The Stream

On April 1, 2021, for the first time in over eight years, the Technoblade twitch account went live.

The stream caused chaos and distress in Chatno for a solid day or two.

### Background

* On March 6th, 2021, Technoblade mentioned his Twitch account while live on Youtube. He said the only reason he would ever consider streaming on Twitch was an interactive marble race that Twitch chats can participate in.
* On 2021 March 28, Technoblade's Twitch stream title was changed from "why do i have 20k followers i havent streamed here since 2012" to "technoblade"
* On 2021 March 29, a predictions Twitter account tweeted that "A fandom will look like clowns on April Fool’s Day."
* After days of absence, Modza began lurking more frequently.
* A few hours before the stream, Tommy was unmodded.

### Overview

Most of the 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 33 second stream was just white text on a black screen with music in the background. The text changed every so often to different variations of "starting soon". About 40 minutes in, Technoblade's voice appeared to say that he was fixing some technical difficulties, before the stream went silent again. For the last thirty seconds, the screen switched to Tommyinnit streaming from his room, with the voices of Techno, Phil, and Wilbur heard on call with him.

At the time, Technoblade's Twitch account had over 100k followers, and despite twitch notifications being broken, thousands of people showed up to the stream, flooding the chat and making business as usual in Chatno impossible.

Most Chatno members follow Techno, too, and many of the less active members began to panic when they got notified of the stream. The following announcement was released to the official Chatno discord:

> @everyone techno just went live on twitch- probably best to just keep chatnotwt down-low for a few days :]
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For the first time, Nightbot was added to the Twitch chat, where it remains to this day.

Among the chaos, Chatno members fled to agreed-upon backup locations, other offlines, and discord calls. Jenny was turned off due to the worry that spammers might discover her commands and get her banned. The disappearance of a safe space for many of us was overwhelming and many members were panicking.

### Aftermath

After the stream ended, Chatno was still flooded by strangers and spam. Phil put chat in sub-only for a few minutes to calm things down, sending his signature smile before the chaos resumed.

Most regulars active at the time retreated to the offline chat of a Chatno member, where they expressed concern about the newcomers starting a new community without knowing about the one that had already existed. Out of a desire to maintain privacy, Chatno deemed Technoblade's offline chat too active to return.

There was debate on whether or not existing community should even try to return to Technoblade's offline chat. "you wont reclaim shit, its a public offline," said one member. Others disagreed. "imma bout to gate keep the shit out of chatno" said another.

Eventually, either the spam was deemed calm enough to block the perpetrators, or Chatno members decided they didn't care about the risks, because many members started returning to the offline. Although it was agreed that no one should send the official welcome message until chat had calmed down significantly, members began to respond to anyone who appeared to not be a bot by answering questions and informing them of Chatno's existence.

The stream also marked the return of Ased, who had been on hiatus for about a month before the stream. They had planned to return on April 8th, 2021, or before that for a Techno upload, and considered the stream to be upload enough. It should be noted that the count did not reset for this stream, just as it does not reset for any livestream.

Ased and Cheeky duo'd through the post-stream chaos, introducing many new arrivals to the count. Other members joined in the welcoming, replying individually to questions and stray counters.

The April Fool's stream marked the beginning of Gen 7, although many new members didn't return until days later.

Jenny returned a day after the stream, with a new whitelist as a precaution. As of April 6, 2021, the whitelist has been removed.