The Belgian Bachir Bourmaaza (44) was a pioneer on the internet and known as “Athene”, a famous gamer, especially in World of Warcraft. He was the first player at levels 80 and 85. Today he is 44 years old and comments on the current state of WoW and the “Gen Z”: This is what the currently biggest streamer on Twitch likes to watch.
Who is Athene? Athene began his career on YouTube back in 2007. Many of today’s creators were still “liquid in their fathers’ balls”, as he charmingly puts it. In any case, he is among the most famous players of WoW of all time.
The YouTuber played a fictional, exaggerated version of himself, similar to Tyler1 or DrDisrespect. He became known as “the best paladin in the world who crushes noobs”.
However, he was actually a good player and the first to reach level 85 in WoW in 2010, of course with a paladin. His channel received a lot of attention at that time. But in recent years, Athene has played hardly any role in gaming and has had some controversies behind him. We stopped following him on MeinMMO around 2019, as he founded a religion.
WoW is currently trending on Twitch, but not in the modern version, rather in the WoW Classic variant. Some big streamers are playing WoW in hardcore mode, in the guild OnlyFangs. Every death here is permanent:
Athene sees himself as the Michael Jackson of WoW
This is now his appearance: in a wild video, the now gray-haired Athene comments on the guild “OnlyFangs” on the WoW hardcore server. The currently most successful streamer on Twitch, Sodapoppin, is watching the video. Sodapoppin is the long-time guild leader of OnlyFangs, but recently lost his main character foolishly.
Athene presents himself first as the greatest guy ever, who fears that his pure presence questions Sodapoppin’s authority as guild leader of OnlyFangs, due to a charisma that intimidates all other players:
I am a king, I am a leader. I determine the direction. I am a trendsetter. I am not just the greatest of all time, I am a lifestyle: You are a pro or a noob. That’s life!
While Sodapoppin is famous, so to speak the Soldier Boy of WoW, he is like Michael Jackson.
Gen Z only plays in easy mode – they should call it Pussycore
What does he say about Gen Z? Athene extensively mocks the “soft Gen Z”, all of whom are zoomers who only played “roleplay”. That was no hardcore at WoW. If it were “hardcore”, they would all be playing with activated PvP:
These are all zoomers, Skibidi Toilet and all that nonsense. People, please install Fortnite for God’s sake and not WoW Hardcore. They are so bad at the game. 18-year-olds – they were still swimming in their fathers’ balls when I was already smashing noobs in the game!
On the server, there are only beginners doing roleplay. He wants to do PvP:
I don’t understand it. Why no PvP-hardcore server? Why is everyone playing only in easy mode here? And then they call it hardcore: They should rename the server to Pussycore. In my time, RP was looked down upon. It was only for perverts and losers who couldn’t get a woman.
From his perspective, it is clear: When he left the scene, WoW started to decline. And that is no coincidence.
The video then becomes increasingly chaotic, Athene apparently runs out of material and only talks nonsense, while Sodapoppin can hardly contain himself. Athene repeatedly talks about the “Skibidi” toilet, an obscure meme seen as a symbol of the nonsense youth now amuses themselves with on the internet.
Here’s what it’s all about: This is a very wild performance that resembles something like “drunken uncle tells at the wedding about his time”, but many are currently amused by this appearance. In the background of the video, a young woman is constantly struggling not to completely lose control. The video is apparently not meant to be taken seriously, rather Athene shows an even more exaggerated parody of himself than usual. Essentially, Athene apparently wanted to justify why he was only briefly involved with OnlyFangs.
Sodapoppin is currently the most successful streamer on Twitch thanks to OnlyFangs and WoW has seen a significant upswing due to all the drama surrounding the streamer guild. Athene wanted to remind people of himself after 18 years. The worst troll of LoL now leads the elite guild in WoW, where even the head of Riot plays
