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Name: Quackity SMP
Abbreviation(s): QSMP
Creator: Quackity
Date(s): 03/22/2023 - Present
Medium: Minecraft Roleplay
Country of Origin: Multiple
External Links: Official QSMP Global Account Official English Updates Account Cuenta Oficial de Actualizaciones en Español Conta Oficial de Atualizações em Português Compte Officiel des Récapitulatifs en Français 한국어 공식 업데이트 계정
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The Quackity SMP, most commonly known by its abbreviated name QSMP, and sometimes also referred to by the unofficial name Quesadilla SMP, is a multilingual roleplay web series set in a modded Minecraft SMP server of private invite-only access. Its fandom is based around the Twitch, YouTube, 아프리카TV [AfreecaTV] and 치지직 [CHZZK] livestreams and videos, from multiple perspectives, of the roleplay being acted out in-game.

The QSMP, originally created by the Mexican youtuber and streamer Quackity, but now administered directly by Quackity Studios[1], his entertainment company, was first launched with a special event on March 22, 2023.[2] It began as a mostly bilingual server, with members who spoke English or Español [Spanish] as one of their primary languages, and later, on April 24, 2023,[3] it was officially announced that the server would expand and become multilingual, welcoming on April 29 and May 12, 2023,[4] respectively, new members whose primary languages were Português [Portuguese] and Français [French]. Members whose primary languages for content creation were 한국어 [Korean] and Deutsch [German] were added, respectively, on February 11, 2024[5] and March 16, 2024.[6]

Participants and Languages

As of February 11, 2024, the project has had a total of eighty-two members, collectively speaking around fourteen languages and classified across two main categories:

Note: Members whose names are preceded by an * [asterisk] were expelled from the project.

Quesadilla Island Guests

Sinners in the Tournament Purgatory II

Linguistic Diversity

It's important to note that although these creators have been listed according to their native languages (which in most cases are also their main languages for content creation), the vast majority of them are bilingual or multilingual in various language combinations and to varying degrees of fluency.

Languages known to be spoken by at least one participant of the series include:

  • The six administrative languages of the server: English, Español [Spanish], Português [Portuguese], Français [French], 한국어 [Korean] and Deutsch [German].
  • Another five languages spoken natively by at least one member: Norsk [Norwegian], Català [Catalan], 日本語 [Japanese], Y Gymraeg [Welsh] and Lëtzebuergesch [Luxembourgish].
  • And three other languages only spoken not-natively by at least one member: 廣東話 [Cantonese], 台山话 [Toishanese] and Pусский [Russian].

It's also important to note that, even between those that share a single native language, there's great accent and dialect diversity among creators (for example, varieties of Spanish spoken by participants of the project include dialects from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, in adition to several forms of Spanish as a second language).

The Qlobal Translator

The Qlobal Translator is an original Minecraft mod, created for the series with the intention of helping to break down the linguistic barriers present on the server due to the QSMP's roleplay being acted out simultaneously in several languages. Its introduction was first announced on April 3, 2023,[4] and it would take a couple of days before the full implementation of the new mechanic was achieved.

The Qlobal Translator is being used in the server to aid in communication between characters and also to facilitate viewer understanding, by providing players (and audiences) with real-time translations from a large variety of spoken languages, in the form of subtitles visible in-game, either as speech bubbles or in transcription boxes or both. The mod is fairly flexible to accommodate for the server's multilingualism, allowing, for example, for the player to set up different language arrangements for the speech bubbles they see and the ones they generate, or for the player to set up several transcription boxes, each each in a different language, to allow for simultaneous multilingual translation.

QSMP.TV

The web page qsmp.tv was created as part of the larger project to help break down the linguistic barriers in the QSMP, in particular, it's purpose is to allow for the audiences of the series to watch the live-streams of the participants in a language they understand regardless of the language spoken by the creators on-screen, by providing real-time subtitles in the language of the viewer. This translation tool has yet to finish development, but it is available to use in beta testing.

Canon

The roleplay of the QSMP is almost entirely improvised, however, there are certain roles played by the administration team with semi-scripted parts during the special lore events and during cinematics.

