The Tragic Tale of Notch (Markus Persson, Minecraft)
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Minecraft wouldn't be the same without Notch. Well, mainly because he created it. In the beginning, Notch was considered a god, but after cashing out of Minecraft in a $2.5 billion dollar deal with Microsoft, the expectation of life following such might have been happiness, fulfilment and satisfaction, however, the reality for Notch ended up being quite the opposite.
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he turned creative mode on just to realise that survival was actually the best
2 deep bro 2 deep
so deep
He finished survival.
Too deep
@@johnabe3122 ikr
Money doesn't buy you happiness, but being poor sure makes you miserable.
I have been blasting 16 tons for the last couple of weeks
Not true
@@LewisC0298 Then I suspect you have never been truly poor.
Money buys the kind of misery you can live with
@@MangoldProject
They probably not, or maybe they were/are. Maybe they’re talking about something else.
It's fascinating to see how Notch's journey in Minecraft mirrors his own life. Building a successful empire, but ultimately feeling empty and directionless. It's a reminder that true fulfillment comes from more than just material wealth.
He could literally do whatever he wants.
I know if I was in his position, I'd be doing nothing but catching up on my reading. That's how I filed time in my youth, and it's what I do when I have time now.
Notch's problem is he never learned how to stop finding problems. Just waiting on the other shoe, or feeling like his time should be filled because of the BS American work ethic.
@@docsavage4921 So true
It comes from Jesus
that's why super rich people never stop working for the money , power and fame until they die.
Cause nobody wants to have to long vacation = degradation.
You know him personally?
Imagine making a game, selling it, and being told you cant attend a convention for the game. Even as a guest...
we live in clown world
Microsoft has constantly tried to take notch’s name out of the game. They took all the references to him in the game
@@jafarmurtaja1482 in this case with the things he said i cant blame them
why would they invited him knowing he’s problematic and in hot water? his comments were ignorant
@@theyheartcyrothey werent ignorant they were true
So Notch is proof that money doesn't necessarily buy you happiness
Oh its you
Hi commenter
I think it always been obvious
I have one question for u my guy.
Do you live on this website 24/7 -_-? lmao
How ironic
I hate how that news anchor said “It’s tough being a billionaire”
Bitch depression isn’t only for the middle class. Everyone can be affected by it.
Underrated comment.
Its completely different thing, being depressed and still have to worry about paying your bills and forced to go to work, and depressed and ordering a top notch escort that will feed you foie gras while you lie on a couch made from the leather of an animal that went extinct.
@@patrik3482 amongus
@@patrik3482 So it is selfish for a rich guy to be depressed because some depressed middle class person is also depressed and has to pay his bills? By that logic the middle class person shouldn't be depressed as well because there is always somebody who is more depressed and poor than him.
@@patrik3482 depression is depression. It can be caused by different things.
Honestly I think what he really needs is a small group of friends who just genuinely enjoy hanging out with him, regardless of his money. If I could give him advice, I'd say maybe try going on some online multiplayer game with a username that doesn't reveal who you are, and just try to connect with someone. Maybe get a dog so you have a responsibility to care for something again. Hell I'd even be down to game with him, we can make jokes we really shouldn't be making and talk about life while playing Starcraft or Halo or something I dunno. I just hate seeing the guy like this, Minecraft undoubtedly had a huge impact on my life, and is still to this day one of my favorite things to play in my free time. So Markus if you somehow happen to stumble across my comment, there's meaning out there for you somewhere bro, you just gotta start looking.
That's the issue - he had that with the og Mofang team but that's gone now.
You have a pure heart, and you should definitely reach out to him and see if he’d be down. Let him get into a chat with you and inform him how he can reach out to the gaming community👍✝️
Edit: He may respond because being alone with nothing to do tends to be effective at having someone want something to look for🤷🏻
He's human, like everyone else. He's had to deal with tragedy (the suicide of his father, divorce, generational depression), also a sudden influx of wealth and fame. His comments are typical of our current culture war but the only difference is that he is a person of great influence instead of some random twitter account.
Yeah. I bet he wishes he could undo it.
Yeah he always seemed like just a normal dude, thats why this video is baffling to me with this black and white photos with misterious music like his story is god damn par with al capone or something, he made something great, made a lot of money and bought a mansion (i'd do the same), and he dont want media's attention, no need to fabricate any more narrative behind it.
That this is still being framed like he should be ashamed and hiding over what he said is mind-boggling. The only controversial thing shown here was the hyperbolic "you should be shot" everything else was spitting facts.
@@GreyAcumen So you agree that we need a heterosexual pride day? You also need to understand the difference between facts and opinion. Finally, there is no perfect society. Every society has groups who have more privilege than others. Do you think we have achieved a perfect and just society?
@@GizmoMaltese - we need a heterosexual pride day just as much as we need a gay pride day.
Also, of course there are groups with more privilege than others, but many of those groups have gotten there because someone before them sacrificed to allow a better future, or that there was a conflict with both groups trying to be the one on top and one of those groups won.
I will be the last one to say that any group "deserves" the privileges they have, but to say they specifically DON'T deserve them still only works on the assumption that there is some universal moral right for everyone to have equal privileges. We all have a right to PURSUE happiness, that never implied a right to have that happiness given to us.
So certainly we don't have a perfect and just society, but we wont get to a perfect and just society through handouts.
