{"id":337317,"date":"2026-05-19T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337317"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:42:52","slug":"influencer-deaths-of-2026-patriotic-kenny-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/influencer-deaths-of-2026-patriotic-kenny-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Deaths of 2026: Patriotic Kenny and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p>Social media is paying tribute to many influencers who died in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While recording a personal Latest 12 months\u2019s Eve livestream, <strong>Sergio Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> died at age 37.\u00a0Days later, content creator<strong> Athira Auni<\/strong> died on January 3 at age 21 after a motorbike accident.<\/p>\n<p>In February, <strong>Chinnu Papu<\/strong> died by suicide at age 24. In March, <strong>Dominika \u201cMina\u201d Elischerova, David Alejandro Pel\u00e1ez Mar\u00edn<\/strong> \u2014 known online as Alejo Little \u2014 <strong>Rachel Tussey <\/strong>and<strong> Wang Weiqian<\/strong> all died. The subsequent month, influencer <strong>Zepa<\/strong> died at age 26, <strong>Carlos Filhar<\/strong> died at age 48 and <strong>Mara Fl\u00e1via<\/strong> died at age 38 and climbing influencer <strong>Ali Leini\u00f6<\/strong> died at age 49.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You might have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Honduran influencer <strong>Freddy Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> was found dead on a distant roadside in Danl\u00ed, Honduras, on April 26. His body was reportedly burned.<\/p>\n<p>In May, TikTok sensation <strong>Patriotic Kenny<\/strong> died at age 84 following a battle with stage 4 lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll all the way down to remember the influencers who died in 2026:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is paying tribute to many influencers who died in 2026. While recording a personal Latest 12 months\u2019s Eve livestream, Sergio Jim\u00e9nez died at age 37.\u00a0Days later, content creator Athira Auni died on January 3 at age 21 after a motorbike accident. In February, Chinnu Papu died by suicide at age 24. In March, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[9041,4001,14981,39459],"class_list":["post-337317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-deaths","tag-influencer","tag-kenny","tag-patriotic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337320,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337317\/revisions\/337320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}