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Debunking the Unsolved Mystery of Minecraft’s Longest Jump by happyheart

Response: Debunking the Unsolved Mystery of Minecraft's Longest Jump by Dream

Written by gilbat

Edited by OGNamess, Fuzzbearplush, and Sporcle

Introduction

A couple of days ago, happyheart had released his video, Debunking the Unsolved

Mystery of Minecraft’s Longest Jump, which was made to help clear up the misinformation

around the 5 block jump and the theory of infinite momentum which Dream had caused in his

initial video. Happyheart had reached out to the PKC, given them input in the video, and gave

them time to review a rough draft of the video before the final thing went out. To many in the

Parkour Community (PKC), this was a beautifully written and well-researched video that would

be the end of all of the misinformation spread by Dream. The video came out, and for the first

two days, the video was doing great, and many Dream fans had come in and had learned about

Dream’s mistakes. The situation was looking better for the PKC for a whole two days until

Dream had posted his response video.

Many members of the PKC who had watched Dream’s response on release had quickly

noted many factual inaccuracies and or straight-up lies that Dream had stated to get his fanbase

back on his side. I will get into these later on in the writeup. It is also not entirely my place to

talk about how Dream is as a person, and mistakes he has made that do not deal with the PKC

and his video. This writeup is only regarding the mistakes he has made about his video and his

response to the PKC.

The Video

Immediately at the start of the video, Dream states that happyheart had made some “fairly

harsh criticism” about his video, which is putting his fans into the mindset that happyheart’s

video was made more to hate on Dream than to give him proper feedback, which is false. Into the

actual “response” part of the video, Dream reads the fact that at least 4.0875 blocks is possible

and then goes on to say that 4.0875 is, in fact, 4 blocks. In many cases, 0.0875 is a huge

difference, and Dream acts like it is barely anything. Some jumps are possible by much less than

this, such as the 3.75 x 2.5 + 0.75 block jump, which is possible by 0.000089. This should give

you an idea of how significant 0.0875 blocks can be. Dream then goes on to say that 4 blocks

being the furthest possible jump is a common belief, but still, just like his initial video, does not

back this up with any proof.

He then continues to go on about how jumps slightly further than 4 blocks, such as 4.246

are technically 4 blocks when basic logic can prove that reasoning wrong. Later he mentions how

some people consider certain block jumps either further or shorter than they are, using the

reasoning that a 3 block jump without sprinting is not possible. He could have searched up “3

block jump sprintless” and found many videos proving him wrong, but that would go against his

narrative. After happyheart’s point about Manacube, he says that he plays on an alt and that

Manacube was the first server to give him YouTuber rank when he was growing. While this

point is fairly reasonable, he still doesn’t bring up the fact that his initial video was sponsored by

Manacube, which is pretty disingenuous to not bring it up at all in your initial video.

With happyheart’s point about BBH and how he always comes up in the Unsolved

Mystery videos, Dream skirts around the fact that over a tenth of the video is spent talking to

BBH. While that may not sound like a large amount, this is time that could be better spent, for
example, going into elevation momentum and how it works (If, of course, he was better educated

when he was making this video). Dream then says that the reason he did not complete the jump

in his video is that it would be disrespectful to ub3r. Just disregard the lack of credit he was

given when the video first came out, as that is not disrespectful at all. When happyheart gets at

him for the “no shenanigans” issue, Dream conveniently cuts out the part where happyheart

shows in Dream’s description that he called headhitters a shenanigan, even though in this

response he says it is not. He has also cut other parts out of the video to fit his narrative, but I

will go into that later.

He states that headhitters are not a shenanigan just as much as elevation momentum isn’t

a shenanigan. Shenanigans will be brought up later, so don’t forget about this. When called out

for not mentioning ub3r’s name at all in the video, Dream says that he “did not know how to

pronounce it at the time”. At this point, you can tell he is just easily making up excuses for

avoiding stating ub3r’s name. It’s not that hard, learn simple leetspeak. While we are on the topic

of this, Dream does not state happyheart’s name once in the video either, and there is no way he

can try to blame it on not knowing how to pronounce it. As for the credit issue, he states that he

was in the description, had a pinned comment, and an info card. The info card may not have

helped much, as only approx. 4% of the people who actually watched Dream’s video clicked on

this. That was JUST clicking on this. Only around 37 000 people actually watched his video.

