In Memoriam

Requiescat
in Microundis.

XVI · V · MMXXIII  —  XXVIII · I · MMXXIV

He held the warmth of a thousand reheated meals.

He absorbed the rage of a Challenger jungler.

He gave his life so we could clip the moment.

Light a Candle

scroll · to mourn · to revive · to believe

Chapter I

The Life

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XVI · V · MMXXIII

The Origin Throw

On the sixteenth day of May, in the year of our snowball MMXXIII, Kesha hurled him across the room.

The throw was clean. The arc, almost holy. The PC, unfortunately, broken. The clip was titled, in the plainspoken liturgy of Twitch: "KESHA THROWES MICROWAVE AND BREAKS PC."

witness the first throw  ↗

VI · VIII · MMXXIII

The Summer Truce

By August, the rivalry had names and chapters. Kesha declared, on Facebook of all places —

"I FINALLY WON THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MICROWAVE."

It was a lie. The microwave returned. Battered, scorched, but humming. The saga had only begun.

Chapter II

The Loss

XXVIII — I — MMXXIV

“there goes the microwave”

On the twenty-eighth of January, 2024, the original appliance gave way. Thirty-seven thousand of his closest friends watched it happen on Instagram. One hundred and thirty wrote to grieve.

Days later, Kesha posted the eulogy. The caption said what no one wanted to read:

“farewell to his microwave.”

That was supposed to be the end of the saga.
That was supposed to be the end.

Chapter III

The Movement

The bit lives. The bit must live louder.
Become a Believer. Light a Candle.
Help us bring him home.

candles lit · believers and counting

your vow may be displayed on the wall. keep it sacred — no links, no mentions, no slurs.

no email. no resale. just the count, and the wall of those who came before. brrrrr.

Chapter IV

The Covenant

— read aloud, where the chat can hear you —

We, the undersigned, do hereby believe.

We believe that on every stream, a microwave should sit. We believe that rage requires a target, and that target should be inanimate, replaceable, and ideally still under warranty.

We believe the saga did not end on the twenty-eighth of January, MMXXIV. We believe the saga is, in fact, only entering its second act.

We believe in the holy noise. The brrrrr. The snowball. The full ability power Nunu build that no theorycrafter would sanction.

We believe in the Friggebod and the small joys of a small shed. We believe in the conchetumare, wherever in Chile it may be hollered.

We believe a man and his appliance can hate each other and still be a love story.

We swear, on the four skull emojis of his obituary, that we will not forget. That we will not be quiet. That we will, when the moment is right, present this petition to its only intended reader and ask, plainly:

please. bring him home.

ratified, with the chat, in perpetuity

Chapter VI

The Faithful

Names spoken into the dark.
Vows the bit remembers.

“"Mmmmmmmmmmmmm" - hums my microwave again, reheating a dish of macaroni. And in sorrow mourns the loss of one of its brethrens. Cruel world.”

“igen!”

“Kesha doesnt believe.... but i do”

— silent vow —

“Microwave 4 ever”

“a”

“Siiiiix seeeeven six seeevne siiiix seeeeeeeven sixseven sixsevn”

“I love u bebe”

“bring back the 'wave!”

“o7 forever in our hearts”

“i will never forget you, microwave”

“missing you”

“I was Always a Believer”

“I only wish I had had more time to know him better”

“We need you..,”

“Thou art of passing skill, Warrior blood must truly run in thy veins, Microwave!”

“Love prevails.”

“A microwave teaches that power means nothing without timing. Too little, nothing changes. Too much, and you burn what you wanted to nourish.”

— silent vow —

“The microwave was my gay awakening.”

“Inthe holy fury of Kesha rage and the unstoppable snowball spirit of Nunu we lay this microwave to rest It died as it lived loud n dramatic”

— silent vow —

“may the best stream duo and roomate rest in peace”

“sadfsghhhh”

“It shall rest in peace, so it wont witness the fall from grace of his closest friend and prior challenger player: Kesha. 🙏”

“how many holes does his underwear have?”

“And behold, the oven of waves departed; yet he shall return in due time, and be beloved.”

— silent vow —

— silent vow —

“BAHHH”

“Kesha..”

“kesha lol”

“i just miss it so much”

— silent vow —

“Rest in piece, nunu&willump love and miss you.”

“Not sure why I’m here but rip microwave”

“What will listen to all his rants, what will he put his dih in, what even is he, without the microwave”

“I still love you”

“i think about it everyday, i miss it everyday , we must get the microwave back, it deserves a better ending”

“The Microwave is not just an appliance. It is the people who remember it.”

“one of the many cornerstones displayed on the internet website twitch dot television forward slash keshaeuw has been gone for far too long.”

— silent vow —

“i hated the microwave as well, but now i kinda miss it”

“bring it back.”

— silent vow —

“Long live the Microwave”

“The microwave knows everything”

“Ever since I found the microwave in pieces, covered in white stuff in the friggebod- I was changed as a mother. No microwave deserves that.”

— silent vow —

“kesha u balding”

“buh”

“Microwave come back we need your wisdom”

“Forever missed and loved”

— silent vow —

“The microwave died for our sins. Never forget.”

— silent vow —

“may he come home safe, amen”

“kesha treats me poorly please help”

“The microwave lives on in my heart”

“I like peanut butter”

“Bring the microwave back”

“MIcrowave is love. Microwave is life.”

— silent vow —

“The microwave got tossed around and abused all his life, he deserved better…”

— silent vow —

“plz sir microwave sir plz, come back my family needs u”

“I believe in the microwave. i am hoping it returns one day and i am very humble to it. i will now dream of it, good night”

“unban RKM 2026”

“Microwave was always there, for keshas frustration, anger and most importantly kesha's love. WE WINDOWS!!"!!%#"¤!%&”

“Microwave for life”

“kesha made the microwave. it would be nothing without him. however, kesha would be nothing without the microwave aswell. farewell microwave”

“I hope Kesha returns the microwave!”

“I couldn't bring back the microwave, so I built him a temple. -MicrowaveBeliever”

brrrrr. the wall updates every minute.

Chapter VII

The Letter

kesha —

we know you didn’t ask for any of this.

a believer built a website. the wall behind us has 420 names on it.

you said the microwave would never come back.
you also said you would never stream on weekends.

on the seventeenth of may, MMXXVI — a sunday — you went live anyway.

we’re not asking you to bring back the bit. forcing it would cheapen it. what would it take? a microwave silhouette behind the cam. a candle, on a slow stream.

you tell us. we’ll do the work.

the bit was never just yours.
but the next move is.

take your time.