Published 09:14 IST, July 9th 2020

Ohlana death: 26-year-old Twitch streamer dies by apparent suicide

Ohlana death: In what has been a difficult week for the online gaming community, another Twitch streamer has passed away at the age of 26.

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Popular Twitch streamer Lannie, better kwn by her moniker "Ohlana", passed away at of 26. She was quite influential within gaming community and was mostly seen streaming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Valorant. She also streamed IRL (in real life) content, giving fans a glimpse of her latest travelling adventures. Ohlana would also frequently chill with her fans in Just Chatting section. She had been active on Twitch since 2016, and hit 100,000 followers on online streaming service. She had also built a following of over 186,000 people on Instagram.

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Ohlana: Cause of death

As first reported by Dexterto, Ohlana died by apparent suicide, although it isn’t clear what exactly lead up to  Twitch streamer to take her own life. However, concerns were raised by fans and those close to her after she had posted a series of tweets and Instagram stories over last couple of days that seemingly painted a picture of a tormented person struggling to reach out and open up to those close to her, lest she may end up in a situation that would only make her feel worse. She also went live on Twitch a few days before her passing and titled stream "need sum luv :'(,".

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Gaming community mourns  loss of Ohlana

Following tragic news, a number of friends and fellow Twitch streamers took to social media platforms to express ir grief with an outpouring of messs in her memory.

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Ohlana has become third Twitch streamer to have passed away in last week after Grand ft Auto 5 roleplayer Kenny ‘Blue622’ Tancredi died at of 30 and ar Twitch streamer Byron ‘Reckful’ Bernstein d 31, a fixture in  World of Warcraft community, died by suicide.

Kenny's death was described as sudden and unexpected where exact reason behind his death hasn't been revealed. Twitch veteran Byron Bernstein took his own life after a series of strange and unsettling vague posts on Twitter where he stated that an insane person does t feel in control of ir actions.

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09:14 IST, July 9th 2020