The Count

''"Is this really what I want to do with my life? Stare at my monitor until meaningless numbers increase?" -Technoblade, in "the hypixel skyblock experience "''

The Count
Chatnotwt's main distinguishing feature from other offline Twitch chats is The Count. On November 9, 2020, during the initial flood into the chat, Twitch user cakiably said the number 1 and a spam count started. It was soon decided that Chatnotwt would work together to count as high as possible, manually, without using automation. This eventually evolved into the idea that The Count would reset to 0 whenever Technoblade uploaded a video to his YouTube channel. As of December 31, 2022, Chatnotwt is in the middle of its 16th Count.

B.C. (Before Counting)
Before the count started, the chat would "sing" the lyrics to "Blitz," Technoblade's parody of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space," over and over again.

The First Count
On November 9, 2020, Twitch user cakiably said the number 1, resulting in multiple people beginning to spam count together. Although multiple people were spam counting at the same time, none of them said 49. The number was therefore deemed nonexistent and is skipped in counts to this day. The chat agreed to continue counting until Techno uploaded.

Friday the 13th
On November 12th, 2020, the day before Friday the 13th, the count was close to 69420. Chatnotwt (at this time, entirely made up of Gen 1 counters) set a goal to hit 69420 before Friday the 13th. Twitch user will was shadowbanned shortly after starting to count, prompting rofllmaoooooo to take over the count, who was quickly shadowbanned as well. User slugcat97blast then took over the count and suffered the same fate. In the midst of the resulting panic, user whaspoppin started counting, only to get shadowbanned a few minutes later. Finally, users snowy and arinxx duoed until they successfully hit 69420, one hour and 26 minutes before the 13th.

The 100k Dispute
On November 13, 2020 at 22:11:14 UTC, Technoblade uploaded "Dream SMP: The Red Festival" to his main Youtube channel. This caused a divide in Chatnotwt. Some wanted to continue counting because they were close to 100000, but others (lead by user rofllmaoooooo) believed they should reset and start from scratch due to the upload. This dispute continued until November 14, 2020 at 12:00 UTC, when the first count reached 100000, proceeding to reset to rofllmaoooooo's count. Until that point, the 100k count and the second count were being counted simultaneously by different users.

The first count officially ended at 100000 on November 14th, and the second count was immediately continued by user Blob, beginning at 3330.

The Second 100k Dispute
On November 20, 2020, another 100k dispute began, as there had not been an upload yet, but some chat members wanted to reset the count. The 100k reset advocates stated that a reset would make sense because of the wait for the previous reset, and that it would make the count easier to keep track of. A third count briefly started, with user pyrte counting the first 500. Advocates for not resetting, mainly made up of Gen 1 counters, said that the original intention of the count had been to reset it at uploads. As the majority of users active were Gen 2 and had arrived after the November 16th snitch, they were unaware of this.

Out of respect for the original members' wishes, the count continued. A message was left in Jenny's queue thanking the counters of the 2nd count and announcing this decision, and the count proceeded as it was originally intended with no major objections. There is unfortunately no documentation of this discussion, as most of it occurred in the Twitch chat before Chatterino logging was introduced, and no screenshots of it are publicly available.

The 150k Roleplay Dispute
On November 22, 2020, user rofllmaoooooo, while on an alt nicknamed ogos or goose, repeatedly shadowbanned Jenny using the -8b command with the help of other members. This was part of a roleplay protest to reset the count at 150000, as they did at 100000 despite there being no Technoblade YouTube upload. The last known number of the count before the roleplay started was 147269.

After it was clarified that there would be no reset until the next upload, roleplay was banned. As Apple, a Gen 1 Discord mod put it, "we're banning roleplay since it was causing problems and disrupting chill vibes." This roleplay ban only applies to bits that make anyone uncomfortable.

Later that day, the count reached 150000 and continued with no reset. The second count ended on December 1, 2020, at 346386.

The Third Count
The 3rd count started on December 1, 2020 after Technoblade premiered "The Fall of Manburg [Dream SMP]" at 23:11:46 UTC. This count was started by Char, owner of the Chatnotwt twitter account. This count is the first count that was documented through reliable chat logs. The 3rd count ended on December 12, 2020, at 207167.

The Fourth Count
The 4th count started on December 12, 2020 after Technoblade premiered "Dream SMP But I Troll Skeppy" at 23:00:11 UTC. This count was started by Cyn using an alt account. The count ended on January 15, 2021, at 759881.

