{"id":150102,"date":"2025-11-23T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150102\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:02:11","slug":"things-are-not-looking-good-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150102\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Things Are Not Looking Good, My Friends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Influencer Brandon Buckingham says that he has been hospitalized for organ failure<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While he did not provide an official cause for the organ failure, he previously shared a post on X that read &#8220;doctor believes i have tuberculosis, septic pneumonia, and\/or liver failure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buckingham is known for his street interview style content on YouTube<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Influencer Brandon Buckingham has been hospitalized as he says he is experiencing organ failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buckingham, 30, shared the health update on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Buckingham_Show\/status\/1991875559316656454\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> on Friday, Nov. 21. &#8220;In the ICU, my heart is failing, my lungs are failing, my liver and kidneys are failing,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Things are not looking good my friends. I love you guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The influencer did not elaborate on the cause of his organ failure, but did share a post on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in which he provided a photo of himself wearing a hospital gown and nasal cannula. &#8220;doctor believes i have tuberculosis, septic pneumonia, and\/or liver failure. pray for me guys,&#8221; he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Buckingham_Show\/status\/1991221703305822524\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The influencer is known for interviewing strangers on the street in different cities and documenting these experiences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BrandonBuckingham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a>, where he has amassed 1.21 million followers. In September, Buckingham opened up about his mental health after the loss of his grandmother.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Brandon Buckingham\/Instagram Brandon Buckingham\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cf924a55ec5b11379c586bc79d0e48fe.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Buckingham\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p> Brandon Buckingham<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI haven\u2019t been in a good place for a bit. I know I haven\u2019t answered anyone\u2019s texts or calls in a while \u2026 I know everyone has been worried about me \u2026 I\u2019m sorry for that, it is not my intention to worry everyone,\u201d he wrote in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPEmG3dEZNO\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI am struggling with my mental health. I just got the call my grandma passed away this morning. I feel I have more people waiting for me in heaven than here on earth,&#8221; Buckingham continued. &#8220;I think God has a plan for me that I don\u2019t understand. I love you grandma, say hi to Kyle for me. I wish I could die with you \ud83d\udc94.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The influencer&#8217;s last video on YouTube, titled &#8220;The Homeless Child Epidemic of the Middle East,&#8221; saw him travel to Lebanon, and was published on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PEOPLE has reached out to a representative for Buckingham for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text &#8220;STRENGTH&#8221; to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/influencer-brandon-buckingham-hospitalized-for-organ-failure-11855156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Influencer Brandon Buckingham says that he has been hospitalized for organ failure While he did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100423,100420,28361,134,527,100422,111,139,69,100421,100424,4139],"class_list":{"0":"post-150102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-brandon","9":"tag-brandon-buckingham","10":"tag-buckingham","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-liver-failure","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-organ-failure","18":"tag-septic-pneumonia","19":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}