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Notch deletes his Twitter account in deal with Game Maker's Toolkit
@Game Maker's Toolkit:
Well this is a weird day pic.twitter.com/3zMny4a6yG
I've since discovered that there's a 30 day period in which you can undelete your Twitter account. It would not surprise me if Notch returns.
Eh, it would also mean that GMTK could also express his opinion again, so it would not change nothing.
I see his account is now back.
https://twitter.com/notch
Just inside the 30 day reclaim period that @rkcr mentioned.
Disagree. If you carefully choose your circles, it's fun as hell. Same for reddit. Stick to the fun subreddits and it's okay, wander into anything boomer/politics/etc, it's not.
Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps
Also https://twitter.com/internetofshit.
These kind of prove the point, though. If the only worthwhile content on Twitter is goofy meme accounts, the site is not delivering any value to society.
It's not. I follow plenty of excellent high quality accounts such as Techconnectify, gelliottmorris, fivethirtyeight, and plenty more personalities that choose to use it as their secondary, off the cuff way of communicating with their fans.
"Politics"? Ho boy, I wonder what he thinks the definition of that is.
Yup! I bet that's going to be the idea (? Not sure on this word choice, I originally wrote loophole but that felt wrong too) that he'll use to bring back his twitter account at some point. Art and politics are almost inseparable, it is just a matter of how loosely or strictly you define it.
It's funny, just a few days ago I stumbled again onto this old Twitter exchange with one of the Yogscast founders and Notch.
In GMTK's context tweet, it looks like they said that their videos were going to have arbitrary ads on them, including possibly Trump re-election ads, and then they said something they censored in the screenshot, which I assume was a message to say they disagreed with Trump ads such as a pro-Biden or pro-BLM message. I wonder which part made Notch object. It would be a pleasant turnaround if it was the Trump ad part, but somehow I doubt it.
Notch has infamously been a far right troll for a longer period of time than he was "the guy who made Minecraft" by now, so it's definitely GMTK opposing Trump ads running on his channel that made Notch object to "politics".
I have never heard of GMTK. Does he really have such a great amount of influence that Notch would be willing to delete his entire twitter account just to mute his politics?
It's a very popular YouTube channel run by Mark Brown, and pretty well respected around the gaming industry for good quality videos that dive into mechanics and design of games.
He's a great YouTuber but no he doesn't exactly have much influence, he's just respected in the game dev world.