If there is a millionaire out there suffering, remember. I am here for you. I could gladly take the burden off your shoulders and let you be happy.
lol
top comment right there
my life is ok at the moment but a few billions wouldnt make me unhappy eather
Yes, Cheron, you take the burden from his/her shoulder, I will assist you by taking the burden from his/her pockets. :)
I believe that's the imbalance he spoke of.
Imagine how different childhoods would've been without Notch
Childhood would be one of those words that no one uses
Oh man
Don't have to imagine it, minecraft didn't exist in my childhood lmao.
@SerpentOz uh
@SerpentOz Did you write your economics opinion on a UA-cam video
The only problem is he's not a businessman, but a game developer. That combined with his inability to face suffering outside of work, or taking measured risk, makes it even harder for him to enjoy what would be a dream for most. Regardless of what he said, I love the guy. Unlike the criminal celebrities and predator elites we praise, the worst this man did was tweet conservative talking points out of frustration, and the best he did was unlock the creative potential of every child who enjoyed Minecraft. I'm not creative at all, but Minecraft was one of the first times I realized that only I controlled my destiny, and only I had the power to make myself grow. Notch will always be the best thing that happened to Minecraft, even if all of us moved on to the future.
You're so real for calling out celebs and elites like that, they're way less deserving of fame compared to Notch. Can't agree with his inflamatory opinions (and it's often isolated or angsty people who hold extremist or bigoted views like that, in my experience) but the way Twitter and Microsoft pretty much erased him from Minecraft's history was pretty awful and would affect anyone's psyche.
@@technoguyx I totally agree with you on that one. I don't agree with the current Notch's comments and point of views, but I can appreciate that he was able to bring one of the most iconic video games to ever live. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have fond memories of playing Minecraft with my family members.
Just like you said, the way that Twitter and Microsoft essentially tried to erase him from Minecraft's history is a bad way to go about it (in my opinion) because he is the literal man who is responsible for the game's creation in the first place. Imagine an alternate timeline where there is a world without Minecraft, that would be weird, and many people would be doing different things.
Even if Notch isn't the person who I have grown to be fond of over the years, I can still credit him as the original creator of Minecraft, not Microsoft or whatever.
I actually got to make Notch laugh on Twitter a couple of times years ago. I was surprised he was laughing at my tweets let alone even replying to me. I don't always get to make billionaires laugh. The odd thing was sometime later I went to his account to see what he was up to, and I was blocked.
Hope all is well, Marcus.
poor guy, he probably regrets his decision years ago.
I doubt it was something personal. He probably just blocked everyone to stop receiving hate or something
He must have cramped up his gut from all that laughing.
Let's be honest notch not wanting to hang out with Ethan is completely understandable
Lmao yeah 😂
Dude's a complete snake.
LOL
For real.
Why? Sorry, I honestly don't know 😄
Just like turning creative mode on without a reason to do stuff
Prefect explanation
Yes
Notch life is neither good or bad
@Mao LeBron
Creative mode makes builds like these possible:
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ua-cam.com/video/1SFiVz2vnuo/v-deo.html
It is an invaluable tool to creative players.
I guess that's what I want to, so maybe I'm deluding myself.
Imagine being in a room full of people and feeling lonely.
I understand him.
So sigma! Bro you are so alpha, You should write a book or something make some money.
I met the young guy who was Notch’s “manager” a few times nearly 10 years ago. He’s shown in a photo in this video, he was memorable as an arrogant and rude American kid, not the obvious healthy choice of manager for an introverted Swedish developer. The musicians and celebrities Notch was introduced to were pretty obviously his idea . I got to attend a handful of elite LA parties, and they became sad and tiresome very quickly.
I always find it a bit unsettling to see someone like him be so unhappy in life. It's a pretty bleak reminder that there are no guaruntees.
trust the numbers not ur gut 🙁
heysus
@@zebass7286 not with money it seems
Csgo skins!
I thought it was common knowledge that wealth makes people severely depressed. It’s like finishing every task in an open world game but still being trapped in it afterwards with nothing to do. Covid kinda showed a lot of us what the rich people lifestyle feels like. “No work”, almost no honest social contact, way too much free time but realizing that you can’t really do anything with it etc. Just that they have a bunch of money. The middle class lifestyle is definitely the best imo. You have a comfortable lifestyle but it doesn’t feel like there is nothing left to archive. Being too poor or too rich is just torture (by that I of course don’t mean to say that being very rich and being very poor are in any way equally shitty but you get my point).
Imagine if you created a game and you weren't invited to its 10-year anniversary
Imagine not being invited to your son's 10th birthday
@@houghwhite411 true
@@houghwhite411 Or worse: Imagine losing your son to another family (Microsoft) for years and still not see him on his 10th Birthday.
not only that but it becomes the most successful game of all time.
That’s just fucked up
bro still can spend time with his family, trying out new things that he cannot do, helping other people, etc. He ain't losing his life, he's wasting his life. I hope he's living a good life right now
he should be already doing something better with his money, like mr beast
i mean, at least he should try, if his life is as sad as he describes then it shouldn't hurt....
@@PolInKenexel ima be honest it doesent hit the same if Notch did it for him imo.
Mr beast has many friends and a community so when he gives away money, its in some form of fun challange with the people he enjoys doing it with and the community he loves watching his videos.
But notch doesent have anyone so it would be quite boring for him
@@PolInKenexelhe did good thing with he's money, if I remember correctly he donnate to the Croix-Rouge
@@PolInKenexel What? You're one of the Mr. Beast sycophants? You DO realize that $$$ is "Business Costs" right? He gives away $$$ because it MAKES HIM MORE MONEY on Views/Sponsorships/Paid Advertisements. He's good though. Fooled legions of dumb people into thinking he's some sort of Altruist.🤡
@@PolInKenexel Like Mr Beast? No bro who's giving their hard earned money away. A billion dollars or not that's just stupid.
