Technoblade

About

Personal life

Cancer diagnosis

Surgery and Recovery

Minecrafters vs Cancer

Minecraft accounts

Minecraft Java

History

StudioLore and Derp Squad

Motivation

Dream SMP

Tournaments Joined

Minecraft Mondays

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Minecraft Championships

Minecraft Ultimate Hunger Games

MrBeast 100K Duel

Controversy

Technoblade (or simply Techno), is an American Gamer and a YouTuber​​​​​ known for his Minecraft content and collaborations with other YouTubers and Twitch streamers. He is a member of the Minecraft server Dream SMP and has a friendly rivalry with Dream.

About

Technoblade makes the majority of his videos on the Minecraft server Hypixel. The time range between his video uploads is usually a week to a month although he has tried (and failed) to do daily episodes. He also streams Minecraft content live on YouTube, playing on the popular Minecraft server Hypixel, Minecraft Mondays, MC Championship, SMP Earth, Minecraft Story Mode, Party Games, and the Dream SMP. He is part of Sleepyboisinc along with Wilbur Soot, Ph1LzA, and TommyInnit. He has been nicknamed "The Blade" by Tommy.

In the past, Technoblade mostly uploaded Blitz Survival Games. His 500th episode special, titled "Ultimate Hunger Games," was his most-viewed video before he gained more popularity. He has also made older videos of him doing things like cooking and green screen content showing his YouTube awards. Hypixel continues to be his main means of obtaining views.

Technoblade is well-known throughout the Minecraft community for his skill in PVP (player-versus-player) combat. He has earned the [PIG+++] rank on Hypixel for winning the Minecraft Monday tournament four times, more than any other YouTuber. He has collaborated many times with other famous YouTubers, many of which have been through Minecraft Monday, some of whom were teammates during said event.

In late November 2019, he joined a Minecraft server named SMP Earth, a Factions server where an assortment of YouTubers plays survival on a 3000:1 recreation of the Earth. Technoblade has also begun streaming different games aside from Minecraft, such as the popular Minecraft spin-off "Minecraft Story Mode", and "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord", which consists of 5 streams as of June 15. During the Potato War, Technoblade has made multiple alternative Minecraft accounts such as Asiyn, Whitelisted, Whitelisted 2, PommesDeTerre, NoHaxCanJustFly, Ender_Gamer09, and BizarreZzz.

Technoblade also often plays Hypixel's version of Skyblock, often featuring his friends, or co-op members, Jiyn, TimeDeo and xHascox. Technoblade has made an entire series of Hypixel Skyblock..(Most known for the Fastest man alive and taking #1 potato rank from Im_a_squid_kid).

Personal life

Technoblade was born on June 1, 1999, and currently resides in San Francisco, California in the United States. He has three younger sisters and a brother named Chris. Technoblade has made a reference to a younger brother, although it is unclear if he is talking about Chris or if he has another brother. He also has a small dog named Floof.

Technoblade took fencing in middle school. He resided in California for most of the beginning of his YouTube career, attending and graduating high school in the state. In middle 2018, after his gap year, Technoblade moved to Chicago, Illinois for college as a English major for over a year, before moving back to San Francisco after dropping out. He said in one of his Q&A videos from 2016 that his parents were divorced. He currently lives with his father, as revealed in a stream when he forgot to mute his microphone. It was also revealed that his father owns a movie studio.

Techno has made multiple references in his commentary videos and tweets about having ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). He has ADHD, confirmed on a Hypixel Forum post from September 27, 2013.

Techno has never done any official "face reveal", though his face has been visible in his 100,000 subscriber special video, in the "Cooking with Technoblade" videos, and at the end of his "playing minecraft hardcore with a steering wheel" stream. He is 6'2.5" (189 centimeters) tall, but rounds it to 6'3". He is an atheist.

Cancer diagnosis

On August 27, 2021, Technoblade uploaded a video titled "where I’ve been", in which he revealed that he had been diagnosed with sarcoma in early August after feeling pain and swelling in his right arm. The cancer was detected early by doctors, and Techno is currently focused on getting chemotherapy treatments. Later in the video, he urged his viewers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and take necessary precautions, since he is now immunocompromised and at higher risk. Since his announcement, he has received support from content creators Dream, DanTDM, CaptainSparklez, and other members of the Dream SMPjuuk, as well as from Roblox YouTubers KreekCraft, HelloItsVG and Ryguyrocky as they used to be Minecraft YouTubers or watch him. Following his announcement the hashtag #TechnoSupport soon trended on Twitter and other social media platforms for a couple of days.

