The Death of a YouTuber (theverge.com) 60
"Effortlessly funny. Endlessly talented. Gone too soon," tweeted fellow YouTuber Ted Nivison after hearing the news. "Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber, has died from cancer age 23," writes the Verge.
But before Technoblade left, he'd prepared a goodbye for his 11.9 million subscribers: In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel titled "so long nerds" and narrated by his father, Technoblade thanked his fans and fellow streamers for their support over the years... His father says Technoblade wrote the script for his final video from bed and died shortly afterwards. "I don't think he said everything he wanted to say, but I think he got the main points," says his father. "He finished that up and then he was done. He lived about another eight hours after that."
"Hello, everyone! Technoblade here," the final message begins. "If you're watching this, I am dead. So let's sit down and have one final chat." My real name is Alex. I had one of my siblings call me 'Dave' one time in a deleted video from 2016, and it was one of the most successful pranks we've ever done. Thousands of creepy online dudes trying to get overly personal going 'Oh hey, Dave. How's it going?'
Sorry for selling out so much in the past year. But thanks to everyone that bought hoodies, plushies, and channel memberships. My siblings are going to college! Well, if they want to. I don't want to put any dead-brother peer pressure on them.
But that's all from me. Thank you all for supporting my content over the years. If I had another hundred lives, I think I would choose to be Technoblade every single time, as those were the happiest years of my life. I hope you guys enjoyed my content, and that I made some of you laugh.
And I hope you all go on to live long, prosperous, and happy lives. Because I love you guys.
Technoblade out.
After reading the statement, the 23-year-old's father remembered that in those final hours, "We all said goodbye." Then he adds that "He was the most amazing — he was the most amazing kid anyone could ever ask for." He said he misses his son, and thanked his viewers "for everything. You meant a lot to him."
And at the end of the video a message from "Techno's mom" appears on the screen. "My son's bravery on this path was a shining lesson to all of us who were privileged to walk it with him."
But before Technoblade left, he'd prepared a goodbye for his 11.9 million subscribers: In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel titled "so long nerds" and narrated by his father, Technoblade thanked his fans and fellow streamers for their support over the years... His father says Technoblade wrote the script for his final video from bed and died shortly afterwards. "I don't think he said everything he wanted to say, but I think he got the main points," says his father. "He finished that up and then he was done. He lived about another eight hours after that."
"Hello, everyone! Technoblade here," the final message begins. "If you're watching this, I am dead. So let's sit down and have one final chat." My real name is Alex. I had one of my siblings call me 'Dave' one time in a deleted video from 2016, and it was one of the most successful pranks we've ever done. Thousands of creepy online dudes trying to get overly personal going 'Oh hey, Dave. How's it going?'
Sorry for selling out so much in the past year. But thanks to everyone that bought hoodies, plushies, and channel memberships. My siblings are going to college! Well, if they want to. I don't want to put any dead-brother peer pressure on them.
But that's all from me. Thank you all for supporting my content over the years. If I had another hundred lives, I think I would choose to be Technoblade every single time, as those were the happiest years of my life. I hope you guys enjoyed my content, and that I made some of you laugh.
And I hope you all go on to live long, prosperous, and happy lives. Because I love you guys.
Technoblade out.
After reading the statement, the 23-year-old's father remembered that in those final hours, "We all said goodbye." Then he adds that "He was the most amazing — he was the most amazing kid anyone could ever ask for." He said he misses his son, and thanked his viewers "for everything. You meant a lot to him."
And at the end of the video a message from "Techno's mom" appears on the screen. "My son's bravery on this path was a shining lesson to all of us who were privileged to walk it with him."
Oddly touching (Score:5, Insightful)
My kid showed me this a few days ago. I have no knowledge of this weird niche of Mindcraft YouTube influencers, etc. Watching it made clear that there's a whole world in there that seems to me to be of dubious value, but this video was really touching. It was very emotional and felt very and rarely authentic.
Re:Oddly touching (Score:5, Insightful)
There is nothing authentic about this. It is all trashy clickbait. The kid died due to cancerous complications from the clot shot. Next!
Seek help. Please. You need it.
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Off topic....
Can someone help me figure this out? There seem to be two accounts using the name PopeRatzo. One is the apparent troll parent has responded to, and the other has been a longtime presence on Slashdot and usually makes insightful and interesting comments. I have friended the 2nd account but not the first. Somehow they both have the same account number (965497), but the trolll account has a 2nd number after it (9779246).
What is going on? Am I missing something obvious?
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Oh, of course!
Thanks for your reply, that is obvious now in retrospect.
Re:Oddly touching (Score:5, Informative)
The kid died due to cancerous complications from the clot shot
You really are the worst piece of shit alive.
Re:Oddly touching (Score:4, Insightful)
There is nothing authentic about this. It is all trashy clickbait. The kid died due to cancerous complications from the clot shot. Next!
Sad to think that Slashdot, once the home of geeky intelligentsia, has become as trash-filled as the rest of the internet.
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I don't know why but 3 years ago we had some truly horrendous pieces of shit register an endless string of troll accounts mimicking the names of common Slashdotters. Its strange, I guess they were hoping that some of the accounts they were mimicking would give them credibility or some shit.
