Youtuber And Self-appointed Relationship Guru Kevin Samuels: Dead At 56

Kevin Samuels, the unauthorised relationship guru, has died at the age of 56. His mother, Beverly Samuels-Burch confirmed the news to NBC News.

The Atlanta local department confirmed with NPR that Samuels was found unresponsive on the ground of his housing yesterday evening, and had complained regarding chest pains earlier within the morning. He was then transported to the hospital.

With over 1,000,000 followers on YouTube and Instagram each, Samuels' takes on "high price men" and "leftover women" usually became fodder for on-line conversations about dating, sex, marriage, and more.

frequently his recommendation would lean into denigrative Black girls – significantly who were educated and accomplished.

"When you raise women who are in their middle to late 30s – even in their early 40s, who are boss chicks, dangerous chicks," he aforementioned on his latest Instagram post. "But are you able to cook?"

Samuels got his begin publicly relations and image consulting – recommending shoes and fragrances for men to use to draw in women. He parlayed his conversations together with his shoppers into turning into a media figure in his own right, and commenced streaming his thoughts on relationships and why girls who were between the ages of twenty seven and thirty five were within the "danger zone."

His quality rose quickly in recent years as started that includes phone call shows with folks line in on Instagram Live or Zoom inquiring for recommendation (and typically pushing back) regarding dating.

Generally, his advice to men was about building themselves up, and his advice to women was about subservience.

He usually framed his advice as truth-telling. "People don't tell women the reality these days," he aforementioned during a 2021 interview with VladTV. "We haven't any drawback telling average men you ain't crap."

simply recently, he invited arguing by stating that unmated girls over thirty five years were "leftover," adding that "men recognize that there's one thing seemingly wrong with you." The comment diode to folks line him a misogynist.

Responding to his critics, he positioned himself as a feminist during a recent video. "For somebody to mention I hate women could be a willful, ignorant position," he said.

Samuels told the podcast No Jumper that once he was 21, he was diagnosed with stage three Hodgkin lymphoma. "I've continually famous that we're on borrowed time," he aforementioned. "Through hook or crook, I wanna be the simplest at what I do to induce the foremost out of this life. as a result of it' not secure to us."

Kevin Samuels, a YouTuber who became famous for his contentious relationship advice, has died, his mother confirmed to NBC News.

Rumors of his death initial circulated on social media Th night.

His mother, Beverly Samuels-Burch, declined to unharness details regarding what happened. She said she learned of her son' death from social media.

"That was a terrible issue for social media to place that out. I didn't even know. I hadn't even been notified," she aforementioned during a call on Friday. "All I'm doing is requesting that folks pray for us."

The Atlanta local department said officers were known as to an housing on East Paces Ferry Road NE on Th morning "regarding an individual injured." By the time police arrived, initial responders were playacting cardiac resuscitation on an unresponsive man later known as Samuels.

a girl within the apartment told officers that Samuels had complained regarding chest pain which she tried to assist him however he fell, the police report states. the girl known as 911.

Samuels was taken to Piedmont Hospital, police aforementioned.

The inventor County Medical Examiner’s workplace said during a release that it performed an autopsy and a cause and manner of death are pending. The office listed Samuels' age as 53.