Hoax claims TikTok star Corn Kid was found dead in gang shooting YouTubeA disturbing new internet hoax is claiming that TikTok\u2019s beloved Corn Kid was found dead in a gang-related shooting, but the young corn-lover is alive and well. 7-year-old Tariq went viral on TikTok for professing his love of all things corn, earning him the moniker of \u2018Corn Kid.\u2019 However, with such fame unfortunately comes danger. The internet can be a scary place and it\u2019s not uncommon to see trolls create fake news articles to enrage the masses or just trick trustworthy individuals. In late September, a screenshot seeming taken from an NPR article claimed that the Corn Kid was found dead, leading many to voice concern for the youngster. Luckily, the article was fake, but that didn\u2019t stop it from spreading with many believing the hoax was in fact genuine. Corn Kid death hoax spreads The fake article dated September 26 and \u201cwritten\u201d by Dustin Jones claimed that Corn Kid has been found dead \u201clast Sunday\u201d in a gang-related shooting. A quick search of NPR reveals that the site does in fact have a writer by the name of Dustin Jones, but he never wrote any such article, nor has he ever even posted anything Corn Kid-related. According to Distractify, the fake screenshot seems to have originated on Facebook, but spread to other websites such as Twitter. In actuality, Corn Kid is doing just fine and was even named South Dakota\u2019s official \u2018Corn-bassador\u2019 by the state\u2019s governor. Tarik\u2019s popularity even resulted in the creation of a song called \u2018It\u2019s Corn\u2019 that has been viewed over 70 million times since being uploaded in August. The Corn Kid is hardly the first celebrity to fall victim to a death hoax. Over the years, Jeff Goldblum, Whoopi Goldberg and more have had hoaxes claim that they passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hoax claims TikTok star Corn Kid was found dead in gang shooting YouTubeA disturbing new internet hoax is claiming that TikTok\u2019s beloved Corn Kid was found dead in a gang-related shooting, but the young corn-lover is alive and well. 7-year-old Tariq went viral on TikTok for professing his love of all things corn, earning him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}