I hope he’s aware of the years and years of fun he’s given people all over the world. We love you Marcus. Thank you for sprinkling fun into our childhoods.
i’m appreciative of the game he made and i love minecraft but man, i hate notch so fucking much.
Notch's biggest flaw is that he cares about what other people think of him.
But doesn't everyone care about what the blue-haired fat ladies on Twitter think?
Another flaw is probably the white nationalism and Qconspiracy backing
@@thefatherinthecave943 Shut up
@@FluffyBunny9002 fwr moment
@@thefatherinthecave943 shup up
Ironic... the man who gave millions memories and happiness, couldn't find happiness for himself.
that sure is depressing
Ah man, this fucked up for sure xd
"I give tresures to people who i myself cannot possess"
- Notch idk year
Deep
Ir is not a story the jedi would tell you
it's sad to see the man who made a big part of my childhood.. not only my childhood but my life as a whole sad, it's just heartbreaking
You brought this video around beautifully in the end with that metaphor.
Why do rich people's mansions always look so empty, cold and uncomfortable?
Because they are more like hotels than real homes. They're gigantic but even people who live in mansions usually only really use a couple of the rooms. The rest is for throwing parties and impressing people.
cos they are
They are always postmodern monstrosities.
That's why you must always act like normal people, no matter how rich you are.
If I were Notch, I would buy 2 billion worth of stocks (other than Mojang), then live with the 500 million. My house wouldn't be big, but big enough to provide any room that my family needed.
because they are designed for parties, the complete opposite of confortable, cozy, personal and welcoming
Funnily enough "creative mode" in Minecraft is a perfect analogy for his life. Yeah you've got all the building blocks, but suddenly your existence becomes meaningless and you zoom around not knowing what to build, whereas in survival mode the task of surviving dictates your life a meaning and direction.
Well said!
A theory that isn't a theory anymore. It is reality.
This comment ✊
this comment is perfect
then what mode am i in? no money and no purpose in life
I love the way this video is edited. With some Minecraft elements like particle effects and noises. It really brings you into the topic of whatever Sunny is talking about.
the final lesson is so emotional and inspiring, thank you sunny
This is honestly really sad. He's brought me and so many others countless hours of joy through Minecraft. Not to mention the livelihoods of youtubers, developers, and modders that exist because of Notch's creation. I hope he finds peace
He already found peace lol
@@RoyHoy Did you even watch the video mate? Wouldn't call struggling with mental problems peace
@@MrJengaa I did watch the video. He doesn't have mental problems (anymore). He's currently doing fine. I recommend you keep up to date about Notch.
@@RoyHoy Since i thought we're refering to the video he haven't. I don't use twitter so haven't been updated day to day but how comes he's doing better (Just curious). Problems like this don't overcome over night but maybe he found a new passion?
@@MrJengaa He's working on different games and playing new games. Plus, he hasn't said anything controversial in a while. He's just living his life.
Unlike 99.999% of people on this Earth, Notch actually won the game of life. As he stared at the "You win" screen tens of billions of others never got to see, he was left with one question that anyone who has ever 100% completed a long video game is faced with...
"What do I do now?"
@Noel Ambutu he already has
It's funny how people like you think getting a bunch of money is winning. What about his role of being a husband or father? He seems like a child in a man's body. I don't think he ever won anything if he isn't happy.
if this question comes in a test im done for
Awesome comment I love this, really speaks to the deep problem of human existence and what I was trying to highlight in the vid, there's always another challenge no matter much money you end up earning
@@SunnyV2 Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! It's what I've certainly realised as I got older. If there is no problem to solve, and you've risen above everything... what's even the point? You can't appreciate consonance without dissonance.
You missed out why he tweeted “getting hate for trying to do the right thing”. Mojang were stamping down on servers charging for access to premium content, as many kids were being conned, and Mojang were getting the angry emails from parents.
10:30 "Big companies don't like controversy" I don't know about that, Bud light and Target seem to love it.
Minorities 😡😡😡
Got to get that ESG money
Alt right people really don’t like rainbows it seems.
it’s one thing when it’s backlash based in hatred and the other is in unhappiness and anger. the hatred is worse. use your brain.
Why should the world tiptoe around superstitious bigots?
Notch finished life, he beat the game, and showed us that beating that game isnt the point its to live through it.
The parent and grandparent quests are still open/not complete
Life is a game you can’t beat cause everyone will have a game over one day
Thats not true. Why do always people think earning money is end? It sad reality
Watch Disney's Soul
Well the same could be said about funny
Not wanting anything to do with ethan Klein is actually a sign of a healthy life.
fax
was going to say exactly the same thing, why would anyone want to hang with backstabbing toxic people like him lol
@@JH-fk8ow It has been a long time, years actually, since I watched his videos. What happened to him? Seems like he has become a lot more disliked now!
@@grundierungtaglich6241
Naah, they called. Didn't fax eachother.
@@6023barath He became really out of touch and spews some really bad takes and if you dont agree he gets mad
Minecraft has gotten me through very dark times and I am sad how the creator is stressed and not living happy I hope he finds a passion
Great video SunnyV2 :]
The problem with Notch was that he was miserable in his apartment in Sweden. So it’s not a crazy statement to make that he would be miserable in LA in a mansion. His problem has always been finding inner happiness
I was looking for someone to say this. A billionaire isn’t happy and they blame the money. All the answers are within you.
