Zyzz died at 22 and the internet couldn't stop talking about it

Before anyone was obsessed with looksmaxxing, there was Zyzz. Aziz Shavershian was just a teenager from Australia in the 2000s, filming himself at the gym on his Nokia phone and uploading the clips to YouTube like it was nothing. Except it wasn't nothing. People actually watched.

The dude was vain in a way that felt almost performance art. He'd flex in these over-the-top bodybuilding poses, his hair styled like an anime character, mocking his own audience with forum slang: "U mirin', brah?" He understood the internet before most people. He'd create fake accounts to troll himself, get his followers riled up, then pivot it into selling protein powder. The whole thing was calculated chaos.

By his early twenties, Zyzz had built a massive following. Sixty thousand people on Facebook alone. Half of them genuinely loved him. The other half couldn't stop hate-watching. Either way, he'd won.

Then in 2011, at just 22, he died. No warning. No explanation at first. Just gone.

The internet lost its mind. People tried to hack the coroner's report by pretending to be his family. Other influencers posted videos claiming he'd faked the whole thing. For years afterward, people kept posting "Zyzz sightings" like he was some kind of cryptid. The speculation never really stopped.

A new documentary is trying to answer what actually happened that day in Thailand. For a guy who spent his entire online presence being deliberately cryptic and chaotic, there's something fitting about the mystery that followed him in death. Zyzz understood hype before it had a name. Turns out he understood legacy too.