Plot Overview and Lore Events

A brief summary of the QSMP's initial premise:

Two passenger trains transporting mixed groups of amnesiac Hispanic and Anglophone strangers arrive to the hyper-isolated Isla Quesadilla [EN: Quesadilla Island, PT: Ilha Quesadilla, FR: Île Quesadilla, KO: 케사디야 섬, DE: Quesadilla-Insel], a non-sovereign insular territory of mostly tropical climate located on the South Pacific Ocean, divided by The Wall, an artificial border, and advertised as a paradisiac tourist resort, where they are later joined by groups of Lusophones, Francophones, Korean-speakers and German-speakers, and from where they are told by The Federation (the governing body of the island), they are forbidden to leave. These groups of people must now work together across culture and language barriers to survive, to uncover the secrets kept by The Federation, to recover their own pasts, and to achieve an escape from the island.

Purgatory Tournament

The QSMP Purgatory Worldwide Tournament was a special event organized as a spin-off storyline concurrent and connected to the main narrative of the QSMP, featuring forty-five "sinner" characters, six of them played by guests of Quesadilla Island and the other thirty-nine by new players, first divided into teams, later on competing solo, taking part in an extreme competition for survival with a points-based elimination system, live-narrated as if it was a sports tournament by Quackity, that would last five days and comprise four main events. The event was organized by The Watcher, a strange entity of unknown origin and malicious intent, and takes place at the Egg Island [ES: Isla del Huevo, PT: Ilha do Ovo, FR: Île aux œufs, KO: 달걀섬, DE: Eierinsel] archipelago.

The winner of this second edition of the Purgatory Event was Aldo Geo.[7]

Cultural Celebrations and Non-Canon Events

The Cultural Celebrations in the QSMP are events organized by the server's administration team as a way to honour the cultural diversity of the series' content creators and audience, and of the server's administration team itself. Most of them are mini-events where the members of the server get to replicate cultural practices associated with the corresponding festivity in-game. During these events the members and the audience get to learn about each other's cultures, they get to share and show off their traditions, to honour, and to feel pride in, and to give acknowledgement to the diversity of their identities. It also servers to ground and re-affirm the belonging of the characters to concrete cultural communities.

A non-comprehensive list of Cultural Celebrations on the QSMP:

  • Festa Junina: A Brazilian celebrations of the Northern Hemisphere's Summer Solstice and the nativity of São João Batista.
  • 4th of July: Celebration of the Independence Day for the United States.
  • Le 14 Juillet: Bastille Day, the national day of France.
  • Independencia de México: Commemorates the Cry of Dolores that started the Mexican War for Independence.
  • Halloween Night: Syncretic celebration of Celtic origin. Nowadays celebrated in the US and Canada as a secular festivity associated with the supernatural or scary.
  • Día de los Muertos: Syncretic celebration of Indigenous origins. Celebrated in Mexico as a way to honor and remember those who have died.
  • Guy Fawkes Night: British festivity commemorating the failed attempt of the Catholic Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the British Parliament in London in protest against religious discrimination.
  • Merry Christmas: Traditionally the Christian celebration of the Nativity of Jesus of Nazareth, also celebrated as a secular holiday to honor familial love.
  • Three Kings Day: Celebration of the Christian feast of the Epiphany, it is particularly popular in Spain and France, and functions as the primary gift-receiving holiday for Christian children across Latin America.
  • Carnaval: A festival celebrated most prominently in Brazil but also across the historically-Catholic regions of southern Europe, and across Latin America and the Caribbean. It takes place the week before the start of Lent.
  • Lunar New Year: Celebration of the New Year of the lunar calendars traditionally followed by East Asian cultures and their diasporas. It's celebration coincided with the introduction to the project of 악어 [Acau] and the egg 춘식 [Chun-Sik][8]; the series' first primarily Korean-speaking characters.
  • Valentine's Day: Feast of Saint Valentine, nowadays observed across the world as a secular holiday celebrating romantic love and close friendships.

A list of other events, all of them non-canon:

  • The Hide and Seek Event.
  • Movie Night (I, II, and Valentine's Day Edition).
  • QSMP Among Us.

Egg Characters and NPC's

A non-comprehensive list of the Eggs and other NPC's played by the QSMP's administration team with significant contributions to the QSMP's narrative:

Representation and Diversity in Canon

Given the metacontext of the project and its stated aim to help unite communities across cultural and linguistic barriers, the QSMP has been subject to a lot of scrutiny, praise and criticism from the fandom regarding the representation of human diversity it presents through its canon narrative, its administration, and its cast of participants and their characters.

