Randy Gonzalez, a popular TikTok character, has lost his battle with cancer

January 25 was a sad day for the TikTok community: Randy Gonzalez, father of the popular TikTok duo, Tiktokers Americans enkyboysHe died at the age of 35 and after suffering from colon cancer since 2021. Gonzalez, of Latin origin, along with his son, won the hearts of users of this social network by raising awareness about cancer.

A source close to the family confirmed the information to the portal TMZ. Gonzalez shared with her more than 15 million followers on TikTok in April 2021 that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer, but that wasn’t the only bad news she gave her followers, as she also revealed that the disease was already, by then, quite advanced. It was, so the doctors gave him two to three years to live.

That’s when, from April 2021, his TikTok account, enkyboysIt became one of the most important and popular channels to raise awareness about the disease, which slowly took the life of Gonzalez, who along with his son Bree, created content related to the colon with great encouragement and hope. Cancer.

Given the high costs of treatment that Gonzalez had to undergo, he created a campaign to raise funds., Well, as Gonzalez would say, while he was alive, for reasons beyond his control, he was denied access to health insurance at the University of Texas Cancer Center. Used by content creator to raise money for medical expenses GoFundMe, An American for-profit crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as holidays and graduations to difficult circumstances such as accidents and illness.

The Latino content creator updated his audience in November 2022 on how his last few months have been:

“People here (on TikTok) have asked me if I’m okay. Yes! I’m fine, we haven’t posted because the last few months have been horrible for me, now I’m starting to move again. Cancer is annoying. It sucks the life out of you. It makes you feel like there is nothing to live for. But, in reality, it’s disgusting, but you have to fight, you have to fight. You must be strong to fight cancer and beat it. And I want to witness it for another year when I beat him. But above all, my family, my wife, my children and I are all fine. We are now in California, happy. We’ll be back in Texas soon, but we’re fine.”

Given the popularity of Randy and his son Bryce, the latter was chosen as part of the cast Lopez vs. Lopez from nbcsitcom (sitcom) which premiered on November 4, 2022. In the series, Brice plays Chance, a member of the Lopez family. The series follows the experiences of George Lopez, a family man trying to rebuild his relationship with his daughter from Generation Z.

In what would be her last video in early December 2022, Gonzalez told her TikTok followers that everything is “going great except her current chemotherapy plan is not working.” He also mentioned that he feels good. In the video, in which he appears with his wife and baby Bree, Gonzalez also said, “I’m glad to be back in Texas with my family.”

Gonzalez is survived by his wife, Kimberly, and three children, Aubrey, Brice and Lauren.