Video summary
The video begins by recounting an intense two-month journey where streamer mkff joined SodaPoppin and his hardcore World of Warcraft guild with the singular goal of defeating Ragnaros. In this high-stakes environment, death meant permanent loss for characters built over thousands of hours, creating a tense atmosphere filled with blame when mistakes were made during raids. Despite losing multiple characters and holding study sessions to prepare new players who had never touched the game before, the group eventually succeeded in their raid objective. This shared experience highlighted SodaPoppin's specific leadership style and deep history within the community, setting the stage for a personal project that would follow after the guild event concluded.
Following this adventure, mkff decided to launch his custom keyboard company, eboards, which allows clients to engrave personalized designs onto the back of mechanical keyboards. To celebrate SodaPoppin's invitation into the hardcore guild and Miz's involvement, he created special keys for both of them before pivoting to a new commission request from SodaPoppin himself: a full-sized keyboard with a "gamer girl" aesthetic featuring his girlfriend's favorite frog emote, Pepe. The project presented immediate challenges because mkff does not manufacture full-size boards and struggled to find an artist willing to draw the specific Pepe characters due to their unique status as a second language in streaming culture rather than just simple images.
To solve these obstacles, mkff ordered a Keychron Q5 Pro base and commissioned an artist from SodaPoppin's own community on Twitter who agreed to design the requested frog emotes. However, he encountered another technical hurdle when his laser engraver failed to produce clear results on the powder-coated metal surface of the keyboard case, resulting in dull images during initial tests. Recognizing that a poor finish would be unacceptable for a gift intended for someone's girlfriend, he enlisted the help of an old friend named Hassan from V1 Tech to re-engineer the printing process and ensure high-quality output before shipping it off.
After receiving the finished product back with the new engraving technique successfully applied, mkff was thrilled by how beautiful the keyboard looked, noting that his friends at V1 Tech even peeled and reapplied the feet for a perfect fit. He then drove to SodaPoppin's house to deliver the surprise gift personally, capturing her delighted reaction as she praised the cute design and thanked him profusely. The video concludes with mkff mentioning that he is currently streaming another round of the hardcore WoW guild events daily on his channel while also promoting eboards for viewers interested in custom keyboards, ending the story on a note of community connection and successful craftsmanship.
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last year the most watched game on the
internet was World of Warcraft now why
did a 20-year-old game have over a
100,000 live viewers on Twitch and over
millions of views on YouTube because two
streamers mkff and soda Poppin decided
they wanted to make a hardcore Guild
full of other streamers what is Hardcore
World of Warcraft well when you die
you're
dead which means characters with
thousands of hours and in some cases
thousands of dollars can be gone forever
if you or someone around you makes a
mistake dude tra why tra why did you AOE
fear man tra why did you AOE fear man we
had no you didn't now what made this
Guild so special well soda Poppin has a
huge history in World of Warcraft but
not only that he has a very specific
leadership style shut up if you don't
want to be here just quit I was lucky
enough to be a part of this two-month
long journey that had one goal defeat
ragnaros not only did we have to level
characters from 1 to 60 but 40 of us had
to do in order to fill the raid and most
of us had never even played wow before
we lost multiple characters had study
sessions and even had in-person Guild
meetings until we finally did the raid
and won and he's dead let
go so why am I telling you this while
this was going on I started a keyboard
company called eboards it's a custom
keyboard company that allows you to
engrave whatever you want on the back of
a keyboard and we've had some people
take full advantage of that anyways I
wanted to say thank you to soda and Miz
for the invite so I made them both a
keyboard and I brought it out to our
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get back to the rest of it so that
brings us to today what are we making
now well sort of Reach Out asking if I
could make something else he wants to
surprise his girlfriend with a special
keyboard it needs to be full-sized have
a gamergirl aesthetic and last but not
least Pepe Pepe so we have a couple
problems number one I don't make
full-size keyboards this was pretty
easily solved by ordering a keyron Q5
Pro and then there's the other problem
Pepe I can't draw for those of you that
don't know this a great place to find
artists is actually Twitter if you're a
streamer like me it's not uncommon to be
scrolling through your timeline and find
someone posting emotes they've drawn for
another streamer and then and
potentially commission that artist for
yourself now with streaming culture a
huge part of that is Pepe streamers use
these all the time in their chats and
the way the culture works is that these
frogs aren't just pictures to me and to
many others they're kind of like a
second language one little frog can
express a variety of emotions and
feelings but the hard part finding
artists that are actually willing to
draw them I'm not sure what the reason
is but in my time as a streamer I've
seen quite a few artists that even write
it in their bio about how they do not
design Pepe emotes or anything Pepe art
rated which is why I was luy enough to
find this guy I was scrolling through
Twitter when I found someone who's
actually a part of M's Community who
posted this I reached out to him to
commission something for me and he
knocked it out of the park yo hey how's
it going good this is the design I I
need you to put a bunch of Pepe and peos
on the back of this keyboard uh so like
what I did on Twitter uh yes but it
needs to look and I quote more gamer
girl so you want gamer girl peos yes but
now I have a second problem see I have a
laser engraver and it works great on
things like brass or stainless steel but
on powder coated metal it does not turn
out good I ran a couple tests to see if
there was anything I could do but each
time the image just turned out kind of
dead which is probably not acceptable
since it's going to somebody's
girlfriend so I asked an old friend of
mine Hassan at V1 Tech if he would be
willing to help me out so now I'm going
to take this thing to the post office
and send it
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off what okay bye Che
[Music]
all right that's all
done now we wait one pair of pants
later oh yes
oh my God it's beautiful it's so
cute look at this thing it's perfect I
love the way this thing turned out it
actually looks so cool VI on Tech did
such a great job they even peeled off
the back Stoppers here and then they
reapplied them after the print job they
are so good man now that we know the
outsides are good we can move on to the
rest of
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it so cute wow
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that's kind of cute little curse when
you think about the back but there's
front
and all right here's your quick shitty
sound test
Quick
[Music]
Test yep time to
go crash my car crash your car no
problem
insert generic shot of me driving to
their house except if I even came close
to leaking their address I pretty sure
some would kill me all right normally
I'd get a cute shot of me dropping off
at the front door but I am not going to
even come close to leaking an address
today so just know I'm delivering
it y Christopher dude thank you so much
that is so cool are dead thank you oh
[ __ ] good I'm glad I'm glad she like so
what now well that entire guild
experience is actually happening again
right now there are ton of streamers in
the guild from Tyler 1 to shroud and
pirate software if you want to check it
out I'm streaming it every single day on
my channel as well as a bunch of other
streamers on the website and if you're
on the market to get a eboard check out
EB boards.com anyways that's enough for
me for the day goodbye I'll see you
later