@@iamdanyc93 Exactly, no amount of money can satisfy a man, a man will always want more and more, the problem isn’t the money, it’s inner happiness.
@@asterion3291 I live in Sweden aswell and it’s starting to feel like a depressing country
⁉️❇Evolution designed to make life this way. Life itself is miserable.
dont forget the white supremacy. One of his problems was definitely the white supremacy
Wacky to hear myself being referenced in a video I'm watching, haha.
This is one of those crazy situations where money made someone's issues worse, not better and I think there's so much to learn from it.
Hey it’s you
What’s good catman
Cool
maybe if he weren't a transphobe people would like him lmao
@@jinglejimbo5331 yes a good catman
Also. He said watching his reflection "in the monitor" not the mirror. Pay attention to detail my man, this could have been a great opportunity to express his specific sadness as a programmer. Jeez.
i'm so sad for notch. in that era (2009) notch created the best game the world could ever get, in that 3d square game he got to bilions the possibility of build what they want, and in that social, he just got hate, just because he think differently in difference of the other twitter users
Someone wasn’t blessed by the Temple of Notch...
Hi checkmark
@Keebe The Kirby plush tru
ok
@SerpentOz As someone who lived in a country with communism past, I can tell everyone that communism/socialism is a SCAM. It promised all the nice things to lure the ignorant and inexperience to voluntarily give up their right and means of production to the 1%, the government, who claims to present the community. That's why EVERY single time it was tried, it always put a dictator in the top position ,living an extravagant life while all other people suffer. That is the true goal of communism/socialism, a scam.
I mean, how can he bless himself, it's the curse of the heroes, you can save others, but never yourself.
Dude could've saved himself so much trouble, heartache, stress, & sadness by just staying away from Twitter! Smh. Twitter is an absolute cesspool!
Life is a highway and Twitter is a cult.
Twitter brings out the worst of people
@@jesuiscrespo 💯👍
@@tboland728 Well put!👍
agreed, fuck Twitter
This is a good example of how money doesn't always give you happiness... When you have everything then there's nothing left to earn...
Money doesn’t make you happy. Relationships do
When I made 40k on the stock market 2 years ago, it certainly made me happy for a LOOOONG time until I needed to make more.
@@thelegacyofgaming2928maybe for you man but not everyone gets happy just earning money. With no purpose to give you're just a husk
He obviously didn't have everything, as he felt like (and maybe is still feeling like) he's lacking a purpose
Ok
Notch's story is like that one called suffering from success.
It's a beautiful way to compare creative mode to life with no monetary issues. Seems to be the grind that keeps people going, not the goal.
@@loganroofpedoexposer4952 thats because people like to force it into everyones face which would make anyone hate that
@@loganroofpedoexposer4952 vsauce voice: *or is he?*
@@loganroofpedoexposer4952 unga bunga man don't have my ideas, he bad man
Once you have achieved everything you wanted to do, your life get miserable pretty quickly.
@@loganroofpedoexposer4952 If he is that's good
This just makes me depressed..
And to make it worse, all this time I never knew any of this happened.. damn. 😔
@SerpentOz you really didn't have to turn a comment about notch to a debate about how flawed capitalism is.
@SerpentOz lmao Communism just fails and kills people
@SerpentOz only a sith deals in absolutes
@SerpentOz nice bait lol
@SerpentOz shut the fuck up. This guy is depressed and you decide to respond by saying that if his opinion on government is different from yours, then he’s “hilariously wrong”. Saying that is how you make things worse for someone, not how you help them. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that you’re not trying to make things worse for him, but if you are then you shouldn’t be here. (And from my understanding, capitalism works out perfectly for everyone as long as the people in power are good people [which obviously hasn’t been happening][and this refers to everyone in power, not just one person])
Edit: Jesus Christ that was long. Sorry for exploding at you, it’s just that people who purposefully make things worse for others are one of the few things I hate. Please don’t bring things that could make people feel worse to people who are already feeling horrible.
Am I the only one that kind of agrees with his 'Crazy Controversial' takes?
Ur not alone. I do not understand how saying “its ok to be white” is controversial.
What? is it “not okay” to be white? It makes 0 sense. horseshit
pretty funny how saying the truth, especially the trans women are not women comment is so "controversial" in this awful modern age. just sickening
Revolt against the modern age.
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." - 1984
The most ironic thing is that creative mode describes notch's wealthy life. Its awesome being able to do whatever you want but it eventually gets boring when there is no goal and no one to share the expirience with.
Absolutely Agree with this. It’s like being in creative mode on a server where all the other players are on survival. The joy you achieve building I.e a massive structure when compared with every other player having to go through the struggle and journey of sourcing the material themselves or as teams to build that same structure is 0 to none.
I feel like selling ur stake in the passion project that brought you happiness is just going to put you in a situation of trying to replicate that joy and quickly becoming desensitised to what most others would call “luxury” to the point where gaining an extra i.e. yacht would bring no extra joy but losing one would drastically affect the ‘normalised’ lifestyle you’ve become accustomed to.
oh boo hoo the rich man is sad. There's plenty of poor that are sad too but no one gives a shit.
