Maximilien ‘Max’ Power, a YouTube star who performs outlandish stunts is being mourned for his ‘death’ after a video of him jumping into a pool of diseased still water and contracting the brain eating amoeba surfaced online.
Max Power performed the stunt in 2019 when he jumped into a pool on a dare.
The video surfaced on TikTok recently, shared by the page Obsolete voids with the graphic: “I dare you to jump into Still water,”
It shows Max performing the stunt, jumping into the pool with barely any clothes on.
@obsoletevoids those who know: 💀#abandonedplaces #urbanexploring #abandon #stillwater ♬ Brain eating amoeba type beat – true_explores
Max contracted the brain eating amoeba – Naegleria fowleri – from the stunt, according to a post on his Strange Places with Max Power social media pages.
“Max Power, hospitalized after getting the brain eating ameba from still water shown in @lordexplores @obsoletevoids video,” he captioned the post.
According to the CDC, Naegleria fowleri is a free-living ameba, a kind of one-celled organism that thrives in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, and hot springs.
It has the “brain-eating ameoba” moniker because it can infect the brain and destroy brain tissue. While highly rare to contract, it is also extremely fatal.
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Max’s swimming pool video attracted comments such as: “Rest in peace🦢” and “just saw the news, rip bro 🕊️”
Another social media user said: “bro willing to die for the clout😔✊🏼🙏🏼”
Desspite the RIP messages, there is no indication Max Power is dead, considering he reposted the videos and even added the photo of him hospitalized in 2019 after the jump.
Max Power operates the ‘Strange Places’ YouTube channel where he films himself in places ‘most people wouldn’t dare to venture’. He has circa 25,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and has recorded content from autopsy rooms, haunted houses, the ice tunnels of Wisconsin and more.