In the following Minecraft Championship, in which Technoblade did not participate, Dream decided to match every point his team got and donating that amount in dollars to cancer research. Dream was able to raise roughly $21,000 for cancer research. Before the event started, Skeppy, Awesamdude, Finnster, TapL and Grian agreed to individually donate whatever Dream donated as well. Between the five of them, roughly $105,000 was donated. Aqua Axolotls (Antfrost, Fundy, Tubbo and 5up) agreed to donate $50 every time they swear. The week after his diagnosis, he posted a Sleepyboisinc video. The existence of an unedited video featuring him, Wilbur, Phil and Tommy had been alluded to on Twitter by some of the four before. Phil later confirmed on his Twitter that the video was recorded long before the cancer diagnosis. As of now, he only streams or uploads/records whenever he has the strength between chemotherapy sessions and recently did two lore-streams on the Dream SMP with the one on his prison escape and two him Jailbreaking Dream, ConnorEatsPants and Ranboo. He also streamed his attempt to beat Minecraft with viewers controlling the game, with viewers donating various awards to aid or prohibit him, and the stream raised roughly $322,900 for sarcoma research.

Additionally (though unrelated) the day he shared his diagnosis was the same day that his channel finally surpassed one billion video views, making him one of just over 200 channels to have achieved that milestone.

Surgery and Recovery

On December 23, 2021, he made an update video with the ominous title of "I Almost Became An Amputee". He said that he had scheduled to have his tumor removed in a surgery in October, but his doctors said that they would have to amputate his right arm, and it may have already been too late. After many referrals, the doctors told Technoblade that he could have a limb salvage procedure, in which the doctors would remove some of his bones and muscles, but they would also take out the tumor that caused his cancer in the first place. The second and more painful option would be full amputation of his right arm. However, the amputation was said to increase his survival rate no further than the limb salvage procedure. They signed him up for a procedure but told him he had to wait for two weeks because the plastic surgeons were busy.

The surgery went quite well, despite Technoblade being in immense pain the week following. They did have to take a few muscles out of his left leg, rendering it inanimate, but the muscle was used to replace the muscle in the shoulder. They also had to take out his right clavicle, leaving him with 205 bones, which he joked advanced him to beyond mortal levels. He also joked that his upper body strength was "steamrollered" so he would have to cancel his unannounced boxing match with Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

However, he did say that the surgery removed 99.9% of his cancer, so he is almost completely in the clear. The last step is unknown, but it is believed that he will be fully recovered after this.

Minecrafters vs Cancer

On February 1, 2022, he started a fundraising event on YouTube named Minecrafters vs Cancer with TommyInnit joining on February 5 in response on his current battle with cancer.

Minecraft accounts

Minecraft Java

His account name is "Technoblade ," and he mainly plays on Hypixel (Skywars/Bedwars). He has competed in Minecraft Mondays and MC Championship. He also owns the accounts Whitelisted, BizzarreZz, PommesDeTerre and Whitelisted2 (currently known as MrBeastGoon27) as shown in his Great Potato War videos, qqng, shown in his "bedwars youtube event w/ AciDic BliTzz, Mydoeza, ShadowApples, a lot of people really" video, as well as coolperson147, as mentioned in his “The art of a balanced breakfast - survival games montage” video. His account "Whitelisted" was originally created for a joke. Technoblade also owns the accounts Technogrenade, used in "Alt Account! - Solo Skywars #12" back in 2016, and SuspicousPIgman.

History

StudioLore and Derp Squad

Before the creation of his main YouTube channel, "Technoblade", he had another channel named "StudioLore", in which he posted a very small amount of irregular low-quality Team Fortress 2 videos and one Roblox Sword Fight On The Heights video. In his time on this channel, he accumulated around 50 subscribers. Technoblade was around the age of 10 when he started publishing videos on this channel. He mentioned this older channel in his 1 million subscriber's special video, and talked about it in detail.

Technoblade's first Minecraft content was posted on another channel, named "Derp Squad". The channel seems to have been created specifically for collaborations with his brother, but was abandoned when the "Technoblade" channel was made. All videos on this channel were uploaded in August 2013, about a month after the StudioLore channel went inactive, and roughly two months before the creation of the "Technoblade" channel.

Motivation

In Technoblade's video "the quest for the [PIG] rank", he says that he created the channel for the sole purpose of being confident and getting 10 million subscribers. But, when he met someone with the 3-coloured [McProHosting] rank he quickly decided that he "needed to get an even cooler rank." Technoblade came up with the idea to have a uniquely colored rank called the [PIG] rank. When he tweeted Hypixel how many subscribers he would need to acquire this rank, Hypixel responded with 10 million.

