MCC 6 unfinished

19 minutes and 32 seconds of the forever unfinished MCC 6 video. Featuring CaptainPuffy, Fundy, and Fruitberries. A few disgraced YouTubers and streamers in the background. And Technoblade himself, who I hope is watching.

Thank you all for being patient. Unfortunately this will never be a finished product. I stopped working on it a while ago and haven't found the motivation nor the justification to work on it again. Yesterday Hytale announced that they were ending development. I realized that all I'd want out of them was to see what they had so far.

So here it is: that time i played Minecraft for 2 hours in 2020

5 years ago, I was invited to play MCC 3 as a sub for one of TommyInnit's missing teammates. I was added to the discord to play the event, and I remained in the server after the event was over. Scott Smajor would post the Google forms to sign up for upcoming events in the server, and I would apply every time. Apparently I was never supposed to be in another one, but nobody told me this, and Scott felt bad, so I was placed in the MCC 6 roster. And then we friggin won.

After the stream, I remember telling my teammates that I was going to make an INSANELY POLISHED VIDEO out of the footage. Something I felt could match the before unseen quality of the event itself. I made the opening, and then immediately posted it to Twitter. This was very Effing Stupid! I had set the bar for myself as high as possible and convinced the public to hold me to that standard. I don't think it helped that I kept posting more previews as I made more stylistic advancements.

I was working with a 2 hour and 30 minute long replay mod file. In other words: This video was torture to work on. If I got back all the time I spent on loading screens waiting for replay mod to catch up, I'd be 16 again. I don't even want to know how many times Minecraft and Vegas Pro crashed.

The weight of expectations followed me around all the time. "Where's MCC 6" is a phrase I've heard a million times over the past 5 years. It made me feel like a failure. The event happened at a pretty high point in my YouTube career, and this video took all my focus, halting my channel. I couldn't help but feel I would have kept momentum had I not put all my eggs in this one basket. I ended up putting the video on the back-burner, making it something I work on between smaller videos. But the habits I built making big projects like this carried over to videos that were meant to be small. Over time I returned to MCC 6 less and less, until eventually it had been so long that it just felt like it wasn't worth it anymore. Now I'm working on new projects and uploading frequently on my second channel, which has been a ton of fun.

This project has effectively been a lab for me to experiment with my style and much of my stylistic growth can be attributed to the work I did on this video. It becomes pretty clear how long I've been working on this when you notice the random bumps in quality as the video progresses. This video is built of random few-week bursts of motivation across various spans of time. It's not how I want my brain to work, but that's just how I operate. It's not as cohesive as I would have structured it in hindsight. Still, I'm very proud of what I have.

It's fun to look back at the footage and see Minecraft YouTube in its prime. 2020, despite how Horrible it was, was also Friggin Awesome At the Same Time too. I remember watching Technoblade grow massive notoriety playing Minecraft Monday, and how MCC was the coolest thing we'd all had ever seen in Minecraft. Miss it like hell.

anyway. thanks. I'm free

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