For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Swartz.
Chadwick Boseman. I was 24 when he died. I’m mixed and a huge nerd. He was one of the first times I saw representation like that in a comic book hero in a movie or TV show. T’Challa was a king, and his death came out of nowhere
Anthony Bourdain
Terry Pratchett
His documentary on assisted dying is a brilliant watch.
Interesting, I’ll keep in mind
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
Phil Hartman
I remember the day. So sad. My husband still gets emotional when the topic comes up.
I wonder if Joe Rogan would be less of an idiot if Phil had lived? Probably not. At one taping of News Radio when Rogan did the warmup he said, “i just flew in from the million man march and boy is my hatred of white people tired.” We should have known.
Probably Chris Cornell. (I’m old)
It hit Chester hard too
Yeah, I know that they were close. 😢
Trevor Moore
He came as he went
Freddy Mercury, for sure.
Aw shit, I forgot.
Oh yes! He was a massive formative influence on me, lost way too soon.
Sean Lock
The first time I’ve felt genuine shock at a celebrity death, RIP undisputed Carrot in a Box champion
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
Man the loss of TB has been extreme.
Gaming and technology seemed to orbit him when he was alive.
Have you found a successor yet?
I miss The Mailbox and WTF Is…? so much.
Different time of my life so I’m not sure anyone would fit that niche. I was listening to BluePlz live long before the variety content as well.
I like AngoryTom for the time he gives indi games and rpg content with Mystery Quest but it’s not the same by any means
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
Taking the question literally, I’ll say Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She was on HELL of a legal mind but goddammit why didn’t she retire when Obama could have appointed her replacement. The fucking hubris.
Here’s your hero, a lot more wrong than simple hubris
she was a horrible racist ghoul among many awful things
I don’t doubt that, I haven’t looked into it, but her life didn’t affect me as strongly as her death.
Why would her death affect you if you don’t know about her life?
That makes zero sense.Because the timing of her death triggered the court to (eventually) go majority bonkers.
Anton Yelchin was so goddamn young and had an entire career ahead of him.
His star was just rising and the way he died was so fucking stupid and preventable.
No drugs or partying, just a piece of shit American car…
His and Chance Perdomo’s deaths really got to me
