Honestly, I'm with the group that's not going to believe he's dead until there's a death certificate.
Convincing family to confirm he's dead would be very easy. He could just go crying to them with some sob story about how his life has been ruined by all the stuff online, he knows he made some mistakes but he just wants to get offline and move past it, but he can't because every mistake you make on the internet is going to be around forever so he needs their help to allow him to end his online persona so he can get better and turn over a new leaf.
Obviously that's not what would happen, if he was/is able to buck the internet's attention he'd simply go back to trying to find 13 year olds to fuck without all those watchful eyes hounding him because he's a soulless bottom sucker, but still.
I mean, it just so happens that a 36 year old dies of covid, which is already a very rare occurrence, and that person also so happens to be a histrionic psychopath with a sullied online persona that's no longer profitable, and who recently moved to a new country?
That's suspiciously convenient. In fact I'd be willing to put all my chips on him not actually being dead.
