Why did tord leave eddsworld

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Tord Åke Larsson (A.K.A. Tord Maximillian/Cyrano Welhaven) was a Norwegian comic artist and YouTuber who was most known for his work on the Eddsworld animated series. He was also a friend of the creator, Edd Gould. Tord was originally the main artist behind the Eddsworld comics in 2004 but he became the voice for his persona when he got a microphone, Tord had left Eddsworld in 2008, requesting that Edd also remove Tord's persona from the series. Tord briefly returned in 2010 for the episode, WTFuture to say one line as his Eddsworld persona, it is believed that Edd was the one who contacted Tord and asked him to do this one line. During the early hours of March 25th, 2012, Edd Gould died from cancer, putting Eddsworld into a temporary hiatus and ending Tord's involvement with Eddsworld

Video Contents[edit | edit source]

5 days after Edd's death, Tord uploaded an unprepared video. In this video, he first responded to Edd's death, paying his respects to him. Then, he explained why he had left Eddsworld, citing that he had been harassed and stalked by fans of the series, been impersonated on numerous social media platforms, and his wishes to build a persona independent from the series which had caused him to quit and go into hiding.

Disappearance[edit | edit source]

Later, Larsson deleted his YouTube account in an attempt at hiding again, making the video unavailable. Though the YouTube link has been archived on web.archive.org, the video itself has been considered lost

Aftermath[edit | edit source]

After the tribute video entitled; Your Eulogy was made. It was shown at Edd's funeral and then uploaded to the YouTube channel; DarkSquidge. A few months later Thomas Ridgewell (aka TomSka), the now former voice actor of Tom in Eddsworld, had uploaded a video discussing Eddsworld related topics. In this video, he mentioned Tord, stating that Tord leaving Eddsworld had opened a "Pandora's box" of crazed fans that relentlessly pestered him to the point that he went to the extent of not using his real name on the internet (hence his possible fake middle and last names). On the 26th August 2014, a possible fan of Tord asked if Matthew Hargreaves, one of the writers of Eddsworld, was still in contact with Tord. Matthew responded with "I would like to, but it's been a long time". The last time Tord had been mentioned in Eddsworld was through the credits for "The End" part 2. Around 18 minutes and 44 seconds into the YouTube video TomSka's Pretentious Monthly Scrapbook, a video can be seen playing in the background with a blurred person being seen, this image matches Tord meaning that Tom still has access to Tord's video but neglects to upload it, most likely for Tord's well being.

Availability[edit | edit source]

The only footage from the video known to survive is a short excerpt from Tomska's tribute video “Your Eulogy.” Tord is recorded toasting Edd before drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola.

On April 2nd, 2022, loco_d1ego uploaded the entire audio for the video, though he does not possess any video content as stated in a comment.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Your Eulogy (excerpt: 2:06)

Full audio for the video.

External Link[edit | edit source]

• Archived WikilLove page on Eddsworld. Retrieved 10 May '20

Yes, I have that video; I downloaded it at around 1 am on March 31st, 2012, just a few hours after it was posted.

I will not upload it (to respect his wishes) but I will transcribe the audio the best I can:

''Hello. It's Tord from Eddsworld. In this video, I'll explain why I left Eddsworld and for what reasons I did. But first, I would address the recent events.

I read comments saying 'Oh, Tord is a bastard for not being there, Tord should have been there, Tord should go to his funeral', all that.

Quite frankly, I didn't know anything about Edd's situation since I'm not in contact with either Tom or Matt, Edd was my only source of information so I only knew what he told me, and the last time I spoke properly to him was I think February, so yeah, I haven't been updated at all. But I would have been there if I knew what was going on. I wanted to visit Edd, we talked about visiting but he always told me he wanted to be out of hospital and be fit for fight if I was to visit him because Edd didn't want us to spend all the time in the hospital, which is fair but, I wish I had went to visit him because now it's too late.

Edd and I started talking back in 2004 so, he was a great friend for 7 years which is a long time. Specially considering it's an online friendship and I think the first time I met him was in 2006 when I visited London with my parents so we met at Trafalgar Square and went around London, and that was right after he had gone on his first chemo so, he was in pretty bad shape, and seeing him progress from there getting better and better it was good, but it's a shame what happened. I'm truly sorry for his family and his friends and I wish I could have been there.

