Dream SMP/Mcyt Boundaries

Awesamdude's boundaries

• Profile pictures: Sam has said he’s okay with profile pictures of his face.

• Cosplay: Sam is fine with cosplay of his character.

• Fanfiction: When asked, Sam was unsure of what fanfiction is, but gave a tentative okay.

• Shipping: Sam said he cannot stop people from shipping him and Ponk and therefore he doesn’t really care, but to remember that he and Ponk are friends in real life and not to do anything that would be “weird” to them.

• Fanedits/general boundaries: Sam said that since he is putting content out there, fans can do pretty much whatever they want with it. However, he emphasized that he does not want anything that he would find “weird.” While this is somewhat vague, it can probably be safely inferred that most general fan content of Sam is okay, except for the usual more touchy topics like nsfw and shipping of ccs (rather than characters).

Evidence: on profile pictures: 1:12:22 - 1:12:42 of this vod, this clip about cosplay, this clip about fanfiction, follow up clip about fanfiction, this twitter thread has two videos of Sam talking about shipping and general boundaries.

Note: since the collection of the last evidence link, the account that tweeted about Sam’s boundaries has gone private, so the videos may not be viewable. A transcription of the videos is available below.

Clip transcripts below cut

(on profile pictures)
Sam: (reading dono) “Hi Sam it’s Maddy again. Daily question number 2: are you okay if people use your face as profile picture on their socials?” Um, I say yeah, I mean, I can’t really stop you guys from doing it, so. Figured it’d be better to just be okay with it. Ask that, y’know.. (trails off)

(on cosplay)
Sam: (reading dono) “Are you okay with people cosplaying your SMP character?” Sure! Why not? Not like I can really stop you anyways, but yes.

(on fanfiction)
Sam: oh my gosh - kingthephantom thank you for the five - (reading dono) “Merry Christmas Sam, (unintelligible) I have a question, are you cool with fanworks being created, like fanfiction and aus and stuff? You’re super cool, thank you.” I have no idea what that means. I’m gonna keep it, just, completely 100% honest with you. I have no idea what that means. Sorry. So I - I don’t know. I wouldn’t say no, but I have no idea cause I have no idea what that means.

(follow up about fanfiction)
Sam: Thanks for the bits - (reading dono) “Fanfics are stories written by fans about content creators.” Oh. Well I don’t really know, like, I don’t know what that means but I guess yeah, that’s kinda cool I guess.

(from twitter thread: on shipping)
Sam: (reading dono) “Are you okay with Awesamponk being a ship, platonic or romantic, or shipping in general?” Um, I mean I can’t really stop people, but I will say this: like, if you’re - if you’re about stuff like that, and like, that’s what you wanna do, I mean, I don’t knock you for that, do what you want. But just remember, like, me and Ponk are actually like, pretty good friends in real life. So, just, y’know. Think about that when you’re making stuff and just think, “hmm, if the two of them were, y’know, in a, like, on the phone or in a - in a discord call together and saw what I’m making here, how would that make the two of them - who are actually, in real life, pretty good friends - how would that make the two of them feel?” Y’know. Think that’s a.. that should help most people draw pretty good boundaries.

(from twitter thread: on general boundaries)
Sam: …don’t really see a problem with you guys using it for your profiles and stuff. Just, nothing weird, please. Y’know - like - we’re all, we’re all old enough to know what’s weird, right chat? I mean like, let’s just not do something super weird, I mean. And edits - (unintelligible) It’s really, like - I’m putting it out there, so, I guess you guys can kinda do whatever you want with it, right, like, I can’t really stop you, you know what I mean? Like - kind of have the - the ability to do whatever you want. Nothing weird though. Nothing weird though. Don’t like - I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t even have an example. Just nothing weird. Anytime you’re doing it though, just doing something, just think to yourself, “hmm, would Sam think this is weird?” And if the answer is yes, then don’t do it. There we go. There we go. That’s a solution. That’s a solution.