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.”

    • Doing the research to see what they were saying about her that might lead her to commit suicide, yes. If you want to know what the cyber bullying was that caused someone to commit suicide, it makes sense to look at the posts themselves, which is what I did.

      • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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        I too look at ISIS propaganda when I want to see why they did what they did 🙄

        There’s a huge difference between reading Mein Kampf and praising it for its good points.

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            I did the research in the muck mines of Mein Kampf for y’all, and it is more complicated than it looks on the surface.

            I went straight into the swamp for this info—and here’s where you can look it up

            • JackbyDev
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              Terms like muck mines and swamp don’t sound like praises to me.

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                From Google:

                Praise as a form of social interaction expresses recognition, reassurance or admiration.

                It’s definitely giving recognition and weight to misinformation and/or propaganda in my book. You do you. Me, giving the same merit to bullshit arguments so that it makes the situation more “complicated than it seems” is praising it above the level it deserves.

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                  I took “more complicated than it seems” to mean they complaints weren’t something as simplistic as “she’s treating foxes poorly”, not as a “both sides have truth” thing.

                • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  By saying it is more complicated that it seems, I was primarily referring to the OnlyFans posts involving animals, which there seems to be no dispute are legitimate. She was an active poster while she was alive, and promoted it across different platforms.