This is apparently "all part of his master plan" and supposedly increased his motivation to tryhard his YouTube career even more than usual. Despite not having reached 10 million subscribers at the time, he still gained the [PIG], [PIG+], [PIG++], and [PIG+++] rank after Hypixel donated in his Minecraft Monday stream, stating that he would get [PIG] rank if he'd win the tournament. Following that victory, another plus sign would be added to his rank with each extra win in the event. The [PIG+++……] later became a meme and an inside joke among his audience, and he constantly uses [PIG++++(?)] in his thumbnails.

Dream SMP

Technoblade joined the Dream SMP on September 23, 2020. He coined himself as an Anarchist, and was convinced by TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot to help them overthrow the corrupt government of the city of L'Manburg, led by jschlatt and Quackity. However, when Tommy's side thought the war was over, Wilbur pressed a button that set off loads of buried TNT, which resulted in the destruction of a large part of L'Manburg.

When Tommy tried to organize a new government to take control, Technoblade turned against them, since he wanted a society without any governments, and him and Dream went on a killing spree. He was banished from L'Manburg, and retired to a faraway land, putting his dreams of anarchy across the server on hold, but secretly preparing for a next war. He later found the now-banished TommyInnit squatting in his house. Tommy was hiding from Dream, and wanted Technoblade's help to get back some Music Discs that had sentimental value to him. When the new L'Manburg government sent a hit squad after Technoblade, Techno decided to end his retirement, and teamed up with Dream to destroy L'Manburg once and for all. TommyInnit, who wasn't willing to go that far, betrayed Techno and joined the other side, but Technoblade and Dream pulled off their plan and annihilated the city. Shortly after the war, Technoblade formed an alliance with Ranboo, Niki Nihachu, and Ph1LzA. As the influence of the mysterious mind-controlling entity known as "The Egg" spread across the remains of L'Manburg, Technoblade's group grew further with people intent on acting against it.

Tournaments Joined

Minecraft Mondays

In 2019, Technoblade participated in Keemstar's Minecraft event, Minecraft Mondays, where YouTubers and streamers would come together to play a wide variety of minigames, and the prize for winning was set as $10,000 dollars to be split between the first-place team, changed to $5,000 past week three. He won four times: week one, week two, week six, and week ten. He took part in the minigame-based event with other popular YouTubers and/or streamers including Skeppy, CaptainSparklez, Speedyw03, Vikkstar123, DanTDM, JeromeASF, jschlatt, MrBeast, Lachlan, PewDiePie, James Charles, Ninja, LazarBeam and more.

In this event, Technoblade had the unique opportunity to fight and kill celebrities and his childhood heroes for money (or, as Techno says, "Blood for the Blood God!"). Hypixel, the owner of the biggest Minecraft server in the world and the server Technoblade mainly makes videos on, sent a donation promising that if he won the tournament, he would be given [PIG] rank for 1 week. Minecraft Monday contributed many subscribers and viewers to Technoblade's channel, due to the competition being held by Keemstar, and being more mainstream. In the end, he won a total of $15,000 from the Minecraft Monday tournament series.

Week 1

In the first week of Minecraft Monday, Technoblade won the event with ShotGunRaids and received the $5,000 payment, as well as the prestigious [PIG] rank, which Hypixel was originally only going to give to Technoblade after he hit 10 million subs.

Week 2

In the second week of Minecraft Monday, teamed with iBallisticSquid, he won a second time, this time only receiving a $2,500 reward. Additionally, he received the [PIG+] rank on Hypixel.

Week 3

In the third week of Minecraft Monday, Techno was teamed with ChrisO2, and there was an assortment of games including dropper, parkour, and more. Technoblade lost first place on teams but won first place individually with 937 points. However, only winning as a team will earn you the cash reward.

Week 4

In week 4, he teamed with James Charles and did not win either the team score or the individual score.

Week 5

In week 5, Techno was paired with CallMeCarson. However, Carson logged off halfway through the event, so Techno's team placed 5th overall. He placed 2nd Individually.

Week 6

In week 6, he won for the 3rd time with jschlatt, both as a team and individually. Additionally, he received the [PIG++] rank on Hypixel.

Week 7

In week 7, due to glitches and bugs in the game modes "Build Battle" and "One Shot", it is unclear who won the event. However, Technoblade and his teammate, Junky Janker, are in the running for the victors of MM week 7 since they were only 2 points behind the 1st place team, BadBoyHalo, and Skeppy. In any case, Technoblade won individually.

Week 8

In week 8, Technoblade teamed with DanTDM. The team came second overall to MCmorganplayz and needlexd, and Technoblade came second to needlexd in individual points.

Week 9

In week 9, Technoblade's teammate was JackSucksAtLife, and the team placed fifth. However, Technoblade still placed first individually. This was Techno's lowest team placing.

