Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse.

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

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    3 months ago

    Anyone who unironically begins a statement with “WAKE UP” all in caps like that can safely be assumed to, shall we say, have a tenuous grasp on reality.

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      3 months ago

      WAKE UP the sea surface temperature anomaly is far exceeding last year’s and last year’s was record breaking.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah. I’ve noticed the most boring people tend to have the most valuable things to say.

      It’s those who oversensationalize things that are trying to take you for a ride.