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TikTok’s ‘Mimmy,’ Star of Goobi Gubbi Videos, Dies at 82 After Pre-Recorded Farewell

Her family’s TikTok chronicled three generations with candid humor during years of serious illness.

Overview

  • Jake “Goobi Gubbi” Kind said his grandmother, Judith “Mimmy” Bernstein, died Thursday, Sept. 4, sharing a goodbye video she recorded in advance.
  • In the post, she begins, “If you are watching this, it means I’m dead,” before recalling that she had “a fabulous life.”
  • Two days before the announcement, Kind told followers she was in end stages and facing severe health decline.
  • Bernstein had long battled multiple primary cancers along with congestive heart failure and lung disease, according to the family.
  • The Goobi Gubbi account built an audience of more than 650,000 followers and tens of millions of likes, and the family describes the videos as a “living scrapbook” as fans leave tributes.