In the video titled ‘goodbye, nerdsTechnoblade, whose real name was Alex, reads a farewell message to his 11 million YouTube subscribers. He begins with the words, “If you’re watching this, I’m dead.” In the video, his father tells us that Alex wrote and recorded the script for the last video from his bed. He died eight hours later.
The American became famous with live streams and videos recorded in the popular game Minecraft.
chemotherapy
Last August, he told his viewers that he had been diagnosed with cancer. The pain he felt in his arm turned out not to be caused by excessive gaming, but by a tumor. Alex had a rare cancer that grows in connective tissue. He underwent chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery in recent months.
In his latest video, he thanks all his followers. “If I had a hundred lives left, I would choose to be Technoblade every time, because those were the happiest years of my life.”
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Not in front of the camera
According to his family, the YouTuber was “always thinking of ways to surprise and reward his audience.” “And above all to share his Minecraft adventures for entertainment. Even after his successes, he remained humble, maintaining an endearing balance between confidence and self-mockery.”
His latest video shows photos of Alex, but he doesn’t speak to the camera himself. “I’m a Minecraft YouTuber, I don’t do videos with the camera pointed at my face.”
Technoblade’s farewell video has been viewed 18 million times within hours.
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