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Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died
- ultrasounder 4y agoRIP legend! Got to know of Techno from my autistic son whose only outlet at that time was minecraft(wait he was battling axels even today). But what a young age to pass and what a legacy he leaves behind. Thats the power of the internet. RIP! Respects.
- sdmike1 4y agoI lost my dad to cancer earlier this year and this has got me all up in tears again. I never really watched much of his content, but the potato war thing was pretty funny and it sucks that he ended up going.
- dimator 4y agoI'm sorry for your loss, I wish you strength.
- ryanisnan 4y agoWow this was really special. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know Technoblade, but I feel like this is such a cool way to honour a mostly digital figure for so many folks.
- meibo 4y agoI hope that in 20 years, we can all look back and say "how did we not solve cancer earlier". Good luck to everyone battling it, and anyone affected.
- dasz 4y agoRecent wars didn't exactly help with funding health sciences. Seems to be a few questions around our specie's priorities as of late. Still fighting over dirt and who has the highest or fancier sandcastle. It's a pity we can't compete on cures created or something more useful like, I don't know, carbon removed from atmosphere. There's an interesting competition worth winning.
- nicolas_t 4y agoIt's what I keep thinking about whenever I watch the tv show For All Mankind. It would be so much better if we competed on things that are actually important.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoNah, everybody’s at the mall scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking out his credit card out of a fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them
- Aeolun 4y agoHey, my 3 year old is very happy with sneakers with lights in.
- doublerabbit 4y agoIf I get adult trainers with lights in, I'd be very happy too.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoGuess Carlin never had such a privilege.
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- 8note 4y agoTechnoblade never dies, as they say
- WaffleIronMaker 4y agoHe will live on in our hearts.
- wsdan 4y agoThe farewell video is posted here: https://youtu.be/DPMluEVUqS0 https://youtu.be/DPMluEVUqS0 and is read by the father of Alex (aka Technoblade).
- ecmascript 4y agoMan I couldn't bare to watch the whole thing, it was too sad.
- WaffleIronMaker 4y agoNo father should ever have to endure that. I admire his strength. As one of the millions of people who appreciated his content, Technoblade's memory will live on in our hearts.
- ramidarigaz 4y agoFor anyone that hasn't encountered Technoblade so far, the Great Potato War is an excellent place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjnDd1rsII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjnDd1rsII Fuck cancer
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- rozza 4y agoWhat a fantastic video and introduction :) thanks for sharing.
- tacocataco 4y agoI never played Minecraft or the mod he is playing and the video still got laughs out of me. Appreciate the share.
- Flemlord 4y agoA year ago, my 9 year old daughter begged me to watch a video from her favorite YouTuber. It was the Great Potato War. We watched all three parts and I became an instant Techno fan. It also led to me playing Hypixel with her for many many hours.
- rglover 4y agoNot a Minecraft player and hadn't heard of this guy but this was really funny. RIP.
- LilBytes 4y ago"In his message, Techno, who reveals his name is actually Alex, talks about how the money from merch and other “sell-out” pushes over the last year is being used to send his siblings to college, if they want to go, along with thanking his viewers for giving him such happy moments—all while a slideshow of images showing him throughout various points of his treatment are shown on screen." What a beautiful legacy. Fuck cancer.
- philjackson 4y ago"No dead brother pressure"
- JetAlone 4y agoNitpick, but the title is missing the 'n' in "technoblade".
- obiefernandez 4y agoFixed, thanks
- neckardt 4y agoNitpick, Technoblade isn't known for creating mods, he's known for creating online video content, mainly on youtube and twitch.
- slivanes 4y agoMy teenage daughter made an irregular visit to my study about an hour ago to let me know of this news. I let her know that I didn't know this Technoblade, but this news seemed to hit my usually tough exterior daughter pretty hard, so he had some type of positive impact to my family. It is a touching tribute video they released.
