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TikTok Creator Malik Taylor, Known as The Unpopular Party, Dies at 28

His college business fraternity confirmed the news on Facebook.

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Malik Taylor dead at 28
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Overview

  • Taylor's fraternity chapter at Austin Peay State University, Alpha Kappa Psi – Zeta Phi, publicly announced his death in a tribute post.
  • A cousin said he died in a car accident in Charlotte, though authorities have not issued an official confirmation of cause.
  • He had recently relocated from Memphis to Charlotte and discussed the move in a TikTok video posted a day before the announcement.
  • Taylor left a teaching job in 2023 to pursue content creation full-time, building a cross‑platform audience with pop-culture commentary and POV comedy.
  • He amassed more than 250,000 combined followers on TikTok and Instagram and drew roughly 80,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, The Unpopular Party, as tributes from fans and fellow creators continued to pour in.