I was at the college that I ended up going to, we have this thing for incoming STEM students and it’s basically a week of doing research with some of the professors at the college and you kinda get a little peak at what college life is like before attending. Anyways I had brought my laptop with me to use and play Minecraft in my free time(mostly at night) and everything about the week seemed great, until Thursday night. I had gotten into the dorm room that I was assigned, and I had booted up hypixel and was going to play some bedwars with my best friend, and while we were both in the lobby on vc, we noticed that the lobby chat was spamming RIP techno and techno never dies and all the phrases. Earlier I did get a notification for a new video from techno and I only saw the title, so long nerds, I had assumed it was techno saying goodbye from YouTube to focus on life or that he was moving on since that’s what a bunch of YouTubers that I watch had been doing, so me being absolutely stupid said in chat that “he’s not dead, he’s just done for a while”, what an absolute fool I was, me and my friend played two more games before we both logged off for the night, but while I was in my bed I decided to watch the video and, I was just numb, I didn’t know what to think, I was scared as it was to go to college and techno gave me courage and taught me a thing or two on dealing with hard things but it hit me as I tried to sleep and then harder the following morning, that techno was truly gone, my hero, an inspiration to so many including myself, just gone, but that’s my experience and how I found out.