Minecraft is killing our usernames... again.

9 months ago, Mojang cleared out nearly 100 rare Minecraft usernames. Over the last month, they've come back for even more. Let's talk about that.
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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - The "TempName" Wave
3:13 - The "FNC" Wave
4:13 - Outro
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[@mcbyt]

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[@InfinitySike]

hello

[@mcbyt]

@@InfinitySike hola

[@jacobyakus8620]

@@mcbyt Greetings MCBYT and InfinityMike

[@jacobyakus8620]

So the other day, I was playing rainbow six siege, and I heard one of my teammates make a callout in the voice chat. It was a real life gamer girl. God, I kid you not, I just stopped playing and pulled my d*** out.

[@thefog7861]

@@jacobyakus8620 what the fuck

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

the nice thing is if they can change the uname field without notifing the account owner that means they can set the uname to whatever they want which means if they change their minds about some of the more popular invalid names they can revert it.

[@Zudexa]

That’s not gonna happen though

[@iMutedMC]

thats never going to happen

[@Yqe-]

Very funny since mojang themselves have stated years ago that they don't censor usernames, and even cite the scunthorpe problem. The article that mentions it is still up, and as with every other help article for some reason claims to always have been last updated an hour ago or so. "*Is there username moderation? Can I report someone? Mojang Studios has always had a moderately relaxed stance on usernames. Someone who chooses an inappropriate username is often banned by the servers that they join. Even though username changes are now a feature, people have been able to register questionably appropriate usernames since 2009, and the community has self-regulated. Do not report other player’ usernames to Mojang Studios; if you encounter an inappropriate name while playing on a server, please report it to the server owner. *"

[@L4ngyAge]

Ironic

[@notunnamed2]

i remember that time someone was name MojangSucksD**k and mojang made it NoWeDont fucking hilarious

[@L4ngyAge]

@@notunnamed2 LMAO

[@poultrypants]

Oh lol. BTW do you have the link to that article (or the name of it)

[@sm0k345]

Yeah but Mojang Studios isn't the only company at play here- Microsoft probably has different thoughts.

[@bennyontop]

The thing that i find funny with Minecraft's username profanity filter is that my current name, 'childwatcher', is completely allowed and i've been able to keep it for ages! My account has also not been changed yet.

[@Werk4Cash]

One of my mc accounts has the ign “ImANiggerXD” and I’ve been using it since 2017. There’s plenty more accounts with extremely racist/bad words that will make your ign of “childwatcher” look like a joke when it comes to profanity.

[@bennyontop]

@@Werk4Cash lmfaoo! yeah totally but i just find it so funny how it snuck past their profanity filter when it literally says "p*do" 🤣

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmbeepbeepbeep]

Wow. I can't believe they are doing this again. Microsoft is really killing their own game with this and chat reporting.

[@jorcs3776]

This is done to discourage account selling

[@vinesauceobscurities]

One of my first fears when Microsoft pushed account migration is the risk of them going after "questionable" usernames as migrated accounts will fall under the enforcement of the Xbox User Conduct rules. But I didn't expect them to use the same indiscriminate censorship regiment as in the chat system. There's going to be a lot of wrongfully scrubbed names in the pool in the name of "family-friendliness" simply because they have a specific combination of letters in their name. Watching this ecosystem sanitized to hell is an absolute travesty.

[@tropicalkhan3955]

@@jorcs3776 its not really microsoft's game, they just make the decisions

[@ZombieSler123]

@HalfSmart Yeah. Bro, my friend's name was changed because his name was originally "It'sMeFather879" and Mojang instantly thought he was trying to go for, "It'sMeDaddy879" So, now his name is "DripLord34".

[@LuckyAceCard]

@@jorcs3776 But account selling is 90 % taken up by minecraft alts used for hacking, the reason these accounts are worth thousands and aren’t used are because no one is buying them in the first place.

[@jadethenidoran]

Account selling is against TOS iirc, so sold and compromised accounts are likely what's being targeted here

[@mcbyt]

That would make sense, but a lot of these accounts don't have rare names, capes, or anything else of the sort; I don't see why they would be sold or targeted at all, it's odd

[@jadethenidoran]

@@mcbyt True

[@SimplySuperior]

@@mcbyt Cheap hacked accounts/keys from resellers

[@3nd04]

So Dream should be among the first targets

[@Kavaitsu]

@@3nd04 exactly! Like why aren't more ppl talking about this????!!

[@mineralnoodles]

This is done to discourage account selling

[@mianunez4097]

You think Mojang verified each account for suspicious activity? Quite a bit of them look completely dead or untouched. Jouna08 and EKiNTK got their first NameMC views ever about a month ago. That means they were relatively inactive in servers, enough that nobody searched them on NameMC prior to now.

[@Sixty4Horses]

As saddening as it is to see unique accounts destroyed, account buying, selling, & trading is still an issue and thus scamming, hacking, etc... I would suspect many of these non-dupe accounts have been transferred between different owners. If Microsoft can change account names / block accounts to combat this then so be it.

