Minecraft Creator “Notch” Drops The Hammer on Community Members

By Landon Robinson | 21 November 2011 | 103 Comments

Early this afternoon, there was a kerfuffle about on Twitter. Markus Persson, otherwise known as Notch and famous creator of Minecraft, recently tweeted about a pair of community members and their behavior at Minecon, last weekend’s Minecraft celebratory convention.

These community members are better known as The Yogscast, a group on YouTube that create videos based in and around Minecraft and its community. They’ve had unprecedented success in their pursuits over the past two years. Notch has stated that he will no longer be working with the group.

In the aforementioned tweets, Notch mentions that he’s received multiple pairings of hate mail, threats, and harsh words from Yogscast fans, to which he replied, “I’ll stop biting my tongue now.” He went on to state that the members of Yogscast were repeatedly insulting people, talking behind their backs, and acting like “total spoiled divas nonstop” during the entirety of Minecon.

Additionally, Notch infers that the same individuals called him and his team at Mojang “a bunch of nerds who don’t know how to run a company”, and demanded that they be paid. According to Notch, no one else was paid.

He went on to mention that Yogscast members claimed that they’re the reason behind the success of Minecraft, and that they should be thanked more than anyone else. Notch also mentioned that the group “dropped the f-bomb” on a kid who wanted a signature and wrote “fuck you” on the page the kid wanted signed.

To quote Notch directly:

“They’re total dicks.”

Coming straight out of Minecon, this is not exactly good PR for Mojang or The Yogscast. At this point, The Yogscast has yet to fire back with either a public statement, apology, or explanation on their end, except for one lone facebook post. Though, we have no idea if these accusations are entirely truthful.

However, a user has come about on Reddit discussing his experience with The Yogscast members.

Whatever the case may be, it certainly dampens what was otherwise considered a successful launch for Minecraft, and a celebration for its ever growing community.

We’ll update you more here as it happens.

103 Comments

Posted by seth on 12 January 12 at 5:25pm

wow the Yogscast that does not seem like them is Notch sure he is correct on what they are saying and doing cause im not so sure?
Posted by Ivan on 22 January 12 at 5:35pm

either notch is drunk or paranoid. Or the yogscast were the drunk ones, cos’ you know its freaking Vegas, nearly all the adults in minecon were drunk -.-
Posted by mitchell on 17 February 12 at 11:39pm

omg i would have never thought yogs cast would do that omg
Posted by Rep on 18 February 12 at 12:30pm

Guys. This is fucking old and Notch already admitted he was being a dick.
Posted by AgentX ( Yogscast forumer) on 25 February 12 at 3:14am

For goodness sake people, this situation was RESOLVED. Notch overreacted when he heard some inconclusive lies, this never happened and the yogscast are all innocent. Someone update this damn article.
Posted by Jeffreyy on 25 February 12 at 5:26am

I HATE YOU NOTCH I WILL STICK WITH THOSE GUYS FOREVER , AND YES, THEY MADE MINECRAFT FAMOUS! MY WHOLE SCHOOL STARTED PLAYING BECAUSE OF YOGSCAST SO ” FUCK OFF NOTCH” YOUR’E A TOTAL DICK! (that’s my opinion!)
- Posted by Din mamma. on 01 March 12 at 11:08am
  
  Well, without him Minecraft wouldn’t have existed and without Minecraft, Yogscast wouldn’t have become famous. So.. Notch made Yogscast famous.. And for additional information: Noone cares about your opinion nimrod.
  - Posted by iCreepSsSs on 09 June 12 at 4:21pm
    
    actually, the yogscast firstly got famous from there World of warcraft how to videos
    just thought id let you know
    :)
    - Posted by Benjamin on 26 January 13 at 11:10am
      
      And without world of warcraft they still wouldn’t have become famous. These are talentless youtube hacks who use video games, created by people with talent, and talk all over them. Sure, that takes loads of skill..LOL!!
      - Posted by Mark on 26 January 13 at 2:47pm
        
        Might not take any skill whatsoever, but just look how many tried and how little succeeded on the same field.
Posted by Rob on 25 February 12 at 10:13am

Guys calm down. This is from a loooong time ago. Notch and the yogscast has since forgotten about it and Notch apologized. These were all rumors that Notch blasted the yogscast for, and when the Lewis and Simon responded to it by claiming it all false and tell their side Notch apologized.

If you want to see the yogscast side, go here. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/mnau9/yogscast_response_to_notchs_twitterings/
Posted by feeeeeeeeet on 06 April 12 at 1:17pm

This Has Been Resolved But if it was real i would stick with the yogscast because nobody knew who Mojang were untill Seananners and the yogscast started making minecraft
Posted by Mindcraftman on 13 April 12 at 7:49pm

Ok why the the hack is notch thinging!? He took off play mindcraft for free what does that make him think “Oh if i take of the website poeple will be so sad thell by the game this is going to work!” Well if thats what Notch is thinking its not working 1.What about the poeple hoo cant aford it right now and now mindcraft witch is huge you play any more guess how many poeple play play mindcraft for free? over 30% so i dont think new that.
- Posted by dagerag on 20 March 13 at 1:33pm
  
  my god man use some grammar I didn’t understand half of that and also minecraft is a highly advanced piece of programming genius and THIS POST IS LIKE 2-3 YEARS OLD !!!
Posted by MinecraftPersssson on 28 May 12 at 10:25am