The Fifth Count
The 5th count started on January 15, 2021 after Techno premiered "I Ruined Skeppy's Video" at 22:04:02 UTC. This count was started by Roxy. Counting averaged around 20k each day, but slowed down in the high hundred-thousands, as counting decreased due to school.

This count was the first count to reach one million (1000000), on February 28, 2021. The one million spam count was a huge milestone for Chatno, and many members who hadn't spoken in chat in months came back to take part. Members celebrated in the Twitch chat by typing the lyrics of Blitz into the Twitch chat, reminiscent of pre-count Chatno. Less than three hours later, the count reset at 1002080. Due to the timing of the reset, some Chatnotwt members suspect that Technoblade may have been lurking in chat, waiting for the one million milestone before uploading his new video.

The Sixth Count
The 6th count started on February 28, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "The Main Character of Dream SMP" at 20:49:32 UTC. This count was started by Mable, who had been counting when the 6th count ended. It ended on April 4, 2021, at 460747.

The Seventh Count
The 7th count started on April 4, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "I Must Win MrBeast's $10,000 Refrigerator" at 21:57:24 UTC. This count was started by Chia, who had been counting when the 6th count ended.

The 7th count was the second to hit one million, at around 12:00 UTC on May 17, 2021. It ended nine days later, on May 26, 2021, at 1200577.

The Eighth Count
The 8th count started on May 26, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "I Became the Mayor of Skyblock" at 21:57:24 UTC. This count was started by Zena and Aes, who had been duoing when the 7th count ended.

The 8th count was the third to hit one million and, as of December 2022, is the highest count to date. It ended on August 27, 2021 at 1253200.

The Ninth Count
The 9th count, also known as the technosupport count, started on August 27, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "where I've been" at 20:08:28 UTC. This count was started by Chia.

Due to the nature of the video that started this count, it became customary to count with a heart or message of "technosupport" before or after every number. Technoblade also announced that he had a video planned for September 3, 2021, putting a time limit on the count. Chatnotwt rushed to hit 100k before the upload, and succeeded on the day of the upload.

The technosupport count ended on September 3, 2021 at 19:00:13 UTC at 101349 – a number which technically does not exist.

The Tenth Count
The 10th count started on September 3, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "Destroying Friendships with the Minecraft Gravity Mod" at 19:00:13 UTC. This count was started by Aes and Olo, who had been counting when the 9th count ended. It ended on December 24, 2021 at 778293.

The Eleventh Count
The 11th count started on December 24, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "I Almost Became An Amputee" at 00:36:07 UTC. It ended on December 31, 2021 at 64077.

The Twelfth Count
The 12th count started on December 31, 2021 after Technoblade uploaded "WE MUST HIT 10MIL SUBS BEFORE 2022" at 13:09:21 UTC. Technoblade was, in fact, successful in hitting ten million subscribers on this date, which resulted in much celebration from Chatnotwt. It ended on April 2, 2022 at 439296.

The Thirteenth Count
The 13th count started on April 2, 2022 after Technoblade uploaded "The Minecraft VR Experience" at 23:32:36 UTC. It ended on June 8, 2022 at 130088.

The Fourteenth Count
The 14th count started on June 8, 2022 after Technoblade uploaded "haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax" at 02:15:34 UTC. This video was not a new upload, rather an old draft that was unprivated by mistake. The original upload date of this video was July 26, 2015. However, due to the video appearing as a new upload in subscribers' YouTube notifications, along with the fact that hundreds of other videos were unprivated alongside it, the count was reset.

It ended on July 1, 2022 at 45196. It is, as of December 2022, the lowest count to date.

The Fifteenth Count
The 15th count started on July 1, 2022 after Technoblade's dad uploaded "so long nerds" to Technoblade's channel at 01:29:02 UTC. In this video, it was announced that Technoblade had passed away from cancer. Chatnotwt began discussing what to do with the count, as it seemed unlikely that another reset would ever happen. A plan to reset at 10 million, whether cumulative between counts or in the individual count, was proposed but never definitively decided on. This count was the longest-lasting count in the history of Chatnotwt.

However, due to a surprise upload from Technoblade's dad, the count ended on December 25, 2022 at 745969.

The Sixteenth Count
The 16th count started on December 25, 2022 after Technoblade's dad uploaded "10 million subs elbow reveal" to Technoblade's channel at 20:00:10 UTC. This video was promised by Technoblade a year prior, as a result of hitting 10 million subscribers on December 31, 2021. The video was created for Technodad by a user active in Chatnotwt, StrawberryGS.

This count is currently ongoing.