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I don't play minecraft, and I live under a rock so, I didn't understand the meme. TIL Notch took the good will he received from the gaming community and summarily flushed it down the toilet.
To play devils advocate,
When Notch was still a normal developer he was pretty progressive. I still remember the blog post where declared Minecraft has no distinct genders, all animals can breed with all of the same species, therefor everyone in Minecraft is gay. As a way to bash homophobes.
The chain of events as i witnessed it. And he also spoke of a few times is that money destroyed all his authentic friendships, his wife divorced him, everyone he met wanted him just for his money and he got completely isolated, also claimed to living for the most part on potato chips when on a podcast with moistcritical.
I also high suspicion from experience with other people he developed an alcohol problem which fuel his social media posts.
It’s no excuse but it is a recipe to make an otherwise decent person act in a monstrous way. Also a recipe to be easily influenceable by the wrong kids of al media.
Last i checked he took a long break from social media, and eventually came back as more sober person.
Can’t erase the fact he made some bad comments in the past. Many people seem to trow him on the same pile as Jk Rowling, who is actively and consistently doing harm. Such is far from fair.
Found the post
What could go wrong by taking an average dude and give them billions of dollars?
Notch is better than Rowling if only that he had the good sense to leave the public eye and separate himself from his work.
Thank you for this!
This is news to me, do you have any more info? While I agree that you can't erase the bad, I would like to have another (rare) example of someone who turned themselves around.
And thanks for your post in general. I didn't know about his opinions on gender, and they're surprisingly thoughtful, especially for that time.
That genuinely hard to refer to, its mors of an absence of controversy. His main social media is still twitter and this might have been the second time this year he postsed at all.
What i do know, He deleted his twitter account somewhere after 2021 and since 2024 appears to be back, working on a new game and expressed enjoying game development again (after presumably no longer enjoying it
Many of his pre-2022 post read to me as actual cringe and shit jokes. X appears to shuffle posts so its genuinely not hard still to find some really nasty ones. But everything since has been just a normal dude talking about developing game and expressing criticism against ai/vibe coding and how the epstein case is handled.
I dont know if he commented on the controversies since but the vibe i am getting is that fading in the background a little, being less famous and bombarded with internetfandom helped.
It just hit me you where asking for info nog just specific examples of proof of turning life around.
I found this article on loneliness from before the controversies many sources seem to point to facebook which I cant access though.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ive-never-felt-more-isolated-says-billionaire-mine/1100-6430171/
Also learned this from wikipedia.
] They had a daughter together, but by mid-2012, he began to see little of her.[64] On 15 August 2012 he announced that he and his wife had filed for divorce.[2] The divorce was finalised later that year.[64][9]
On 14 December 2011 Persson's father committed suicide with a handgun[9] after drinking heavily.[1] In an interview with The New Yorker, Persson said of his father:[9]
According to Persson, his father suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and medication abuse.
I think what i have is more of a theory that makes me see the human but what i sadly can’t find is wether or not he is sorry for what happened.
His wife divorced him shortly after he became a billionare. Money is a disease
I know it's a redundant statement but they became a billionaire AND became alt-right, especially in regards to their opinions towards the LGBTQ+ community. Microsoft actually scrubbed their name off of everything because of it.
It's really sad to me because I used to really look up to them as a Minecraft obsessed teenager trying to learn to program
Why are you using they? Are they NB or just trolling them for their lgbt stance?
That was completely unintentional lol. I haven't heard anything about him being NB
That's what rich people want to make normal people think.
Exactly the meme that came to mind. Notch turned out to be such a disappointment