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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      7 小时前

      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.

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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.