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"It's for the kids!" Online interactions are not rated by the ESRB. Parents should be monitoring their kids, not mojang.

You forgot to mention why Minecraft doesn't need this kind of system. It's because Minecraft multiplayer is a decentralized network of servers. Each server has its own rules and administrators. Minecraft doesn't need a centralized moderation. Minecraft needs better moderation tools for server owners and administrators.

Mojang: *is incapable of investigating servers that break the eula* Also mojang: *is incapable of moderating their in game store* Also mojang: "we'll personally investigate every single report and won't make false calls, believe us"

The part that angers me the most is the fact that for weeks they had the utter gall to say "we value your feedback" while subsequently ignoring the overwhelming flood of negative feedback going as far in some cases as to openly mock people about their negativity and down-voting the chat reporting posts 'into oblivion'. If they were at least honest about their intentions it would be a slightly different story. Instead we were lied to about any sort of 'value' they see in the community and near the end told to suck it up. Then when the exploits came out they ran damage control on twitter saying they fixed all the issues. Given the state of the G named mod set by Gild and Ada, there is clearly a lot left to be desired. But we're supposed to just ignore that I guess. The cherry on top. leaks then came out showing that community personalities were basically on payroll to downplay the whole ordeal. Absolutely ludicrous.

"I'm going to burn down your house!" What they meant: The house the player built in Minecraft. How Mojang can interpret this: A real life terrorism threat. I think we all see the problem.

Make no mistake, this update was not controversial. It was UNIVERSALLY HATED

When I was 18(over 30 now) I was let onto a server that was intended for 18+, it wasn't a hard rule, they were just weeding out anyone who might be to young for foul language and drug or political discussion, the server was very wholesome people got along great, even when they didn't like each other. The forum we ran out of, one day interjected it's unwarranted 3rd party moderation, which started a domino effect that killed our community. I never found anywhere I fit in like I did there. RIP Duncan Trussel Family Hour Minecraft server

My personal concern with it from the start is third party reports. Say you prank your friend and they jokingly insult you, however, someone else on the server sees their insult and decides to report it, despite it having no affect on them. An example outside the game of this would be two friends bantering and a third child thinking they are bullying one another and reporting it to the teacher. The difference between this happening outside vs in-game is that if a teacher was to act upon the report, they would speak with the friends, gathering context of the situation, recognise that this report has been a mistake (or potentially an intentional attack on someone by reporting them) and neither of the friends would be punished. However, Mojang take the report at it's face value, the context that "person A was insulting person B", without talking to person A and person B to understand this isn't the case. Mojang are then punishing people for "harassment or bullying" because they don't have the context that this is bantering between friends (potentially following a prank), or that the third party not involved in the conversation reported them with the malicious intent to punish "person A was insulting me." despite having no actual involvement in the conversation outside witnessing it.

Reporting schlatt's bacon question for "psychological warfare" got me good.

my main issue with this is that with most other games, the servers are hosted by the parent company, and therefore they have the right to regulate all the chat messages and whatever else on it. All Minecraft servers are hosted (or at least paid for) by members of the community and are not run by mojang. So it doesn't make any sense for mojang to have control over a server that isn't theirs to control. it should be up to the server owners what do with chat messages (and also their responsibility to deal with bad actors in those servers)

The worst part is that any kind of outcry they get from adding this feature will be ignored until it stops being talked about. This same problem has happened before. Resistance stops because it's not doing anything, not because we're suddenly ok with it or have "gotten used to change".

This is a slap in the face to all servers with moderators and the community in general. Especially since it’s so horribly insecure. Literally all they had to do was implement this system only on official Mojang sanctioned servers/realms, etc

I really think what mojang is attempting to do is a "one size fits all" and didn't think into the grey areas. They're really only seeing in black and white, and it's very invasive.

The biggest problems i have with the system, is that it bans you from ALL multiplayer content, even on private servers.

The reason why they don't add a reason you are banned is so you can't dispute it in court. It's still scummy and they should definitely be held accountable for it.

as a linux user i miss the days of notch talking about open sourcing minecraft. a vid on the quasi-openess of the minecraft code which allowed modding to flourish would be interesting

With Minecraft Java being such a community driven game, i am shocked by the fact of how much Mojang didnt listen to what is quiet possibly the biggest uproar since the combat update.

I feel like if a server is in Whitelist mode, the chat reporting should be automatically disabled. Whitelisting should already take people's behavior into account, or at the very least, the server admins have accepted the responsibility themselves.

