{"id":1976425,"date":"2025-08-23T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976425"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:54:49","slug":"youtubes-goth-wizard-kingcobrajfs-dead-at-34-father-confirms-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/youtubes-goth-wizard-kingcobrajfs-dead-at-34-father-confirms-in-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s \u2018Goth Wizard\u2019 KingCobraJFS Dead at 34, Father Confirms in Viral Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YouTube<\/a> star KingCobraJFS, also known as Joshua Fay Saunders, has died at the age of 34. The eccentric creator, who often referred to himself as a \u201cgoth wizard,\u201d built a devoted following of more than 117,000 subscribers<\/a> over the past decade with his offbeat streams, DIY projects, paranormal musings, and vocal covers. He was even profiled in a YouTube documentary<\/a> that chronicled his strange, singular rise on the platform.<\/p>\n

News of Saunders\u2019 death came on August 22, when his father posted a now-deleted video<\/a> confirming his son had been found unresponsive. In the emotional clip, which quickly went viral on X, Saunders\u2019 dad explained, \u201cI went to Josh\u2019s house yesterday to take him to the doctor, and when I got there, he was sleeping. I tried to wake him up, but he was not responsive. I realized that his lips were blue, and I tried to revive him, but he was already dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Complex<\/a>, the Natrona County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed that Saunders died on August 21 in Casper, Wyoming. Coroner James Whipps identified the decedent as 34-year-old Joshua Fay Saunders and said that an autopsy has been scheduled. The coroner noted that \u201cthe investigation is ongoing and further information surrounding the circumstances of the death will be released later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casper police told the outlet that the case is being treated as an unattended death, adding that detectives \u201cbelieve the incident to be isolated, with no ongoing threat to the public.\u201d Officers were called at 1:30 p.m. and \u201clocated a deceased adult male at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his video, Saunders\u2019 father reflected on his son\u2019s difficult life and his complicated relationship with his online presence. \u201cI got on today to delete all of his social media\u2026 because \u2018f*** you\u2019 is how I\u2019m feeling,\u201d he admitted. \u201cBut I realized that would not be fair to his fans, and it\u2019s certainly nothing he would want. As you all know, Josh was harassed and bullied terribly his whole life. From the time he was 3, it was just nonstop. It was like he had a neon sign that said \u2018Please pick on me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On his channel, Saunders described himself simply: \u201cMy artist name is King Cobra. I play and compose my own music, am [a] fan of Metal and Rock and a little bit of grunge and punk and some Alternative\u2026 I am also a firm believer in the Paranormal such as ghosts and poltergeists and things that go bump in the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans are now filling social media with tributes. One wrote, \u201cR.i.P King Cobra JFS, we lost the final goth today\u2026\u201d while another added<\/a>, \u201cRIP KING COBRAJFS. It\u2019s been a wild ride friend. Was always rooting for you big dawg.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTube star KingCobraJFS, also known as Joshua Fay Saunders, has died at the age of 34. The eccentric creator, who often referred to himself as a \u201cgoth wizard,\u201d built a devoted following of more than 117,000 subscribers over the past decade with his offbeat streams, DIY projects, paranormal musings, and vocal covers. He was even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1976426,"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":[25172],"tags":[353168,353169,353170,23844],"class_list":["post-1976425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-joshua-fay-saunders","tag-king-cobra","tag-unattended-death","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/YouTubes-\u2018Goth-Wizard-KingCobraJFS-Dead-at-34-Father-Confirms-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976425","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=1976425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}