#rest in peace. fly high. have fun punching whatever higher power exists.

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Hi. Hello. This is probably totally unasked for, and it’s probably gonna end up massive bc once i start talking, i keep going, but it’s,,,, been a few days now. I think I’ve sorted out some of my thoughts.

So let’s talk about Technoblade.

I know a lot of people recognize his name from DSMP. That was a big part of his content for the past year, so I don’t blame you one bit.

But I want to tell you how much more than that he was. So here’s a (probably not so brief) summary about everything else.

Obviously not everything. Go look at his channel for that.

When he started his youtube channel, it was over 11 years ago. He was 23 when he died, so he was about 12. And his goal was to make it to 10 million subscribers.

Hardcore With A Steering Wheel was one of his first popular videos. Just what it says on the tin—He beat hardcore minecraft with a steering wheel. Worth the watch, and one of the rare videos where he has a camera. It was absurd, and strange, but it was hilarious.

And that was Techno.

Then the Bedwars Winstreak. Bedwars is a minigame on Hypixel, and Techno decided that he was bored one day, and decided to crush the streak record that had been there.

And he did. He ended up actually ending the streak himself, because the pressure was becoming unbearable, and was making him anxious and upset.

Techno got his big break into fame during Minecraft Mondays—the tournament preceding MCC, for those who don’t know. At that point, Techno already had a pretty large fanbase, in order to meet the requirement of 2k concurrent viewers that Minecraft Monday required.

Lots of old big-name youtubers were participating, it was one of The Minecraft Youtube Events of the time. And it was how he broke containment.

And Techno was unstoppable. Honest-to-goodness, no exaggerations, he was a PVP legend. Even on weeks when his team didn’t win, he would come out, take names, and make jokes while he did it.

So people started to check him out. This was when I found him, myself. He was just wild. There are so many compilations of just,,,, people hearing/seeing him in one direction, then turning around and noping the hell outta there, even if they had better items than him.

He was already a legend around the community, new players were always warned to just try and run if they ever saw him.

And then Minecraft Monday faded out. The server got hacked, Techno even got banned, it was wild. But the numbers were already coming in.

For a while, there was a lull. Techno made a lot of videos of himself just chatting over Hypixel Minigames.

And then the Potato War. Techno realized that he wasn’t exactly growing with his current setup, and that he needed vested interest. Grudges, maybe. One-On-One conflict.

So, he decided to become the #1 Potato Farmer on Hypixel. For no reason other than he could. Which put him up against the #1 of the time.

And here’s something about Techno—He has a very strategic mind, and he’s very, very dedicated when he decides on something.

He did genuine calculations, sabotaged his opponent, and farmed potatoes by HAND. In a game where you could automate potato production. And he won—by a MASSIVE margin.

He brought that strategic mind with him.

Next up was conquering smpEarth. Before the dsmp, it was one of those smps to get a lot of youtubers interacting in one space. The map was a recreation of earth in minecraft, and there were factions for each continent.

Techno joined the Antarctic Empire with Philza, the guy who lost a 5-year old hardcore world to a baby zombie, and VoiceoverPete.

Techno and Phil already knew each other, having totally stomped a Minecraft Monday tournament together prior.

And their sights were set on conquering the entire SMP.

The way that the faction system was set up, people could claim land to establish their empires. This was done by claiming chunks, and everyone had a number of chunk claims that they could make, which they got more of over time.

Together, the Antarctic Empire amassed enough claimable chunks, and set their plan into action: Outlining the entire SMP, and claiming it for their own faction.

And Techno destroyed another Minecraft Tournament while he was at it—Minecraft Ultimate, where his team of three won against a cross-teaming gaggle of teams of four.

And then, Minecraft Championship started to take off. And youtubers from Minecraft Monday hadn’t forgotten the legend of Technoblade.

And he continued to live up to it, too.

Techno continued to be feared in PVP based events—So much so that there was significant interest in having other minigames, in order to give others a chance.

And so, Techno broke BuildMart.

In the original version of BuildMart, there wasn’t any randomness to the builds. Just the order in which they appeared in.

So Techno made a shopping list. Each member of the team had a list of items and the amount to grab. and when they had all the materials necessary, their team built faster than anyone else, taking first place in the minigame.

Techno also took the record for fastest time and fastest lap on Ace Race.

He seemed unstoppable.

And then Dream v. Techno was a whole thing.

The two teamed up together and completely destroyed an MCC tournament.

And then there was the 100k duel, where he eeked out a win.

And then the DSMP videos started.

About 8 months ago, he announced his battle with cancer.

He was always pushing for subs and donations, but that increased. He founded MCYT against Cancer, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research.

He gave off this air about him that really made it feel like he was going to be okay. That he planned to come back, full force, and start working his way up to taking names again.

His name was Alex. He hit his dream of 10 million subs.

And he left us a final message, only hours before he passed. He was thinking about his fans until the end.

So, I don’t care if you don’t like DSMP. I’ll be honest, I’m not the biggest fan myself.

I don’t care if you didn’t like Techno. If his content isn’t for you, that’s okay.

But please, please be respectful.