#thinking about how the way the dsmp ccs did their rp felt so natural to me was bc I’d watched the slenderverse ccs

[ahalliance]

all the best modern-day videoformat roleplay is outlined improv, let’s get you some fruit

[strandedcrow]

that whole about making the dsmp an org i think comes from the fact that (besides them seeing it as a money grab) they dont realize everyone on that server are like. actual friends with each other. not to say that other orgs arent friends with each other but like almost every single person added to the server was friends with or already knew someone on it and if they didnt, are friends with everyone now, and i straight up think trn and the others just cannot for the life of them get that fact into their heads.

oh yeah given train didn’t even know dream and sapnap lived together, i wouldn’t doubt that the crowd on the podcast also just flat out doesn’t realize that the dsmp is a bunch of friends first and foremost. on top of that, the other big servers that have started in this current era (smp live, smp earth, epic smp) have had lineups that included separate friend groups (lunch club and team chunk error, the various countries, misfits, etc for each), but not one large overarching friend group to hold it all together and keep the more relaxed setting that dream smp manages to maintain.

the dream smp was founded solely because dream and george wanted to play minecraft together, and they just kept adding new people as they went. they started with close friends (the original 8), and branched out from there to people they knew a bit (sbi), and then to people that dream didn’t know well yet, but thought were talented and more importantly: thought they would fit in well with the rest of the server. the smp having natural chemistry has always been the main draw of it, and it shows in the best ways. i really do think that the cast of the podcast just doesn’t know that

some people didn’t really know the other smp members personally yet (like ranboo), but they were added specifically bc they were good at what they do and because dream felt they would mesh well into the group. but most (like sbi, mmc, hannah) did already know someone there, and was already actual friends with them, and it works so well for the entire server

(obviously i also definitely think a lot/most of it comes from them just talking purely hypotheticals for the sake of talking, but not realizing how rude it could come across)

i also think it’s possible that train is (intentionally or not) using his own experiences with nopixel (the gta rp server that he was permabanned from) as a basis to evaluate the dream smp, which are two very different communities that aren’t really that similar beyond “these both have ccs and they roleplay in a video game.” the atmospheres are entirely different and i don’t think he realizes that the dream smp is far more casual, despite its popularity and roleplay