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Original site is gone, but I wanted to share the snapshot of it. I went down a rabbit hole after reading the FOIA request that confirmed his death in 2021.

The Depression post was one that resonated with me and kept me thinking of the quote from True Detective, "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at."

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> I went down a rabbit hole after reading the FOIA request that confirmed his death in 2021.

Would you provide a bit more background information? Whose website is this? What FOIA request are you referring to?

Edit: Someone else asked the same question below, and it was answered.

A couple months ago a FOIA response was finally released regarding the events that happened in June of 2021. There had always been some skepticism around their suicide. A lot of people believed they "killed their online handle" and not themselves (as they have in the past, byuu became near, they retired multiple times, etc). The FOIA confirmed they actually committed suicide.

I read the FOIA response because I wanted to know what happened. I had always hoped they killed their handle and moved on to something else, but unfortunately that wasn't what happened.

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