- eredengrin 4y agoIt's hitting me harder than I'd have expected, I think it's partly due to how much fun his videos always are and how positive he always seems to be. Even going back and rewatching his earlier videos of his cancer updates, he still has me laughing (and now, crying too) at his self-directed morbid jokes. The Great Potato War is on my top ten of all time (if not top five) youtube videos list: he's hilarious, the optimization is insane, it's such a trivial thing it seems it could only be done for the love of the game, and it also reminds me of what it's like when I'm optimizing a piece of code. Just hunting for the smallest advantage in the most obscure places. It's just sad to see someone who's brought so much joy to so many people go through that. Usual caveat that I don't know him as a person, only what he shows through his videos, but even the fact that he worked to keep his identity unknown draws me in more: he wasn't in it for the money or fame, he was just a guy who loved the game and loved sharing it with others.
- ballresin 4y agoMy teenage daughter came to me with tears in her eyes earlier today and asked me to watch a video. I watched with her and my heart sank. We shed a tear together for them. She had just made a ceramic pig mask at school a month ago, and regularly wears his merch. I'm glad he has been able to touch so many lives positively.
- kitd 4y agoSame for my 12yo son. He seemed to have connected very well with his audience.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago> My teenage daughter made an irregular visit to my study about an hour ago to let me know of this news. She probably needed a hug? (I'm opening my mouth on something that's not my business, cause I've often missed such cues in the past - you can always make up for one you missed, but it's better if you catch it in time. Again, pardon the interjection.)
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- cowmoo728 4y agoThis is speculation but his symptoms and age appear consistent with metastatic osteosarcoma (bone cancer that has spread, typically to the lungs). Osteosarcoma treatment has not had a breakthrough in decades, so it's a very bad cancer to get. Surgical techniques have gotten more effective at preserving limb function, and there are more tools to ameliorate symptoms from aggressive chemotherapy, but the fundamentals haven't changed since the late 1970s. It's also very sad because this often chemoresistant cancer primarily affects adolescents in their growth spurt years around age 15. I hope that a more effective treatment can be found soon for this cancer too. It's upsetting that so much progress has been made on so many varieties of cancer, but there are still some varieties that are a big question mark.
- cududa 4y agoYou don’t need to share your theories on someone’s death to the world. It’s not your place and serves no purpose. When I had a friend that was well-known in the tech world pass, all sorts of people came out with conspiracy theories on what his “real” cause of death was. To the bereaved, coming across random theories just hurts. Outside of that, opining without any medical expertise or insights on how he died serves no one but your own ego
- andybak 4y agoA trifle harsh...
- Asraelite 4y agoThe comment is 90% just talking about that type of cancer, irrespective of whether Technoblade had it. It's a bit extreme to try and stifle discussion just because we don't know with complete certainty that it's what he had. You probably shouldn't do it in an obituary or something but this is just a HN thread.
- cfcosta 4y agoAnd not only that, it was really informative. I never had heard of this kind of cancer, and the description was short and extremely on-point. Now I know it is a thing, that it has (possibly) not seen enough attention, and that it is hard (and in many cases impossible) to heal. It's literally the kind of comment I want to see here.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoThe greatest privilege one can have in life is a good health without terminal illnesses of oneself and one's family.
- NylaTheWolf 4y agoI never watched Technoblade but god this is so fucking sad. I know he was close with Skeppy who I used to watch all the time. I hope he's doing okay. Rest in peace, lad.
- ludicity 4y agoHe popped into my mind at random last night, and I remember thinking "It's been so long since he uploaded anything" and being hit by a little bit of dread. My friends going back as far as high school and I are extremely saddened by the news. We had so many great hours watching his content together - it was always a big event. We've split all across the globe, but we'd get together online and watch his latest uploaded together whenever something came out. Much like when TotalBiscuit passed away when I was young (he seemed so old then, and now I'm almost his age!), I'm suddenly struck by thoughts about how I'm spending my time, and how none of us are guaranteed a long time here on earth. So many of us spend so much time planning for the future, slogging through work to buy that house, etc., and it's good to remember - though I dearly wish the reminders didn't have to come in such a shocking fashion - that you should enjoy some of the time you have now, just in case you don't get more later. Maybe a little bit corny... but he's earned one more for the road - Technoblade never dies!
