The 44-year-old YouTuber Athene has long been away from gaming, but now the crisis of the Twitch guild OnlyFangs is pulling him back to WoW: He wants to save the guild with legendary tactics from 20 years ago.
Who is the best paladin in the world? The now 44-year-old Bachir “Athene” Bourmaaza was an outstanding player in WoW nearly 15 years ago, the first to reach level 85. He repeatedly referred to himself as “the best paladin in the world” – based on an ancient YouTube video from 2007.
Now he is back in the guild OnlyFangs, but can only shake his head at what he sees.
The guild leader, Sodapoppin, has died in the game and had to hand over the guild leadership. A LoL player who wasn’t even a rank 1 gladiator takes over the guild.
In any case, Athene sees Generation Z as decadent and lost. In WoW, there is Sodom and Gomorrah. From his perspective, the guild is all about “gooning” and “edging” instead of WoW.
Players are engaging in frivolous sexual practices and neglecting the actual game. It’s entirely over when he sees Sodapoppin in a stream in a feminine cosplay.
Twitch guild OnlyFangs is in crisis – Lacking herbs and raid materials
He sees this as a problem: At OnlyFangs, they actually want to raid in a few weeks, but the guild has problems with preparation. The guild lacks herbalists to provide the raiders with the necessary materials, such as the “Elixir of the Mongoose”, which increases agility and critical hit chance for 1 hour.
Because they can’t just buy these materials due to guild rules, the leaders are panicking a bit that they will be too poorly prepared for raiding and could mess everything up with a chaotic pull. Because in WoW raiding, people do die – normally that’s not a problem, but on a hardcore server, you can’t afford that.
If a pull goes wrong, quickly 40 players lose their level-60 heroes, which would be a huge setback for the project that currently brings so much to all content creators on Twitch.
This is Athene’s plan: Athene works himself into a wild speech about “gooners”, “edgers”, and “muscle daddies”, increasingly angry about the terrible youth, Gen Z, but then pauses and says: He is Athene. The best paladin in the world.
Don’t think that he would simply let his guild die.
He will now develop his own tool that allows the players of OnlyFangs to act in accordance with the rules so they can prepare for the raid.
In doing so, he references all sorts of obscure historical references. He asks if the guys have ever heard of the “Silk Road” or the art of war: “Sun Tzu, Motherfucker!”, he shouts at the end.
This is how it’s received: This is a complete staging by Athene, who visibly enjoys bringing his “old role” as a super paladin back to life. How he stages it and curses the youth is quite entertaining and an exaggerated parody of a man who simply does not understand today’s time and only talks in misunderstood snippets.
In the comments, people say they got goosebumps at the “But I am Athene!” moment or “This reminds me of how great YouTube was 10 years ago.” Athene already made quite a splash in the last video when he talked about Gen Z: The 44-year-old was once the most well-known player of WoW, today he talks incoherently about Gen Z and how they are destroying the MMORPG
