r/Technolarp

This is a copy and paste of a comment I left in a different post, I just thought i'd make an entire one about it, because I've seen this argument a lot and I just thought I should let more people see what I think about it. Mods, if it isn't okay to just re-use stuff like this, I totally understand removing this post.

In my opinion, the argument of whether or not he should delete his channel is a stalemate. While he has done everything he could (aside from deleting the channel) to rebrand, he still has 200k subscribers, which alot of people see as continuing to benefit off impersonating Technoblade.

On one hand, you could say that subscribers aren't everything. WatchMojo has 25 Million subscribers, but can't even get over 50 thousand views now, and it's well known that views are what really matters. So why delete the channel when subscribers aren't everything?

On the other hand, you could argue that since subscribers aren't everything, Striker could just delete his channel and continue, since if views are what really matters, he shouldn't care if he ends up with less subs.

Honestly, and I know a lot won't agree, but I think because of everything Strikers done to rebrand, because he has respected Technodad and his response, he can just keep the 200k subscribers. Everyone in the Technoblade community is pretty much satisfied with how the drama ended, even people in the Striker community. The only people who are really continuing the drama are people neither community want to back, and bringing up the drama in either the Technoblade subreddit or LarpTube discord server will get you reprimanded.

On top of that, even if he were to delete his channel and restart, it would probably be impossible to escape the attention Technolarp has given him, as striker still gained a lot of fans from his technolarp persona who stuck around to see what he would do next, hence all the fanart, etc.

What do you folks think? I would like to hear all sides of this argument.

Hey everyone. Mr. Technodad here.

Four years after my son Alex, known to so many as Technoblade, passed away from sarcoma, his community remains one of the most meaningful parts of the legacy he left behind.

You make art, videos, jokes, and tributes. You look after each other. Together, we have built a loving and inclusive community. It means more than can ever be properly said.

Tributes are welcome, and they always will be. Fan art, cosplay, quotes, and creative works made in his memory are ways of celebrating him, and those works speak to my heart. They speak to all of our hearts.

I have recently become aware of concerns around a YouTube channel imitating Technoblade's voice, mannerisms, look, name, and persona.

When this was first brought to me by one of Alex's YouTube friends, I was under the impression that it might be a one-time tribute. I did not know what to think. It was startling and emotionally complex to be presented with, and when people asked me about it at the time, the only honest answer I had was: inconclusive.

However, this has continued for several weeks, and it is now clear that an identity is being built as an ongoing public persona. That is a different thing from a tribute.

Many others have since reached out for my opinion. The situation is complicated by a simple truth: despite being "Technodad," I cannot speak unilaterally on behalf of all of Alex's family, friends, and fans, who no doubt have a variety of reactions. But after careful consideration, I have reached a conclusion I can give from my own perspective, as Technoblade's father and as the person Alex entrusted to look after what he left behind.

I am asking for this to please stop, and for the persona in question to cease.

No blessing or permission for this, or for any similar persona now or in the future, has been given.

I encourage anyone interested in becoming a content creator to find their own voice. Show us who you are! A sincere presentation of your authentic self will always be better than an imitation of someone else.

I am also asking the community not to harass anyone over this. That is not what Alex would have wanted. I do not believe there was malicious intent.

Technoblade never dies. He is in his videos, right where he left himself, still making us laugh, still reaching our hearts.

Mr. Technodad

Like the guy larped as techno as a meme which is wtv when he kept it to his small community.

Idk why this has to be explained. The dude did active collabs with the guys real friends. That’s a different level of fucked up and obviously was doing it to boost his channel.
Then bro actively called out the guys dad putting him in an awkward spot. Idk how people can say he “didn’t have bad intentions” when clearly his intentions went beyond just being a silly larptuber.

Now that he’s saying: “B… but I didn’t mean any harm🥺” people think the guy just gets a pass. Are you guys blind or am I just being too cynical. He just farmed for clicks and views and did whatever it just like every other larper. And he’s lowkey a piece of shit for that. The guy does not give a fuck about techno or his family idk how yall are that blind.

Genuinely hope the dude gets his channel terminated. He doesn’t deserve and audience and tbh no one is gonna watch him for himself lmao. That’s why he did what he did. But maybe I’m just a dick 😭

in my opinion, this is the correct thing to do. if someone is doing something bad and disgusting and you have no power to stop it, the best thing you can do is to ignore it so it doesn't become more popular. the thing is, for technolarp, people spun it into a drama story. remember, technolarp started with 0 subscribers, and some people genuinely liked the channel so they subscribed. technolarp could have stayed in his own little corner of the internet, he just wanted to make content for his audience, and if someone didn't like the content they could, get this, not watch it. but when people got outraged, the channel spread further and further and people started to talk about the channel as a controversey or drama rather than it's purpose as a tribute, so the channel became known as a controversial thing rather than a youtube channel that has fun and entertaining videos that, if watched, would show at least some sincerity in them. so technolarp's channel and name was out there and spreading fast for all the wrong reasons, and technodad was pressured to give out his opinion and that's where we are today. but my question is why aren't worse channel's pressured to stop or reported? technolarp isn't the worst channel out there. i don't want to name the channel, but there are channel's that have exploited technoblade's name and are still on youtube. in terms of shame, technolarp doesn't score high in comparison to these other channels. and yet the internet targetted and attacked him, and aren't going after the real big problems. it just shows the double standards.

