After waking up to this thread that was started by our newest active forumite, Max, I saw one of the fine new forum features, “Similar Threads” below and discovered that I had started a thread back in June of 2018 called, “Report that
Tyler White has died”, and much of what I was going to say on this thread has already been said by myself and my distinguished fellow forumites, (some still here like Peter, Tampa and KG). So I will not go on about Tyler here.
Just my main point was how his career on
Broke Straight Boys was like a meteor as he was so wildly popular when he started, then he received negative reviews as he tried to emulate the “cool guys” like
Kaden Alexander, instead of just being himself.
He also was so defensive about being straight and insisted he wasn’t gay both in his scene interviews and when he joined us on the forum. I found this BTS interview he did with Sha in October 2014.
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This is the site description of this BTS:
“In today's segment we sit down with
Tyler White to discuss his past mistakes and what he plans to change and learn from others going forward. Including why he does not respond to all good/bad or constructive comments on the
Broke Straight Boys forum or video comment areas.”
I just rewatched it and Tyler does discuss our comments about him on the forum and he does tell Sha, “I gotta tone it down a bit”. I also loved it when he said, “I’m just a little boy from Boston”.
Tyler like many of our
Broke Straight Boys was a complex person, while being one of the hotter guys as well. It is sad and tragic how his life ended, but we have the complete archives of his work here. Dear, sweet Tyler. What a pity that you could not overcome your demons.