This Teen Caught Unlikely Attention When Viewers Noticed Her Blue Tongue

this teen caught unlikely attention when viewers noticed her blue tongue [Music] when youtuber annie leblanc of the brately channel mentioned in passing that her tongue was turning blue her audience begged her to seek immediate medical attention something so insignificant can sometimes be the difference between life and death as annie knew all too well fans of youtuber annie leblanc recently went into a meltdown when they noticed something unusual the teenage superstar might have thought that her blue tongue was nothing to worry about but her viewers weren't so sure juliana grace annie leblanc has been described by business insider as one of the most famous teens in the world her family's main youtube channel has well over 3 million subscribers but this is only part of her total audience calling themselves the bratayley family leblanc's parents have shared many of their children's big milestones and events online to a large youtube audience this has meant sharing happy and sad moments alike leblanc has won a sizable following on tick-tock and she stars in the popular youtube shows chicken girls and a girl named joe but even this isn't all she's managed to achieve not only is leblanc an accomplished gymnast this is how she initially won her youtube audience but she's also released several musical albums that have made it onto the charts that's a whole lot of success for a teenager leblanc was one of the earliest youtubers and has grown up with the platform as a constant presence in her life her parents started uploading youtube videos of her gymnastics meets to the internet in 2008 when she was just 3 years old soon leblanc's parents also started uploading slice of life vlogs of the entire family which also featured annie's two siblings these were initially meant to be just watched by their extended family but they soon gained attention from a much larger audience viewers have been able to watch leblanc and her older brother caleb and her younger sister haley grow up over the past decade many videos of the annie leblanc channel are long relaxed vlogs that show the family's very mundane life and viewers love them one of the challenges of internet fame is that every aspect of your life is constantly being analyzed by millions of people thankfully the bratayley family have for the most part avoided making any big missteps this isn't to say that constant fame is easy in 2015 the family went through a public tragedy when caleb passed away very suddenly just a few short days before his death he had appeared to be healthy in a video but then without warning he was gone it turned out that caleb had a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy it is a condition where part of the heart thickens without a clear cause making it difficult for blood to pump around the body heart disease of this kind runs in their family so all of the leblanc's are now regularly getting heart checkups to make sure that they're not in danger because they vlog about their daily family events millions of viewers are also kept up to speed on their health even with a history of fatal heart disease in the family when leblanc's tongue began to turn blue without explanation she didn't instantly make the connection to her brother's condition everyone continued going about their days if nothing was out of the ordinary in an otherwise very typical video leblanc mentioned twice that her tongue was a strange color wondering if she'd eaten something unusual her tongue didn't return to normal over the course of her day instead she noticed that it was getting worse instantly a wave of concern began to flood the video's comment section millions of people were concerned about leblanc's health and were urging her to go to a doctor at once this was no laughing matter a blue tongue is a symptom for several different kinds of heart disease including coronary artery disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease it's sometimes a warning sign that something is severely wrong with a person's heart or blood flow any body part turning blue is often a sign of poor circulation of not enough oxygen reaching a person's extremities a blue tongue is particularly worrying for the leblanc family as commenters pointed out a lot of people shared a photo of caleb on social media from a few days before his death in which he too had a blue tongue in fact it looked identical to what annie was now reporting fans urged her to go for an immediate checkup to make sure that it was safe the brateley family was a bit taken aback by just how frantic their audience was becoming they didn't necessarily think that the blue tongue was anything serious but their fans wouldn't stop talking about it finally the family caved and leblanc went for a checkup in a video to their fans annie and haley made it clear that they didn't think anything was wrong but they were going to make sure just in case thankfully leblanc's medical checkup revealed that there was nothing to worry about the blue tint to her tongue faded with time and she didn't suffer any negative effects related to her heart disease it turned out to just be a short-term thing after all one of the big downsides of having such a large audience is that people are always scrutinizing your every actions this time fans comments were at least sincerely motivated by concern but sometimes speculation can go too far while the majority of the brateley fans sent messages of condolences following caleb's untimely death a small minority began vocally questioning his official cause of death some were eager to look for strange theories about the heart of his sudden passing this intensified when the family live-streamed a memorial service for caleb with some fans seeing it as distasteful in an attempt to gain publicity from his passing only a small portion of the brateley audience complained but considering the family have millions of viewers this amounted to a lot of noise nonetheless in truth life as an internet celebrity means giving up the privilege of anonymity it'll be hard for either of the remaining leblanc children to ever experience a major life event without it being dissected by millions of commenters perhaps fame really isn't all it's cracked up to be [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] you