Around 10 years ago, in the middle of a mid-December night in Ireland, 25-year-old Twitch streamer and Fansly creator JustaMinx died in a car accident. In the middle of a seizure, her panicked parents bundled her into the car and sped to the nearest hospital. As they rounded a corner, roughly a minute away from the hospital, the car skidded on ice, then flipped over twice, and crashed into a railing. Luckily, a family friend happened to be traveling home in a taxi at that exact moment — she witnessed the crash, and ferried JustaMinx and her parents the rest of the way to the hospital, where the former was declared clinically dead for two minutes.
“I got revived like in a video game,” the streamer, whose real name is Rebecca, told the Chuckle Sandwich podcast last year. “Yeah, [my heart stopped] for a minute or two. [But] I don’t remember shit. I remember fucking seizing out, then just waking up in the hosiptal. I thought I was paralyzed, low key, I couldn’t move. Below my neck would not move for two hours.”
Although JustaMinx said recalling the experience isn’t particularly traumatic for her, as she has no memory of it, she explained that it did stop her believing in Christianity, due to the fact that she didn’t experience an afterlife when she died. “I woke up to my dad sobbing and my mum throwing up, but I thought I was asleep, so that kind of took me out of Christianity,” she continued. “I believed in heaven; I’m a Catholic girl. I grew up in an all-girls Catholic school, I sang in choir every Sunday and practiced in the Church every Friday. And then I died and everything seemed to be a lie because it just felt like I was asleep.”
In the 10 years since her death and subsequent resuscitation, JustaMinx has become a prominent streamer, amassing two million followers on Twitch alone. JustaMinx, who now lives in L.A., primarily streams under the platform’s “Just Chatting” section, but also plays games, reacts to YouTube videos and has become known for hosting marathon livestreams, the longest of which ran for 69 hours. The Irish creator boasts 1.6 million followers on Twitter, 1.2 million on Instagram, over 700,000 subscribers on YouTube and 61,000 on Fansly, the latter of which she joined in February this year. There, she posts cosplays, behind-the-scenes videos and pay-per-view simulated nudes.
Although she joined Twitch in 2016 (because she was “lonely” at school), JustaMinx found fame in 2020 after making several appearances on the Twitch dating show, Love or Host, hosted by streamer and YouTuber AustinShow. The series sees a group join the livestream, and seemingly vie for the main contestant’s affections, only to be eliminated one by one based on the decision of the viewers, via the chat. After each person is eliminated, they have to reveal whether they wanted to come on the show for “love” — to go on a date with the main contestant — or simply to be hosted by AustinShow to “boost their notoriety.”
In a 2021 interview with Envy Gaming, JustaMinx jokingly recalled someone saying she was “the first ugly girl [on the show] who made an impact.” But that hasn’t been her only stunt — on May 14th, she’ll be taking part in a live boxing tournament that pits YouTube creators against each other in the ring, and ostensibly, she’ll also be nursing her wounds from being permanently banned from TikTok until then (it’s unclear exactly why, but it appears to have something to do with a challenge-gone-wrong). Thankfully, she’s got a lot else to focus on — in 2020, JustaMinx launched a podcast with fellow streamers (and AustinShow guests) Kaceytron and QTCinderella, called Egirl Rejects, in which they react to YouTube videos, read fan fiction and generally talk about a variety of topics. Fans seem to be particularly drawn to JustaMinx for her sarcastic sense of humor, with one redditor describing her as “one of the few gems of the ‘Just Chatting’ section.”
All in all, a pretty impressive feat for a dead girl.
Brit Dawson
Brit Dawson is a London-based journalist who mostly writes about sex, women's rights and sex work. She is also the staff writer at Dazed.