- Buttons840 4y ago> So many of us spend so much time planning for the future, slogging through work to buy that house, etc. I have a lot of mixed emotions and thoughts about this sentence. In the end I'll just agree that "slogging" is often too high a price for whatever you're slogging for, but it's really sad that a basic human need like having a place to live is something we have to slog for.
- ghosty141 4y agoMan, totalbiscuit actually hit me back then. I loved his reviews and he was a great guy. I really miss his yearly award videos whenever its christmas and other creators upload theirs
- jabroni_salad 4y agoSay what you will about him, but TB was a great consumer advocate and the hole he left behind was never really filled.
- roer 4y agoHis latest update video before the farewell video is actually a great introduction to his humor and situation: https://youtu.be/wG1Q1ouemVA https://youtu.be/wG1Q1ouemVA Technoblade never dies.
- explodingwaffle 4y ago22 is far too young. I've been watching his videos since 2017- the picture in today's video of him in a hospital bed with his 10 million subscriber play button absolutely destroyed me. He used to joke all the time about hitting 10 million subscribers as if it could never happen, and the fact that it did is a monument to all the time and effort he put in- should've lived to 100 million. A reminder to us all- life is precious, live it to the fullest while you still can. They're all good, but if you want a video to watch, I'd recommend his 1 million subscriber special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rnhyu000w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rnhyu000w
- _nalply 4y ago> 22 is far too young Yesterday I had a stroll at the local cemetery. We discovered children tombs. One girl died when she was six years old. I can't imagine how hard that was for her parents.
- bovermyer 4y agoMy best friend's son drowned at 5. To say it was devastating would be a severe understatement. Now, over a decade later, he still gets deeply depressed around two days - the day his son died, and the day his son was born.
- jugg1es 4y agoI found my son floating in the pool at a beach rental house when he was 3 (the pool door was broken). I managed to revive him with CPR and he's totally fine now. Years later, I still feel trauma from it. I often think about what my life would be like if I had found him a minute later. I feel deeply for your neighbor.
- dokem 4y agoYou should be proud. Bringing your kid back like that. Incredible.
- skerit 4y agoLife is so unfair. RIP Technoblade.
- frays 4y agoThank you HN, I did not understand why this was such a big deal to my son and seeing this go straight to the front page of HN has helped me understand why he cried over an online "entity". Good luck to all the parents, children and anyone else affected by his death out there. Rest in peace Technoblade.
- ivolimmen 4y agoYeah same for me. My daughter send me a message this morning about it and I responded a bit like a jerk on the message and my youngest send me a message that she was crying about it. Watching this also made me tear up... will amend this with my daughter
- mdrzn 4y agoLegends never dies, Technoblade never dies.
- jpgvm 4y agoRIP mate. Far too good of a soul to be gone so young. Didn't get much news between his last surgery and now, which at the time was pretty upbeat having removed the tumour from his arm. Guessing it didn't stick and it metastasised beyond the original tumour. :( Watching a father deliver a sons last words to the world is heartbreaking, doubly so for someone that brought so many so much joy.
- jbellis 4y agoMy thirteen year old watches a lot of techno blade videos. I was struck watching this that TB's dad is only a few years older than I am. Very sobering.
- biesnecker 4y agoI'm so sorry to hear this. My kids love Technoblade. He's one of the few streamers I know by name. Gone far too soon.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoMy daughter has been crying her eye out ever since she got the news. We have had some talks about the uncertainties of life, OK to feel about others that are somehow part of your life, especially in the digital world of today.
- i386 4y agoTechnoblade was based as fuck
- clintonwoo 4y agoVery touching and sad video. I never saw his channel but when totalbiscuit died I cried also. To the parents empathizing with children, they are sad because they like the videos and believe this creator exists in the world. Then when they die it's like a friend they spend time with dying. For some people it can literally change their worldview.
