{"id":1969607,"date":"2025-08-20T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1969607"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:24:08","slug":"tiktok-star-john-crawley-known-as-kingbeardx-dead-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tiktok-star-john-crawley-known-as-kingbeardx-dead-at-47\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok star John Crawley, known as &#8216;KingBeardX,&#8217; dead at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TikTok star John Crawley, also known as \u201cKingBeardX,\u201d has died at the age of 47. <\/p>\n<p>Crawley\u2019s former podcast co-host and friend Anthony Caruso <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-john-crawleys-icu-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared the news<\/a> Tuesday on a GoFundMe page that had been set up earlier this month for the social media star\u2019s medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really sorry to tell everyone the bad news but Pimpmunkx (KingBeardx) passed away yesterday,\u201d Caruso wrote in a brief update, thanking those who had contributed to the fundraiser so far.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>John Crawley, otherwise known as KingBeardX, has died.  <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Friend and former podcast co-host Anthony Caruso shared the news via a GoFundMe page that had been set up before the influencer\u2019s death. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Caruso noted that Crawley\u2019s mother told him to \u201cthank you all,\u201d and added that the fundraiser will \u201cgo on to support fundraising a funeral\/helping John\u2019s mother.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Caruso had set up the GoFundMe, who had amassed over 3.5 million followers on Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn is currently in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) located in the state of Mississippi, USA, and is struggling to breathe,\u201d Caruso posted Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn is the main breadwinner for his family, and unfortunately, he doesn\u2019t have medical insurance,\u201d he continued, adding that Crawley\u2019s condition was \u201cquite unstable\u201d and that family and friends were \u201cworried about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI\u2019m really sorry to tell everyone the bad news but Pimpmunkx (KingBeardx) passed away yesterday,\u201d Caruso wrote.  <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Caruso stated in the GoFundMe that Crawley had been experiencing breathing difficulties prior to his death.  <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe went to the hospital; he was having trouble breathing,\u201d Caruso cited a family member as saying.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors put him on a ventilator\u2026 we went past 66% (O2 levels) and he stopped breathing. They (put him into the ICU and) brought it back up to 100% (O2 levels). He just had a tube placed in his chest\u2026 his breathing condition is still very bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising effort was specifically set with a goal of \u00a0$31,574, because, \u201caccording to the National Library of Medicine in the US: \u2018the mean intensive care unit cost and length of stay were $31,574,&#8217;\u201d the GoFundMe page stated. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Crawley did not have medical insurance. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The TikTok star was known for his sharp sense of humor and distinctive beard.  <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/John E Crawley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crawley was known for his comedic social media reactions to people consuming meals, his sharp wit and his distinctive long beard.<\/p>\n<p>On X, fans struggled to grasp the news on Tuesday. \u201cIt is so sad,\u201d one person wrote, adding, \u201cI hope it isn\u2019t real!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Another X user remarked, \u201cI\u2019ll miss his irreplicable [sic] sense of acerbic humor, and will forever curse that he didn\u2019t outlive TBob. Such an amazing creator and comedian, and it\u2019s so tragic to see him go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok star John Crawley, also known as \u201cKingBeardX,\u201d has died at the age of 47. Crawley\u2019s former podcast co-host and friend Anthony Caruso shared the news Tuesday on a GoFundMe page that had been set up earlier this month for the social media star\u2019s medical expenses. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry to tell everyone the bad news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21787,349865,22491,22488],"class_list":["post-1969607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-gofundme","tag-instagram","tag-tiktok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TikTok-star-John-Crawley-known-as-KingBeardX-dead-at-47.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}