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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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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 130 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sad, I watched her shorts sometimes. Apparently there was a hate 'snark' subreddit that just made up shit about her all day, with some members connected to the factory farming fur industry, and pedophilic artist KazeoLion, leading the harassment

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 107 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So.....wait. I've never heard of her, but you're saying there was an entire subreddit deddicated to making up lies about her, saying she did horrible shit, KNOWING what they said was a lie? Because if I'm reading this right, that's pretty fucked up.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I think most people know about her through her fox, Finnegan the Fox

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Apparently there are 'snark' (what the hell kinda name for a genre is that?) pages on Reddit for all sorts of niche stuff

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

So telling lies about people is a ok, but mentioning a green plumber is not. I'm fucking grateful that I'm banned from that cesshole of a website now.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There's snark pages on lemmy too, some of them moved here after getting kicked off Reddit.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, my life is kinda sad, but at least it's not "join a community specifically to hate on stuff" sad. What hosers.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

quietly unsubscribes from all reddit sublemmies

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Fundiesnark is often for people who leave insane religious institutions or crazy churches to talk about that and make fun of the people still trying to push their hateful religious agenda online, there’s a lot of survivors of some bad shit there, I support it frankly but like, foxes? Not like any of these people are coming from fur farms where they were personally abused and need a space to talk about its ridiculousness

Also snarky puppy is just a musical group it’s not a snark group

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Not like any of these people are coming from fur farms where they were personally abused and need a space to talk about its ridiculousness

I suppose they are incredibly small, disturbed people

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Snarky puppy is amazing!

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol at Snarky Puppy getting caught up in that search result.

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

TIL there's a snarky puppy community here

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It’s a pretty fucked up name if you ask me, specifically.

[–] PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 30 points 1 day ago

I follow her and she was a beautiful human. This news is so painful for me.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

If there was an organized harassment campaign against her I wonder if there is any legal culpability for those involved.