Brooke Eby, TikTok's "limpbroozkit," Dies at 37 After ALS Battle

Brooke Eby, the creator who built a following of millions as“limpbroozkit,”has died at 37 after a four-year battle with ALS. The ALS Network announced her passing on October 1. She was diagnosed in March 2022, at just 33 years old.

Eby’s videos didn’t look like a health battle. They looked like a person refusing to let a diagnosis shrink her life. She cracked jokes, explained the hard parts plainly, and spoke directly to the stigma around terminal illness. In that time she founded ALStogether, a community built to connect people navigating an ALS diagnosis, and this year the ALS Network honored her with its Advocate of the Year Award.

Her acceptance speech became a mission statement:“I didn’t choose ALS, but I did choose to get loud, and be irreverent about it, so don’t worry, I’m not getting quiet anytime soon.”Her platform is still online, and so is the community she started. Which creators have changed the way you see a cause? Tell us in the comments.