# @nbcnewyork on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=UO-_CS-GTbM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73195730-nbcnewyork-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/ca8521c8a0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-06-26T23:46:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NBC New York (@nbcnewyork) — https://gondola.cc/nbcnewyork

## Caption

A popular YouTube personality and gamer from Brooklyn who went missing after posting a cryptic video last week drowned by suicide in the East River, the medical examiner confirmed Wednesday.

Thousands of fans mourned 29-year-old Desmond Amofah, better known as Etika, after NYPD confirmed Tuesday that the body found in the waters near South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan around 6:30 p.m. Monday belonged to the online entertainer.

Some fans are calling for YouTube to restore Etika's 8-minute video, published sometime shortly before he went missing, where he apologized to people he felt he let down. The platform said it removed the video "for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines."

"Please @TeamYouTube restore Etika’s 'I’m sorry' video. It’s the mans final words. They should not be deleted!," Keemstar, a famous YouTuber from Buffalo, New York, said on Twitter. Over 368,000 people have already signed a Change.org petition as of Wednesday morning to have the video restored.

If you are in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or reach out to the Crisis Text Line by texting 'Home' to 741741

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#Etika
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## Stats

- **Views:** 463,638
- **Likes:** 6,036
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 993

## Tags

youtube, news, etika

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