Kyle Sullivan
Writer, Model, Creator
Kyle Sullivan is a model, writer, and popular content creator on TikTok and Instagram, where he has built a community around his spooky aesthetics, quirky humor, personal growth, unique path to sobriety, counterculture art, and musings on life, death and mortality.
Originally from Los Angeles, Kyle moved 26 times before landing in Northern California. Shortly, after graduating high school, he won the TV gameshow Wipeout—a win that came with a cash prize of $51,000. It sounds like a cool story and achievement, but it was also a turning point for Kyle, one that catapulted him into partying too hard and falling into drug addiction and, eventually, alcoholism.
Kyle’s next big turning point was several years later in 2016, when he hit his self-described rock-bottom, a moment that almost cost him his life. But he was able instead to do the scariest thing he could imagine and admit that he was an alcoholic and start taking steps to get sober. As an atheist, he did not find community or support in typical AA 12-step programs, which rely heavily on finding God as part of the sobriety journey, and eventually learned to make his own program. It worked.
Kyle went on to start powerlifting and competing, making YouTube content about his sobriety journey and how he achieved it through secular means, and trying to help others see the benefit of putting the bottle down.
He started his TikTok during Covid, and his content took off, rapidly gaining viral popularity.
Now, he creates content on a variety of topics, including sobriety, but also religion, comedy, horror, self-help, mortality, and—as he puts it—anything else that falls into his head.