Technoblade, one of the most popular Minecraft video creators on YouTube, has died following a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, according to his family.

He was 23.

"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 wrote in a message to his community about 8 hours before he died.

His father read aloud the message in a YouTubevideo Thursday titled "so long nerds" that has reached millions of people and hit #1 on the trending page.

In honor of techno’s death i and many others think that minecraft should add a splashscreen “tecnoblade never dies!”