I think this was the result of AC posting being disabled without an account, the paid troll farms just took on any ol' name they already saw. How many misspelt rsilverguns are there on here now. I think I've seen about 6
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Viewers develop a para-social relationship with the people on screen. His death probably touched a lot of people he had never met or interacted with directly.
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Re:so, a gamer died? (Score:5, Insightful)
You gave enough of a shit to post. If you actually didn't give a shit, then you would have ignored this story entirely.
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Games and gamers are the nerds this site was made for.
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okay, so we have articles about game coding and game tech.
But... a gamer died?
Re: so, a gamer died? (Score:2)
No, not really. I'd say a good 70% of slashdotters love to talk about how much they love macos. They're reasoning is that they say it's superior for work, because they know that not only is the graphics hardware on macs basically non-existent, but most of them won't even run on the platform.
Try saying anything bad about macos, watch your post get downloaded to shit.
Like if I say that the menu bar at the top that you can't get rid of is an obsolete 45 year old design paradigm that's ultimately just a waste o
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My favorite is the people who love to talk about how Bill Gates is now a great guy.
Re: so, a gamer died? (Score:2)
Re: so, a gamer died? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: so, a gamer died? (Score:1)
Hmm... Yeah that sounds about right. I have the emotional maturity of an 8 year old, and I wouldn't have posted that.
Re: so, a gamer died? (Score:2)
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This is "culture" site now, culture being what makes kids cry?
Yeah thanks for contributing to the decline of this site with your need for soap opera sob stories.
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I have a cousin who compiled a couple of papers when he was a teen.
101 uses for a dead puppy.
101 uses for a dead cat.
I thought both were very funny. He has an ---- advanced sense of humor and a feel for the idiom.
But I know this will affect him, because he has been involved with that community his whole life (he might be 30 now, have to check).
I feel for him, a friend of his died.
His papers are still damn funny though. I wonder if he ever got around to parrots....
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Don't worry. When you die, nobody will give a shit.
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So you would expect every 23 year old to be married with children then ? And if by any chance he did have young children, would you still make such uncompassionate, cruel comments in their face ? Or, like most basement dwelling losers, does the true you only come out when you're sitting behind your screen and keyboard ?
You're either a fucking idiot or, more likely, a fucking troll.
I'm married with grown kids.
Then I pity your kids. Must suck to have such an uncaring, cold-hearted loser as a father.
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Don't worry. When you die, nobody will give a shit.
Unlike most gamers I'm married with grown kids.
So nobody except maybe them will give a shit.
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So nobody except maybe them will give a shit.
Sure, they get (or have) to divide up his stuff.
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statistically they'll be dividing wife's stuff, since most likely thing is I'd die first and she gets it all. Nature so sexist making maleness more deadly than femaleness.
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Why is this on slashdot? A couple reasons are obvious. When I was born, computers were still room-sized and communication was by phone. Now children are growing up with a different digital landscape. Tracking the way that young people perceive the world and act upon it, is difficult for previous generations to fully grasp. Observing the preparation and final thoughts of a mediocre millenial digital celebrity (a celebrity nonetheless, regardless of the domain), is a doorway into that mental state.
This is a p
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Die of cancer in a fire, you worthless hump.
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FUCK CANCER (Score:4)
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It was crazy how fast he was diagnosed after getting vaccinated.
Seek help.
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Sure, that's the reason now.
The only thing that really makes me smile is that this time, at least the conspiracy nutters are the ones dying from failing to be vaccinated instead of their innocent kids.
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You sure have numbers to back that up? Preferable not written in crayon?
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Here we can see the psychological impact of the suck cost fallacy.
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No but I usually fix typos before pressing submit. :)
Re: FUCK CANCER (Score:5, Insightful)
When reading this comments remember many are protected and have not experienced death the way the rest of us have. They have no ability to process. They are scared.
Youtuber or not (Score:5, Insightful)
This has nothing to do with Youtube. It's a guy bowing out and using whatever channel they have to say goodbye.
I just came out of my second bout with the big C. Not out of the woods yet, but close enough that I can reasonably state that I will have beaten it again this time around.
Well, I don't do social media because I'm from a previous generation and it don't come natural to me. But I do patronize a couple of old-style forums and IRC channels in which I do have some very good old friends. I too bade my farewell. It's a strange thing to do, but I felt I needed to do it while I still had a working brain to do it. Turns out, my friends ain't rid of me yet :) But that's another story.
IRC is my generation's version of letters. I suspect people of yesteryear in that situation wrote letters to their friends. Or they sent one last message before going silent key, if they were into ham radio. Whatever your medium of choice.
This guy did the same, with his Youtube channel. He used Youtube because that's his IRC. This story is about someone taking his last bow gracefully. Youtube don't enter into it.
Curiously ... (Score:2)
The father's comments were of more interest to me than the son's. Although the "dead brother peer pressure" comment was cool :-)
Digital Technoblade? (Score:3)
Please donâ(TM)t think me insensitive. I was touched by this and I mourn his passing.
This being Slashdot though I am curious if all his content could be fed into GPT-3 to create a sort of digital version of him, and if this would be of value to others.