@@purefoldnz3070 think you’re missing the point mate, the fact that poor or rich, if you think getting money is gonna fix the problems of you feeling sad, it ain’t gonna sustain unfortunately. You make that poor sad person rich, they’re gonna be happy for abit but end up like Notch where they’ve got no drive or meaningful purpose to fulfil in their life. Stop trying to seek happiness through purely monetary reasons alone and you’ll be fine
@@hivaladeen4892 I think you're missing the point. There's people starving to death in the world, living in abject poverty and this guy is whining about being lonely. Please let me just get out and play the worlds smallest violin.
@@purefoldnz3070 its not meant to be as equally sympathising as Notch of course. That stuff you said is undeniably true, just that he serves as a warning that wealth isn’t all it’s made out to be.
It sounds like after he sold Minecraft he lived like Bojack Horseman.
you fckinnn,i luv u and i really miss BoJack,period
I see that tbh
Exactly what I was thinking
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Was thinking the same thing
Notch is a genius and very respectful of this guy I hope that his life will work out but nevertheless it is a pity that he sold Minecraft because Minecraft in his time was the Original with a real atmosphere.
it is like, when you have done everything in your minecraft world and theres no reason to play anymore
Notch had the Megamind effect. He defeated Metroman, got everything he ever wanted, a key to the city, billions of dollars and now....what is left to do? What is a bad guy without a radical foe? What is a hero where everything is all and right with the world and nothing needs fixed and no one needs saving?
That’s a really great way of putting it.
Great analogy and underrated movie
@@MelancoliaI Everybody loves Megamind
Defeated metroman, finna fight twitter next
Megamind effect ? He had no bitches?
"A billionaire who throws extravagant parties at his house weekly." Man, all we need is a scandalous love triangle and we got our century's Gatsby
Who knows? Maybe there is. The thing about Gatsby's love triangle, is that not too many people knew about it.
That would make Notch dead by the end of it
@@kjl3080 dude
@@kjl3080 well played 😂😂😂
@@kjl3080 Isn't that quite quaranteed in life?
I bought Minecraft Beta for my son when he was little. He's 24 now. He had years of fun with that game
He will be always the creator of the game that marked my childhood . He is truly legend and even tho minecraft is bigger , i am quite sad he left minecraft because minecraft isn't the same anymore
He doesn’t even look famous. He can change his name and go anywhere he wants. Start a charity. Literally real life god mode and you just chill… can’t blame him for going insane tbh. Memento mori
yes owo
Notch uses Twitter, that explains his problems. A social network where everybody is right and bitter.
@@felipemauez3557 yes
Humans need a reason to live, objectives. We work in order to afford food, housing, etc. What you do when you don't have to work anymore, when you have enough money for all your needs for the rest of your life? It can look amazing at first, but you burn out.
@@RyoKasai25 With such amount of money you have to have large scale projects like Tesla, Space X, blue origin, Vigin atlantic or Bill and Melinda Gates foundation etc...
But Notch was not an entrepreneur and did not learn to be one.
He even did not produce any sizeable finished game
Too bad. It is true that sometimes when you reach the top there's nothing left.
Then give. I'm sure Notch does his good share of charity, but when you have billions of dollars and are miserable, give the billions away. He doesn't have to live in beverly. He's been there and done it, and is still miserable. If you can't upgrade, then downgrade. Notch can be remembered as the second person in history to go from millionaire to billionaire and back to millionaire again, after Rowling.
Notch was mentally ill and lonely before the money. The mental illness is the actually story here, not the loneliness or any other bullshit.
I mean look at Elon Musk... Its the opposite of what Notch does
i reached the top, and i had to stop, and that's whats bothering me!
Atleast it is okay to be white.
Notch isn't missing wealth, famous friends. He is missing the piece, that was Minecraft. He misses working on such a big game like Minecraft with a community, having a relationship with the community.
yea
Well he's not gonna get that now. He needs God. Not Jesus, God.
@@stanleystove Jesus is God
@@nerolost4347 ??????????????????
@@stanleystoveSo you want him to go from one delusion to another?
Im very Impressed SunnyV2 Great video especially the last moments, comparing Notch's life to Minecraft Classic is extrodinary. For my own opinion, he was irritated that people wouldnt realise that he didnt work on the game that much anymore, but selling Minecraft would be the biggest mistake he made during his life. Skipping levels dosent mean you win in the end, skipping levels in life dosent mean youll be happy in the end
He's a swedish gamer nerd (nothing mean meant). I live in Sweden and know many guys like him. He's made to hang out at RPG and LAN parties with normal people, raid bosses and run games as a game master. Not buy mansions, drive supercars and hang out with celebrities on Ibiza.
Money can't make you unhappy, what makes you unhappy is how you use it.
Amazing quote
He has enough money to buy the RPG and LAN lairs and pay the other nerds to play with him, but he doesn't, so maybe he wasn't happy doing that either.
Exactly. If he started a new gaming business and put his time into making new games like he used to he wouldn't feel that bad. It's that he chooses not to. He could build a new Mojang from the ground up with his resources.
@@DaniboyBR2 you don't get it. There's a huge difference having friends to play with and paying people to play with.
The energy is not the same. The difference can be compared to someone actively listening to you and being interested and someone yawning and barely listening to you. You're comparing apples and oranges.
@@BalkanBiker Meh if you pay me enough I'll be your friend, I would be grateful and would actually listen.
Notch is Gatsby. Huge house, constant parties trying to cover up his loneliness.
I thought the same thing lmao
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never before have I heard a better analogy
Damn this makes me sad
The way Notch saved stuff into chunks was genius.
