13 YO from YouTubing family dies "of natural causes"

[Anonymous]

No one has mentioned this family is local.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned this family is local.

Anne Arundel County.

I didn't know of them until now, and I don't quite get it. Their videos seem very long (20 minutes or more) and just of boring, everyday family life.

Still I wish them all the best, and am sending healing wishes their way.

[Anonymous]

I had a friend in middle school who died suddenly at 14 from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She was playing soccer and just died -- too suddenly for even the paramedics who arrived to save her.

It's totally not out of the realm of possibility he had an underlying heart condition or a stroke. It's tragic but it does happen.

[Anonymous]

Undiagnosed heart conditions are more common than people might think. Our neighbor had his high school-aged son die in his sleep one night and they discovered he had a congenital heart condition. A lot of times such a thing kills young athletes because they are exerting themselves at the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a friend in middle school who died suddenly at 14 from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She was playing soccer and just died -- too suddenly for even the paramedics who arrived to save her.

It's totally not out of the realm of possibility he had an underlying heart condition or a stroke. It's tragic but it does happen.

Yep.

My childhood best friend died in her sleep at age 12; the autopsy concluded that she had a previously undetected heart condition. My mother was an elementary school teacher for almost 40 years & during that time 2 of her former students died very suddenly, also of undetected heart conditions, when they were in middle school. One collapsed while running around the track during PE & the other while walking home from school.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad that the boy died so young. Is this the family dad did the Christmas Jammies thing?

No.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like a very nice family. What a devastating heartbreak for them.

So freaking weird that they are uploading multiple videos day of and day after his death.

Don't judge, they just lost their only son, be kind. They had millions of viewers and because this is an actual news story, people are talking about it. This is how they are dealing with it. You don't know who is actually posting the videos for them either. I post videos on YouTube for my family members not on my channel.

I am not judging. I think it is weird. I also think it is weird their girls are all over snapchat laughing and singing and playing.

I agree PP, mourning over social media is weird. (But I also think posting videos of your family on youtube weird.) It feels very artificial like when tv or movies actors tweet about the death of a fellow actor. These seem as heartfelt as old yearbook chestnuts, "2 good 2 B 4gotten."

It is sad, and yes, the family and the fan base will want to mourn in their own way using social media, but it really isn't "news." It's a personal family tragedy and a social media phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

I think some of you don't understand how much YouTube has replaced tv. Do any of you have teens?

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Sad for the kid-Sick parent's though to exploit their kids on You Tube and other social media sites like that. So effin narcissistic. They now ask for privacy after the kid died-should have thought about that before whoring out your kids for the world to see. Would not be surprised if the parents had something to do with the death to garner more sympathy "clicks" and views. Sick bastards!

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They lived in a McMansion in Severna Park (AA County). Exploiting theire kids helped pay for the house I suppose.

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I saw this on Insta over the weekend and figured it was a hoax.

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Wow. Lots of kids get into posting videos of themselves on youtube. For whatever reason, this family's videos gained a real level of popularity with their fans that most do not.

It looks as though they were getting trips out of it, a certain amount of fame and now this horrible tragedy has befallen them. It's sad.

[Anonymous]

In a Washington Post article, they quote Anne Arundel police...

"But, as Gawker and Anne Arundel County’s Arundel News Net reported, there seems to be nothing suspicious about the death of this child. According to a statement released by Anne Arundel police, emergency responders found Caleb "suffering from an unknown medical emergency" at the family’s home on Oct. 1. Then, he was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead."

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Anonymous wrote:Sad for the kid-Sick parent's though to exploit their kids on You Tube and other social media sites like that. So effin narcissistic. They now ask for privacy after the kid died-should have thought about that before whoring out your kids for the world to see. Would not be surprised if the parents had something to do with the death to garner more sympathy "clicks" and views. Sick bastards!

I think you are pretty sick for judging the parents when you don't even know them. The parents started the channel because the kids wanted it. The parents recorded and uploaded the videos for the kids, not to exploit them. I'm pretty sure that when they started posting videos they weren't doing it with a goal to get famous.

My son begs me to start a channel like that but I won't do it because I am more of a private person than that. I do allow him to upload his own videos though and he loves it. Do you have facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media accounts? If so, do you upload family pictures on your account? If so, you are no different than this family. You are taking the same risk at becoming "famous" by doing this as they did when they started uploading videos.

The majority of the viewers of these YouTube channels with family vlogs are children. You must have a lot of negativity in your life to have thoughts like this about a family who just lost their only son! I hope things improve in your life soon. I mean that sincerely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Undiagnosed heart conditions are more common than people might think. Our neighbor had his high school-aged son die in his sleep one night and they discovered he had a congenital heart condition. A lot of times such a thing kills young athletes because they are exerting themselves at the time.

I had a classmate who collapsed at 15 while playing a sport; he dies from an undetected heart condition.