Note: Some of the words used to describe race in the following sub-sections in which race and ethnicity are discussed are language-specific (as in, besides serving as a descriptor of race, they also codify information about linguistic heritage), and may be considered inaccurate or offensive if applied to someone of a different linguistic background (in particular the words Mestizo and Castizo are used to describe some Hispanics and the words Pardo and Mulato are used to describe some Lusophones).

  • Sex and Gender: Since its beginning the series has been criticized for the enormous disparity between the number of men and the numbers of women and non-binary persons among its members. The gender imbalance used to be greater during the first few months after the server opened. It would take a while (until August, 2023)[9] for the server to start introducing significant numbers of female members. (Section in progress)
  • Sexuality: TBA
  • Race and Ethnicity: The cast of the series represents a very diverse set of ethnic and racial identities. Criticism has arisen from the lack of Black and fully Indigenous members among the Quesadilla Island Guest, who function as the main cast of the series. Ethno-racial groups represented among the Quesadilla Island Guest include: Among the Sinners of Purgatory II there's also (Section in progress)
  • Mixed and Minority Cultures and Diasporas: A lot of characters are either implicitly or explicitly of mixed racial and cultural heritages, belong to ethnic and racial minorities in their home nations or are immigrants or descendants of immigrants and thus part of the diasporas of their ethnic groups. No one linguistic group in the series is completely homogenous across these characteristics, although some do present greater variation than others: With the only exception of 춘식 [Chun-Sik], all other egg characters are of mixed cultural heritage, since their parents are part of different ethnic groups. (Section in progress) A post from Tumblr where a member of a diaspora describes their feelings on the topic:
    It means a lot to me that Acau and Jungryeok were so supportive of Tina whenever she tried speaking Korean. Being a diaspora is hard, especially when you're still learning your family's language cause they didn't teach you it growing up; its nice seeing them encourage her and wanting to help her get better at it. If you're in the same boat, don't be ashamed of it, multi-ethnicity is its own unique blend of cultures and its wonderful, and if learning your family's language is something you've been wanting to do just go for it! Don't be afraid of the hurdles, go at your own pace and remember that you're no less your culture because you were raised somewhere else. Sincerely, someone who is very behind on their portuguese studies😁

    Bloodpen-to-Paper, February 21, 2024 [10]

  • Nationality and Geography: So far the server has welcomed players from four continents, sixteen countries and one non-sovereign territory: from the Americas the server has welcomed Argentinian, Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean, Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, US-American and Uruguayan participants, from Europe it has received players from France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, and from Asia there's been members from Japan and South Korea. In part inspired by this already very diverse set of players, there's been a persistent desire for expanding the number of Asian languages and participants represented in the project and for the introduction of languages and players from Africa.
  • Medical Conditions, Neurodivergence and Disability: Several character are shown to have canonical disabilities, in particular: Fit, Pac and Richarlyson all have prosthetic limbs (Fit's arm and Pac's leg due to limb loss, Richarlyson's leg due to a congenital condition), Talullah is Hard of Hearing (and uses hearing aids), Dapper and Wilbur are canonically Autistic, drug addiction was briefly touched upon in the narrative, and several characters seem to struggle with some form of undiagnosed mental illness. Regarding other medical conditions: several eggs are said to have asthma as a way to explain in-character the effects of lag.
  • Religion: Real-life religion has been very rarely discussed with seriousness in canon, but due to the characters' celebrations of specific cultural festivities with religious origins it can be inferred that most characters are either Christians or irreligious but familiar with Christianity. Given the demographic make up of the nations and ethnic communities the members come from it can be guesses that regarding specific denominations Roman Catholicism should be most familiar to those from Latin America and mainland Europe and Protestantism to those from the US and the British Isles. It can also be safely assumed that the Korean, Franco-Algerian and Latin American participants probably have some familiarity with other religions common in their communities (Buddhism, Korean folk religion, Islam and syncretic Latin American religions like Santería or Umbanda, respectively), but these influences are less notorious in the series. Fictional religious practices are much more openly discussed.
  • Family Units: Among the characters of the series it is common to see historically underrepresented family configurations, in particular: homoparental families, monoparental families, co-parenting shared by platonic partners, co-parenting shared by a large group of parental figures and multigenerational households. Also, found family and adoption are major tropes of the series. Most adoptions are due to the Eggs' mechanics, but there's also a case of adult adoption.

