phil making it cannon that the chat are just crows/birds is so much funnier when you refer to the clip of him saying “chat stop calling me birdza” with the implication that the birds just see him as a bigger bird and just follow him around
Chatbirds like “creechur have wing? Move block around make nest?? Kill bad mobs? Creechur fly with us? Big bird? Big big bird like we?”
Philza mocking anti-vaxxers, people who don’t pay tax, people who invest in NFTs, and people who get their news from Facebook in five minutes on stream while he builds a pub. My skin is cleared my crops are watered I am flourishing etc.
Someone just did TTS on Phil’s stream and was like “I love you” and he was like “hmm weirdchamp” and didn’t let it play.
Philza mocking anti-vaxxers, people who don’t pay tax, people who invest in NFTs, and people who get their news from Facebook in five minutes on stream while he builds a pub. My skin is cleared my crops are watered I am flourishing etc.
My sister is posting photos in the groupchat from her tropical vacation to Brazil, so I am watching and HEAVILY investing in this Philza stream where Tubbo is talking in a “reverse-corpse” voice (as high-pitched and breathy as possible) and philza can’t understand a word. Ramboo is translating.
In case you’ve missed the upheaval, Techno chose thebest possible way of celebrating April Fool’s. In order:
1. His Twitch account, which he uses to only for watching others but which has been quietly gaining followers for a few months now, suddenly went live.
2. When confused people went to check it out, there was a black “starting soon” screen with excellent, chill music.
3. Over the course of an hour, 55,000 people watched a black screen with an air of “I know it’s a joke, but what if it isn’t?” The chat was going a mile a minute with people laughing, baffled, spamming memes, and a handful genuinely hopeful that there would be a stream
4. A few times, the text was edited. Once, in the middle, Techno’s voice came in to say he was having technical difficulties, and stream would start soon. The “users in chat” kept showing various people - Phil, Tommy, Will. All in all, it was just enough to keep chat convinced that something would happen.
5. Twitter exploded. Victoria The Description Woman documented our laughter. The sheer confusion caused by the fact that it is not yet April Fool’s in the USA caused a terrifying amount of hope that there would actually be a stream. Honestly, this was my favorite part.
6. The whole thing took on a bit of the air of an ARG, with watchers scouring the screen and music choices, and flooding out to alert their friends with every change. Everyone was confused. I need to emphasize that at this point over 50,000 people had been watching a blank screen for an hour.
7. The music goes off. The screen goes dark. Chat holds their collective breath. A webcam goes on- and it’s Tommy. He’s facing backwards in his chair, and does a dramatic villain spin to the camera. He can only keep a straight face for a few seconds, then bursts out laughing, followed by the sound of the other Sleepy Bois losing it behind him.
8. In the middle of laughter, stream ends. Chat is left to scream, laugh, and flood back to Ranboo et al to deal with what just happened.
At this point, Technoblade has gained over 60,000 followers in two hours on a platform he does not use, and is about to break 200k. This puts him at #4,000 in all of Twitch. Tommy’s alt twitch channel has been hemorrhaging followers as frustrated people/jokers “leave.” I will say again that, for the vast majority of people, this is the funniest possible thing they could have done.
Finally, as Ranboo mentioned I think the best follow-up would be an apology video. I’m taking submissions for the format, but my current proposal is a Discord recording of them in a call but not talking, with a text-to-speech bot reading out an apology copypasta.
In an incredibly important update, the collective screams of 50,000 fans have caused Phil’s wife to trend on Twitter:
AU where Phil is just A Dude, a powerful, crazy, kind of murder happy Dude who off and on trades with this piglin village or whatever. Saved them from another player or from a raid from other Piglins that would have wiped them out, Something, not important.
What is important is that the piglins now believe that he is a God and so they’re like “how do you show grattitude to the gods? SACRIFICE! :D” and so they’re going to offer bby!Techno to Phil, “The Blood God"
and Phil is like ????????????? what ARE you doing with that CHILD and a LAVA PIT
and the piglin are like “oh how presumptuous, of course the The Blood God can kill his own sacrifices, forgive us, here you are sir, enjoy.
and now Phil Has in his possesion An Entire Child and he’s So Goddamn Confused but he unties the kid and is like “alright…? uh….?? good luck bro??”
but Baby Techno is like “The God Of Death Has Chosen To Spare Me, I Will Serve Him For As Long As He Decides That My Life Shall Last”
and neither Phil nor the piglins speak the same language
Better Plan: Phil’s narration always says He Is A Normal Man but he can do all of this Impossible Magic that maybe Normal People can’t
and in Techno’s POV he always talks about how Phil has An Aura of Dread or Power around him and when things are quiet enough around him you can almost hear the rustle and call of a thousand crows, just at the edge of your senses and sometimes his eyes gleam in a way no Normal Man’s would
Don't give up. Unless you have to for a little while. Then don't panic. CONTAINS: Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons, Critical Role, History, Current Affairs, Space, Cats, and Etc. Adult.