[@Sye_]

Great editing keep it up 💙

[@mcbyt]

Thank you

[@olillin]

I really appreciate the subtitles :D

[@mcbyt]

Haha, of course :)

[@maksiksq]

Why are you so sure these are carefully reviewed by humans? It's way easier to just make a list go off automatically because that's what the databases are usually built for, flexible ways to access and edit the data. I bet most likely it's just a human who was given a list and he just checks if all good not looking into it too much, and that's the cause of wrongly taken down usernames, and they're purging them probably because it either causes a bug, someone seen it and thought it was not supposed to be a thing and just decided to start removing them until he realized something is wrong or less likely Mojangs actually intentions to remove the usernames that there are people who care about. I just spent 6 hours coding, I'm still into it and the fourth tea was definitely spare.

[@yorik1006]

Justice for Cumzah!

[@mcbyt]

fr get this man a compensatory smoothie for his trauma

[@slonkazoid]

i lost multiple accounts to these waves, all permanently gone one of them was called Minecon_Cape too, sad

[@georgegorvaniagerge7077]

before 1 year i didnt stop saying how microsoft are ruining minecraft and then people said that i was wrong and that microsoft are making minecraft way better than before seems like i was right

[@TGKK]

Woooooo Minecraft

[@jacobyakus8620]

New 3d block game needed.

[@spei.9000]

Minetest is already there

[@jacobyakus8620]

@@spei.9000 very true

[@lavasqrl702]

I'm a modaholic, so I can't switch from Minecraft.

[@jacobyakus8620]

@@lavasqrl702 clearly don't know what minetest is lol

[@joho5647]

2024...

[@Razzlelul]

damn they goin for everyone now

[@UltimateTheZekrom]

if they touch my username i will cry myself to sleep

[@joselugamerpro]

Do you think that any minecon account on sale is going to get the New canilla cape?

[@fintanbochra]

My Xbox name from my account, I missed TheFinisher, so I used ThaFinisher, then changed it to xX_TheFinisher_Xx. This caused most admin commands, and shortcuts on servers not to work for me on Java

[@uPilot]

when I saw the title I thought it was gonna be like minecraft is going free to play and all usernames are being reset lol

[@brbrbrbrbrbrbrfr]

Yooo I was going to use this username Good thing someone worthy has it

[@JuniorVaristy44]

what is the pack you use?

[@aguyontheinternet1]

i mean thats just what happens when people start selling accounts with "rare" names

[@mianunez4097]

Oh yep! zDropMetal and truthlyy12 are TOTALLY rare names, in your opinion at least. They were cleared too, innocent and random players who had no involvement with the name community. (Check 2:03)

[@aguyontheinternet1]

@@mianunez4097 People don't sell accounts only for the reason of rare names. The reason could be capes, progress on servers, owned by a popular person at some point there are a lot of different reasons other than the names I just didn't include them because the main reason people sell accounts is for the names.

[@mianunez4097]

@@aguyontheinternet1 You can see clearly on Plancke or NameMC that they have nothing valuable that would be worth selling. Theory debunked.

[@aguyontheinternet1]

@@mianunez4097 Plancke does not show stats for every single server available. Theory debunked.

[@mianunez4097]

@@aguyontheinternet1 Stats for other servers? Accounts for stats on any server other than Hypixel would cost like $50 at most. There's nothing of real value there. Regardless, Mojang/Microsoft has no business changing a random player's name without their permission, for seemingly no reason.

[@thatindiankid]

no way bro that’s crazy

[@poke7188]

Why would they do this again

[@ZombieSler123]

I swear, I'm finna become one of those players, because of my name. It's Zombie_Sler123, but it sounds like Zombie_Slur123, JUST TO CLARIFY, THAT ISN'T WHAT I WAS GOING FOR!

[@theexpainer3981]

Whats that shader your using?

[@mcbyt]

Sildur's Enhanced Default :)

[@Rouge_Gems]

My username in MCPE is "AlexandraBloody", i am scared that Mojang staff will change it.

[@ItsTempoYT]

3:39 👀

[@CyberSalty]

we need veteran capes

[@LightskinAlonzo69]

Ty man I was gonna name myself kumlord69

[@crimsonisms]

ive had the same username for 7 years

[@rascal3554]

Wonder if my name weetben would be changed? It's just between scrambled up..

[@Steamrolls]

how did you do that wild card name search thing?

[@mcbyt]

AFAIK it's only a thing on NameMC, but just do the part you want to search for and then add an asterisk for the wildcard. For example: *wild - Anything ending in wild wild* - Anything starting in wild *wild* - Anything with wild in the name

[@Steamrolls]

@@mcbyt I was so confused because I did that and it didn't work but when I did it on my phone it did because apparently namemc+ doesn't let you?