My main issue is this: So, Mojang has seen that their report system is failing due to mods, and then they say that mods are going to be replaced with the marketplace, just like in bedrock and come up with some lousy exuse of why they did it, eg. mods take to much time to make

Keep an eye out for future Minecraft updates, which remove the "enforce-secure-profile" tag (treating it as always true) and new Mojang policies which allow reporting and enforcement even on unverifiable messages.

It's about time. This system has so many flaws that have been ignored time and time again. You are a hero to the community.

I think that another reason this had so much backslash was because of what the Wild Update was, being a flop and how they didn't add promised features and then they added the chat reporting. Bad timing

I wish the Guardian exploit was called Gatekeep that way we could have a full set of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.

Even if this system was entirely safe from any exploit ever, it’d still be unforgivable to be subjected to it. What happens when mojang and a significant portion of the community disagree about whether something should be ban worthy, or when the community itself is divided in opinions over what should and shouldn’t be allowed? Inevitably, conflict happens. There’s a reason the java multiplayer scene has been so decentralized all this time. Forcing moderation to become so is the antithesis of how the community operates. As long as this system remains as is, minecraft simply will not be in good shape. If mojang insists on keeping this abomination and wants the community to not be up in arms, then at a bare minimum: Servers must have an option to disable the whole thing without the use of mods, Players must have the game inform them of whether or not a server has reports enabled before joining, and If a player owns thier own server, they must be allowed to bypass global bans to join it. But after how badly mojang has run things since 1.9, I’m not getting my hopes up. Hytale can’t come soon enough…

They simply NEED to tell people when they ban them WHY they banned them. You paid for the product you need to be told how you broke the TOS. This is a recurring problem in ALL live services. There needs to be more legislation demanding companies give this information to the affected parties.

My perspective on this is that parents expecting the internet to keep their child safe and blaming the corporations for the user’s behavior is making it go to dudu.

The most hurtful part of this video is that mojang will probably never watch it or react to it in any way...

Every server has their own rules in accordance with the EULA. Don't comply with those rules? You get banned. This system has worked since SMP became available during Alpha in 2010. We never asked for nor needed this easily exploitable global reporting system. It is completely baffling why Mojang is doing this. They even doubled down by deleting complaints on their official feedback page and ignoring reddit discussions. They worked hard to gain back the community's trust with 1.13 and onwards, and they just threw it away.

The community is what made this game rise, they will sure as hell bring it down. And that’s a promise

the way ant repeatedly said the word "fun" at the end is the most absolutely passive aggressive i have ever seen someone get

Only thing is I think most of us demanding it be removed just feel that this is a breach of our privacy, especially since they turned the snooper back on permanently. And that the response we’ve been getting has been that they aren’t hearing us and that they still believe that this is a game for only children. Many adults play this game and the proof is the multitude of servers that have their own moderator teams and rules proving that we can moderate them on our own just fine, and it just feels disrespectful to not make an effort to acknowledge them. Even if this gets shoved down our throats moderator teams should have chat reports from their server come to them first to deal with these events according to the rules of the server and with serious cases being forwarded to Mojang for record and for heavier punishments.

I loved this video. Especially all the little details. The reference to Schlatt's iconic "Unlimited bacon, but no games, or games, unlimited games, but no games" and LEMMiNO's music at the end. They really just gave the video a nice feel, especially the music you chose. Great video as always, Ant!

Mojang as of late has had a huge communication problem. Historically it's been hard to provide feedback outside of Twitter and Reddit, but even now that they have dedicated channels available for feedback it becomes radio silence. They go back on their promises and erase evidence, they say things that the community knows isn't true, they hide features from the average user... This whole chat reporting situation and how they handled it is the culmination of all of these issues. I don't think Microsoft is entirely to blame considering that multiple Mojang devs have outright stated that they wanted to do this and it was without pressure from higher up. It's just weird and a shame that a game that prides itself on its cultural influence and community is starting to put up a front.

Sometime after this controversial update, Mojang on the Minecraft subreddit doubled down and said they wouldn't remove the chat report system. The downvotes that statement got at the time were crazy, I haven't seen something like it since the legendary "Sense of pride and accomplishment" comment in Battlefront 2's Subreddit in 2017...

