{"id":34767,"date":"2025-08-20T01:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34767"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:43:41","slug":"tiktok-star-john-crawley-known-as-kingbeardx-dies-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34767","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Star John Crawley, Known as \u2018KingBeardX,\u2019 Dies at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article__primary-video-container_1-0\" class=\"comp article__primary-video-container mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>TikTok star John Crawley, known online as \u2018KingBeardX,\u2019 died at age 47 on Aug. 18<\/li>\n<li>The internet star was popular for his fluffy beard and his hilarious reactions to people eating food<\/li>\n<li>Under Crawley\u2019s obituary on Glenfield Funeral Home\u2019s website, friends, family members and fans shared tributes to the late internet star, remembering the laughter he brought them, both in person and online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">TikTok comedian John Crawley, known online as \u2018KingBeardX,\u2019 died on Monday, Aug. 18. He was 47.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The social media star was known online for his fluffy beard and his comical reactions to people eating food, which he shared on his various social media accounts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kingbeardx1x?lang=en\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kingbeardxx\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Instagram<\/a>. Across his platforms, Crawley had a following of over 3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-john-crawleys-icu-recovery\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">GoFundMe<\/a> post created by Anthony Caruso, Crawley\u2019s friend and former podcast cohost, the content creator went to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss., roughly two weeks before his death because he was struggling to breathe. The post says Crawley\u2019s condition was \u201cquite unstable,\u201d and he was placed in the ICU, and his family started to raise money for his medical bills as he did not have health insurance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-featuredlink--people-app-promo mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__left_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__left mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__text_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__text mntl-text-block\"><b>Our new app is here!<\/b> Free, fun and full of exclusives. Scan to download now!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">On Tuesday, Aug. 19, Caruso shared an update to the GoFundMe post that his friend had died the day before.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cThank you to everyone that has supported the fundraiser so far,\u201d wrote Caruso. \u201cHis mother \u2026 told me to thank you all. The fundraiser will continue to go on to support fundraising a funeral\/helping John&#8217;s mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenfieldfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/john-crawley\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Crawley\u2019s obituary<\/a> on Glenfield Funeral Home\u2019s website, friends, family members and fans shared tributes to the late internet star, remembering the laughter he brought them, both in person and online<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cI am so sad to hear about this. He was one of my first favorite tiktokers. May you rest in peace and be eating cinnamon rolls in heaven or wherever he may be. Much love big guy!!\u201d wrote one fan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Shared another: \u201cHis videos made a lot of my bad days so much brighter. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. He will truly be missed by so many. Sending love from Kentucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cMy prayers are with the family and friends And all the people he&#8217;s made touch on it social media my prayers are with you all,\u201d wrote a third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok star John Crawley, known online as \u2018KingBeardX,\u2019 died at age 47 on Aug. 18 The internet star was popular for his fluffy beard and his hilarious reactions to people &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34769,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions\/34769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}