- bentoncreation 4y agoMy teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they felt like they had no friends, and there was one point when it seemed like they even stopped missing other people altogether. But my son, especially, was deep into Minecraft Youtube at the time, and I could tell that this cast of creators was really important to him. It often felt like he was on a call with his fun and hilarious buddies, just on mute. I think Technoblade, and other creators like him, helped get my son through the past couple years. I'm so grateful to him for that.
- e40 4y agoParasocial relationships can have an extremely strong effect on people. My son was similarly effected by the suicide of a youtuber a few years ago. My son was 18 at the time, just out of HS and struggling. This person is someone he had followed for years and was public about his struggles and was doing better, then this happened. The unintended side effects of the world we have built are many, and some are impacting our children in ways we couldn't have forseen.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoSeems like the few good guys - RIP to his family.
- wonderwonder 4y agoJFC. that was heartbreaking. I have never heard of Technoblade but he seemed well loved. The video was a dad who lost a son. Something no one should have to experience.
- m-p-3 4y agoA young and bright soul, born at the dawn of the millenium and gone too soon. RIP Alex :(
- lofatdairy 4y agoThis is unbelievably sad news. During the pandemic, when my mental health wasn't doing so great, I fell into the Youtube minecraft rabbit hole and Technoblade was one of my favorites. My condolences for his friends and family, I'm glad he was surrounded by loved ones to the end.
- greggh 4y agoThis right here. I know I am much older than his average viewer. But that just doesn't matter. His wit, humor and delivery were everything I needed in my darkest moments over the last couple years. My mental health would be far worse if it wasn't for Technoblade's content making me laugh when nothing else would.
- light_hue_1 4y agoCancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country. NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year. A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic. Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or so. We haven't increased funding for cancer research in 20 years. Direct costs of cancer care are over $200 billion per year in the US alone. If you compare cancer to the moon landing. The moon landing cost about $500 billion inflation corrected. It will take 100 years before we invest that much money in cancer research at the current rate. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people dead for no reason. Once people begin to think of these deaths as a choice we make to needlessly let people die, we'll finally be able to invest the resources necessary to stop cancer.
- packetslave 4y agoThat $6 billion presumes that the all cancer research is being funded by NIH grants, though. I imagine there is plenty of research being done in major pharmaceutical labs like Pfizer, J&J, Merck, etc.
- sytelus 4y agoHumans, except for very cream of the crop (and that too in limited time window), is not rational species. The chimp genes still dominates our majority of the short and long term actions.
- xyzzy123 4y agoUnfortunately everything causes cancer, every biochemical mechanism can be related to cancer somehow. As a researcher in life science or chemistry or whatever you "package" whatever you were doing anyway to meet grant terms. This means that (after the politics are done) increased cancer funding ends up being an increase in "general" science funding. What's also needed is much better targeting of the money already spent.
- gaetgu 4y agoI used to watch Technoblade all the time. His humor was really great and he seemed to have all sorts of funny ideas. He was sort of a legend amongst my friend group. I was really shocked to see that he died, it seemed that he had his tumor removed but it didn't help. Rest in peace, Technoblade never dies.
- uggwar 4y agoHaving a kid approaching his teens on the internet demands a check up from time to time. Finding him giggling and laughing to Technoblade's content, I knew he was in the best hands the internet could conjure up. We're going to watch the Great Potato War together the coming Sunday. Thanks Alex for being such a great role model to my son, and making him laugh so heartily. RIP
- nikolay 4y agoMy kids were really sad. Let his soul rest in peace!
- sytelus 4y agoAmazing shift in new generation is that they are completely oblivious to movie and TV stars. Their world revolves all around set of YouTubers. Many of these YouTubers are exclusively just streaming their game plays. This is literally the most important entertainment medium for the new generation, and as usual, the old generation just doesn’t understand this transition.
- djsjakka 4y agoWhen i herd the sad news i droped my phone and cryed i spent so long loveing him and now..... His love stud up