Who was Lyric Chanel? 13-year-old inspired others in her cancer battle

Who was Lyric Chanel? 13-year-old inspired others in her cancer battle

Who was Lyric Chanel? The 13-year-old passed away from brain cancer on March 5th, 2021. Lyric Chanel was a huge Cardi B and Beyonce fan who captured the hearts of many while documenting her cancer journey on social media.

Nicki Minaj’s Good Form, Offset’s Clout and Cardi B’s Press are all songs that Lyric remixed or free-styled to on her YouTube channel ‘Yhung.chanel_’. A young girl who lived life to the fullest, Lyric loved dancing and rapping and battled the disease for two years.

Screenshot: City Girls Act Up – Remix Yhung.chanel_ – YouTube

Who was Lyric Chanel?

Lyric Chanel was a 13-year-old girl who lived in Houston, Texas. She documented her battle with brain cancer and anaplastic ependymoma on Instagram and had a following of almost 600k.

Lyric often made YouTube videos and posted to her account (Yhung.chanel_). She had a huge amount of people following her story. Many of them took to Twitter to send their condolences following her passing.

One person wrote: “REST IN PEACE baby girl! You fought a BEAUTIFUL fight. Thank you for sharing your life with us and your fight. We’ll all remember seeing you smiling and dancing and having those nails on FLEEK! You’re with our Lord now… praying for your family”.

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Lyric Chanel’s battle

Lyric developed brain cancer at the age of 11 and had to endure multiple surgeries. Because of the surgeries, she lost her eye sight, memory and ability to walk.

In May 2020, Lyric posted to her IG page that her “tumor had gotten smaller”, however, by August she took to IG again to share that the tumour had grown slightly.

On March 4th 2021, her parents took to Instagram to share that Lyric only had days to live: “Just got news from Dr that Lyric is Dying and only have days to live…. These are the hardest words to have to hear”.

Her GoFundMe page was created in December 2020 and is currently still live. It has almost reached its goal of $200,000.

Lyric Chanel, Beyonce and Cardi B

During her cancer battle, Lyric continued to sing and rap inspiring people all around the world. Her story gained the attention of huge artists Beyonce and Cardi B.

In 2020, Beyonce sent Lyric some pieces from her IVY PARK collection. Cardi B also took to Instagram to share Lyric’s story and said that she inspired her.

Trae tha Truth also supported Houston-born Lyric and accompanied her to hospital visits according to ABC13.

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Instagram sensation Lyric ‘Yhung’ Chanel dies after battle with cancer

ATLANTA, Georgia (KTRK) – Celebrities and supporters filled social media with heartfelt messages following the death of Instagram sensation Lyric “Yhung” Chanel.Lyric Chanel lost her battle after years of fighting brain cancer and anaplastic ependymoma.In Nov. 2020, Lyric underwent surgery in the Texas Medical Center to remove a tumor, according to her GoFundMe page. Unfortunately, the tumor grew back and spread to various parts of her brain just two months later. That’s when doctors told her there was nothing else they could do.The young social media star was acknowledged by celebrities such as Beyonce and rapper Cardi B for her strength, resilience and undeniable optimism during her fight with cancer. She also developed a special bond with Houston rapper Trae Tha Truth, who she affectionately called her uncle.Lyric and her family grew her social media presence by documenting the good and bad experiences she endured as a child battling a chronic condition. She also shared her love for fashion and style with her followers.In a video posted to Instagram by photographer Marcus Owens, Lyric was seen dancing, laughing and smiling while getting glammed for her first-ever photoshoot. Owens said Lyric was the strongest person he had ever met.Funeral arrangements have not been set.

Cardi B and Trae tha Truth help young girl with cancer

The Wrap

A version of this story about “The Midnight Sky” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. “The Midnight Sky” had just begun shooting in Iceland when director George Clooney turned to visual effects supervisor Matt Kasmir with an idea. There was a scene in the film in which an astronaut suffers a tear in her space suit and begins to suffocate from the lack of oxygen — but what if they replaced that, Clooney said, with a scene in which she’s bleeding inside her suit? And what if, when she gets inside the spaceship and they take her helmet off, the blood spurts out and floats around her in a kind of zero-gravity ballet? “That was in November of 2019,” Kasmir remembered. “And bless him, he didn’t see any final, finished shots until a week before he had to deliver the film (in the summer of 2020). “I have to say, hat’s off to George. I wouldn’t have trusted me to deliver the sequence we did.” Also Read: Inside George Clooney’s ‘The Midnight Sky,’ From Felicity Jones' Surprise Pregnancy to His ‘Santa Claus’ Beard The scene required Kasmir, fellow visual effects supervisor Chris Lawrence and their teams to research the viscosity and density and color of zero-G blood and to animate individual blobs, which they took to naming: “They weren’t exotic names, just like Mr. Blobby and Third Blob From the Left.” The blood scene, before and after VFX: They also replaced the background, because walls had to be removed from the set to allow for wires and rigging to suspend the actors, and they replaced actors’ faces at times for some shots. (There are moments in the scene, he said, when every element was CG.) Scene that was constructed entirely in CG: “In every sense, it was one of the more complicated scenes I’ve ever worked on,” Kasmir said. “George had a list of things: It had to be balletic and look beautiful, it couldn’t look like a horror film, it was horrific but never gory. And we kept hitting our marks.” The zero-G blood was hardly the only challenge in “The Midnight Sky,” which also required 70 fully CG performances during an extended spacewalk scene that was meticulously planned with a virtual camera system. Also Read: George Clooney on How the Pandemic ‘Changed the Temperature’ of His Sci-Fi Drama ‘The Midnight Sky’ Back on Earth, the action takes place in the Arctic, where the VFX team made use of LED screens rather than compositing for exterior scenes, as well as SkyPanels and Roscoe gel walls that would enable them to control the kind of light reflecting off the snow. “I’ve got this absolute hatred of artificial or even real snow shot on a stage, because snow reflects so much of the environment,” he said. “You don’t perceive it, but you’d notice when it’s not there – it always looks just blown out and dead. And the worst-case scenario happened because of the lack of falling snow in Iceland, which meant that we didn’t necessarily get all the shots we wanted.” The Arctic station, before and after CG: “We were directly cutting between location Arctic shots and stage Arctic shots,” Kasmir said. “We pushed the technology so that I could stand on the stage at the lighting desk and replicate the falloff and the blues of the sky and the orange of the sunrise and the darkness of the hills. “That was my biggest fear going into the job, but even now I find some of those shots indistinguishable.” Read more from the Oscar Nominations Preview issue here. Read original story How ‘The Midnight Sky’ Visual Effects Team Pulled Together That Bloody Space Scene At TheWrap