No Harrassment Is Needed - Tumblr Posts
I was going to start this off with "aight, fuckos" but I think that undermines what I want to say, so im not gonna, but I think it's a good example of misplaced anger.
All of us who loved Techno are hurting right now. Some people who didn't even watch his content are hurting right now. His fanbase is incredibly large (fitting for an incredible guy), and the spectrum of grief responses are going to be pretty vast.
That said:
quarantine your grief.
Do not go into people's unrelated steam to talk about Techno. Do not make comments on unrelated content from other people. Keep your grief to your own spaces (like your blogs or your private life) and do not harass others with your grief. I'm sorry. I know it hurts.
Why is this important?
The internet is very big, and very messy, but it and its users operate in different little compartments and expectations of what they'll find in those compartments. When you want to see kittens, you go to the spaces on the internet where people share kittens. When you want video games, you go to the spaces where people share video games. When you want education, you go to the spaces where people share their knowledge.
When someone wants to share their content, they carve out their own little compartments on the internet. Twitter or tumblr or youtube or twitch or whatever, and that is their space to make and share almost anything they'd like. That is their space to share their life or their cats or their dogs or their video game content. When you make a comment about something unrelated to that content, you take some of that space away from them.
If someone uses Tumblr to share pictures of pigs but you comment "RIP Technoblade" on those pictures, you're introducing a very heavy topic to an internet compartment that does not belong to you. The response, most of the time, is the person tactfully ignoring your comment and continuing their content, but sometimes that isn't possible, and creators are forced into the awkward position of letting you change their space's topic, or directing their space back on track to their original content. If I'm watching a streamer who is having fun and doing silly things, I want to experience their compartment where fun and silly things are happening. If I wanted a space to grieve, I would be going to spaces where people are mourning. If the streamer wants to grieve in a public space like a stream, they would be doing that. It isn't your place to force that on them, or anyone.
That said.
If you see someone bringing up Techno's death in an inappropriate place (someone else's twitter replies, youtube comments, very off topic discord servers--) do not harass them. REMEMBER: Technoblade's fanbase is very large, which means that we have people who DO understand appropriate outlets for grief, and a large portion who DO NOT. Kids, people with social cue problems, and just plain assholes tend to fall into the latter category.
Breathe. Remember that the majority of these comments are from the innocent ignorant, and that your anger at them is also likely a misplaced grief response. If you have the spoons, inform them (without pithy remarks) about why their actions are inappropriate. If you're convinced this is an asshole, block them, then block and move on. Support the creator in other ways. Remember that assholes are assholes for attention, and you should starve them off it.
We're going to be okay. This is an incredible community and I am so proud of how much support I see everyone already lending each other. Technoblade's content got me through some very hard times in my life, and I'm going to miss him. It's going to be hard, but it's going to get better, and we're going to get through this. In the meantime, breathe. Try to be your best self. Do him proud.