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

Popular Twitch streamer Lannie, better known by her moniker "Ohlana", passed away at the age of 26. She was quite influential within the 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 the Just Chatting section. She had been active on Twitch since 2016, and hit 100,000 followers on the 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 the 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 the 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 the stream "need sum luv :'(,".

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Gaming community mourns the loss of Ohlana

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

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

Kenny's death was described as sudden and unexpected where the 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 not feel in control of their actions.

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