QAnon sub-cult leader Michael Brian Protzman, aka “Negative48,” died at age 60 last week in a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota of injuries suffered in a dirt bike accident, Vice reports.

Protzman, whose “Negative48” nom de guerre came from a MAGAfied version of the ancient Jewish numerological system called Gematria (“Evil” is E[5] + V[22] + I[9] + L[12] = 48, hence “Negative” 48), gained fame for his subgroup’s November 2021 to March 2022 vigil for the resurrections of John F Kennedys Senior and Junior at the site of the former’s 1963 assassination in Dallas. The gathering devolved into a scene of absolute squalor, with Protzman and his retinue of thralls occupying the upper floors of a nearby hotel over the months, catering to the whims of their prophet and drinking hydrogen peroxide cocktails out of shared punchbowls to stave off COVID infections. The whole story was deeply tragic for the families of those brainwashed into Protzman’s cult, among them an Arkansas nurse who abandoned her three young children, one of them an infant, to await the return of the Kennedys… and Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Tupac Shakur, Prince, and others.

So you probably already figured out how the remnants of a cult obsessed with the idea that certain famous politicians and celebrities aren’t really dead is handling the death of their own leader, with Vice reporting that Negative48 acolytes pretending it didn’t happen, even to the point of banning chat room members simply asking for updates on Protzman’s condition after he was hospitalized. Excommunicated former Protzman lieutenant Shelly Mullinax told Vice that only the “evil version” of her messiah is dead, but the good one, JFK Jr disguised as Protzman, is alive and well.