Celebrated Minecraft player Technoblade has passed away after a battle with cancer.
He was 23.
The news was shared in a video on his YouTube channel titled “so long nerds”, posted to his 10 million followers.
The video features his father reading out one final message. “Hello everyone, Technoblade here. If you’re watching this, I am dead,” he begins.
“Thank you all for supporting my content over the years. If I had another hundred lives, I think I would choose to be Technoblade again every single time as those were the happiest years of my life.”
“He was the most amazing kid anyone could ever ask for,” his father said. “I miss Technoblade.
“Thank you to all of you, for everything. You meant a lot to him.”
Technoblade played Minecraft on the Hypixel server. The team there wrote an In Memoriam message.
“He will be remembered fondly and missed deeply,” it reads. “He was a kind, talented, passionate young man with extraordinary potential. We are so thankful to him and grateful to have had him be such a prominent part of the greater community. In many ways, the success of many of us is tied to the success of Technoblade.