Yahiamice

**Yahiamice** (yes, this is indeed *the* Yahiamice) is a Generation 1 Tagger of exorbitant wealth and respect. Arguably the best tagger in terms of out of site content, taggers have the privilege of calling this man part of their community and lore.

## History

Yahiamice first appeared on TF2Tags on April 20th, 2014, seemingly at the recommendation of a friend of his on Steam named "Super Ninja Fat" who thought he would be a good fit for the website. Turns out, he was! For throughout 2014 and 2015, Yahiamice would amass tags that regularly reached at least 20 crits, a feat that few have accomplished.

Yahiamice would spend the next year getting casually acquainted with many of the older Gen 1 taggers such as Relk, Ulysses, and Sensible Haircut, as well as A Fucking Idiot when he became more of an active presence on the site after his initial appearance in December 2014. Yahiamice would reach 1000 total crits by October 2014, with far more coming later on during his time on TF2Tags. However, though he would continue to post regularly, he would not get involved in much site drama. There is evidence that he was there for the beginning shitstorms including The Racist Anon, Team Legownz, and the Mobile-Friendly Update, but he only made a singular tag either mocking the situation or specifically saying the tag had nothing to do with the situation.

Following Christmas 2015, Yahiamice would take a 3-month long hiatus from TF2Tags before returning at the end of March 2016, just in time for April Fools' Week 2016. He would tag a bit more through the first week of April before taking another month long hiatus, reappearing in June to create three more tags. He would not be seen again until January of 2017, where at that point his video and streaming presence was so big that he had pretty much moved past the humble little tagging website. He would tag 3 times through the first quarter of 2017, and then he would be gone from the site for good.

## Style

Yahiamice's style wasn't too distinct from anyone else's, but he still garnered many, many crits on his submissions (see the gallery for examples). At first, Yahiamice had a knack for making Yo Momma jokes, which saw mixed success of either getting a *lot* of crits (including his third best tag) or several misses. Later on he would drop Yo Momma jokes as a regular thing, though every now and then he would bring one back, usually to success.

Yahiamice also didn't delete his negative posts, or if he did it was only on a few rare occasions. Though it is unlikely the deletion of all these negative submissions would have zoomed him up into Hale's Own, it reasonable could have boosted him to either the Legendary or Australian profile rank.

## Relationships

Yahiamice was never fully immersed in the community of TF2Tags, largely because his tagging career happened largely before the community had gotten into full swing in the latter half of 2015 (and considering his reactions to the drama he *was* there to witness, he probably wouldn't have gotten much involved anyway). Most of his interactions were friendly acquaintanceships with Relk, Ulysses, Sensible, and AFI. He was aware of each of these four's running jokes (particularly Ulysses's hatred of buckets and jokes revolving around them) and would sometimes make a few tags about them. He even made a picture for AFI. He has made a post poking fun at L'Étranger. He also seemed to have an overall positive view of site owner Dr. Dos, encouraging people to disable adblock to give Dos his precious ad revenue and praising Dos for never deleting any of his own tags, even if they were missed to hell.

## Trivia

* Yahiamice can be considered the most successful tagger in terms of influence on the rest of the world.
	+ His YouTube channel has amassed 344,000 subscribers and over 33,800,000 total views.
	+ He has 63,300 followers on his Twitch channel, where he streams regularly.
	+ He has 40,100 followers on Twitter.
* Yahiamice is most likely also the most successful tagger when it comes to TF2, having over 6,000 hours of game time, having a total inventory worth $4,547 (over $6,000 at peak), is one of only 214 TF2 players to own a Golden Frying Pan, along with an Australium Minigun and *several* unusuals.
	+ Yahiamice actually held a contest on TF2Tags to give his Golden Pan a name after he initially traded for it around Halloween 2015. This contest pretty much turned the site into GoldenFryingPanTags, as that was pretty much all that was posted that day, to the annoyance of some. Expand won this contest with the name "While active: User is marked with debt" and was awarded with a unique Law hat. However, Yahiamice has since renamed it to "The Midas Touch".
	+ As of August 24th, 2020, Yahiamice has since traded his Golden Frying Pan to Uncle Dane, the Engie Main.
* He animated part of the Team Fabulous 2 Reanimated collaborative project, animating 2:26-2:38 in the video.
* He has appeared in a NISLT video.
* He was, for a brief period, part of SMPLive from May 17th-May 25th, 2019. In true tagger fashion, however, Yahiamice was banned for being too much of an epic gamer by making Sans pixel arts and setting a trap in The End. Their loss!