Voice raspy and breathing with the help of a machine, TikTok creator Alexandra Blankenbiller begged her followers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after she was hospitalized with the virus. Nine days later, she died. She was 31.
Friends and family remember Blankenbiller for her kindness; she was the type of person who would stop a stranger at the grocery store to pay a compliment, Rachel says.
“She found beauty in everything and everyone,” she says. “She loved people without judgment. Regardless of whether you wanted her41, met Blankenbiller at a local filmmaker meetup in 2016. Blankenbiller began visiting him on film sets when he worked and would offer help without asking for credit. When she died, she and Freeman were working on a screenplay together.
“The day before she went to the hospital, she was sending me pages,” Freeman says. “She didn’t feel good, but she was pushing through.” Blankenbiller is also mourned by the Jax Treblemakers, a local a cappella group, which considered her a member of their family. She auditioned for them in 2016, and stood out for her positivity and humor right away, says Alec Hadden, the group’s executive and artistic director.
“She cared deeply about helping others, and I think it was that compassion for others that drove her to try and educate people through her final few videos,” Hadden says. “She did not want anyone, even a stranger watching her videos on TikTok, to go through the pain and heartache that she and others on the COVID ward were going through. And if she could help even one person, she would.”
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