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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
The TikTok assemblage has mislaid 1 of its own.
Social media property Megha Thakur died astatine property 21 connected Thanksgiving, per a message from Megha's parents shared to her Instagram page.
"It is with dense hearts we denote the airy of our life, our kind, caring, and beauteous daughter, Megha Thakur, abruptly and unexpectedly passed distant connected November 24, 2022 successful the aboriginal greeting hours," the station read. "Megha was a assured and autarkic young woman."
A origin of decease has not been revealed.
Noting that the precocious TikToker volition beryllium "dearly missed," Megha's parents continued their connection by reflecting connected the expansive societal media vocation their girl achieved, which included implicit 105,000 followers connected Instagram and implicit 940,000 followers connected TikTok.
"She loved her fans and would person wanted you to cognize of her passing," they continued. "At this time, we petition your blessings for Megha. Your thoughts and prayers volition beryllium with her successful her onward journey."
In the aftermath of the bittersweet news, galore of her followers near messages of condolences successful the comments conception and shared the ways successful which Megha touched them with her content.
One idiosyncratic wrote, "megha's words volition ne'er ever beryllium forgotten and volition ever beryllium stuck successful my bosom and galore others."
Another added, "She showed america each however freeing and beauteous it is to beryllium unapologetically yourself. I'm precise bittersweet that she is physically nary longer here. But what she stood for, the assurance she exuded and instilled successful her assemblage is simply a bequest that volition unrecorded connected forever."
Megha's TikTok relationship @Meghamind_ led with the ngo of sharing confidence, assemblage positivity and empowerment—principles she gained done her ain idiosyncratic journey.
"Growing up, I ne'er saw radical that looked similar maine represented successful an empowering mode successful Western media," Megha wrote successful a 2021 Instagram post. "When I took these pictures and made these edits, I thought of channeling small Megha; who wanted thing much than to beryllium the practice she truthful desperately needed. Now that I'm older, that tendency hasn't changed."
She added that her extremity was "to assistance radical judge that they tin beryllium the idiosyncratic they've ever dreamed of being."
"Confidence has a a batch of layers, and personally, gaining assurance successful my quality meant accepting my contention and civilization - which was not easy," she wrote. "BUT I'm yet MeghaMind."
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