{"id":892,"date":"2024-06-12T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/comicstorian-youtube-star-dies-aged-40-after-unfortunate-accident\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:49","slug":"comicstorian-youtube-star-dies-aged-40-after-unfortunate-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/comicstorian-youtube-star-dies-aged-40-after-unfortunate-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Comicstorian: YouTube star dies aged 40 after \u2018unfortunate accident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>YouTube star Ben Potter has died aged 40 \u201cin an unfortunate accident,\u201d his wife has announced.<\/p>\n<p>She said Potter, an American comic book creator known as Comicstorian, died on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>He had a <strong>YouTube<\/strong> following of more than three million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie Potter, his wife, wrote on X: \u201cTo many of you, he was Comicstorian, voicing stories from across multiple different mediums. To his loved ones, he was one of the best and most supportive individuals anyone could ask for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, or even just a stranger, Ben was loving and genuine. He was someone who would listen and make time for his loved ones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe would do his best to make everyone laugh and make sure they were okay. He was our rock and he\u2019d reassure his loved ones whenever they needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling him \u201cmy world\u201d, she said she needed time to figure things out and grieve, as well preserving his legacy of work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis channel was one of his greatest accomplishments, and while we all need our time to mourn him, I know he wouldn\u2019t want it to end like this,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBen spent over 10 years spreading his love and appreciation for his hobbies. It was through his love of exciting stories and well-written characters that got him started on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team and I want to keep that going. To honor him by continuing to tell great stories by great people, as well as to keep the memory of our very own superhero alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe supported each other on everything we wanted to do and I\u2019m not about to stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow content creators were quick to pay tribute, aspiring writer RebelOfReality wrote: \u201cOh my God, this guy literally made my childhood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>WWE host Greg Miller wrote: \u201cI\u2019m so sorry, Nathalie. Ben was a great one,\u201d while movie and TV YouTube channel Heavy Spoilers wrote: \u201cIncredibly heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComicstorian was an absolutely incredible YouTuber that pioneered so much and got so many people into reading comics. Devastating news. Rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube star Ben Potter has died aged 40 \u201cin an unfortunate accident,\u201d his wife has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}