Social media star Alysha Burney remembered at Kansas City's Loose Park
Mar 28, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Friends, family and fans of a social media star said goodbye at Kansas City's Loose Park Friday night.
Alysha Burney died while vacationing in Mexico earlier this month. Family say the 24-year-old died in her sleep of an asthma attack.
Family says fans have been reaching ou
t to them to let them know the impact she had on their lives through her videos. That support was certainly evident Friday as more than 100 supporters from across the country congregated in Kansas City, wearing her favorite color, pink.
"I've been watching her videos, I've stared at her pictures," Burney's mother Anitra Scott said.
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Videos that took the 2023 University of Central Missouri graduate straight to L.A. after graduation, amassing more than five million subscribers on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
"Alysha was truly one of a kind; she was very authentic, not afraid to be herself, she was very expressive, emotional and sensitive at times," her brother Charles Burney, who was featured in many of the videos along with their mother, said.
"What you see on camera is how she is in life. She was full of life, laughter, she was always joking," Scott said.
A star on camera, her family says Burney's ultimate dreams were writing and directing. She died just one day before her 25th birthday.
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"We thank you for the life and legacy of Alysha Burney. God, we thank you for the laughter," her uncle said, praying before they released pink balloons in her honor.
"We love you, Alysha," those gathered yelled in unison.
Burney's brother says Alysha had one more skit already filmed she planned to post after her birthday. He says he's busy editing that final video to post to her social media accounts because he knows that's what she would have wanted. ...read more read less