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Raines created a successful YouTube channel dedicated to her advocacy efforts rescuing foxes from fur farms.

Animal rescue activist and YouTube star Mikayla Raines has died by suicide, according to her husband. She was 29.

Ethan Raines announced her death in an emotional video he posted to her YouTube channel on Monday.

He said that for years his wife suffered from various mental health issues and struggled to cope with online criticism.

"She couldn’t bear what she was feeling any longer, and she ended her life," he said. "And it breaks my heart that someone who is selfless and devoted her life to animals could have so much negativity pointed at her."

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[-] PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh god I love the saveafox channel. This is such a tragedy.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

I believe she had BPD as well, which in itself often gets you targeted harassment online while also making you extremely sensitive to said harassment.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know her at all - is that BPD diagnosis something confirmed, thet she shared and all?

I have terribly mixed feelings about people with BPD.

On one side, lots of empathy: they often feel miserable and (not always, but) very often their BPD is the result of trauma or abuse.

On the other, and having lived it for a decade and a half: they can make the lives of people in their surroundings an absolute abominable horror-movie type of nightmare.

It's actually treatable but not all people with BPD seek treatment, it's a tough one.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Weird how someone who became a minor celebrity opposing the lucrative live fur industry would be targeted and harassed to death.

I hope this isn't some kind of pattern, wherein public figures who speak out in defense of environmental and social welfare causes are defamed and driven into obscurity or death.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

This has been an established pattern for decades...

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[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

She apparently had an OF as well, which really draws out the judgmental weirdos.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Another reason why the US healthcare system sucks shit.

[-] Focal@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are a scant few people who deserve to be bullied for their actions of hurting others. Mikayla was NOT one of them. How someone can bully someone who is doing their best to help make the world better... I can never understand.

I saw people saying that she made a lot of mistakes that could have been avoided, and while that may be, at least she did something about it, unlike so many others.

[-] Drdoom2027@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago

My condolences to Mikayla. Remember, the internet and social media platforms are battlefields. Battlefields of ideas, feelings, images and our passions. I get "online criticism" from people every day for stance against genocide and for the incarceration of the "puppet master" that is responsible. I don't drink their Kool-Aid and their cult leader can go eat dirt.

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is crushing. Loved what she was doing. Loved her channel.

[-] arc99@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I remember watching some fox channels with a lot of rescue foxes including one called Finnegan. Was that her? So sad that anyone would harass somebody like that.

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