The reason this feels all so weird on Java Edition is considering that a majority of these servers are privately run and owned, as opposed to say Twitter where you are simply commenting under an account running on their platform/their servers. Its weird that I can be banned on my own server by some random who joined because of "harassment" (extremely vague and subjective). Additionally, its annoying that certain topics like alcohol/drugs and "intimate imagery" are banned even if the server is advertised as 18+. Also drawing the line between "hate speech" and politics I guarantee you will be problematic.

Switch all servers to “offline” and implement a login system like other servers have. Could spice it up with 2FA by default to the registered email so insecure “password” passwords won’t cause account theft.

Microsoft using the "it's for the children" card. I don't think a trillion dollar company is suppose to look after someone's kid.

What puts the nail in the coffin for me is lifetime bans. I hate every single aspect of this system, but the thought of losing multiplayer on my account _forever_ is something else entirely. I'd at least barely tolerate this system if bans were limited to 30 days *whatever* the situation may be, and that's still pushing it.

I'm 25, I've used the internet for years, and I play on a private server with a few close friends. Even on that private server, I know there's a chance I'll see something offensive. I'm an adult, I understand what I'm potentially getting myself into every time I connect. I don't need big brother Mojang protecting me.

I hate that you have to use mods to play minecraft without the fear of being banned for nothing. Mojang essentially killed vanilla for good.

I have a plugin installed on my server that breaks chat reporting. Its my responsibility as server owner to protect my players accounts, even if it's protecting them from mojang itself. Mojang lying about gaslight "not working" are a big part of why I have 0 trust in them or any of the devs anymore.

The issue with Microsoft's "Minecraft Investigators" team is that a profit-motivated company will never spend more than the bare minimum on tech support systems like this. It's obvious that MC Investigators will be an underpaid and understaffed team, likely contractors, who won't have the resources to accomplish anything of value even in the cases where they could do something good. Like most call-center style teams, they'll probably be paid/rated by how many reports they process, which incentivises quick reviews and swift judgements. They will not look deeply into matters, they will not spend lots of time deliberating over the context of any given situation. They'll look at the chat logs for 30 seconds and press a button. And that's just the humans. As we've seen with social media reporting systems, most reports are handled exclusively by AI, which are notoriously terrible at understanding context. People's accounts will be at the mercy of an unfeeling, unthinking algorithm. An algorithm that will take everything literally, obey the letter of the law rather than the spirit, and will never consider appeals.

I feel like people are going to have to start adding "in minecraft" to their toothless threats.. in minecraft

Ultimately I have seen this whole debacle as a failure in public relations. Mojang has put out statements that indirectly show they don't trust the communities ability to decide if chat reporting is a good thing. They made the statement of (taken from xisumavoids video): "Related, I wanted to bring up the topic of opting-in: I agree that in an ideal world we would've introduced this feature publicly as an opt-in initially before full implementation, but it was always going to something to be implemented on all servers in order for it to be effective. Unfortunately we're not going to go the initial opt-in route this time around, but that's because the team is confident that once we get it out there, people will see that it's not going to be disruptive like they're concerned about." It shows that they not only are considering it as of now, but they consider public opinion on the matter not to be worth openly addressing as far as I see it. Instead of addressing the points made by the public and having polite official discourse, a majority of the reasons for wanting to be able to opt-in are swept under the statement "it's good for you, you just don't realize it yet". Now, I think chat reporting can be a good thing, and if implemented correctly it would be a step forwards. Breaking community trust, and significant lack of communication is not that way. There have been statements promising more communication in the future, however, those statements feel like too little too late. If they truly wanted to improve communication between the userbase, they would take the time to address community concerns and build a better Minecraft when it was needed the most. I want to have a chat reporting system that keeps people safe, the listed reasons are certainly more than reasonable for general communities to be able to opt-in or even opt- out of. However, if the backbone of an update that is very concerned with privacy and user safety is "just trust us" when Mojang/Microsoft has shown little reason to trust them on this issue, and instead the community is left with total lack of communication, I take issue.

They messed up big time by not letting this be an "opt-in" feature. Let server owners decide themselves if they want the reporting feature or to go without and have their own rules.

I'm not opposed to Moderation. I'm opposed to how Microsoft went about implimenting it. So, good on the community for exposing all the insecurities and ways the system can and will be abused.

That moment even Notch commented on this and was pretty much saying this is messed up is saying something.

The chat moderation is one of the worst decision microsoft made, but at least servers can enable the NoEncryption plugin completely disabling the chat moderation feature on that server (I really hope most popular servers will do this). Imagine if chat moderation was implemented in a way that only when both the client and the server are modded, the feature can be completely disabled, it would be the end of minecraft.

