The Story of Minecraft’s Forgotten Author…

An important but mostly forgotten part of Minecraft's History is the End Poem. But what's the story behind the story? did Notch write it? did C418? This is the story of how Minecraft almost lost it's ending and how an artist lost a friend.
▻ Links for Information ::
- theeggandtherock.com/p/i-wrot...
- walledculture.org/how-minecra...
▻ Subscribe? ::
bit.ly/3oXm8gD
▻ Become a Channel Member ::
/ @kodekyt
▻ Follow Me on Instagram ::
call.me.kodek?i...
▻ Music Used ::
“Creative Concentration” by @Bingiz - newgrounds
“Apathetic mice (mice on venus) remix” by @thiccburger - newgrounds
Fun Fact: This video went through the most title and thumbnail changes of any other video

[@CashierThatLikesBeanz]

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

[@walmarp]

Tbh I’d figured it’d’ve had more

[@TopatTom]

MatPat that you?

[@CashierThatLikesBeanz]

@@TopatTom maybe, but thats just a theory, a youtube comment theory!, thanks for reading

[@rayman2902]

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

[@YetiYes]

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

[@The_Turtle_One]

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

[@kodekYT]

Thanks! First time trying a more serious tone

[@BarnesReal]

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

[@Crashidan]

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

[@Bouncy_Skittles]

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

[@SpookyGhostpeppers]

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

[@RexTheReindeer]

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

[@thepriestgodneverpaid]

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

[@fireworks4life838]

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

[@guest_4416]

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

[@doomer17o]

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

[@Damglador]

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

[@Lax-qh8pv]

Amazing video, this is definitely gonna blow up

[@MSMelodyYT]

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

[@redshot9616]

Really amazing video

[@iternity4425]

this was incredibly well made.

[@Elgi72]

I remember that the End Poem is public property.

[@trustytrojan]

you deserve more subs 💪

[@YellowCatMC]

Another banger from kodek

[@dorian51.]

Wow really cool video man , thank you for this !

[@bluepolar4565]

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

[@creeperplayzz]

Oh damn, great video on this

[@LBoomsky]

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

[@tyrone1736]

high quality af

[@NostalgiaArtist]

Cleannnn editing

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

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

[@land3021]

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

[@DoggoDoesStuff]

Amazing video

[@KingOskar4]

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

[@prodauxccord]

Wow!

[@darealzinc]

W video Kodek.

[@YetisBlessedWorld]

Underrated

[@Lucky_Pony1]

1:21 minecraft xbox one edition 😢

[@kgoblin5084]

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

[@FaceCreeper]

we are love

[@doggoner]

whats the song @2:42

[@kodekYT]

Credits are in the description 😗

[@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257]

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

[@Cheddy]

!

[@sdkdb]

20,000 for a peom is pretty fair tbh

[@MonerLaine]

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

[@kodekYT]

I definitely wouldn’t call Julian the hero or “victim” of the story but he certainly wasn’t a bad person, he simply didn’t realize what he was getting himself into

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

thats an extremely harsh way to put it and id argue too much, he's probably not some evil hack thats just angry that he didnt get more out of the biggest game, but i do agree that he isnt really owed much anymore. he's been paid, even if he didnt sign a contract, and even if its less than it couldve been, but its not like he got nothing out of it i think its fine to reminisce about missed opertunities like that even if it might come across as petty, but i think its more important to accept and embrace the past and learn to move on, which, by the ending of this video, he seems to have done

[@Hashtag_Playz]

SECONDDD