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
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. 😢
I was at a Devin Townsend concert when the news broke. I remember it well
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
Andre Braugher
Sean Lock
The first time I’ve felt genuine shock at a celebrity death, RIP undisputed Carrot in a Box champion
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…
David Lynch. His death hit me like a punch to the heart.
Also Adam Yauch (MCA).
Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain. Although I discovered their songs years after their death.
Mac Miller was probably the worst one… I’m a little younger than him and watching his career from early on felt like watching an older brother develop and making it big. He made the soundtrack to most of my youth.
Same here!
Akira Toriyama