BBH was higher in the description just for his small bit in the video, the pinned comment does

not directly link to ub3r’s channel or video, but the info card bit is still fair.

Dream says that the reason he did not ask ub3r for permission to use the video, or for any

more information about the video, in general, is because he didn’t think that ub3r would respond.

Even if you don’t think he would, it is best practice to make sure just in case, and even if it
would be fair use to not ask ub3r for permission, you could’ve gotten better information and

made an overall more interesting video with his help. Many people state that Dream had given

ub3r all of this traction, and he would not be as big as he was now without him. Dream had given

ub3r about 10% of his total views, which is nothing when you consider the video already has 1

million views at this point.

Back over to the shenanigan issue from before, Dream states that 45 strafes are a

shenanigan because they grant you more speed than would normally be possible. Headhitter

momentum and elevation mm also grant more speed than would normally be possible, yet Dream

says that they are not shenanigans at all. Dream says that happyheart’s assumption about him not

being able to recreate the 5 block jump is far fetched when Dream had not shown him doing it at

all in the initial video. This should be a red flag for almost anyone. He also brags about doing it

10 times in a row when all of the coordinate work had been done for him.

Dream tries to discredit happyheart saying that a 6 block jump is very unlikely instead of

impossible by saying that happyheart is essentially proving it is an unsolved mystery. What

happyheart should have said instead is that it is physically impossible to verify. When

happyheart talks about a momentum limit, Dream states that he knew this already and that the

unsolved mystery is where the momentum limits, although we know it is between 6 to 11 sprint

jumps, which is not enough to make the 6 block jump he is hinting at. One of the points that

Dream makes where he calls the people in the screenshots “random people” is extremely

unjustified. Cynimal is the owner of mcpk.wiki, the best source of information on movement and

parkour physics. Mine is an extremely skilled player and also very knowledgeable about

movement physics, and Fuzzbearplush is another skilled player. These are by no means just

random people happyheart found off the street to prove his point. Dream’s comment in the
description didn’t even help. In the video he said that happyheart’s sources were “sketchy”, then

decided in the comments that these people were just unknown to the viewer, trying to make up

for discrediting them. While it would have been hard for Dream to verify that these people are

knowledgeable and skilled, it is unwise to brush them off this way.

Going back to the number of people who thought a 4 block jump was possible, he said

that he had polled people from his Discord server. Good polls generally poll multiple groups of

people from multiple communities and not just people who are your followers. Dream then tried

to just skirt past the fact that his reasoning is flawed by saying that it was not at all the point of

the video. Happyheart says that infinite momentum is false, and Dream fires back saying that it

was just a theory. Happyheart is saying the theory is false, so not sure why Dream is trying to

defend that for no reason. Happyheart says that a 6 block jump is posited on a future discovery,

and the method Dream used to theorize this jump is based on lack of research. If we are being

honest, a discovery groundbreaking enough to make a 6 block jump possible will most likely be

classified as a shenanigan.

Diving into the interview, ub3r says that he had at first commented thanking Dream for

featuring him. Ub3r had since said that he did not watch the video at first, and thought the video

was better than it was. Once his friend told him about it, he had watched the video and realized

all of the misinformation. He does not mention this at all and tries to say that greed clouded

ub3r’s judgment, and he only changed his mind after the video grew. Dream says that ub3r’s

video clip was less than 10% or 5% of Dream’s actual video, yet Dream still ignores the fact that,

without ub3r’s video, a large part of the video would be gone, and it would be much less

interesting. The rest of the video that isn’t ub3r’s clip is just building up to ub3r’s clip with

unneeded suspense. He then uses screenshots of private DMs with ub3r to prove that he had tried
to take down the video, which is illegal according to Dream. Ub3r was upset when the video first

released, and Dream never mentioned the fact that ub3r had later retracted this copyright claim.

