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TikTok star falls off cliff
TikTok star Caleb Coffee was hospitalized on Wednesday in Hawaii after surviving a 60-to-80-foot fall from a cliff onto lava rocks. His family posted on social media that Caleb was in the ICU after the fall.
While on an illegal hike with friends in Hawaii, where Caleb recently moved to earlier this year, the TikToker slipped and fell off a cliff at a height of 60 feet. According to a GoFundMe page created by his sister, doctors initially did not know the full extent of Caleb’s injuries, but they did include “multiple gouges and burns throughout his entire body” from falling on hot lava rocks.
“I just got out of another MRI and it turns out somehow, miraculously that it [my spine] is not broken, just irritation, and I personally can not make up an explanation for that other than thank you, Jesus,” he said in a video posted to his father Jason’s Instagram story. His father in his own update stated that “It truly is a Miracle he is alive”.
GoFundMe controversy
As of Monday, the GoFundMe has raised over $26,000 of its $100,000 goal. After putting up the GoFundMe, the TikTok star has received much backlash. One comment on Jason’s Instagram post reads “A Go Fund Me for a TikTok family?!”, and another states “NO WAY Y’ALL SET UP A GO FUND ME”.
@calebcoffee #stitch with @MarkBeshae ♬ original sound – Caleb Coffee
Coffee, who has more than 11 million followers on the application, updated his followers with a video stating his family cannot afford to pay the price and thanked everyone to cared enough to donate.
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