[shmageggy]

You really think that a poem that people have tattooed on themselves, put onto tee shirts and mugs, inspired emotional emails to the author, and so on has inspired exactly zero excess recommendations to friends, zero dinnertime discussions or social media posts that have led to purchases?

[thrashh]

If it was any other thing, it would have been tattooed or put on t-shirts as well.

People are putting Minecraft’s ending on things because it’s Minecraft and Minecraft left an impact on them. The actual poem was a commodity that was tacked on to make the game complete as a muse.

It sounds harsh but that’s the truth and why OP isn’t entitled to any more than they got, especially with that attitude.

[ascendantlogic]

Keep in mind you're arguing with engineering types about this. Over the course of my career I've come to find that a not-insignificant % of engineers value art and artistic contributions very little or not at all.

[peterashford]

I was thinking just this as I was reading.

[roperj]

Rounded it is still likely 0.

[OOPMan]

Tattooed on themselves?

Wow...uh....that's kinda daft

[kilbuz]

Possibly less than 0.

[feet]

Did you read the ending text? It's incredibly long. Are you claiming that people have the entire thing tattooed on themselves? I definitely can't see it fitting on a coffee mug in any readable fashion

[lantry]

Did you read the article? There's a picture of someone with one of the lines tattooed on their arm. Obviously people aren't putting whole poem on things

[feet]

One line is not "having a poem tattooed"

[feiri]

I think the original point is to say that people felt moved enough by the poem to "permanently" integrate some feature of it into their lives. Critiquing the "whole poem" thing feels incredibly pedantic.

[sipjca]

Yeah he is claiming people have it tattooed. Reading the story shows you one such image. A Google search also validates the claim.

[dsabanin]

To be fair, some people make tattoos with all kinds of silly things, the bar is pretty low. One can argue that whatever the ending text was, someone would make a tattoo with it eventually.

[TheCapn]

So then would the artist who created that ending not be entitled to the recognition they deserve for their part in it? If not this author, then another? Would the same story, but from another person change anything?

[robertlagrant]

We need a gofundme for the previous comment to be tattooed on someone.