Key:
Disappear
Go missing
To locate
Be pronounced
dead at the scene
He is an American YouTube celebrity,
He was 29-year-old
He has been found dead in New York nearly a week after he disappeared,
He became
known on the video site for playing and criticizing Nintendo games.
The day
before he went missing,
he had unsettled his fans by
posting an eight-minute video voicing suicidal thoughts. (mengguncang )
he
disappeared after having a telephone conversation at 8:00 pm on June 19.
Police
had launched a public appeal on social media
with his photo
in an
effort to locate Amofah, a resident of New York's
Brooklyn borough.
Police officers
were called to the South Street Seaport area in south Manhattan
for a
person floating in the water.
After
recovering the body, which was pronounced dead at the scene,
they
began an investigation and later identified the victim as Amofah.
He had
posted his videos on YouTube and other platforms including Twitch since 2012
and had
hundreds of thousands of followers there and on Twitter and
Instagram.
Sometimes
he talked about his mental problems,
as in the
last video titled
"I'm sorry,"
which
shows him walking the streets of New York talking about suicide.
Social
media "can give you an image of
what you want your life to be and
get blown
completely out of proportion," he says in the video.
"It
consumed me."
The video
was later removed by YouTube for violating the platform's rules,
but many
users shared it.
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