@@DeadManWalking-ym1oo It wasn't necessarily in 2009-2010, where most games weren't either open world or randomly generated.
I've known Markus for a while. Not very personally, but just in forum back-and-forth discussions a long time ago as fellow game developers on a game developer's forum a long time ago.
He was kind of a star on that forum. He made Wurm Online, which I thought was really impressive. He made some super impressive smaller things (making a 1st person shooter in 4 kilobytes, making a quite convincing Mario clone with randomly generated maps etc). I always thought 'Notch' was a very talented and inspiring guy at game development, and I enjoyed our discussions at the time.
During those times he never struck me as kind of an extreme bigot or anything, but then again we were just talking about game development.
Anyhow, I just hope he's OK. I don't agree with a lot of stuff that he's been talking about politically. But I hope he can get back to doing the thing he loves, or get into something else that he loves to do.
you'll find that most "extreme bigots" are just normal people who happen to have opinions that are at odds with emerging societal norms.
@@christopherbravo1813Finally comment sections are becoming normal again.
@@elephantgrass631 if only
The irony of all of this makes me sad. We spend tons of hours playing this game that brings us SO MUCH JOY, but the creator himself is unhappy and depressed. It just doesn’t sit well with me. I truly wish him the best and hope he can find something that brings him fulfillment and happiness 💕 We love you Notch, thanks for everything 💚
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>but the creator himself is unhappy and depressed. It just doesn’t sit well with me.
bro every time most products makes you happy, big chance that the ones who built it are unhappy exploited people slaving in their factories
unlike notch, they don't have the power of freedom and choice to try to change their situation
@@hexorth3580 exactly
Yeah poor him he’s a billionaire and gets to party drive tons of multi million dollar cars has dozens of condos and mansions in hundreds of cities all over the world and taps hundreds of females of a wide variety. Wow I feel so bad for him he forgot that we are all alone it’s not just him. Ik he earned his fortune but man this guy needs to grow a pair and remember that loneliness is something you have to deal with no matter how secure you think you are. We’re all dying alone it’s not just him he has to accept that. A lot of people I knew died before they got to fulfill their dreams or watch their daughter grow up.
@@JK-vy8vh being rich doesn't mean you can't face mental problems
I'd be crippling depressed too if Ethan Klein constantly pestered me to hang out with him too.
Well he did say no. And Ethan is like confusion why am i not the coolest guy ever.
Notch:
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That makes sense.
what did Ethan do besides pander to his audience and get mad at people on the internet?
@@blakewixom2893 Racism
Being a billionaire is easy and not at all stressful, it's the being famous that gets to someone - a very wise homeless dude
Honestly this is just such a sad and common story to see. Where someone who starts off with potential just becomes corrupted by success and their original passions have become forgotten both by themselves and those who knew them. Can't help but feel vulnerable in the fact that this would happen to pretty much everyone to some extent had we all gone through similar experiences. I get why people still say they respect him regardless of what he does,but really just because of a game?
You seriously need to take a look at some of his life choices, especially with his child from the second marriage. There's just some actions that can't be overlooked so easily because of a greater past
Humanity is deeply flawed
@@Punished_Trump Which is why we should all look in the mirror and try our best to fix those flaws instead of berate others for theirs. I can promise it is time much better spent.
His child?
The man won life, but couldn't win against his own demons. This is why mental health is so important. It can affect anyone...
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the Fallen Angels have defeated him
bruh calm down he didn't win life from making a game and selling it... People need to get they priorities straight on what winning in life is.
@@pimpmykek3213 Then what is "winning life"?
@@michaela5586 The one thing Notch is not. Happy.
This was amazing!! this video was beautifully
Notch was spittin facts over twitter
Imagine seeing a whole ass youtube video on how your sad and lonely 💀
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Nice.
I met Notch at e3 when he debuted Minecraft pocket years before he sold to MS. He was a nice guy and was willing to talk to a random attendee (myself) about gaming for a few mins. Sad to hear this
He seems like an awesome guy, right up my alley. Has a good taste in music as well.
he talks to anyone on twitter. one of the nicest celebrities i know of
@@dj32323 how is a racist transphobe the nicest celebrity you know?
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Because he is not a racist transphobe?
@@tyaty but he is
That’s nuts how a country can take half of ur money like that. 1.3 billion in taxes is sooo not cool
I like how one tweet he made about having a bad day is perceived to mean he is depressed
The problem of indie game developers is when they have created a “perfect” game is hard to reach again that perfection. The bar is set so high from the start, anything they try to make isn’t gonna reach it. People expect from them to create the next masterpiece but get disappointed and angry if their work doesn’t meet their high expectations. I think it would be hard for someone like Notch to create something new to match the success of Minecraft, something that not only people but also he would be satisfied.
I guess if he wanted to he could try. It would give him something to do and probably give him a challenge to keep himself going. Which seems to be something he lacks right now.
That's also why the "Sophomore Slump" is so real in music. You have your whole life to write your first album, maybe only a year or less to write the second.
I guess that's why people attack Mojang so much for Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth. They expect it to be better than Minecraft or on the same level but obviously it's not gonna be that way as Minecraft is it's own masterpiece with that certain spark, that can't be matched by other games.
BS. Minecraft isnt the holy grail of video games. He could do something ever better.
like Kojima
you ever stop and realize if he had just deleted social media he would have seen virtually zero of that hate? like nobody's randomly walking up to notch, let alone even recognizing him irl and just spitting hate for random Minecraft issues. Social media is trash
The only issue is that for all the hate he was reviving there were a lot of people who sent words of great admiration etc.