Fandom

The QSMP has gained a very active and rapidly growing fanbase on multiple platforms, first on the streaming and video hosting platforms Twitch and YouTube, but then also on Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok, AO3, Bilibili [嗶哩嗶哩], 아프리카TV [AfreecaTV] and 치지직 [CHZZK].

At the beginning of the server, it benefited greatly from the already pre-existing fanbases of the Dream SMP and Karmaland, two previously very popular Minecraft series across the English-speaking and Spanish-speaking MCYT communities respectively, in which some of the initial QSMP members had previously participated, gaining a large expectant audience that allowed the server to become an instant success since the start.

Language Distribution

The QSMP fanbase is currently distributed across six main language communities (namely, the Anglophone, Hispanic, Lusophone, Francophone, Korean-speaking and German-speaking communities), but as time goes on, the fandom has been experiencing the gradual integration of these distinct communities into a very diverse but unified fandom continuum. The largest linguistic group within the fandom by size seems to be the Lusophone community, followed by the almost equal in size Hispanic and Anglophone communities, then the Francophone and Korean-speaking communities and then the German-speaking community is the smallest.

It's also important to note that within the fandom there's significant numbers of speakers of many other languages, most of whom understand at least one of the six administrative languages of the server (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean and German) as a second language.

The QSMP Effect

O Efeito QSMP [EN: the QSMP Effect, ES: el Efecto QSMP, FR: l'Effet QSMP, KO: QSMP 효과, DE: der QSMP-Effekt], is how the community has come to call "The impact this project is having on the process of breaking down language and cultural barriers, both on the part of the players and [in] the community itself."[11], and in particular how the virtual connections among creators and communities of different languages made though the server have resulted in cooperation and mingling across communities, sometimes even in unrelated projects.

Examples of this effect include:

  • Significant numbers of fans from one language community following and engaging with creators, fans and projects from another language community, learning about and adapting to that community, mixing traditions and ideas, and integrating both fandom spaces, becoming part of both communities, and fans from that other community doing the same.
  • Fans and creators of different languages learning each other's languages with the incentive of understanding each other better, and their eventual ability to access new social spaces that had been previously closed due to the language barriers, both on and off-line.
  • The popularisation of memes, jokes, music and slang words across languages, for example, the English-speaking community within the QSMP fandom has adopted the use of the Spanish slang-term 'Cubito', the Portuguese expression of laughter 'KKKK', the French word 'foque' as an euphemism, or the convention of writing Korean names in their original unromanized form, alongside their own terms, expressions, euphemisms, and conventions, some of which have, in turn, been adopted by the non-English-speaking communities of the fandom.
  • The collaborative efforts of the community to translate and explain cultural context for the conversations, events and jokes happening on the server.
  • Collective projects, like the murals made by the community during the 2023 Reddit r/place Pixel Wars, when several monumental drawings were created and maintained by the combined efforts of the distinct language communities working together to protect each other's art, even if it was art not directly related to the QSMP. This event also showed how the multilingualism and diversity of the fandom can be tools that allow it to make alliances with many more external communities that any of the language communities would have been able to in isolation.
  • New, unrelated cross-language collaborations outside of Minecraft, among the QSMP members, between QSMP creators and creators not involved in the project that they have met thanks to the now significant overlapping of their communities, and among members of the fandom.

Fan Activity

The fandom was canonized on Archive of Our Own in April 17th, 2023, having 192 works at the time. As of February 17th, 2024, the fandom QSMP | Quackity SMP has over 8,140 works in the archive. The majority of the fanfiction for the QSMP in AO3 has English as its tagged language, with smaller but significant numbers of works for Portuguese and Spanish, a small number of works for French, and some works in other languages as well. Due to the multilingualism of its fanbase, a significant number of works have been translated into two or more languages. It's also common for works to be tagged as being written in a single language but to contain versions of the work in two or more languages. It's common practice across the fandom to include pieces of untranslated dialogue in several languages in written fanfiction (even when the author is monolingual), this due to the expectation of a multilingual audience, to maintain characterization and to remain loyal to the spirit of the series.