Now, over to the points: why I left Eddsworld and what my reasons were, and I want to address one thing first and that is, whatever you see on YouTube channels, Facebook pages, it is not me. Pages saying 'Oh this is Tord from Eddsworld, oh this is why I left', whatever. All those are frauds, I have never made a page about myself or anything regarding Eddsworld. I'm always anonymous when I'm online, I don't bring up my name or anything because that's exactly my point, cause' people will go 'Oh! it's Tord from Eddsworld, Shit!' and that is what I wanted to avoid, one of my main reasons for leaving Eddsworld. People say I left Eddsworld to pursue my own artistic career, and that it's true because I don't want to leech of Edd's success and have all its fans come over to me and just look at me for being a part of Eddsworld, I want to build my own name, which I have done to some degree and it's not bad, trust me.

People also say I left because Tom and I didn't get along, that it's not true because I haven't spoke into Tom since 2006 or something, maybe before that I don't know; I remember Edd saying something when he was having technical problems and Tom and I was left to speak with each other rather than having Edd to speak with. And it's true, we found out we weren't really fond of each other, but Tom didn't like that I made fun of him for his religious views, and that is all right, Tom if you're watching this I want to apologize, it wasn't really nice of me, I'll [learned/own?] that. Tom also broke contact with me when I made a comic about him and that was the nail in the coffin. I think Tom was also a bit disappointed that he wasn't on ''The Dudette Next Door'', I remember he was really upset about that, but that was a group project between me and Edd; Edd animated one scene, I animated the next, he would animate the next and so on. So Tom didn't had anything to do with it, so, I don't know, neither me nor Edd saw that it was necessary to have him in there; and that was before Matt was part of the team so, he wasn't there either.

Some people also say I left Eddsworld to go to school and, it's true I go to school, but my time in Eddsworld never had anything to do with my school work, it didn't interfere on any matter or anything, so that it's not true that I left Eddsworld because of school. And some people say I moved to America, that it's not true, I've always lived in Norway and, yeah I would met Edd like four times maybe so, for people holding grudges against me for not staying with him until the end, sorry, I haven't been able to; I wish I could but I'm a broke student so, there you go.

Tom said something about why I have to exclude the whole Tord character from the show, and that it's because I felt the character was too personal, he basically bears my name, my full name, so I don't think it's appropriate to have like, this character giving out my name and everyone thinks 'Oh, that it's Tord from Eddsworld'. I also like to address that we need to be able to tell the difference between the character and me, because I'm the voice actor and the character is just some parody of me it's not like, people think 'I'm a communist, I'm a gun fanatic, I'm addicted to hentai'; communist, no, my political views do not suit the communistic views, and I don't own a single gun, never mind fire one. When we made the character I was like 14 and you know how 14 years old are, like now when playing Call of Duty and they think they're weapons expert and, that's what I thought except, back then it was Time Splitters 2 I think. Regarding the hentai, I'm not a fanatic, I don't love hentai, I'm not addicted to it, it's fun to draw I guess, I draw some hentai, but that's because I'm bored; and if it is to get views, that's a really cheap way to get traffic on your pages, to just draw some boobs and...[the last seven words I can't make it out, something about women in some clothing I believe]

I don't know what more to say; before I end it, I want to once again tell Edd's family, his friends, I'm truly sorry for what is happen, and I wish I could've supported you, but as I explained I haven't been able to because I didn't know what was going on, I didn't know what had happened before the YouTube video was posted and, yeah, like I said before Tom or Matt, I don't know, them, I didn't get any text or anything.

So, to Edd''.

TL;DR: Tord explains why he wasn't with Edd when he died or at his funeral, as well as how they met. He dispells the rumors of his leaving of Eddsworld, among those his relationship with Tom, and why he wanted his character excluded from Eddsworld.

Nothing about hating Edd, he says that he wasn't informed of what was going on and didn't know he died or about the funeral until the 'RIP Edd Gould' video appeared; Tom and him weren't that fond of each other, but he apologizes for making fun of his religious views back in the day. Most importantly, no mention of hate towards his fans, only that he wants to build a name for his own and not just being seen as being a part of Eddsworld nor leech of Edd's success. He wanted his character removed because he felt it was too personal, as it was using his full name and that we should be able to tell the difference between the character and him, as the character doesn't represent him (he's not a communist, a gun fanatic or addicted to hentai).