@@WhipLashJimmyFrank I mean words of encouragement and admiration existed before Twitter did. Just called making friends
He made comments that were racist and transphobic, I think he deserves backlash for that.
@@RandoRandleman Yes, I don’t disagree with. Yet I wonder if he means them or just that he wants any sort of attention. Because he must know that saying stuff like that damages a persons reputation.
@@WhipLashJimmyFrank Those comments seemed pretty ingenuine and just a way to start a conversation. I think he was just so depressed and lonely that he decided he would do anything to communicate with someone.
Gamers who attack the founder of their favorite game, because the game has a few bugs, are so insanely stupid and disrespectful.
How could you attack the person who created the thing you fell in love with? It just blows my mind. I totally understand that he wanted to get out of that position.
Man doesn’t know real stress he’s crying about being too rich
I think I'd rather be a billionaire and sad, than be poor and sad
Yeah tbh. You always have the choice to go back to being a millionaire again even, which I assume would be less stressful.
having everything means you have nothing to work for, and essentially no life purpose. there is literally no reason to wake up in the morning and continue living if you have everything.
@@pure2291 just because you have unlimited sources of funds does not mean you can't go enjoy life lol wtf its almost as if you people never work on yourselves and only work for money
@@neztech. i didn’t say that, i said if you have everything then you have nothing to work for. if you have nothing to work for then you have no goals in mind when you wake up in the morning, you just wake up. I personally wake up and go to the gym in hopes of getting stronger for sports, wake up and practice for sports to get better, wake up and eat well to continue growing, wake up and do school work to get to college, wake up and do chores to keep my parents off of me. if i didn’t worry about all of that i would sit at home and play videos games everyday. Some people enjoy comfortability which is fine, but personally, A life where you’re getting better will definitely have a more fulfilling conclusion.
@@pure2291 of course you can do all of that, money shouldn't be connected to you getting better at sports or you going to the gym. that's exactly what I was trying to say when I said work on yourselves. while money can be a problem for people such as notch because he has done nothing since gaining said money, just because you've gotten extra funds doesn't mean you should give up on what you like doing (such as, game development in notch's case). what he lacked was dedication and an end goal, and he spiraled down into what he is today. so really what it boils down to is the type of person you are, which notch got the short end of the stick in that respect considering he decided to do nothing. in this regard, it is more correct to say "he has a lot of money" then to say "he has everything", which is undoubtedly false.
This man’s life literally turned into The Great Gatsby.
That's what I was thinking lol
Or Charles Foster Kane.
I was thinking exactly this as I watched
You don't need a billion dollars to say whatever you want and have no one really like you. You just have to have ADHD.
I was thinking the same thing lol
Hearing someone describe Minecraft as a "work in progress" really took me back
OMG I remember that map and also herobrines mansion. Those were the good ol days long gone when my life was perfect.
Humans need purpose. If you love your job, don't retire. If you hate your job and can afford retirement, start working on a project you've dreamed of. Just keep working on something, whatever that may be...
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a notable variable regarding one's natural lifespan. The brain needs stimulation.
Honestly, one of the best things to do in Notch's case is to just play games and submerge yourself into an MMO or something, if there really isn't anything you could think of to do in a situation like this then at least start playing games, that way you get stimulation and not start to rot away.
Sounds weird but it's true.
The happiest times of my life have been times when i was unemployed and being supported by one person or another and just doing whatever i want
i definitely don't need "purpose" to be happy unless you count playing video games and watching anime as purpose
the mere not having to work makes me happier
@The Industrial Revolution was a mistake. No shit but what I was saying is at least you would have that, he probably was doing nothing but sitting on his couch, tweeting and being bored beyond anything, at least with games one can keep himself occupied.
Plus someone in his position wouldn't find a perfect match that easily given his fame, wealth and probably social skills.
@The Industrial Revolution was a mistake. kids and a wife would make me depressed, not everybody wants a family and house with a lawn. but i agree that prolonged isolation will lead to an unhappy life
@The Industrial Revolution was a mistake. That also isn't an option for many, might be a surprise to you but there are a lot of guys with standards that can't just go around having sex with strangers.
This reminds me of that one thing Jake from Adventure Time said: "To live life, you need problems. If you get everything you want the minute you want it, then what’s the point of living?"
that was a quote from ADVENTURE TIME
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@@shlecko ok
@@figctiiwhat the fck did i start
His mistake was selling his child. Always a mistake to sell your greatest creation.
His biggest issue is worrying about what other people think about him. All the money in the world can’t fix that. He has to work that out from within.
What a harrowing tale about success and achieving your ultimate goal in life too early - thanks for this video.
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Makes me sad seeing old minecraft
It makes me real sad and kinda nostalgic but yeah, i completely agree.
Maybe i'll feel like him when UE7 are gonna deleting UVs, Modeling, Painting, Texturing ecc.. and you could just think to something and puff, it's on your screen super optimized.
Jk i love you SS
'achieving your ultimate goal in life too early' Yes, but that's not quite it - the truth is that no worldly goals, wordly achievements or wordly purpose (whatever it may be) can be the ultimate, eternal way to bliss and happiness, because of the transient, impermanent nature of success and achievement itself, or any wordly thing or feeling for that matter. Something else will *always* come up, bringing you up from the seat of contentment. That's the feeling of meaninglessness that Notch is referring to - it's an underlying characteristic of this world that comes to the surface once you stop striving, achieveing, succeeding, wanting...
