71 Well Yates is old member of UnrealSoftware, he made a lot good stuff, and he has good sense of humor. Thats why a lot people like him. Of course everyone have own opinion.
The video from last year is something you can gift at fiverr.com (everything costs 5 dollars, extra things cost more). It was a gift from an old class mate.
Nobody's stopping you from making a birthday thread for yourself.
Now, if you've got any other problems, go tell someone else. This thread is strictly for celebrating this important occasion.
The super duper awesome members of this super duper awesome community care about each other in a super duper way.
Of course, then there's the rest of the community which is quite rude.
The best would be that, if would no-one make such a threads, because if any newbie user see it, he will make also threads like:. my birthday, xy birthday... It's needless, if you really care about somebody give him/her a personal message, which is also can be nice.