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Father of Technoblade, YouTube Minecraft Star Says that his Son has Died

He read his son's last message on the YouTube channel where the 20-something had entertained more than 11 million users with Minecraft gameplay and humorous comments. The title "So long nerds."

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By Amanda Holpuch

Technoblade, a YouTube celebrity who gained a fan base of millions through his wry comments on videos of himself playing Minecraft has passed away the father of his son announced in a post on the account of his son.

Technoblade's Minecraft gameplay was watched by more than 11 million players. He was a commentator on camera. While he tended to focus on the action in the game, in some videos, he described things that are as routine as visiting the D.M.V. or as devastating as receiving a cancer diagnosis.

Technoblade's YouTube channel uploaded the video "so long geeks" on Thursday. The video was viewed more 26 million times as of Friday afternoon. The video is an exception to the usual aesthetic of the channel which is characterized by vibrant bricks that are pixelated. Instead, Technoblade's father appears sitting in a chair with an adorable white dog and a stark white background.

His father, who doesn't identify himself is reading the message from his son, which begins: "Hello, everyone. Technoblade here. You can see me dead if you're watching this.

The message goes on to reveal Technoblade's first name, Alex, which he did not use on the internet. The video also includes some pictures of Alex with his loved ones. He had rarely presented himself in his YouTube videos, preferring instead to present himself as his character: a crowned sword-wielding pig.

Alex's letter states "If I had another hundred years to live, I'm sure I'd pick Technoblade each time." "Those were the most joyful years of my life."

His father, who remains emotional throughout the video, says he and his son talked for months about whether or not to make the final video. His father claims that Alex wrote the letter and died just eight hours later.

"I do not think he said everything he wanted to say, but I believe that he understood the major points," he says.

The video ends with a letter that Alex's mother (who is not identified) wrote. She stated that Alex was not famous and was self-deprecating, despite his channel growing in popularity.

"From Technoblade's first days on the web, he was constantly figuring out ways to please and reward his audience by offering online prizes in the name of encouraging sportsmanship and, most importantly sharing his Minecraft adventures to entertain and laugh," she wrote.

Alex's family was not able to be reached on Friday. Hypixel is a gaming company which worked with Technoblade, said Alex's family had requested requests for comment not be sent to them. Don Pireso, the company administrator, said in a direct tweet that "The video they posted contains all the information they're comfortable sharing at present."

Alex first made public the diagnosis of cancer in a video uploaded to his channel in August. Like other videos the video, it showed the game while he spoke off camera. He kept his self-deprecating, humorous style, avoiding becoming too earnest. He also disclosed his age, which was 22.

In the video, he described how the initial round of chemotherapy had left him exhausted to the point that he couldn't even sit up to make a virtual appointment with a doctor. Premiumebooks.Net Then the comedian joked: "Sitting in a chair is that me being Superman?"

He claimed he was diagnosed after experiencing severe discomfort in his arm. He initially dismissed it as a stress injury from playing video games, but even after some days of rest, he stated his shoulder "was swelling like a tiger."

He also implored people to take Covid-19 vaccination, stating that the treatment for cancer had weakened his immune system, which put him at chance of contracting serious illness due to the coronavirus.

"I'm going to go ahead and speak on behalf of all cancer patients when I say that it is incredibly annoying when the hospitals are overwhelmed by patients dying from preventable diseases," he said in the video. "I'm just saying that we've got dibs on those hospital beds."

On social media, Technoblade's friends and fans were awestruck by his humor and for being a role model among Minecraft players.

Minecraft is unique to other games in that its owner, Microsoft, does not control the servers where players meet online. Instead, players can build their own servers and join with others to create a huge network of worlds within the Minecraft universe.

Hypixel which manages a network of Minecraft servers, announced that it had designed a memorial book to allow people to write messages which could be printed and then sent to the Technoblade family. The tribute featured a photo of Technoblade's pig avatar, as an artifact. "In many ways the success of a lot of us is tied to Technoblade's success. Technoblade," the company said.