Reminds me of playing pre-hacked games where you automatically win. I remember as a kid thinking how boring life could be if you could wish everything to come true.
Thats kind of a weird outlook imo. Whenever I played those games I had loads of fun cause I could do whatever i wanted in the games quick and easy. I didnt have loads of time on the computer and I wasnt particularly good at games, so the hacked versions made it feel like a lot of fun
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@@ianzamudio411 I am bad in the games but loved them. I sucked and couldn't progress fast but enjoyed it. I used to play hacked games but it got boring quickly as the games were fast and kinda bland
Those kinda games are fun like for a few mins but then they are boring
This is the generic cringe outlook. A game is limited, real life is not. Life boring if you had infinite money? Really tripping hard. Wait until you finish school kid and get a job that is the same everyday
the lever pull was iconic
Imagine being alone in such a big ass house, the void of loneliness must be massive.
Notch's problem wasn't that he got rich and "everything he wanted." Clearly, he had a warped view of what success was (with the LA parties) and despite creative a cool game, had a very uncreative view on what to do with billions of dollars. As a billionaire the world is your oyster. You can start humanitarian campaigns, entire new businesses, work for something that entire countries can't do. Yet he wasted his time partying with the worst people in the world 9LA types) and spending time on twitter. You should never spend time on twitter, that place and the people there are awful.
He could’ve perhaps created a company or hire programmers to make a new game since he loved doing that
I think the key is to stay busy, most millionaires that weren't born into it are constantly working. Their issue is not knowing when to relax, I think pits of depression/loss of identity is because of that.
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it does indeed seem that you think he has lost his bag, the guy can still do whatever he wants financially in most cases.
I really do feel bad that basically he had done nothing wrong but it was until he was influenced by Twitter. Twitter is a legit dumpster fire that deserves to be deleted
Markus kind of seemed a bit miserable before getting his billions. Money often amplifies existing personal issues rather than getting rid of them. Also, it’s never a good idea to broadcast all of your negative emotions for the world to see. He should have bought the best therapist money can buy and delete his social media account until he was in a better headspace.
@Cameron Adamson That may just be spot on, I don't think he would've done this if he still worked for Mojang.
Thank you! Seems like he has his own demons weather he had money or not but now he has the resources to just pout and cut everyone off lol.
I agree with what you say about Markus and how he's handling all this. But the fact that he broadcasted his emotions like that, even if it really did hurt some people (I'm talking about the controversial stuff), showed us this lesson of richness not being related to being successful. Honestly, I think the fact that he showed us firsthand the product of that, of his life choices and how that kind of success affects a person, is one of the best things to come out of this ordeal. Notch wasn't letting ghosts out into the world, he was giving us the opportunity to learn. Very apparent in some of his tweets, especially the one(s) including something along the lines of "the problem with being successful" or "the problem with having no problems."
His drug-addict father shot himself a year before he got divorced. Pretty sure that had a significant impact on his personality. Strange that the video does not take that up.
What did Markus say wrong in his tweets?
1:34 its amazing that this video was posted the day I was born. the game was released exactly 4 years before my sibling was born. just crazy
The video from 2009 or this video we watched (the video this comment is under)
Its sad how often great game creators or just generally good people we lose to money.
Minecraft: Did you sell me?
Notch: Yes
Minecraft: What did it cost?
Notch: Everything
Is this a reference to Thanos in Infinity War?
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Minecraft: N-no.. it totally original, not like it very clear.. s-shut up
It actually cost his sanity and peace of mind.
@@sbg019 that’s what he was talking about..
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The story of notch is more than just a tale of the guy who made Minecraft, but more of a lesson that once you reach the top the mountain, there is no where else to go... but down.
"I reached the top and had to stop and that's what's bothering me" - king Louie
Or go up even more
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@@mydefenseisimpregnable sure man fly
@@jabahripasha3820 "I want to be a man, mancub, and stroll right into talent,"
this dude is just so sad i think no matter what happened to him he would just be sad, dude seems like he likes to wallow in his own sadness
I met my best friend of over 6 years on Minecraft. I will always be thankful for everything Notch has dond
I met notch in person, at the very first unofficial minecon. Still have pictures and his signature in my art book with minecraft drawings. He was very wholesome then, he was kind and listened to everyone who talked to him, just a genuinely nice guy to be around. It's really sad how he ended up. I hope he finds some purpose in life again.
I doubt his political opinions made up who he was, I imagine he had the same beliefs even back then
@@bellfish6728 But why was his political opinion so offensive, a lot of radical feminists are misadrists, spend enough time online and youl see its blatantly true. It is ok to be white and im guessing that was aimed at racists that constantly seek to abuse white people. And in most countries, most European ones at least privilege isnt anything to do with race but wealth, in fact some parts of Africa its actually a disadvantage to be white if you like living in relative safety. The guy got attacked for saying some very harmless stuff, the joke is those attacking him, probably don't actually understand the basic concepts they are attacking him over.
He didn't change, he's just in a dilemma, I mean not everyone gets 2billion dollars and we don't have enough data on how it affects the mental health of a human being.
@@bellfish6728 Of course he did. He was just smart enough not to broadcast his beliefs because as you can clearly see, any dissenting opinions outside of the "woke" narrative are not to be tolerated and those who state such opinions must be cancelled. The guy is lonely and bored, so he decided to not hold back and just let it fly.
@@dynagaming2693 so much for being,"Open" and "accepting of all" of course unless you are,"an oppressive white man". I hated my US history teacher.