You know what,Notch is right. I hate the YogsCast as much as he does. They’re idiots.
- Posted by Damien Kurushimi on 09 August 12 at 4:47pm
  
  Whining little bitch. Pipe down and watch someone else then. Nobody cares what you think, you are a sheep
Posted by KanarieWilfried on 02 July 12 at 5:05pm

Everyone has his own taste
Some like the creatures some like the yogscast
Notch clearly doesn’t like the yogscast
So why all the drama?
Don’t be silly
I even think a part of this is fake! Don’t take it too serious
Srry for my english i am dutch :D
P.S. I am a yognauth
Posted by NotchForever on 27 July 12 at 5:17am

Respect notch biotches, he is the reason why there is minecraft. It all started with him. and the yogscast was famous for making wow tutorials but got more famous when minecraft was in sight.
Posted by jondavoltra on 14 September 12 at 3:28am

ppl PLS this issue has been solved long ago notch was mis informed and aggitated healready was tired and annoyed when he wrote this ..and appoligized for it this was just a big misunderstanding between the yogscast and notch ..half of the things notch says here were told by yogscast haters …but the issue is settled and yogscast and notch made up so dun makea big deal outta somethin thats resolved

oh and tto the ppl who got this link from meganspeaks……..megan is an absolute attention girl and will bad mouth everyone she can badmouth to make sure she keeps stading in youtube …only reason she gave this links is cause the yogcast told her off..(wich she deserves) just look at her tags er etc in every vidoe …she uses all the famous tags for no reason and she just goes onabout crazy ass things hell look at her twitter page there is nothin but fights and ppl always complaining that she got “him” and “her ” etc off youtube ..why ?? cause she cant handle the fact ppl are startingto get tired of her ..so she digs up old shit like this …starts it again and hopes the yogscast will get enough hate so she can continu her meaningless lil youtube channel she doesnt care about anyone and will work ppl outa the way faster then actually lissen
Posted by lordnex on 28 October 12 at 3:43am

In someways there good in other ways there bad, there not allowing any other youtubers to get a good seris going beacuse most watch the yogscast and when ever people join a server they allways ask about yogscast, yogscast this yogscast that gets on my nerves Notch is the true reason minecraft is so popular not the dumbass yogscast.

-lordnex-
Posted by lordnex on 28 October 12 at 3:48am

EDIT:

The yogscast would not be as big as they are now if not for notch and minecraft

-debenex-
Posted by steve on 18 January 13 at 10:52am

This is very old, it was resolved soon after. i think notch heard rumours about what peva and tinman had been doing (tinman stole over £20,000 and peva threatened many members of yogscast after which he also threatened to release passwords and other personal info) both tinman and peva were fired
Posted by cooper on 06 March 13 at 7:58pm

Shut up docks. The yogscast would never do stuff like that. Especially not Simon. Sips, on the other hand…..
Posted by fUKnOTCH on 07 March 13 at 1:28pm

Ebby one in minecraft community is about “respecting and caring” bullshit, ya’ll are a bunch of dicks, Notch too. fuck you all!
Posted by Holo on 31 March 13 at 4:54pm

It love Yogscast and Minecraft/Notch this fight is so big so I’m not taking sides on this
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Posted by RADMINECRAFTER on 13 April 13 at 3:44am

Well notch doesnt do much if i had a friend who could code (Jeb) the game would be a lot better notch is probly jelious cuz what does notch do anyway he does a little bit of coding its probly stuff like hello world but jeb does all the work so jeb is actually the one to like who cares about notch hes not that important anyway people think he does all the work and jeb just does little coding if you know what codings like then you will know why im saying this, notch just said these things cuz yogscast actually means is saying if they came up with all the ideas instead of notch it will be better so its insulting notch it just makes no sense and if notch quit mojang but jeb stayed then if yogscast joined mojang the game would probly have much better updates like why is it so awesome having this new redstone update come on notch could think of something better but yogscast probly would have a better memory and be more creative so if you think this is true then say and spread the word if u like
Posted by Minecraftneedsbetterupdates on 15 April 13 at 4:22am

Yeah i have to agree with the fact how if the yogscast joined the mojang company the game would have alot better updates, well think about it, they could add drawfs and new NPCs and diffrent villages and new modes (Adventure for example but this time it’s a real adventure and not just some mode were you can’t mine) and they could have israphel as a new boss, and maybe even a mode were you can play the entire story and everything (from seasons 1-3) because if this all happend, minecraft would bloody kick ASS!, imagine going to survial island and fighting israphel and actually playing alongside the yogscast (but as NPCs) because that would just blow me away P.S If notch is reading this, you should definnitly write these ideas down on a notepad and then add them to minecraft, you’d have more fans and minecraft would be flying off the shelf (Just saying but this would be a great idea for minecraft)
Posted by Loading... on 05 May 13 at 4:31am

Not true