The Story of Minecraft’s Forgotten Author? 

Yooo cool to see my video in here! Great research, good things coming for u mate

didnt know that the "I know the player you mean" poem had so much LORE!!!

When you sent me the first 30 seconds of this video I knew it was going to be phenomenal. But I was absolutely wrong this may be the very best Minecraft video uploaded on RU-vid so far.

Bro, this man probably could’ve gotten away with suing Microsoft for the right of the poem and gotten a lot of money for it, but just decided not to and instead, just give the poem away to free for anyone who wants to use it that’s amazing

I thought this was from a channel with like 50k subs, but goddamn bro you got some great editing and video skills

Well, I knew that the conversation in the poem was between two people, but I didn't know it had this much depth. Thank You for telling us about someone important, but unknown. It does suck that everyone involved with Minecraft is being screwed over at some point, it only matters when.

This is 100% one of the best videos ive seen in a while.

How does this only have 2k views and 300 likes? Very well researched and edited video, short enough where it doesn't beat around the bush and gets straight to the point. I really hope you get the attention you deserve!

I hope this blows up!! I love the video bro, sooo good!

ive always seen the end poem as overhated but at the same time in the wrong place but i can respect it more now,,,

Yall this vid got recommended to me and it will blow up! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

This is such high quality! Great job, man! Hope this vid gets more views!!!

This video is very well made and edited! I never knew the story behind that poem and you explained it so well. Hope your channel gets recognised by the youtube algorithm because you deserve 100k subscribers.

Amazing video, this is definitely gonna blow up

People should throw at least a little something generous his way. He put the cherry on top for Minecraft's ending.

Awesome story, thanks for telling it to many, and me. I hope this video will get more views, because 1k is just unfair.

Really amazing video

this was incredibly well made.

you deserve more subs 💪

I remember that the End Poem is public property.

Honestly a lawyer would love that Microsoft bought a game with text someone else still owned. 💰

I am honestly NOT at all sympathetic to Gough... 1st of all, standard practice for any creative contribution to a collaborative project is it's work for hire, & thus owned by the business entity which commissions the work. If Gough had other expectations, he should have sorted it out ahead of time with the contract. I most certainly DO NOT buy that he didn't know about work for hire, because of just how ubiquitous a standard practice it is, in literally every creative industry. Second - categorizing himself as one of the 'original collaborators' is a bit of a damn stretch. Not to demean the value of his work... but comparing one poem to ALL the music in the game at the time? And ALL the in-game paintings (not just the ones for the End zone content, all of them... and this was well over 10 images at the time in question), and ALL the development work by Jeb is frankly asinine. Furthermore, while he contributed to the 'final' commercial release, that's a bit misleading in MC's case... the game had already been available for purchase & was a cultural phenomenon for years at that point. About the only thing I can actually fault Mojang for in this case was not getting the contract sorted out properly BEFORE he did the work for hire... and even then it was them who were insistent that he get properly paid for his contributions

Wow really cool video man , thank you for this !

Another banger from kodek

Cleannnn editing

I never even thought of who wrote the poem, and this video was awesome!

Amazing video

u asked in the 4jstudios content channel about this video :O pog this video is very well done

high quality af

Minecraft, Pokémon, and Star Wars , 😅 ALL HAVE creators that are... Human... 😅 Like they have flaws, they make mistakes when creating.❤

Oh damn, great video on this

i dont think its right to say that he never got anything out of it, esp since he was literally paid 20k as for the situation with him not being included with the money split of the small team of contributors, its probably since he was significantly less close to them as a friend and as a collaborator. i think he got a reasonable pay regardless its fine to reminisce about what could have been and be weary of unfinished business, but at some point you have to embrace the past to continue your life. which he seemed to have done by the ending of this video

5:49 6:30 The villain was Microsoft? 7:22 7:27 Woah 9:32 "And the universe loves you, because you are love"

Wow!

we are love

Underrated

W video Kodek.

1:21 minecraft xbox one edition 😢

damn i cried :( because of the end poem not you >:(

whats the song @2:42

The fun part is how he was overpaid (the rate he got from it was far more than the usual for commercial work), then the game became the biggest game ever and got mad because nothing else he writes has ever become a 1% as popular as Minecraft, which caused him to go full on petty and asking for more money even though he was given a flat rate and never signed a contract in which he would get themselves some royalties. Why didn't he do that? Easy, he thought Minecraft would stay a small indie thingy. The lesson with this man should be "Never underestimate anything in which you participate". He doesn't deserve a penny from either Notch, Microsoft, Mojang or anyone. Even if they could give them millions and still have more than enough money to burn. No one who bought the game ever bought it for the poem, 98% of people don't know that it exists in fact. Tomorrow they could even delete it from the files and still Minecraft would still be the biggest game in current gaming history. And yet the guy in every occasion he gets likes to act like he is the sole reason the game is so big. It's disgusting to see how people want to create sympathy for some delusional arrogant dude who can't sell much of his work (because he ain't good, right now there's so many great poets out there getting a lot of money because they are actually resonating with people; even people from the third world such as myself are living nicely of our work because right now there are an incredibly huge demand. If he can't sell shit, is because no one wants to read his work) yet we see him going on and on about his small contribution to something greater than whatever he will accomplish in life. It's disgusting.

20,000 for a peom is pretty fair tbh

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