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YouTuber Brandon Buckingham Hospitalized with Severe Organ Failure

11/23/2025

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Brandon Buckingham, a 30-year-old YouTuber, is hospitalized in the ICU with heart, lung, liver, and kidney failure.
Doctors suspect tuberculosis, septic pneumonia, and/or liver failure as potential causes.
He previously spoke of mental-health struggles after his grandmother's death.
His last YouTube video addressed the homeless child epidemic in Lebanon and was published on November 10.
Buckingham's health remains critical, and he has not disclosed the organ-failure cause.

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Story summary

Brandon Buckingham, a 30-year-old YouTuber, is hospitalized in the ICU with heart, lung, liver, and kidney failure.
Doctors suspect tuberculosis, septic pneumonia, and/or liver failure as potential causes.
He previously spoke of mental-health struggles after his grandmother's death.
His last YouTube video addressed the homeless child epidemic in Lebanon and was published on November 10.
Buckingham's health remains critical, and he has not disclosed the organ-failure cause.