Showing posts with label YouTuber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTuber. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

YouTuber Camryn Clifford Honors Late Husband Landon on 2Year Wedding Anniversary

YouTuber Camryn Clifford Honors Late Husband Landon on 2Year Wedding Anniversary

  • Camryn Clifford celebrated her love for husband Landon, who died at age 19 in August 2020. Landon helped others even in his last act alive, serving as an organ donor.
  • Watch: YouTuber Camryn Clifford Opens Up About Husband Landon’s Death

    Camyrn Clifford showed her Instagram followers that even though she lost her husband Landon at age 19 in August 2020, he still lives on through her memory.

    The 20-year-old YouTuber took to her social media page to express her feelings on June 22 less than one year after his passing. 

    “Today would have been 6 years since we started dating and 2 years of marriage,” Camryn wrote in her caption. “Happy anniversary lover, I miss you so much.” 

    Camryn also shared a series of pictures of her and Landon before he died. The last picture in her Instagram gallery showed the couple in formal attire smiling at one another.

    Following Landon’s death, Camryn shared a YouTube video on their channel called “My Husband Passed Away.” Their family YouTube account, Cam&Fam, has more than 1.6 million subscribers. 

    During the 36-minute video, Camryn revealed that Landon died by suicide. He was in a coma before being announced brain dead on August 18.  

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    YouTube Star Landon Clifford’s Family Moments

    The YouTuber told her followers that Landon was an organ donor.

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    “He always put others above himself,” Camryn stated. “Even in death, he was caring about people.” 

    In the video, Camryn also spoke about Landon’s mindset around the time of his death. 

    “I know he was not thinking rationally,” she explained in the video. “He’s a very impulsive person. He always has been and he does things without thinking and I think he felt guilty about how everything has gone for the past year and I think he just felt like a burden and like we’d be better off without him, which is so far from the truth and I wish he would have known that. I am heartbroken. Collette is confused. There is no way that we’re better off without him.”

    “If he knew everything that would follow after he did what he did, he wouldn’t have,” the star expressed.  “That’s why I am here to tell his story because there are so many people out there who need to hear about what comes after.”

    Landon is survived by his two children with Camryn: Collette Briar Clifford, 3, and Delilah Rose Clifford, 13 months.

    Wednesday, June 16, 2021

    YouTuber Nikita Dragun Says Trans Community Is "Constantly Under Attack" After Taylor Caniff Incident

    YouTuber Nikita Dragun Says Trans Community Is "Constantly Under Attack" After Taylor Caniff Incident

  • "My livelihood is constantly threatened by just living my life as a trans person," Nikita Dragun tearfully shared after posting a video of former Vine star Taylor Caniff misgendered her.
  • Influencer Nikita Dragun is taking a stand against hate toward the trans community.

    The beauty YouTuber, who has been openly transgender since 2015 and uses the pronouns she/her, took to social media on Tuesday, June 15, to share footage of social media personality, Taylor Caniff, misgendering her. 

    In the video, which E! News has not verified the authenticity of, the former Vine star could be heard calling Nikita a “dude” as she’s seen leaving a club with two unidentified men. According to Nikita’s post, Taylor initially uploaded the footage to his “close friends” Instagram Story earlier that night.

    “My boy’s hooking up with a guy…,” Taylor said in the clip. “And I tell the security guard…’Bro, like, it’s none of my business but…Did you guys know that that’s a dude?'” They looked like I threw a stun grenade in the back of the security lounge. They were like ‘Bro, what?’ and I was like ‘Yeah, that was a dude,’ and they could not believe it.”

    Elliot Page, Stars Celebrate Pride 2021
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    Stars Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2021

    In response to Taylor’s remarks, Nikita opened up to her 9.2 million Instagram followers about the devastating realities trans people face on a daily basis.

    “This is what it’s like to be trans,” Nikita tearfully said in her video. “My livelihood is constantly threatened by just living my life as a trans person. And I’m so embarrassed to even be showing this video but it’s a reality. It’s what’s really f–king happening in the world.”

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    The Dragun Beauty founder continued, “I try to be strong for you guys and hold my head up high, and act like I’m not terrified that something like this will happen to me…This is how trans people will die. This is how trans people die.”

    “It just takes that one ignorant, transphobic comment to threaten my entire livelihood,” she explained, adding, “And more so than that, I fear for the people that are with me. The fact that it was just a guy friend helping me get into a car, and all of a sudden this man wanted to video it and make fun of the guy who’s helping me, tell the security guards about it. His life is now threatened as well.”

    Nikita expressed her heartache over the experience and reminded her followers to lead with love.

    “This time it was me, next time it could be somebody else…,” she said. “We must stop trans hate because it leads to trans violence. And people lose their lives, or even worse, they take their own lives because experiencing things like this just breaks my heart and my entire world. And it’s disgusting and I won’t stand for it.”

    She echoed similar sentiments on Twitter, sharing, “Trans lives are constantly under attack. simply living ur life becomes a threat to the ignorant. a simple misgender or side comment could cost us our lives.”

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    Taylor responded to Nikita’s video on an Instagram Live that was re-posted to social media. In the video, he said he was simply “making a joke” out of the situation. However, he said to have reached out to Nikita to apologize.

    “This is me being me, doing me,” he said. “But like I said, I’m sorry. I sent her a full apology… ‘I’m sorry, it was for my close friends. It was for 30 people.'”

    “I wasn’t being transphobic,” he continued. “I was just speaking absolute facts. I said, ‘I bet this guy has no idea, as I would not have no idea if I see Nikita Dragun out. And yes, she is a woman, so I get that now… It was obviously something I shouldn’t have said, even on my close friends, but I’m just trying to have comedy.”

    He added, “But like I said, I mean it with no malicious intent. I was obviously just joking around.”

    Following his Live, Nikita took to Twitter, writing, “this man is on his live saying i’m doing this for clout and he’s bisexual…sir u haven’t been relevant since magcon. sit ur TRANSPHOBIC a– down. it’s sad i even gave u any kind attention.”

    He replied, “You want me to leak some real info nah you been doing this 2015?! You would hate that, you change to trending seasons ….Keep changing for clout. I speak FACTS. What I said was facts.”

    E! News has reached out to both Nikita and Taylor’s reps for comment, but we have yet to receive a response.