--- title: Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Touching Tribute to Vine Star Ryan McHenry description: Ryan McHenry, creator of the “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal” Vine series lost his battle to osteosarcoma at the age of 27 on Sunday. canonical: https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/ author: Kevin McSpadden article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-05T05:38:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:25.490Z og:title: Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Honor of Ryan McHenry og:description: "I feel very lucky to have been apart of his life in some small way" og:url: https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Honor of Ryan McHenry twitter:description: "I feel very lucky to have been apart of his life in some small way" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Touching Tribute to Late Vine Star Ryan McHenry by [Kevin McSpadden](https://time.com/author/kevin-mcspadden/) ## Kevin McSpadden May 5, 2015 5:38 AM UTC by [Kevin McSpadden](https://time.com/author/kevin-mcspadden/) ## Kevin McSpadden May 5, 2015 5:38 AM UTC On Sunday, Ryan McHenry, who made a name for himself by poking fun at the celebrity actor in his “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal” Vine series, lost his battle to osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) at the age of just 27. And so on Monday night, Gosling recorded a heartfelt tribute to the man who brought humor to hundreds of thousands as well as providing a deeply personal insight into his battle against cancer. > [](https://twitter.com/RyanGosling/status/595406559275941888) While McHenry’s creativity brought smiles to fans’ faces, his honesty about his struggle with cancer was the real inspiration. Below you can enjoy a YouTube compilation of “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal.” _Read next:_ [_Ryan Gosling Might Star in the Blade Runner Sequel_](http://time.com/3826309/ryan-gosling-blade-runner/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/"},"headline":"Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Touching Tribute to Late Vine Star Ryan McHenry","datePublished":"2015-05-05T05:38:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:25.490Z","description":"\"I feel very lucky to have been apart of his life in some small way\"","url":"https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Internet","viral","Cancer","twitter","YouTube","Vine","Ryan Gosling"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin McSpadden","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-mcspadden/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3846588/ryan-mchenry-ryan-gosling-cancer-vine-osteosarcoma/","name":"Ryan Gosling Ate Cereal in Touching Tribute to Late Vine Star Ryan McHenry"}}]}] ```