A significant number of fanfiction works for the QSMP fandom can also be found in Wattpad, where the tag QSMP has over 840 works, most of them in English or Spanish.

RPF is rarely seen in the QSMP fandom, due to it being established from the start as a roleplay server. While some fans do use q! to distinguish characters from their actors (and other characters they play), it is not nearly as widespread as the use of c! or equivalents in other fandoms, likely as a result of the lack of interest in RPF works.

QSMP visual fanart is most commonly found in Twitter, although there's also pieces on Tumblr and DeviantART.

Fan animation, animatics and edits are common in YouTube and TikTok, while most meta commentary on the server can be found on Tumblr, Twitter or YouTube.

In-Game Fanwork Displays

The server's mods make it possible for the in-game inclusion of multimedia content originated outside of the game. The QSMP has utilized this feature in several ways, the most notable ones being the Art Museum and the Movie Theater mechanics, two in-game spaces that function as 'non-canon areas', to allow for the QSMP administration team to organize the temporal exhibition and display of selected fanart, fan animatics, animations, edits or music videos, and for the QSMP members to see their community's fanworks and share their reactions to them with their audiences without disrupting the continuity of the roleplay.

The server has organized via its Twitter updates accounts several special fanart exhibitions, usually in continuity with the Art Museum mechanic. These exhibitions have been put in place usually as part of the efforts of the QSMP to acknowledge, share, commemorate and celebrate holidays, festivities and other dates with cultural significance for its members. Some examples of these special art displays are the #QSMPHalloween and the QSMP Día de Muertos Exhibit.

The QSMP members are also known to use the Camera and Waterframe mechanics to integrate in the game, without breaking the continuity of the fictional narrative, fanart and other forms of outside media as decoration, acting props or entertainment.

Representation and Diversity in Fanworks

Some notes on some common ways in which the fandom has taken to represent and expand the diversity present in canon when creating fanworks.

  • Sex and Gender: To Be Added
  • Sexuality: TBA
  • Race and Ethnicity: TBA
  • Mixed and Minority Cultures and Diasporas: TBA
  • Nationality and Geography: TBA
  • Language: TBA
  • Medical Conditions, Neurodivergence and Disability: TBA
  • Religion: TBA
  • Family Units: TBA

Common Fan Headcanons and Theories

A popular fan theory / AU is Project Blue Bird, which focuses on the idea of Jaiden being an experiment of The Federation.

Shipping and Non-Romantic Pairings

Main article: List of QSMP Relationship Names

Shipping is not seen as a taboo topic in the fandom for the QSMP as much as it is in some other MCYT fandoms, as it was established as a roleplay server from the beginning, and the non-English-speaking MCYT communities tend to be much more lax on shipping than their English-speaking counterparts. While there is still some controversy, particularly on Twitter, due to people still viewing the shipping of Minecraft roleplay characters as analogous to the shipping of real-life creators, the controversy is much less prevalent due to encouragement of shipping by creators and the fact that all members of the server have been adults from the start of the project.

Shipping is omnipresent both in the fandom and canon itself, with so many relationships being teased between the main cast at the beginning of the server that it was often jokingly compared to an oversized polycule (the exception to the extensive shipping being the character played by Jaiden Animations, who has been assumed to be aromantic and asexual as is the content creator IRL). Pairings are predominantly slash due to the overwhelmingly male cast, and the most popular ship in the fandom is the canonical homoromantic relationship between the characters Cellbit and Roier, but there's also a very big presence of familial relationships and friendship dynamics, and smaller numbers of femslash, heterosexual and queer-platonic pairings.

Most pairing on the fandom have proper names that can be found in the List of QSMP Relationship Names. It's worth mentioning than in this fandom many relationship names may at the same time refer to both the romantic and non-romantic versions of the pairings among the same characters, and that there's less differentiation between both kinds of relationship than in other MCYT fandoms.

The number and prevalence of canonically queer relationships and characters with canonically queer identities, and the constant jokes made by the content creators and the fandom at large have popularized the humorous server nicknames 'LGBTQSMP' and 'Queer SMP'.

