Hey, hey, what's going on? You're listening to the Brown Girl self-care podcast. My name is pre-Mitchell.

I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl self-care.

You know, I'm going completely off the cuff here. No notes, no script, no, no anything.

I'm just going from the heart on this episode. I want to talk about and big trigger warning here.

Big, big, big trigger warning here. I'm going to talk about, um,

suicide, loss of life, our loss of life. Not so much the death part, but the part that just continues to be very clear

over and over and over again, um, that so many of us are walking around with these smiles on our faces,

especially in our community. We're walking around with these smiles on our faces and we are not okay.

Um, I just, um, you know, I'm not really on social media like that, but since I do social media work for individuals,

as a part of my, like one of my income streams, I happen to get on to, uh, what's it? Instagram this morning.

And I saw that, or I saw or heard of or read about the unfortunate loss of, uh, Twitch.

I don't even know. I think his real name is Steven. I'm not even sure he's always been twitched to me.

Uh, you know, the gentleman that's, I guess his claim to fame was he was on Ellen as, I don't even know like her, not her, her co-host or her, you know, just,

her, her hype man or whatever. I'm not even sure what he really did. I, I didn't really watch Ellen.

So I only saw him maybe like once or in passing or twice where I came familiar, became familiar with Twitch was on.

Back in the day, when I used to watch so you think you can dance, I'm not even sure if that show is still on.

Uh, if it is, I haven't watched it in a very long time, but, um, whenever Twitch tried out or, or was on so you think you can dance as a contestant,

that's when I became familiar with him. And since then he's, of course, gone on to, to, I guess, fame and, you know, I didn't quite follow him like that, but I knew that he was incredible dancer.

Excuse me. Uh, I knew that he had gotten married. I saw some of his, um, what's it called? Instagram Reels.

Excuse me. I'm sorry. Instagram Reels every now and again, I guess just to see him, I think he got married to another contestant, I forget her name, but they would make like videos and stuff.

And so of course, when I saw that he had passed, I watched some more videos of his, or I'm saying videos, Reels, whatever you want to call them on Instagram, just kind of took a little scroll down and saw.

And his videos, of course, beyond the dancing, which he was a really good dancer. And that's one of the reasons why I really, really liked Twitch on so you think you can dance.

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