Sqwid

**Sqwid** (stylized "**sqwid**", formerly **Squidward Testicles**) is a famed Generation 1 tagger on TF2Tags. Although he did not post frequently in his later years, he was a regular presence on the site from 2013 to 2018. His tags were some of the most popular on the site, even though he claims to take no effort in making them. Oftentimes, his posts can cause trends to occur. He is the fourth-highest scoring tagger from the original TF2Tags.

## History

### Hello, you've reached the house of unrecognized talent.

Sqwid joined TF2Tags on December 13th, 2013, under the name Squidward Testicles. He began his career early, regularly tagging from the very beginning and making a name for himself through Spongebob Squarepants-related tags. Squidward would quickly make these tags his niche, and they would become a staple of his tagging style through the years.

Squidward would regularly tag either every day or every few days from December 13th, 2013 to April 18th, 2014, where he would take a nine day hiatus before returning with lesser tagging activity, posting only one tag every other day or so. His activity would pick up again in mid-June. During that time, on March 28th, 2014, Squidward would find himself getting involved in an event known as the Huddahing, the earliest known shitstorm on TF2Tags. A user named Huddah Huddah had been going around ranting and raving against numerous taggers for criticizing his tagging style, and Squidward was one of the those he insulted, ironically telling him to "grow a pair" despite "Testicles" literally being a part of his username. Squidward would then go on to be a victim of Huddah's missbombing, suffering a loss of over 30 points. Things would eventually settle when Huddah was banned early the next day.

By October, Squidward would begin to interact with the fledgling community of the site, mainly in doing the popular thing of making fun of Ulysses and his hatred of bucket jokes, as well as referencing the mythical first shitposter: Hudduh Hudduh. Squidward would also hit two milestones in the middle of the month, reaching over 4000 crits and 300 submissions. By December of 2014, a year after initially joining TF2Tags, Squidward had cut out his own place on the site, having reached over 6200 points and 400 tags.

Squidward ended 2014 very strong, though the start of his 2015 was comparatively slow, which is largely in part due to another relative drop in peak activity from him, making only 28 tags from January 1st to March 3rd. In February of 2015, Squidward highlighted an obscure bit of tagging history, which was further explained in the comments of his Know the Difference tag by Crimson Blitz. Apparently, the domain for TF2Tags.com was hijacked on February 10th or 11th, redirecting to a website about gay rights and gay riots. The issue was apparently fixed by Dr. Dos that same day.

### Fortunately, I have enough talent for all of you.

On March 14th, Squidward would take a hiatus, not returning to tag again until April 11th. Shortly upon returning, Squidward would make his first tag relating to live streaming. In an idea he had been ruminating on for awhile, Squidward proposed that, since there had been no new content on TF2Tags for some time due to lack of TF2 updates, he would host a weekly stream highlighting the best tags and playing TF2. After receiving support from Blast and Crimson, he decided to hold a stream that night via Steam Broadcasting, simply playing and talking about TF2. There is no record as to whether or not this stream was successful, or even occurred, but it would not be the last time he would stream.

The following month, Squidward would be present for the Racist Anon Incident, though he wouldn't speak much on it. Initially, when Blast first started making fun of the Racist Anon, Squidward asked if Blast was alright, as he seemed to be getting quite obsessive. Two days later, Squidward would reach the rank of Australian, the profile rank directly before the coveted Hale's Own. He would enter Sensible Haircut's contest, but did not win. On May 16th, he went on another hiatus for ten days. On the 26th, he returned making a set announcing his fake retirement from tagging, stating that he'll be back in a month or so. He would return on June 20th, but would not start tagging again until a week later on the 27th, where he would return to applause.

Squidward returned to tagging at a slower rate that would soon become his norm. He celebrated his 17th birthday on July 11th. On August 16th, Squidward Testicles would become the fourth known tagger to reach the rank of Hale's Own, which would be met with numerous congratulations from other taggers.