As of February 17th, 2024, the most popular relationship tags for the QSMP on AO3 are, in order:

For romantic pairings:

  1. Cellbit/Roier (1,374 works)
  2. Foolish/Vegetta (622 works)
  3. Quackity/Wilbur Soot (593 works)
  4. ElMariana/Slimecicle (579)
  5. FitMC/Pactw (521 works)

And for non-romantic pairings:

  1. Wilbur Soot & Tallulah (633 works)
  2. Jaiden Animations & Roier (291 works)
  3. Cellbit & Roier (281 works)
  4. Chayanne & Philza (276 works)
  5. Quackity & Wilbur Soot (263 works)

United SMP Drama

An early scuffle in the QSMP fandom arose when content creator Dream announced he would be making his own multilingual server, known as United SMP. Concerns were raised due to him not having chosen creators for the server yet, as well as the sheer number of languages he wanted to include despite the server aiming to rely on automatic translation. Additionally, some users accused Dream of trying to copy QSMP as an attempt to remain relevant among the allegations circulating about him. This caused a bit of a rift between Dream fans and QSMP fans, with some users on Twitter adding one of the two servers to their display name as a show of support. Some other fans would say that the fighting was silly and would put both in their display name, though these fans were largely drowned out by the two groups in conflict.

Some comments on the situation from both groups of fans, from Tumblr:

announcing united smp so close to qsmp’s start is in incredibly poor taste regardless, without even an acknowledgement of qsmp in the official announcement tweet, especially since dream and quackity are supposed to be friends. if he’d bothered at all to hire a PR team, it could have been done much more tactfully, but as usual, dream has opted to wing it, leading to just being a shitty person (see also: his tantrums during mcc, his inability to ignore cheating accusations).

Rooksilver, April 3, 2023 [12]

Tbh I'm 99% sure this was preplanned between Dream and Quackity, including some fake copying drama because both of them would enjoy that bit. Mostly because remember that Dream was originally going to post his video April 1st? And then the QSMP announcement twitter accidentally posted an event advertisement (for this) a day early? But took it down, and posted it a day later, after Dream's video had been released.

The-Final-Sif, April 3, 2023 [13]

Dream’s server takes lazy routes to language barriers- a cheap, google-translate inspired translator as the soul basis for conversations between members. There is none of the human connection from Quackity’s server- none of the passion. No effort will be taken to learning, or teaching other languages.

Backinthe90sfromAO3, April 4, 2023 [14]

only the lowest of the low would find a way to make two servers trying to bridge a gap between communities and give exposure to a diverse group of creators a bad thing or a competition


please, get a grip

Insyncbb, April 2, 2023 [15]

QSMP for Palestine

Main article: QSMP for Palestine

QSMP for Palestine was a fan-organized charity auction for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund started in 2023[16].

Criticism over the Dominance of the English Language

A common criticism raised about the series is about the use of English as the de facto lingua franca among the participants when communication through the Qlobal Translator is either unavailable or inconvenient due to the tool's limitations. This situations can appear either because of the number of people speaking (the subtitles will break the chronology of the transcription if many people talk over each other), the number of languages being spoken (frequent code-switching can be a bit overwhelming, specially if the translator fails to keep up with the conversation), the urgency, specificity or importance of the message (if something needs to be understood quickly and without room for ambiguity, saying it in a shared language is more effective than relying in the translator), or because of the limitations of the tool (limited screen space to display the transcription, the translator not being able to recognize or trying to translate personal names, the lack of standardization in how to romanize some words from languages that do not use the Latin script, some language combinations producing more exact translations than others, etc).

It's also common to see non-native English-speaking members of the fandom express being uncomfortable to some degree with the reproduction of real-world linguistic hierarchies in that, while most participants that are non-native English-speakers learned and speak English due to its status as the dominant second language across the world, most native English-speakers are monolinguals, and even when most have made efforts to learn new languages, to have a conversation without the translator it's still common for the non-native English-Speakers to try and accommodate for their Anglophone friends by switching to speaking English, taking on most of the burden to achieve communication.

There's also criticism over the linguistic make up of the series in general, since most of the administrative languages in the server are written with the Latin script, originated in Europe and became commonly spoken languages outside of Europe mainly through imperialism and colonialism.