Dream continues why ub3r is greedy and selfish, saying that Dream’s video doesn’t

deserve more views than his own. Not only had Ub3r not made any compensation off of this

video because of the fact he used a copyrighted song. Ub3r had done the research to make the 5

block jump with elevation momentum, and Dream completely ignores this fact, basically saying

that “Hey, this research doesn’t matter, you just made a 1-minute video and I made a 10 minute

one so I deserve it more!” which is extremely immoral. Dream says that he is responsible for him

gaining approximately 600k views when in reality ub3r’s video was already gaining traction

before Dream uploaded his video. This may be used as evidence to disprove his claim that he

found ub3r’s video while researching, and not the other way around. Dream says he gave ub3r

money to buy TeamSpeak, but apparently this payment never actually went through, so Dream

included this point to make himself look better. Dream continues on the topic of ub3r being

greedy. Put yourself in the shoes of a smaller YouTuber who had their video demonetized, and a

much larger YouTuber takes your video, adds about 9 minutes of suspense to it to reach the 10-

minute mark, and calls it a day. The only part where I agree with Dream mostly is crediting.

While the credit when the video first came out was not good enough, he did give more in the

end. However, Dream still paints ub3r in this extremely negative light compared to how

happyheart portrayed Dream in his video.

Afterthoughts

The first thing I notice when comparing both Dream’s original video and his response

video are the similarities in how Dream portrays both himself and the information in the video.

Multiple times throughout both videos he will cut out key details to prove his agenda. In the first

video, you can take the forum posts he quickly glanced over to make it appear like a 4 block

jump is common knowledge, or in his happyheart response video, where he completely cut out

10 minutes of the video where happyheart defended Dream and his actions to make happyheart

sound in the wrong. Dream also never seems to name the person they are addressing. He would

always refer to ub3r as just some dude who made the video, and similar when he was responding

to happyheart. The most blatant similarity between the two videos has to be the rampant

misinformation spread about. For the original video, it was the theory of infinite momentum,

which was quickly shot down by the PKC, and for the response video, he had called headhitter

and elevation momentum not shenanigans, even though they are classified as shenanigans by the

PKC for the same reasoning he gave for the 45 being a shenanigan.

Another issue to notice with the video is the mood he has set. For an example of a good

mood for your video, just take happyheart’s as an example. The mood of the video is

lighthearted, not too serious, and you get a positive feel while watching the video. The comment

section before Dream’s video released felt just like the video itself, people being just mildly

upset at Dream for spreading misinformation, but nobody full out harassing him. This is what

happyheart wanted, and he got that across very well with the mood of the video. However, the

mood of Dream’s video gave more of a negative energy, and you could hear in Dream’s tone that

he was very upset while making the video. This caused the viewers to believe Dream was the
victim, and ub3r and happyheart were the evil smaller YouTubers trying to get their way. After

Dream had posted this video, happyheart’s comment section became the opposite of what it was

before, with hatred, threats, and harassment. I cannot say whether or not all of this unwarranted

harassment was intentional on Dream’s behalf, but it is his responsibility to prevent this from

happening, and just a simple “Don’t harass them” obviously wasn’t enough to prevent it.

Happyheart gave a message not to harass, but also included a whole 10 minute segment at the

end of the video as to why not to. Dream’s attempt at preventing it was mediocre at best.
Conclusion (TL;DR)

Dream’s response to happyheart’s video was just a horrible, no good attempt at trying to

save face that didn’t even need to be saved in the first place. All that came out of it was

unwarranted harassment towards smaller content creators who were trying to inform players

outside the community as to why some of Dream’s facts were wrong. The video was filled with

snarky remarks, unneeded slander, and just pure disdain against ub3r and happyheart, despite

their best attempts to keep their video as uncontroversial as possible. To top it off, there is still

plenty of misinformation in his response video, such as calling headhitter momentum and

elevation momentum not a shenanigan, even though they are widely considered as such. The

format the video was in discouraged people from watching happyheart’s video for the whole

perspective, since he had given an overall negative reputation to the video.

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