During the much-maligned Mobile-Friendly Update, Squidward criticized the removal of the Miss Button, calling it the "YouTube Comment update", referencing how disliking YouTube comments has not worked in years. He would in the comments of this tag advocate the implementation of moderators, jokingly nominating himself. He did not appear to join the Bring Back Misses movement, though he certainly supported it. Some days later, near the tail end of the Banning of AFI, Squidward would step in to call out how toxic the anti-CP bandwagon had become, highlighting it was worse than the Game Grumps subreddit, and reminding everyone that submissions which insult other users will be deleted. He said that making posts about why CP sucks even after the conflict had been resolved was immature and the community should just let what happened go.

A few weeks later, Squidward would be one of the many taggers outraged by the Banning of Sensible Haircut. Shortly after the ban, he correctly concluded that Sensible was banned over his "Bruce Jenner Experience" tag. Angry, compared TF2Tags to Tumblr; apparently making a transgender joke automatically equals transphobia. In the comments of that tag, he said that "this place is going down the shitter." He, like several others, would eventually choose to leave the site on September 9th in protest of Sensible's unjust permanent banning. As one of the few taggers to reach over 10,000 crits, this dealt a heavy blow to the site community, as Squidward was at this point just as highly respected, if not moreso, as Sensible. Squidward would stay gone for two and a half weeks before ultimately returning on September 26th.

After an uneventful October, November opened with the Disappearance of Item 100,000. Squidward commented on it, and was luckily able to snatch up Item 100,069 (nice) for himself. A day later, he was banned for using the word "bitch" in one of his tags, which is a big no-no word according to the site's autofilter, and thus he was banned for the day. He addressed this on the site, and asked Dos to disable this autofilter, stating that it was a gross overreach in combating "sexist" tags (on a 98% male site, mind you) that was just one aspect of the site's decline. He also advocated for mods. Of course, nothing came of it because Dos is a big doodoo head.

By year's end, Squidward had amassed a very high 11,300 points, and had established himself firmly as a tagger of undeniable wealth and respect. He finished 2015 by doing another TF2 live stream, this time under his new Twitch account, on December 31st at 5:30 PM EST. A few taggers joined and overall it was a good time.

### Squidward, you're streaming! You're like a streamed vegetable, only smarter!

In 2016, Squidward would start to slowly post less and less often. Though he never truly left, it wouldn't become unusual to see him take several week-long breaks. He made a big announcement on February 9th, where after having the name for around four years, he changed his name from Squidward Testicles to Sqwid. He did this for three reasons: he didn't want to be known as the creator of that name (which he wasn't), and he wanted to get more into competitive TF2 and streaming, and believed having the name "Squidward Testicles" would come off as unprofessional and cringy. "Sqwid" by comparison rolled off the tongue better in his opinion and was much more professional. So henceforth, the man is now known as Sqwid.

On March 7th, Sqwid advertised his first new-name stream on the site, which took place at 8:30 PM EST. Blast was known to show up, bit it is unknown who else did.

In May, Sqwid joined Marmot and Twelve Hour Respawn in advocating equal enjoyment of TF2 and Overwatch, the latter game dividing the community greatly. It was ultimately a losing battle.

In September, with the influx of most of the Generation 3 taggers, Sqwid would make a tag on how the site is now overrun by new taggers. The following month, Sqwid announced that he would start streaming again, this time taking a more general TF2 approach instead of just TF2Tags. He also said he would start uploading videos to his YouTube channel. A few days later, after Walumancer infamously called out Relk for various reasons, Sqwid cheered for a fight between the two, stating that "EVERYBODY WANTS TO SEE THIS HAPPEN!" Bonkspenser and Fred Fuchs commented that they certainly did not want to see this happen. It eventually somewhat happened. Two weeks later, he streamed once again at 9 PM EST on October 27th.

In November, the night before the 2016 Presidential Election, Sqwid made what he at the time thought was just a joke: "If Donald Trump wins I'm quitting TF2Tags." Well, turns out Donald Trump won. Sqwid seemed to keep his word, saying in the comments the following night "goodbye lol" and not appearing for about a week or so. He would reemerge on 16th, pretending to be a new tagger named "sqwod" that claimed to be Sqwid's little brother who was taking over after Sqwid died of a weed overdose. "Sqwod" would stream later that month on the 21st at 9:15 PM EST. This character would be dropped by December.

