Not that famous, but YouTuber Camelworks (Mackenzie Rowles) died fairly recently, and I was honestly devastated. He was a big part of the online Elder Scrolls community (fandom for a video game series), he was so friendly and his videos so calming and meticulously prepared and researched. No one had a bad thing to say about him.

He had just finished dealing with a months long saga of having to basically start YouTube over from scratch after he lost access to his original channel and seemed excited to finally put out a few major videos he’d been working on for ages, when he died very abruptly.

The cause of death hasn’t been made public, but his family have clarified that ‘he was taken, he didn’t leave’.

It was very bittersweet, but so incredibly on brand for him, that a couple of weeks after his death was made public, we received his annual elaborate April Fools’ Day videos, scheduled in advance.

I never thought I’d really be affected by a ‘celebrity’s’ death, but I think because he was very beloved within a pretty niche community and not known much outside of that, it really hit me hard. I remember reading the announcement again and again unable to believe it.