Very unhappy information at present out of the social media universe:
Ben Potter, a well-liked YouTube character identified on this platform as Comicstorian, handed away on June 8 as the results of an “unlucky accident,” in line with Potter’s spouse, Nathalie.
He was 40 years previous.
Potter, had over a million subscribers on YouTube; he additionally created audio dramas of comedian books on his Comicstorian account, whereas typically speaking in regards to the Marvel and DC Universes.
“To lots of you, he was Comicstorian, voicing tales from throughout a number of totally different mediums. To his family members, he was probably the greatest and most supportive people anybody might ask for,” Nathalie Tweeted late Monday.
“As a husband, a son, a brother, a buddy, and even only a stranger, Ben was loving and real. He was somebody who would pay attention and find time for his family members. He would do his greatest to make everybody chuckle and ensure they had been okay.
“He was our rock and he’d reassure his family members every time they wanted it.”
Two days in the past, on June eighth, my husband, Ben Potter, handed away in an unlucky accident.
To lots of you, he was Comicstorian, voicing tales from throughout a number of totally different mediums. To his family members, he was probably the greatest and most supportive people anybody might ask for.…
— Comicstorian/Mangastorian (@Comicstorian) June 10, 2024
No particulars concerning Potter’s dying can be found presently.
Potter add nearly 4,000 YouTube movies in complete and shared his ultimate publish — titled Why DC’s Reboots Beat Marvel — only a day earlier than his dying.
Nathalie stated her partner “was my world,” including:
“I would like time to be with family and friends. I’ve so many issues I would like to determine however firstly, I must grieve. I ask that you just respect my privateness in addition to everybody else’s. Proper now my precedence is preserving every thing he’s constructed and I don’t have any plans past that.
“His channel was one in every of his best accomplishments, and whereas all of us want our time to mourn him, I do know he wouldn’t need it to finish like this.”
Potter began his YouTube profession over a decade in the past, incomes many well-known followers within the course of.
O’Shea Jackson Jr., the son of Ice Dice and Kimberly Woodruff, for instance, was amongst those that paid tribute to Potter after studying he was gone.
“Prayers to his family members. Lengthy dwell Ben Potter,” Jackson Jr. wrote on-line. “Yall be good. Maintain your family members tight. I’ll see yall quickly I hope.”
Nathalie, in the meantime, assured followers that her husband’s channel would stay energetic.
“The crew and I need to maintain that going. To honor him by persevering with to inform nice tales by nice individuals, in addition to to maintain the reminiscence of our very personal superhero alive,” she concluded. “We supported one another on every thing we wished to do and I’m not about to cease now.”
Might Ben Potter relaxation in peace.