In December, Sqwid would showcase some of his impressions of Morty and Ron Swanson. He would do another stream on December 11th at 11:30 PM EST. Sqwid would remain quite active during the remainder of December through most of February 2017, where in that month he would address some ongoing drama regarding Bonkspenser, who was trying to make TF2Tags Great Again. A few days later, he would ominously tease that he would do something big that would involve Dr. Dos banning him for some sort of offense. That same day, he made a post making fun of "checking your privilege" and "I identify as an abcdefg". He was not banned, much to his disappointment. When the Bonk drama resurged, he alluded to TF2Tags being on fire over it. The following day, Sqwid would give his final remarks regarding Dr. Dos, in a surprisingly thorough verbal rebuke of every terrible administrative decision Dos had ever made. Alas, the Vocaroo has since been erased from its servers, and is no longer able to be listened to.

Following two more tags that month, Sqwid would leave the site for two and a half months, resurfacing on May 12. He would then disappear again and post twice in July, before having a brief stint of regular activity in August. He tagged once in September, then made a decent amount in October. He tagged three times in November, once in December, and then one final time in January. After the announcement of the Tagpocalypse and realizing his own boredom with the site, Sqwid decided that he would bow out and leave the site for good, leaving a hefty legacy and ending up with a highly respected 13,528 crits, cementing himself as the 4th highest-scoring tagger in TF2Tags history.

## Style

Sqwid's style mostly consisted of tagging quotes from shows and movies that he enjoyed. The most prominent source material he drew from was, as his original name implies, Spongebob Squarepants. In the earlier era of TF2Tags where most Spongebob jokes had not yet been done, Sqwid capitalized and quickly gained hundreds of crits from them. Later on, he would also start to use quotes from Rick and Morty (you know, back when it was cool to like the show).

Back when the John Cena Phone Prank was at its memetic height, Sqwid incorporated John Cena fakeouts into his tags in a style very similar to Blast.

Sqwid was also known for making good pun tags and starting small site trends.

## Relationships

For all his constant presence, influence, and streaming, Sqwid was remarkably detached from the friendships and bonds among the TF2Tags community. His Steam friends list is remarkably small (and as of now either privated or empty), though it is known that Bloo Kirby at one point was friends with him on Steam. However, most of Sqwid's relations came from those that admired and respected him. Crimson Blitz openly states that Sqwid was his tagging inspiration, and largely drew his own style from Sqwid's puns and references. Floro Sapiens also describes Sqwid as one of his two favorite taggers. Legownz has repeatedly praised his tagging brilliance and TheOnlyGuyEver has gone so far to say he was more clever than Relk. He had a brief run-in with Smash Z, as he made the MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE joke long before Smash's mastery of it during the second Taggening, but were more or less on neutral terms.

## Trivia

* The name "Squidward Testicles" came from a YouTube Poop (YTP) which has since been taken down due to Viacom abusing YouTube's notoriously awful copyright claim system. People thought he was the original creator of the name, which was partly the reason he switched to Sqwid.
* According to previous wiki entries and one particular set from the man himself, Sqwid's representative item was a Vintage Stockbroker's Scarf. However, in many tags relating to himself, he used a Haunted Cap'n Calamari, usually painted The Value of Teamwork (BLU). At one point he tried to change his rep item from the Stockbroker's Scarf to the Pardner's Pompadour with the Disco Beatdown unusual effect. The wiki recognizes the Cap'n Calamari as his rep item due to its more frequent usage.
* Sqwid actually predicted the rise of Sensible Haircut, albeit indirectly. In a set from November 2014, he listed Relk, Ulysses, and Sensible as three big-name taggers. Though Sensible had been on the site for longer than Sqwid, he had not yet reached the level of respect he would go on to gain, and was largely seen as just another tagger. At the time, early taggers complained about lumping Sensible in with the two highest-rated taggers at the time, but history would prove Sqwid right.
* On August 20th, 2015, Sqwid (under his previous name Squidward Testicles) was featured in a NISLT video, where he trolled games of Pass Time by destroying the ball with the Engineer's Short Circuit.
* He enjoys My Little Pony. He is very quiet about it, so people tend not to harass him over it, but still. Cardinal tagging sin.
* Sqwid's dream unusual is a purple Crone's Dome with the Purple Energy effect.
* Sqwid was at least at one point (as of July 2018) friends with Karma Charger.