#my grian ass thought grian was the least popular

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This is going to sound really stupid but I cannot for the life of me guess who’s popular in MCYT.

Exhibit A: I genuinely, genuinely thought Grian was the least popular member of Hermitcraft because he was new to the server. I thought I didn’t know the other extremely cool and talented hermits because I was stupid and Not Cool and still somehow following this random rustic house channel from 2017. This is so funny because Grian’s literally the fan favourite. I could NOT be more wrong.

Exhibit B: I LEGIT THOUGHT THE HERMITS WERE POPULAR IN MCC??? Like in the GoodTimes of early Season 7, Hermitcraft was super mainstream, you could see Hermitcraft memes outside of Hermitcraft, there were Hermitcraft jokes/references in Minecraft/YouTube videos. And then there was the whole Mumbo for Mayor feat. James Charles fiasco. So I thought all of the hermits were getting really popular. A little bit after that, MCC happened, and I remember looking at the players and knowing no one except for the hermits, Pearl (because friend of the hermits) and Technoblade (because he’s the PvP king). (Yes, I was/am extremely ignorant about modern MCYT.) I assumed the hermits in MCC would be pretty damn popular because they have their own fans and Hermitcraft fans. And Hermitcraft was popular so the hermits would be popular, right? And I knew Grian is in MCC and Grian is SUUUUPER popular, right? So if he plays, he’ll be one of the most watched streams, right? I literally thought Grian and Mumbo were the two most popular MCYT in our year 2020 (YES, MY BRAIN LIVES IN 2016/17 BAHXJAJDJSJ).

And then MCC9 happened.

As a hermitfan (and eventual Hbomb and Fruit fan btw I’m sorry I discovered them so late and I’m so glad I’ve been introduced to them), I was ECSTATIC. Hermitcraft community was RIOTING. Grian’s three kills in Survival Games trended in the hermitcraft tumblr tag for like a month. But then the most trending posts in the MCC tags weren’t about the winning team? (Like if I scroll down I would find a lot of posts about them, but still the top fifteen posts were about... Dream Team or smth. Idek.) And I was genuinely confused? Blue Bats won against all odds? Even if you don’t know anyone on the team, it would be common courtesy to acknowledge their unlikely victory? I thought the winning team would be trending after every MCC. I know Ren/False aren’t the most popular of hermits so I was kinda clinging onto The Supposedly Massively Popular Grian to make a splash, which he did, resulting in the Dreamslayer memes. But still... Grian wasn’t as popular as I thought. And that made me think: wait, if even Grian, Mr. Supposedly Massively Popular barely makes it to trending, then... what about the other hermits?

It was then I realised hermits started to get real attention from MCC9. Prior to MCC9, I wasn’t invested in MCC at all and just really adored hermit content. And apparently from Frostbyte Freeman’s “How the Blue Bats Won MCC9” video, the hermits were looked down as points to be grabbed.

So apparently the hermits were Not That Popular After All. That’s not to say they’re “underrated” or being “slept on” or “they don’t have fans”. Hermits have a gigantic and loyal fan base, and they’re definitely getting a lot of attention now, I just didn’t expect Dream SMP to be so massively popular lol. (Dream absolutely slayed the YouTube algorithm. Legend.) I legit didn’t know they existed until people starting simping for them on Instagram. Oh well I’m stupid.

To conclude I have extremely bad judgement and awareness of whatever’s going on in MCYT and do NOT ask me who’s popular in MCYT because I thought Grian and Mumbo were the most popular in 2020 I’m so ashamed of myself bye—