I've been shadow-muted for a good two years, and I've tried everything, but I can't determine why I'm shadow-muted. Its me and another one of my friends, so this is frustrating. I can't even chat with them as we can't see each other's messages. Seeing Ant take a response on this is calming.

This system is literally the system that made it where I no longer wanted to play multiplayer, and only play singleplayer on LAN with my friends. Thank you for covering this, as Mojang needs to hear.

I've been saying this since the report feature came out: a 2B2T developer and hacker will eventually devise some program that can obtain the private cryptographic keys of other players, and use the keys to falsify entire conversations between two players who will never, ever see each other, and have them permanently banned. They will go on a power high, much like those other 2B2T hackers did when they perfected their program that obtained the IPs of every server in existence, private and public, and automatically checked every server for any kind of griefing or player access protections. And if they don't go on a power high, the program will inevitably get stolen by people who will. As long as this feature exists, the ENTIRE COMMUNITY is unprecedentedly vulnerable.

Apparently most servers already use a system that consume the chat message, and outputs a status message, so all chat messages show up with the gray indicator and you can't report anyone. Not sure if server admin can report anyone either because that might break context as well.

I've seen people banned from their own realm for cursing in chat with friends, no reports made against any player. I can't even name a shulker box "diamond hoes" with the extras I have from trading with toolsmiths. Its the name of a tool already in game. This had gone WAY TOO FAR

"Mojang was almost sold out to EA in 2014, who knows where we would be if that happened?" *Please pay $14.99 to contiune this meme*

Finally, redstone telegraphs might become useful (you can't report lever flips/button presses, can you?) For short-range communication, you can use signs/writable books, but that might change if they decide to implement sign/book reporting...

They really should've called "Guardian" "Gatekeep", for the ultimate exploit trifecta

I had a feeling a video from you about chat reporting was in the works. It was certainly worth the wait. Extremely informative and concise.

With the "this will protect the kids" statement, I have one thing to say. The chat reporting thing is trying to fix a non existing problem. Either people will play on public servers where there is lots of moderation by the mod(s), admin(s), or owner(s), or it will be a server like 2b2t where there is supposed to be no moderation and people are aware of what comes with it, or it is a private server for a group of frends, or maybe a school, etc. And there people will know each other and the will be less harassment, and if there is, they could get punished irl, or they can just leave the server. Note, you can also just turn off the chat... In my opinion, the chat reporting will harm kids more than it might protect them, because chat reporting can be used as a way of harassment, and people might feel scared from talking in chat WHICH IS WHAT DESTROYS DEMOCRACIES, BECAUSE BEING SCARED OF SPEAKING YOUR OPINION WILL MAKE LESS PEOPLE SPEAK UP IF THEY DON'T AGREE WITH SOMETHING, AND THEM DOING THIS IN A GAME COULD CHANGE HOW THEY ACT IRL.

Bruhhh that "they should rename this to version 1.19.84" was unhinged 💀💀

I think a better system would be for the report system to flag your account. You would be marked for the offense, and when it happened. Then individual servers can set up filters to not let certain marked accounts in. For example, if you don't want people who sent a certain type of message within the last 6 months.

I'm a server owner. a roleplay server owner. topics and conversations that can and *will* happen violate most if not all rules. i moderate my server however the hell i want, and i want NOTHING to do with this new system. I will only EVER support it if the system is designed to report rule violations to US, as staff of the server. i want Mojang completely hands off. as it stands right now; i don't trust them, i don't support their rules, and i am against this system entirely. i'm not even considering updating to that version as a result of this, *especially* considering they blocked the usage of certain HTML fonts and characters which were utilized in our resourcepack, and they did this simply to prevent circumvention of the new system. I'm in support of any and all circumvention methods, as well as methods that break the system by abusing it. normally i'd be against it completely, but as long as it ruins the report system i'm glad. maybe it'll change their minds and they'll get rid of it. i doubt it, but it'll at least give them a headache as bad as the one they gave me. this whole thing is a pain in the ass. They just completely overlooked Roleplay servers, and i will NOT stand for this bs. Alcoholism, drug abuse, threats, harassment, suicide, impersonation, abuse, violence; these are all things that are part of roleplay, and these are all things that would get you banned simply by being in-character. i know Roleplay is a joke to some people (hell we even make fun of it ourselves at times, we're not all that serious) but it's important to us as it's a way to express ourselves. how the hell are we supposed to do that if the game we're using for it literally bans us for it?

