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.”
This is not cool. I don’t know why it’s bothering me but it’s probably because She looks uncomfortably similar to my ex wife. She is not, in fact, my ex wife.
The fact that she had devoted so much work to animals is also eerily similar to my ex wife.
Now if you said she was from like Minnesota/Iowa/Wisconsin and she was autistic too, then I would be making a phone call right now.