Regarding technolarp's recent decision to keep the old channel and the videos, a decision i thought to be pretty bad, Forgive me but, i think deleting them would be better. Even if somebody were to reupload them, they would need the actual videos to be there, and i don't presume that an extreme amount of your own videos have been saved everywhere, Some have, Some haven't, so, if you could, delete them,

I take it back actually, they are unmonetized, so your not doing it for money, which is great, but even then, your channel *still* has the 200K subs off of the TechnoLarp persona, which is why i think the whole channel itself should be deleted, Now of course i know that's upsetting, but instead of outright deleting it right now, Why not: 1) create a new channel, 2) make a video asking the people who want to watch you for you to migrate to that channel, 3) After a week, delete the old channel, Now you have a completely new channel with your own personal audience instead of fans that came from the drama!

I missed out on the whole thing, would like to watch all the videos if possible.

With striker trying to become his own person the discussion obviously comes up on what to do with the larp videos and I think he made the perfect decision.

By unlisting the videos I allows people to keep him accountable for his past actions while people who want to stay out of the situation, namely techno's friends and family, won't have to be included. along with that by keeping the same channel it allows people to track him more and once again keep him accountable for his actions while still allowing him to grow as a person and eventually earn the rest of his subs on his own

everybody hates brands right especially ones that try to be hip with the people and try to be on social media. can i larp as them, or is that still too far?

Maybe the Technoblade community wouldn't have the vendetta they now have towards larptube

This is not a "he was 100% in the right" defense but a "he fucked up and hindsight is 2020 but he isn't an iredeemable monster like wilbur and the like and shouldn't be treated as such".

From what I have gathered what happened is he never expected to really blow up and literally get integrated into techno's irl friendgroup due to LITERAL SKEPPY reaching out to him and was just roleplaying his fav youtuber on an SMP that's gimmick was designed around that, and didn't expect technodad and techno's greiving friend group to literally get involved since iirc he had only 2k subs at the time.

Yes, it is in bad taste with the full hindsight and when you think about it really hard but people on the internet seem to forget that not everyone makes rational decisions and again the dude was like 2k subs at the time so it was not like he could personally ask technodad if I had to guess, it seems to me like he basically pushed those concerns aside so he could larp as his fav youtuber and didn't understand the unholy consequences it would have.

Basically: imo the dude fucked up and did something in bad taste because he ignored the potential consequences to galivant around as his fav youtuber and now is getting super defensive because literally have the internet is crucifying him right now

People need to realize that someone can be in the wrong and make shitty decisions without being a literally irredeemable monster like the YTbers that were exposed for grooming

People on the internet seem to think that everyone is either a literal saint or evil mega satan with 0 inbetween and it seems to be a recurring trend whenever these "acceptable targets" show up

Edit: he got permabanned on YouTube bc mfers mass reported him, now he CANT rebrand on a new acc bc that would be ban evasion

This shit made me loose a lot of respect for this community, I will always respect Technodad and Technoblade tho

Not even WILBUR SOOT got this treatment

Technolarp is moving to an entirely new channel. With r/StrikerLBP banned because it's an old subreddit with no moderation (I suspect Technolarp isnt his first attempt at a youtube presence), I made r/StrikerLPByt.

The question is:
Should we go to the new subreddit or stay here?

I dont have access to the polls feature because reddit is reddit and i am not on mobile.

So, I will comment twice and the one with the most upvotes will win. Don't bother downvoting, I will count the number of UPVOTES, not downvotes.

Feel free to debate in the comments.

Genuine question, even after him faking himself getting doxxed and exposed for earning money despite saying it's "all for charity" and just a well known attention seeker. How do you still support him?

Have they ever watched a show or story based on a true story? Like y'all acting like he died this year. He was a tribute to techno

technolarp did nothing bad in my opinion, there's plenty of people who do the exact same thing like micheal jackson impersonators. he didn't want to go mainstream and reach every crowd or antagonize the entire internet, he was just doing his own thing but other people blew his channel up and forwarded it to people much bigger like penguinz0 and people laid down their opinions and shamed him. there are plenty of youtubers who are higher up on the shame list than technolarp. like how come people are fine with micheal jackson "impersonators" and parodies, but for technoblade it's not okay? what's with the double standard? and look technolarp isn't even unique there are also other channels that larp people who are no longer with us like for example the youtuber twomad has passed away and he has larp channels as well. but people just find one person to target i.e. technolarp and attack him because he is successful but you won't see these same people attack other people. this is just a targeted hate mob spurred onwards by bigger people. sure penguinz0 didn't tell anyone to doxx him but he has to be responsible because he has a big channel and audience and reach he should know to be careful about these things. it's all a shame that all of this happened and that this thing that was done in good fun has ended. sure it's up to technolarp to continue or stop but he shouldn't have done this decision under duress and the threat of doxxing (he was doxxed if i remember correctly).

in summary people have double standards and if someone big puts a target on someone even unintentionally then it will cause a hate mob against them. people won't look for context or watch the videos to judge for themselves they will just hate and doxx. i mean if you don't like it you don't have to engage with it. 200k subscribers showed a lot of people really liked it, just like how they liked larpiplier. and larpiplier's views are down which shows the trend was going to die anyways but the drama put all the attention on technolarp and targetted and attacked him which in turn made him more popular which caused more hate against him. no one deserves this.

He won't go by this name anymore and alot of the post personally make me feel sick so I'd like to motion for this monument to a contverosry that should be in the past to cease to exist.