History and Tradition

## Channel History

Technoblade created his Twitch account in 2012, but has not actively streamed on it since 2013 January 24. He only used it to watch and communicate with other content creators on Twitch. Until 2021 March 28, his stream title was set to "why do i have 20k followers i havent streamed here since 2012", although his account had over 100k followers at the time. On 2021 March 28, the stream title was changed to simply "technoblade".

The Twitch channel was added to the Dream SMP Twitch team on 2020 December 14. Sometimes, when someone in the team streams, especially if it is a stream with high viewership or Technoblade appears in the viewer list/interacts with the channel in some way, a flood of newcomers enter chat and members of Chatnotwt often expect trolls or spammers. Although spam can be overwhelming, most spammers leave within a few minutes.

On April Fools' Day 2021 (2021.04.01), at midnight UTC, Technoblade let Tommyinnit stream from his account using his stream key as a prank. Tommy was unmodded on Techno's account prior to the stream. The stream lasted approximately an hour, mostly consisting of a black screen with "starting soon" on it until it changed to a shot of Tommy in his room with Philza's, Wilbur Soot's and Technoblade's laughter heard over voice call. The stream ended seconds after.

Note for newbies!

## Traditions & References

This section is mostly for the benefit of newcomers to Chatnotwt.

### Pokemon (pokes)

Pokes are the first messages of new users in the chat. The term was created when a user started calling new users' first messages "pokemon" and that they had to "catch them all" after a discussion of the humorous similarity of many of the messages. This idea was taken even further by user rugrox, who started documenting the frequency of recurring first messages of new users in the chat. Regular users also say "pokepoke" or "poke" when a new poke is spotted to help out by alerting the users who record the pokes. As of 2021 April 1st, over 1100 pokes were recorded on a spreadsheet started on 2021 January 12th.

''Pokes'' are often encouraged to read the wiki if they have questions about Chatnotwt, so if you are one—Welcome! Please be respectful of the count and our community, and we will respect you in return. Don't assume the pronouns of anyone in chat and remember that many regulars are minors.

### BOI

Chatnotwt members are advised to block any spammers or trolls and move on. The common phrase "Block or move on" was replaced with the phrase "Block or Ignore" when member Dumpster realized that "Block or Ignore" could be abbreviated to "BOI" which is significantly funnier than "Block and move on". If you see members of Chatnotwt telling people to "BOI" someone, this is why.

### Test/Rec

Members often send the word "test" to Chatno to check if their messages are being sent properly, as both Chatterino and Twitch on browser can be laggy. The former response to this was "received" or "test received", but everyone agreed it was too long; it was shortened to "rec". Feel free to send a rec message if someone is testing and nobody else has responded to them.

## Why are we called Chatnotwt?

The full name "Chatnotwt" was explained by its creator, Mikan, as follows on 2021 March 13 (UCT):

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> [03:21:32] mmm chatno because chatza called us 'chatnoblade' and twt because the ogs came from twitter- please i had no idea what i was thinking when i came up with the name
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> [03:21:56] i did not think it was gonna stick for this long hhh
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Chatnotwt is often abbreviated to Chatno, but the full version is by no means out of use.