Multiplayer Minecraft has always had chat moderation, this has always been done by server admins. Seeing Mojang act like every server is just a cesspool is another nail on the games coffin.

What I think will happen is that some popular Multiplayer optimizer mods will add a system to the mod that changes all the messages into /TELL command messages thus the message gets filtered by the server, and trough /tell posted in chat. This way every comment/message is trough /tell and it is impossible to verify if said user actually said it, because the verify checkmark is gone

My solution is quite simple 'check if I can report people when I open a server' If I can, I use their social media command, tell them how they can turn it off, and never go back to that server.

Today is a good day to raise some awareness. I like your objective approach to the topic. A lot of people don't really understand that it's not merely about free speech and owning your server, it's also about concrete issues that chat reporting system has, some of which are not possible to fix even in principle considering decentralized nature of Minecraft's server hosting. It's almost as if Mojang were hoping to get away with security by obscurity, which would never work for Java Edition. Overall - great video. Most certainly worth the wait.

Server moderation, including it's chat, should be done by the server's moderators or plugins they choose to use, not Mojang.

it’s like if you saw someone posting slurs on twitter, and instead of reporting them to twitter to get them banned from twitter, you reported them to google to get them banned from chrome. EDIT: and, of course, "posting slurs" is far from the only bannable offense. "leaving early" is rather questionable, particularly in the context of Minecraft.

That and the render dragon also completely breaks custom skyboxes (and the sun as well) and removes shader support on mobile devices that don't support RTX.

The worst part is the punishment. Reported on one (1) server, banned from ALL servers, even your friend's small private server with like 5 other people. You can't even open to LAN. Like come on, it's CHAT reporting. CHAT. You can't report in-game player actions (like cheating, griefing, inappropriate builds, etc). Only the chat. So why do you get banned from all servers instead of just muted on one? It's like dropping a nuke on someone because they stole a packet of gum from a gas station.

Players shouldn't have to install a mod to disable a feature just to play the game safely

"Nothing you like about Minecraft is going to change"

If you want to know how bad RenderDragon is on my PC -Having Twitch/YT Streams in the Background while in my main Survival World will cause stuttering even with everything at the lowest it can be at my Base (This does not happen with Sims 4, GMod or even Fall Guys even though my PC is at the "Minimum Specs" for 2 of those games) Also will check those videos out after the DART Approach

Ever since the chat reporting system, the "good enough" updates as well as the blatant removal of C418. It's safe to say Minecraft is no longer my favorite game. And it doesn't look like it's ever going to be again

I've lost all faith in Mojang, from mediocre updates to downright betraying my trust, all the love and care in their reputation they've built up is gone. They don't care for us now, being radio silent for nearly a month has proved that, its all about money and appeasing Microsoft. 1.20 and 1.21 is going to be more mediocre updates along with pointless bans. Now, while some people may say "Your being really pessimistic! Maybe they will get better!" Is there any reason to believe they wont throw us into a ditch again? If Minecraft Bedrock is any indication of the future, expect empty promises, adding random endangered animals that no one cares for to be "EnViOrMeNtAlLy AwArE", and more BS Mechanics that will never be useful for singleplayer (Im looking at you SwiftSneak). I'm extremally sad to feel nothing for Minecon 2022, and Mojang as a whole, I hope they are happy with their choice, because me, and many others arent

Ultimately, abuse of banning people would result in Minecraft being pirated rather than purchased more often.

I'd like to say I appreciate the fact that you took time to script this and take it carefully. You've taken numerous sources and attempted to show both fact and opinion with it and attempted to make clear which is which when approaching this very controversial topic. I thank you for making us aware of the resources available to us to use the system as intended when needed, and how to force the system to "protect us from itself" in a respectful way. I have to agree with many of the opinionated sections of this, and I hope that this can help calm the playerbase, but also keep them safe. I will be using reportblock mods on any servers I choose to run, and will be using them clientside myself, based on my opinions regarding this controversy. Thanks, AntVenom, and I hope you and anyone reading this have a wonderful day.

I see this report system as unnecessary for a simple reason - Minecraft has a great community. Sometimes cringe, sometimes weird, but great. If you jumped on someone on a sever, five people would stand behind them and humble you or straight up ban you. Never have I had a problem with this.

