbox, we'd definitely have a WAY higher non-hermit contingent, both thanks to qsmp and thanks to the sexyman blog and medusa now having MUCH wider reach to other corners of the fandom and the original spread not all rooting at me, etc.

but the reason we couldn't do it again is that i don't know if we could ever replicate the exact circumstances that lead to it blowing up quite to the extent it blew up.

it was while tumblr polls and doing tumblr poll brackets on tumblr itself was still new-ish, and people were still excited about them. the idea of a mcytblr bracket was basically brand new; i won't claim we did it FIRST (because i have no idea if we did and doubt we did), but certainly we did it big first. so there's that; we can never again invent in real time "shit people are sending us threats about fraud lets legalize fraud because its funny, we can't stop it, and that neutralizes that drama as a thing anyone will take seriously", and then in turn accidentally invent a fandom culture of. um. wide-spread voter fraud.

(i don't know if we should apologize for, uh, causing the specific way mcytblr voter frauds. i still think it was better than the alternative at least, especially after seeing how so many other polls crashed and burned after us. there were MANY things we could have done better but i have seen SO MANY ways we could have done things worse since then so i think we came out looking pretty okay.)

but also: february 2023 was a very different time in mcytblr. we were in a hermitcraft dead period, where most of the hermits were either on vacation or playing tcg (which was fun, but didn't end up generating that much fandom activity by that time in february). the former dsmp crew was very much doing Nothing (and in that awkward space when the entire fandom knew dsmp 2 was never happening, but also people were still claiming it would happen, so it was just... busy waiting). qsmp didn't exist yet. there was no ongoing life series and wouldn't be for some time. i think even the dominioners and lifestealers were in a fairly dead zone. there was very little new for people to be excited about, mcyt content-wise.

enter: our poll. our poll which cleo then thinks its funny to call out on twitter. our poll, which was not only new mcyt content for the fandom to interact with (thanks to the fact we KEPT GETTING CC INTERACTIONS???), but participatory.

for about two weeks, we were the mcyt event de jour.

and like. the thing is. now we're in february 2024. mcyt is BOOMING. a new hermitcraft season JUST STARTED. we came off of vault hunters before that. meanwhile, qsmp just restarted and is, if i'm understanding correctly, booming. they just added a new guy! the two current juggernauts of the fandom are in FULL SWING. i honestly think we'd be somewhat overtaken by the fact things are actually happening in fandom. there's stuff to do that ISN'T go insane about a poll.

and it's not new, and we've seen it all before now, and frankly, it's hard to cause a mass hysteria event TWICE. lightning in a bottle, as they say.

i think part of the reason we all just REMEMBER mcytblr sexyman so much is that we could never, ever recreate it, so it remains crystalized in a single moment in time, impossible to replicate, forever memorable.

anyway: HAPPY ONE YEAR TO THE JOE HILLS SWEEP BABY,

[erdasmcnonsense]

I honestly just CANNOT deal with the fact that Doc got Joe with an anvil because Joe was looking for photos of himself to convince people of his sexiness??? due to the tumblr mcyt sexyman vote

just. you can't make this shit up.

i am fucking dying of laughter like. just. HOW. how is thsi a thing that happened

[staringamassivemistakeintheface]

I came to the fandom after the sexyman tournament had run its course, so I know that it was a wild time. But Joe actually posted shirtless pictures?

…Why am I even surprised, that is a very Joe thing to do.

Lmao, I mean, at this point, you should do a powerpoint presentation on how to best commit voter fraud.

I'm sure I couldn't say. But there's been whispers in the tags of a thing called mcytblr sexyman - I bet the DSMP fans would be happy to explain, if you asked them politely.