I'm sorry PewDiePie/Transcript

The transcript of Dream's video I'm sorry PewDiePie.

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Video title: I'm sorry PewDiePie

Date published: July 20, 2019

Runtime: 10:01

People: Dream

Script
(Video opens. Music is Divider by Chris Zabriskie.)

Dream: So. For those of you who don't know, I had an idea about two weeks ago. That idea was to try and find out PewDiePie's seed. And what PewDiePie's seed is is a randomly generated number that determines how his Minecraft world looks. So, if you found his seed, you could play in his world. Not with him or anything, but you could play almost in his world.

I thought it was a sort of... funny... cool thing at first that I would never really accomplish, but then I came across articles from years ago about potentially reversing seeds using structures, and my interest was piqued. I did more research, I contacted a couple developers who had experience doing this, and then I made a video about it. And I honestly thought that was gonna be the end of it. I tried my best, but I was told that there just wasn't enough information.

But then, my video blew up. It got over 200,000 views in two days. And I had hundreds of messages asking to help. After that, a group was created by one of the developers I had messaged and everyone got to work. They did absolutely crazy things, like they tried to trace his steps everywhere just to get his coordinates. I had hope at this point, but I wasn't crazy confident on whether or not we would actually find the seed, I just had much more hope than before.

But then that group had a crazy idea. They thought about trying to get the coordinates based on how blocks look. Now, that sounds absolutely crazy, but it worked. Blocks actually have a different texture based on the coordinates they're at. If you want to hear more about how they actually did that, you can go watch my other PewDiePie video, because I go more in depth. At that point, they also realized that they would be able to use the maps that PewDiePie holds to find out his location. Obviously, PewDiePie holds maps a lot, so they were able to use that to help narrow down some structures.

At this point, they told me they were certain they were gonna get the seed. And I wasn't surprised! They had his whole entire spawn village recreated block by block. And that doesn't sound that impressive, but it was in the exact coordinates. Without even knowing the coordinates, they were in the exact coordinates of the corresponding blocks in PewDiePie's world. I quickly made a video on that, and everyone went wild. It was absolutely crazy. Now, I did get shamed a little bit for clickbait for saying we had found it, but in my mind, we basically had.

After that, they just had to run the computers, and correct any mistakes they had made. They made quite a few mistakes actually, like marking a coordinate as a negative instead of a positive, but they were able to fix them really quickly. Then, I heard they were about two hours away from finding the seed. It was 3 AM, which was actually an hour after I just uploaded another video (yes, I did upload at 2 AM), but I knew that I had to stay up. I had to be the first person to know that we found it. All the people involved got together and took one of the most iconic screenshots you will ever see.

(Screenshot shows on screen. About a dozen people are standing in a recreation of PewDiePie's village, while an NPC of the man himself stands on top of a tree.)

This is the team that found PewDiePie's Minecraft world seed. Yes, that randomly generated number, that had over 18 quintillion possibilities. This is the team that found that number just by watching PewDiePie. I tweeted out a tweet that said "guys..." (dot dot dot) and my Twitter was spammed with notifications. Everyone knew exactly what I was talking about. Keep in mind, it was 6 AM at this point. Everyone was still waiting. Then I waited, and I waited, and I waited. They had to rerun the program a couple times because of errors, so I decided to take a nap.

At this point, it was nearly 8 AM, and I... really needed to sleep. I set an alarm for 10 AM, and then I went to bed.

(Music shifts - I don't know what the song is)

At 10 AM, I woke up, and I checked my phone. They got it. They actually got it. I rushed to my computer, knowing that any minute, we could be releasing the seed. I had planned on making this video for the release, but I didn't expect us to find the seed so soon. I wasn't prepared at all, so I threw together a crappy little indie music video with subtitles saying "We found it! Yeah!" and then I got ready to post a tweet. I waited until one of the main players who found it started streaming, and then I made my video public, and I posted my tweet.

It was crazy. Everyone went mental. I thought that was the end of it, but then something else happened.

(Music shifts - Out of the Skies, Under the Earth by Chris Zabriskie)

PewDiePie posted a video. In it, he said that he wasn't gonna release his seed until he slayed the Ender Dragon. Now, this really sucks, because he posted this video after we had already released the seed. PewDiePie seemed to be worried about spoilers, and so he was gonna wait. Now, I do want to say, first things first, I'm sorry PewDiePie, if you had posted this just a couple hours earlier, you would have had your wish. Originally, I was worried about spoilers too, just like PewDiePie, and I actually made a Twitter poll asking if we should not release the seed, because of spoilers, and the poll overwhelmingly said no. And there was a lot of convincing replies actually.

The fact that PewDiePie doesn't use his coordinates and that anyone who tries to spoil something for him will be downvoted into oblivion made us realize that it didn't really matter. Plus, he's really close to killing the Ender Dragon anyway. But I still felt a little bad, so I felt we had to do something to make up for it. And so we did. I'm co-owner on a fairly large Minecraft network, so I thought I'd use some of those resources to create something epic.

I contacted my head builder IGotchu, and I told him to get every builder he can on a server and just start recreating PewDiePie's world. They did exactly that. Although it's not 100% accurate, it's as close as you can get to having PewDiePie's exact world. So, I bought a domain, I had a plugin coded, and now, a server is up. You can log in, view his world, fly around, and you can even play in a survival multiplayer version of his world if you want to. Oh, and we added /watersheep, a minigame where you can torture Water Sheep. But if Water Sheep dies, you lose. And the best part is, it's completely free to play.

(Clip on screen of PewDiePie advertising Tuber Simulator: "And that's a great price!")

No ranks, no donations, no loot crates, nothing. Completely free to play. If you would like to give back in return, all I ask is that you drop a subscription and go watch all my other content. You might find that you actually like it. To join, all you do is connect to PewDiePieMuseum.com, and then click the PewDiePie character that's standing to the right.

Again, I'm sorry PewDiePie, but I still can't fathom how amazing people are. Once again, this screenshot (the same screenshot from earlier comes up on screen again) is a screenshot of the people who were able to find PewDiePie's Minecraft seed in five days with next to nothing. And the crazy part is, those people could have been any of you. Everyone tried to help. The community, not me, the community, accomplished something that would blow a mathematician's mind. And all it took was a community coming together, and a dream bringing them together. And that is epic.

(The rest of the video is a four-minute musical montage showcasing the museum server and the people building it.)

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