The "investigators" are bots. Mojang has said they don't use bots to handle chat reporting, but they do. It's impossible that even a large team could sift through thousands of reports coming in constantly. There must be some AI that decides which chat messages contain content that's obviously bad enough to ban the player who said it, or whether the message should be sent to a human moderator for review. Mojang is lying to you.

What annoyed me the most is that you can't disable it on private servers where you play with your friends. If I'm hosting a private server for me and my friends to play on, then why can some corporation add censorship to the chat? Thankfully discord still doesn't filter their vc's and chats.

I hated this half made 1.19 update that instead of getting no chat reporting i am just playing 1.18.2 and fixing every little bug and bad feature with mods, i have around 200 mods and probable it took only 5 to 10 to fix the bugs the other 190 are just extra features. I don't even use chat that often in mc but i still hate the chat reporting, i will update my game till it is removed or fixed to be safer.

My biggest problem with the reporting system was definitely the timing of them removing over half of an update to shoe-horn the chat system instead. I play single player exclusively so I don't really care about the system itself, I'm more concerned with the fact that to me it feels like the messaging from Mojang is that despite the history of the community prettymuch making the game what it is, it's their game and if they want to mismanage and overpromise we just have to deal with it which is not how a community driven game should be prioritized.

I read through the list, the harassment and bullying is very poorly defined. The worst thing on the list was Drugs and Alchohol, so many adults play minecraft for which alchohol is perfectly legal, and kids arent banned from speaking about alchohol, in many countries drugs like cannabis are the same. there are others among the list which can easily be misconstrued

This update is a crazy reach of power. If its on official servers, fine, but on private servers, it should be to the owners to decide.

is the music at the end there, lemmino music? ayo i love that guy's content aswell. Didn't expect it, but its a pleasant surprise.

I think it’s interesting that there is a report for self-harm and suicide. Like imagine you are hurting so much that you put it in chat and you get banned from what could be your only source of happiness..

This would be so easy to fix. Just allow an opt-out feature to servers, and maybe add a pop-up for not protected servers and maybe Parental controls to block those from their kids.

rip minecraft 2010-2022 it was a damn good run, but microsoft had to ruin everything once again can’t wait to see how microsoft cultists (i won’t use that other term) try to defend this one

"This system is not bulletproof." Sir, this system isn't even toothpickproof.

Uhh... why does Mojang need access to our private key? Seems an awful security vulnerability to store everyone's keys in one place like that, and if their system is set up in any sensible way they should only need the public key to verify stuff.

Bedrock Edition on Consoles in terms of stability, support, and performance is a lot worse in my opinion when compared to the original Console Editions developed from 4J.

When the Minecraft chat was originally made it wasn't supposed to be moderated outside of the server that it is being held on. Back in the day when multiplayer was just classic Minecraft in a browser everyone would play Notch worked on survival singleplayer then moved over to survival multiplayer which is known as the alpha version notch only allowed people to connect to his server by using a special key code but after the code kept getting leaked he released the server jar and allowed it so anyone can make their own server with their friends. Server then would have their own chat that would need to be self moderated or just delt with internally within that server. Mojang or Minecraft introducing this wide spread chat reporting system is and was a mistake, there shouldn't be any influence outside of the server the chat is being held on.

I got banned for saying I needed to die, to reset my hunger bar. I was automatically banned for three days, for “self harm”

they can even hire bpo companies (company that works for another company) which are mostly situated in countries like india where you can get cheap and over pressured labour to moderate those chats, which would be disastrous.

There is a saying which goes as “lookers-on see most of the game” or “當局者迷，旁觀者清” in Chinese the community knows the most (not mojang) about the chat reporting feature and have reasonable grounds to criticize it, but mojang won’t care or understand them

This actually happened to me when I was playing with my friends on our own world. We're cuss alot around each other and it was annoying to be banned from minecraft for awhile

"Poorly executed" is the tip of the iceberg

FYI, IP address has nothing to do with "exact street address" and it's anything between kinda in your area to not even close. VPNs don't do shit for your privacy. Unless you're in a _very_ specific situation, or if you need a service to think you're somewhere else (netflix geo blocking) you might actually want one, but other than that there is no additional security/privacy for the average user. Your Minecraft videos are very informative, and I realize you need the sponsorships, but if you can I wish you'll hold them to the same standard as your normal content. VPN ads in general are very misinformative, and sadly yours are not an exception. I'd even prefer the raid shadow legends ads over it.

It was absolutely time for such a take on chatreporting.

1:30 "1.19.84" was pretty funny honestly