(CNN) Fans of Desmond Amofah, the popular video game YouTuber known as Etika whose body was found in New York on Monday, have started a petition in hopes of having his primary account restored.

The account had more than 130,000 subscribers when it was deactivated in October, after pornography was reportedly uploaded.

The petition had 370,000 signatures as of Wednesday morning.

Amofah uploaded a video to a secondary account last week in which he appeared to express suicidal thoughts. The video was taken down for violating YouTube's community guidelines.

He was last heard from on June 19, and the New York Police Department declared it a missing persons case a day later. On Sunday night, the 29-year-old YouTuber's phone and backpack were discovered on the Manhattan Bridge, according to police sources.

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