For this week in MCO 426, I was tasked with editing a Wikipedia cite, or at least, make an attempt to. Turns out, it really helps to fully read the Wikipedia article before you suggest an edit!

I decided to pick the Wiki page dedicated to Technoblade, someone I am very fond of and thought it would be easy to find any sort of extra information to add.

If you are unfamiliar with who Technoblade was:

Technoblade was a Minecraft YouTuber who ascended to legend status due to his incredible gaming skills and iconic achievements. He played a role in Minecraft’s culture and his content had evolved along side YouTube since 2013. In 2021 he announced his cancer diagnosis and raised over half a million dollars total for cancer research before he unfortunately passed away in June of 2022. His legacy resonated with millions of viewers all over the globe.

Technoblade’s page has a lot of basic information about him, but in my opinion it doesn’t do justice to the large legacy he left behind after his passing. It kind of bothers me actually that half of the page is dedicated to tributes, rather than more details about his crowning achievements over the years both in Minecraft and on YouTube. But for an outsider just wanting basic information about him, it makes sense that his page is detailed the way it is.

Because he was an online celebrity, his page is protected from edits. This is so random people cannot vandalize or fill his page with nonsense. So, I had to request an edit on the Talk page. My initial idea for adding to the Technoblade Wikipedia page was to include some more of his achievements, such as his statistics in Minecraft Monday events, and Minecraft Championship. There are fandom wiki sites dedicated to each community event, with the stats available. But due to the amount of data present I figured it would be way more effort than the wiki editors would allow me to do.

So I opted for a smaller edit, with two suggestions actually. But when I read through Techno’s article and reached the “Reactions and tributes” section, I skimmed through looking to see if they had any mention of a particular tribute that I had in mind. Techno’s channel had over 10 million subscribers by the time of his passing and after 3 years it has doubled in size. He resonated with millions of viewers and left a huge hole online after he passed away. His impact was so immense, YouTube recognized this and made two tributes to honor him:

The first is an easter egg. When typing “Technoblade” into the YouTube search bar, it will respond with “Did you mean: Technoblade never dies?” which was his channel catchphrase. This was a fitting homage to him, as he was extremely skilled in Minecraft PvP and hardly ever died in game. And, it unintentionally keeps his memory alive. The wiki page makes no reference to this easter egg, so I suggested it be added.

The second suggestion was extremely embarrassing once the wiki editors responded to my request. Like I mentioned prior, I skimmed through the tributes section. There was a sub section titled “By YouTubers” which I ignored, because the other tribute was a video published by YouTube itself celebrating the 9th year anniversary of Technoblade’s channel. In my defense, I didn’t know YouTube was a YouTuber. But as you probably guessed, I outlined how I wanted that tribute video mentioned on the wiki, which it already was.

Despite this embarrassment, the editor who replied to that portion of my suggestion was extremely polite and instead assumed I wanted to tweak what was already written which I appreciate. But a separate user replied extremely harshly toward the easter egg suggestion. It is very upsetting that they had to reply the way they did, as if I am responsible for them being chronically online. They claimed that it is a consequence of the YouTube search algorithm trying to fill in their actual video they posted, and it is not in fact an easter egg. But to my knowledge, that is not something the platform does first of all. Second of all, Wikipedia literally has a page dedicated to google easter eggs which includes that the Technoblade catchphrase is an official easter egg! Isn’t that ironic?

Either way, I am going to retract my suggested edits because half was a mistake, and Wikipedia is not a valid source to prove the easter egg is an easter egg, but that begs the question, which source did Wikipedia use to prove that it was an easter egg in the first place? Which came first? the Source or the Egg?

“Technoblade.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoblade

Talk:Technoblade – semi‑protected edit request on 6 August 2025. Wikipedia Talk Page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technoblade#Semi-protected_edit_request_on_6_August_2025

“List of Google Easter Eggs.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs