The TikTok content creator known as "KingBeardX," whose tight-angle shots and over-the-top humor earned him 2.5 million followers, died this week in Mississippi, friends and neighbors said.

John E. Crawley, the self-titled "funniest dude on the Internet," was 47.

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Crawley died on Monday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, according to Glenfield Funeral Home .

The bearded, balding Crawley blended comedy stylings reminiscent of Jerry Seinfeld's everyday observations, Sam Kinison's high volume pronouncements and Ralphie May's pun takes.

Food was always a popular topic of Crawley's material. In one of his most recent postings, Crawley poked fun at the notion of a "medium rare chicken sandwich" as he ho

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