A TikTok star named Waffler69, whose real name was Taylor Claydorm, according to media reports, died this week at the age of 33.
Lejeune, who was from Lafayette, amassed more than 1.7 million followers and 32.8 million likes on the social platform with videos of him eating bizarre foods. He shot many of his videos in front of the Cajundome and at local restaurants like the Judice Inn and Lagneauxs.
Many of his most popular videos have featured him eating bizarrely nostalgic foods, from massive loops of fruit to canned hot dogs, squid spaghetti to a 1991 Addams Family promotional cereal.
In a social media post, his brother Clayton Claydorm announced that Claydorm passed away on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack.
Clayton Claydorm told TMZ his brother felt uneasy and called his mother. As his situation worsened, he called an ambulance to take him to a hospital in Lafayette, where he later died.
In Lafayette, Claydorm’s death was met with shock, and people shared messages on social media.
“My jaw dropped when I heard that,” one person commented on a Facebook shared message account. “I will miss his contentment and bright, happy personality.”
Clayton Claydorm set up a GoFundMe account to help offset funeral expenses, which had already raised more than $13,000 as of Friday afternoon.