A post talking about this topic in Tumblr:

But I mean it does feel like maybe someone should point out how all the languages (except now Korean) on the server are the languages of colonial empires

Not in a condemning way, just as an acknowledgement

I mean the thing is that in order to add a language on QSMP, you have to add Minecraft streamers who stream in that language

And for some languages there just aren't any

Or they're so small that nobody knows about them

And lbr, they probably want people who have actual viewers

So yeah of course the languages that have big streamers are the big languages, and usually the big languages are big because of colonialism or imperialism

It's all understandable, but it does reinforce the idea that internationalism is when you have multiple European languages plus maybe a couple of the big East Asian ones just so the eurocentrism isn't quite do blatant

idk, I hope y'all get where I'm coming from, because I do understand that this isn't the intent by any means, I just also don't wanna just ignore it

Blockgamepirate, March 5, 2024 [17]

Criticism over the Handling of Time Zone Differences

TBA

Scandals Involving Participants of the QSMP

Scandal of Mistreatment of the QSMP's Administrators

TBA

Notable Culturally Insensitive Incidents

  • Display of Fanart using a Slur Incident: TBA
  • Racist Mobs Incident: TBA
  • Mocking of East Asian Bowing Customs Incident: TBA

Racism, Xenophobia and Other Bigotries in the Fandom

TBA

Fanworks

Note: The upper case letters listed in brackets "[ ]" are the ISO 639 language codes for the languages in which the fanwork is most accesible, either because it is the original language of the music and dialogue or because the fanwork is fully subtitled or translated into that language, however, fanworks in audio, visual or multimedia formats can of course be enjoyed because of their aesthetic elements independently of language. Fanworks that can be fully understood regardless of language and fanworks that cannot be understood in their entirety in any one single language are marked "[Multi]" as abbreviation for "Multi-Language Accesible".

For reference: List of ISO 639 language codes in Wikipedia.

Animation Videos

Cosplay

Digital Edits

Fan Music and Remixes

Meta Essays

Subtitles, Transcriptions and Translations

Visual Fanart

Written Fanfiction

External Links

References

  1. ^ An Important QSMP Announcement From Quackity, YouTube. April 10, 2024. (Accessed 04/13/2024)
  2. ^ QSMP Wiki: Early Events, Fandom. (Accessed 11/10/2023)
  3. ^ QSMP NOW WELCOMING CREATORS WORLDWIDE, Twitter. April 24, 2023. (Accessed 04/25/23)
  4. ^ a b QSMP Wiki: QSMP, Announcements, Fandom. (Accessed 10/15/2023)
  5. ^ QSMP Wiki: Welcome 악어!, Fandom. (Accessed 02/17/2024)
  6. ^ QSMP Wiki: Welcome LetsHugo!, Fandom. (Accessed 03/16/2024)
  7. ^ QSMP Wiki: Purgatory 2, Fandom. (Accessed 03/16/2024)
  8. ^ QSMP Wiki: 춘식/Lore: Day 324 - The First Day, Fandom. (Accessed 04/13/2024)
  9. ^ QSMP Wiki: Rescue Mission, Fandom. (Accessed 03/17/2024)
  10. ^ [1], Tumblr. February 21, 2024 (Accessed 02/04/2024)
  11. ^ O EFEITO QSMP, YouTube. August 29, 2023. (Accessed 08/17/2023)
  12. ^ probably gonna delete this later but holy shit, Tumblr. April 3, 2023 (Accessed 04/22/2023)
  13. ^ Tbh I'm 99% sure this was preplanned between Dream and Quackity, Tumblr. April 3, 2023 (Accessed 04/22/2023)
  14. ^ usmp rant, Tumblr. April 4, 2023 (Accessed 04/22/2023)
  15. ^ only the lowest of the low would find a way, Tumblr. April 2, 2023 (Accessed 04/22/2023)
  16. ^ Hosting #QSMPFORPALESTINE Twitter. October 30, 2023. (Accessed 11/09/2023)
  17. ^ [2], Tumblr. March 5, 2024 (Accessed 30/03/2024)
MCYT
Subfandoms Dream SMP • QSMP • Hermitcraft • Life SMP Series • MC Championship • SMPLive • SMPEarth • Lifesteal SMP • Empires SMP • The Yogscast • Artist SMP
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