Wifiskeleton

Jeremiah Justin Simms (July 24, 2003 – May 5, 2025), known professionally as Wifiskeleton (stylized in lowercase), was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and former YouTuber. He was a founder of the collective GothAngelz and was involved in the underground music scene.

In 2025, Wifiskeleton died due to a drug overdose, which led to his single "Nope Your Too Late I Already Died" going viral worldwide and posthumously earning him over eight million monthly listeners on Spotify. The single was certified gold in the United States, debuting and peaking at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also appeared on several other music charts around the world.

Jeremiah Justin Simms was born on July 24, 2003, in Atlanta, Georgia.^[1]

In the late 2010s, Simms gained popularity through a YouTube commentary channel under the name Cyrus.^[1][2][3] Around this time, Simms began writing music under the aliases Fuxkcy and Secretsaturdays.^[2] In the early 2020s, Simms began performing hyperpop^[4] and sigilkore songs^[5][4] under the alias *67 (or simply Star).^[6][1] His work gained attention on streaming platforms and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In late 2022, Simms gained recognition under the name Wifiskeleton^[6] (stylized in lowercase). He co-founded the underground collective GothAngelz with fellow artists and collaborators Keepsecrets, Witchbox and Mandy. As Wifiskeleton, he released new music prolifically, but would sometimes remove large portions of his back catalog from streaming platforms without notice.^[1] However, in the third quarter of 2024, he and his management team made it a mission to re-upload all his deleted tracks under the moniker “Skeleton Archive” (stylized in lowercase) on streaming platforms. In 2024-2025, he released over four mixtapes, including Lovefool, Suburban Daredevil, July and Pony.^[7] In 2024, he released the song "Nope Your Too Late I Already Died", which went viral on TikTok and became his first song to chart, debuting and peaking at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[8][7] Following his death around the same time due to a drug overdose,^[9][4] Pitchfork mentioned in an article that the song saw a surge in global popularity and streaming activity.^[10]

Wifiskeleton’s songs incorporated elements of emo rap,^[11] lo-fi,^[4] guitar music,^[6] and hip-hop, creating a "digital underground"^[11] sound. According to AllMusic, his lyrics often explored "extremely depressive themes of death, despair, self-harm, and other joyless topics".^[1] He often used imagery of the 90s through early 2010s cartoons, emoji clip art, drawings, and early internet culture throughout his music artwork.^[2][11] A staple of his songs were his self-deprecating text-to-speech tags such as “You are so goddamn pathetic,” “You creepy loser,” and “You are a creep and a weirdo”.^[2]

On May 5, 2025, Wifiskeleton died in Miami, Florida, due to a drug overdose.^[1][10] The report of his death was initially shared by fellow artist Witchbox in the GothAngelz Discord server,^[12] stating that he was "already cold" when police and medics arrived. On the day before he died, he appeared on an Instagram livestream in which he made statements indicating suicidal intent: "I’m finna pull up to the gas station and post the addy on my story. If you wanna pull up and kill me, it’s the time to do it. If you wanna get a flick with me, it’s the time to do it. I’mma overdose tonight and kill myself", though he later insisted that he made the remark in jest.^[9]

On May 7, 2025, Hallwood Recordings and 9th St. Records confirmed Wifiskeleton's death in a statement reported by Billboard, describing him as "a rare soul whose art, energy and presence moved so many."^[7] In the days following his death, his Apple Music and Spotify accounts were compromised, resulting in the unauthorized upload of a track titled "Cinco de Mayo Was a Nightmare Lol", which contained a text-to-speech segment blaming Wifiskeleton’s death on his friend Icemop, who was present at the time of his overdose.^[13] The upload was later removed.^[13]

According to Pitchfork writer Kieran Press-Reynolds, Wifiskeleton became a stylistic reference point within the "online indie music boom" and "new wave of SoundCloud 'indie rock'". Artist Ayowitty stated that a new wave of musicians were making "Wifiskeleton type songs" and replicating his sound to the point of cliche, with fellow artist Bunii adding that artists imitating Wifiskeleton's sound were popular across TikTok.^[10]

• I Must B Retarded (with Witchbox) (2023)
• Nineteen Forever (2023)
• I'm Not Alex G, and Ur Not Sarah (2023)
• 53 Nights (with Witchbox) (2023)
• The One Where I Say 1944!! (2023)
• Keeping Secrets (2023)
• Azazel Dances to Skeleton (2023)
• Crawlspace (with Keepsecrets) (2024)
• Corridor (with Witchbox) (2024)
• Anrxyk (2024)
• Twenty Sucks (2024)
• U Got a Big Stupid Head Full of Nothing (2024)
• I Heard This Song in My Head and Made It Exist (2024)
• Oh and One Last Thing (2024)
• Wish I Were Him (2024)
• I Think She Deserved It (with Mandy) (2024)
• Loser Club (with Aeter) (2024)
• Mascara (2024)
• Adelaide (2024)
• Everyday's the Same Joke (with I Wanna Be a Jack-o-Lantern) (2025)

• 85th Attempt (Keepsecrets featuring Wifiskeleton) (2022)
• Rotting in My Body (Witchbox with Wifiskeleton) (2022)
• Memories (Ghostin with Kid Kurl and Wifiskeleton) (2023)
• What Do They Know (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton) (2023)
• On the Count of Three (Witchbox with Wifiskeleton) (2023)
• Is It Not (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton) (2024)
• So Fucking Goth (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton and Witchbox) (2024)
• Fuck U I Hate Evryone (Witchbox with Wifiskeleton) (2024)
• Wanted 2 (Pinkblxxd with Wifiskeleton) (2024)
• Meet Me at Our Spot (I Miss Our Memories with Wifiskeleton) (2024)
• Suicide Is the Only Way Out (I Miss Our Memories with Wifiskeleton) (2024)
• Cannons (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton) (2025)
• Hanging off a Branch (Alphie Afterlife with Wifiskeleton) (2025)
• Pssst Under the Floorboards... (Witchbox with Wifiskeleton) (2025)
• I'm So Sick She Was My Doctor but She Hated It (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton) (2025)
• Why Is She Always Fucking Talking (Keepsecrets with Wifiskeleton) (2025)
• Crash the Whip Like FML (Witchbox with Wifiskeleton) (2026)

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