[@makelegosgreatagain3755]

Nice video

[@totalythanos]

Doesnt matter just some words and numbers

[@jacksonsherbertgaming4437]

I hope hytail changes the playing field and makes Minecraft almost obsolete and they make good decisions

[@RoosSkywalker]

I regret changing the name of my account from BluFootBooby.

[@mqtthew]

why do the shaders kinda look like minecraft bedrock

[@mcbyt]

i do not know but bedrock shaders are flames so this is a very good thing

[@thebrownfrog]

👍

[@seanm3644]

Is it marc changing them??

[@TheDragonfriday]

I already lose my 11 years old Minecraft account... I buy new account last year

[@jeffreythefrog]

[@ItzVoidYT]

Collect ur here within an hour prize here!

[@narkzz2381]

I think clickbaiting is fine as long as your content is good :)

[@Rtza]

missaid 😍

[@themightyeagle21]

Fecking hell, what is mojang doing

[@lavasqrl702]

*Microsoft

[@JoelJairHier]

Jooooo iemand met een enzoknol skin xD

[@Dumbity]

my account name was changed from dumbity to dumbityy and it was by a person who hacked and stole my account

[@sicktaiz]

HE WARPED ON MY ISLAND LMFAO

[@mcbyt]

it was quite flames

[@sicktaiz]

@@mcbyt lmao, glad you found some loot🤝

[@mcbyt]

@@sicktaiz that 1.17 raw copper hitting hard fr

[@sicktaiz]

@@mcbyt man you got spoiled with the 1.17 raw copper, hope it helped you LMAO

[@mcbyt]

@@sicktaiz i can return it tbh i have no idea what copper is used for, i just saw it and was like "oh dope there's cross version compatibility" and took it without thinking

[@UJustGotGamed]

that's what happens when you put your money into a block game account, when something is created by a bug don't be surprised when its gone

[@mianunez4097]

Oh yeah, zDropMetal is a totally bugged name, yet it got randomly changed? That doesn't add up to your point

[@UJustGotGamed]

@@mianunez4097 the video is about duplicated usernames and so is my comment

[@mianunez4097]

@@UJustGotGamed If you watched the full video, you would've realized it's not just duplicated usernames affected by this purge. Mojang name-changed several accounts that weren't duplicate accounts whatsoever. Everyone already knows about the risks of owning a duplicate account or invalid name; the point of this video was to highlight the extraneous lengths Mojang went when changing names.

[@sieldi.]

Again?

[@elitecereal]

Again.

[@mcbyt]

Again.

[@peeyansh]

what shader does he use?

[@mcbyt]

Sildur's Enhanced Default :)

[@janek216]

Hello

[@kennyxkazuki713]

Ayyyy I'm like 1k

[@crxy5803]

whynick is aslo a dupe acc my friends dupe acc

[@johnxanthos]

3

[@tuvelamishav1969]

Hi

[@SergeantVintage]

I'm not first but i'm 1st(:

[@flagman5761]

I got

[@SpiralshapeDev]

1

[@keagaming9837]

Am I the only one who thinks Minecraft is doing the right thing? Yes the chat reporting system is bad, but compromised, invalid, and dupe accounts are not allowed and can be changed without notice and be dealt with however. Mojang is trying to crack down on some of the illegal accounts which is good, the chat reporting system has not worked out well at all but what is happening with accounts is not necessarily bad.

[@chemplay866]

They are changing names of normal account too. Did you even watch the video?

[@sith6375]

there's a whole market for rare accounts and those accounts are extremely valuable... if people want to buy and sell accounts, who cares

[@noxmore]

@@sith6375 Mojang does, it's in the TOS.

[@KnittedSister]

I agree with Kea.

[@keagaming9837]

@@chemplay866 It is possible those accounts have been compromised (not all hacked accounts are high value.), or yes it could be mojang making another mistake. There could be any reason really.

[@FormalSnake]

Is my username considered rare in minecraft? It's FormalSnake

[@sith6375]

hell no

[@osma-xr3gl]

is this satire? i hope so LOOOOL

[@SudetenlandMan]

Is my username considered rare in minecraft? It's xXx_pootato_FECKINSspielerZEDZ973XxX

[@noxmore]

Don't know why the replies are being rude, but like they said, it's not rare. Still an 8/10 name imo, no numbers, easy to remember, only 2 words, pascal case.

[@FormalSnake]

​@@sith6375 You could have just said no xd

[@Penguingot]

they will destroy all of names without numbers in it

[@milkcookies8202]

i have an account with a “weird” username and my account is fine so far

[@nakedness]

what is it?

[@milkcookies8202]

@@nakedness s*xdoll T-T

[@nakedness]

@@milkcookies8202 damn nice

[@___-dg5zq]

i pray for this game's downfall

[@mustachecrab9669]

Kinda hoping that the game dies, and gets resold or abandoned, anything to get it away from these, well, this comment would likely get deleted if i finished that

[@erubianwarlord8208]

overly mobile target block rejects?

[@cyberterrorist]

first

[@Comrade_Zaz]

No cares lol