Week 10

In week 10, Technoblade teamed with Ph1LzA. The team won first place with 1,892 points, setting a record for the highest number of points gained by any team on any Minecraft Monday. Technoblade also won first place individually with 1,080 points, beating the highest individual record of the event. Additionally, he received the [PIG+++] rank on Hypixel.

Week 11

In week 11, Technoblade's teammate was ConnorEatsPants. They placed third as a team, and Technoblade placed second to aquathecheater in individual points. Week 11 was also the week of the fall.

Week 12

In week 12, he teamed up with Ninja, however, he ended up dropping out 10 minutes early due to internet problems. His team still placed third place, and Techno got second place to m0xy in individual points.

Week 13

In week 13, he teamed with Wilbur Soot. His team placed third place, and Techno got third place after xNestorio and m0xy.

Week 14

The main game was cancelled due to a hacker hacking the Minecraft Monday server. Techno was going to team with Wispexe on week 14, however, Techno instead played Hypixel with 7 other YouTubers, and tied for first place with TapL.

Minecraft Championships

In 2020, Technoblade participated in Noxcrew's and Dangthatsalongname's MC Championship event, an event where YouTubers and streamers would come together to play a wide variety of fancy minigames. The tournament consists of 10 teams and 40 players, featuring a variety of custom minigames. The prize is a special MCC coin by Noxcrew.

Techno is the only player in said tournament to have played in more than one event and never leave the Top 10 Individual Leaderboard.

Techno and Quig are the only 2 players in the tournament to score Top 2 Individual with a team 5th place and lower.

Techno currently holds the Individual point record in the tournament, with an Individual score of 4307 points. Techno also currently holds the record for the highest point differential over 2nd place, his lead was almost 1000 points.

Techno also has the second-highest debut MCC performance ever with a whopping 3665 points, only behind TommyInnit with 3686.

In MCC P21, teammate Wilbur Soot experienced an unexpected fire alarm during Game 5, Parkour Tag. After the round, Noxcrew temporarily substituted Ph1LzA while Wilbur was away dealing with the fire alarm. Wilbur returned to MCC after Game 6, Battle Box. The team also came 3rd by 2 points to the Orange Ocelots, with scores of 22765 and 22767, respectively.

On 26 July 2021, Smajor confirmed on his stream that Technoblade has no plans to play in future tournaments except for possibly All Stars and/or charity events.

Minecraft Ultimate Hunger Games

MC Ultimate is a Minecraft Hunger Games event for 250+ streamers. Organized by Pikaclicks, or Noah, it is known as the largest hunger games event held in the MC Community. Based around raising money for charity, participants received in-game items for their fans' donations to charity. On July 24th, 2020, it was announced that Technoblade would be participating in Season 2 of the event as a last-minute add-on/replacement.

MrBeast 100K Duel

After the MC Championships 8 Teams were announced, MrBeast indicated that he would like to have Technoblade and Dream duel for $100,000. They both agreed and started to train immensely. The duel was set to take place on Thursday, August 27, 2020, and was not streamed live. The results of the Duel was announced on a Video Premiere on MrBeast's Gaming channel, MrBeast Gaming, on August 29, 2020. The Duel consisted of fairly basic kits and 10 battles, 5 in 1.16 PVP, and 5 in 1.8 PVP.

Technoblade won the 100K duel against Dream, 6-4. They quickly made analysis videos later, showcasing their POV's and Techno and Dream agreed to split the money beforehand, regardless of the outcome. However many of Dream’s fans showed backlash against Technoblade winning the duel although Technoblade expressed to his fans not to send hate towards anyone, as in the end, it was a close and good fight.

Controversy

• In early January 2021, Twitter users found a tweet from 2017 in which Technoblade said “was Hitler a lesbian”? The historical context was that Nazi German Dictator Adolf Hitler, was proven to have treated lesbians less harshly than other groups from the LGBTQ+ community. This tweet blew up, with a lot of people dismissing it as stupid and not controversial. However, after this, Techno went dead silent on any forms of social media for the next few weeks, as well as making a large chunk of his older videos that had content of this nature private. Later, an unknown user published a thread "exposing" Sleepybois, Inc., which contained him, Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit, and Ph1LzA, for being racist and homophobic. This tweet got over 40,000 likes, with many people saying they agreed and would stop watching those channels. After Connor Pugs made his video on the situation, a lot of the hate died down and the tweet subsided, but not before #Technosupport went trending on Twitter. In April, people once again tried to expose him for supposedly racist comments he made in the past, and supporters went as far as doxxing Techno, revealing his address and the names of his parents and little sisters. After these tweets blew up, #Technosupport went trending once again. Despite the nature of these claims, none of these three situations have affected his subscriber growth and he continues growing at a steady rate.