„Sein Vermächtnis ist erschreckend“: Wie Charlie Kirk bei der Jugend – sogar bei seinen Anhängern – zur Pointe wurde
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/charlie-kirk-meme-young-supporters
„Sein Vermächtnis ist erschreckend“: Wie Charlie Kirk bei der Jugend – sogar bei seinen Anhängern – zur Pointe wurde
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/charlie-kirk-meme-young-supporters
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>Ten months since his assassination, Charlie Kirk’s name and likeness are still proliferating online. Just not the way the far-right activist would have wanted.
>Audio of the gunshot that killed him has become a TikTok meme, as have ironic reposts of the apparent AI-slop song We Are Charlie Kirk, which was originally created as a posthumous tribute. He was the butt of a crude joke during the Netflix roast of Hollywood star Kevin Hart in May. The next month, a viral tweet encouraged people to take “a shot” in his honor on Juneteenth. And a trend known as “Kirkification” has emerged, in which internet pranksters superimpose his face on to unlikely images, such as the Mona Lisa, a woman in a bikini, or Jeffrey Epstein.
>This contemptuous, at times nihilistic humor marks a dramatic shift from the period immediately following Kirk’s death in September, in which conservatives sought to suppress criticism of the late Maga luminary. Hundreds of people were fired or otherwise disciplined for denouncing him (which has since resulted in several settlements over alleged first amendment violations).
>The attempted censorship actually intensified the satirization of Kirk online, said Alex Turvy, a media sociologist and author of an upcoming book about internet culture, Memes in the Machine.
>“For the first few weeks, the only safe thing to say was praise,” he said. “When you mandate reverence on a medium built for irony, [the internet], you don’t freeze the image, you load the spring. A lot of the mockery was that pressure releasing.”
The halo is inappropriate for someone burning in hell.
Charlie who?
Never heard of her.
It’s good to hear when reality actually rises to the top, it doesn’t happen often enough.
Im in no way a supporter but i did see some clips of kirk exposing israel for the genocide in gaza. He was VERY pro israel, but there was some stuff that he was questioning and i believe its what got him killed.
https://youtu.be/3BkR5y4mzRE?is=kKObCLnVgcopDCE0
Is this the girl who dances on tik tok?
His wife trying to fuck the VP literally days after he died did not help his image.
Charlie Kirk died because he didn’t want to be JD’s cuck anymore.
The whole movement is a joke and a grift.
His wife is largely to blame in my opinion.
She is cartoonishly evil and you just can’t look away. She could have been the one to humanize him but she made him look like a political prop.
302 days since Charlie Kirk said anything racist. He really has reformed himself.
Weird American racist who got shot? Haven’t thought about him until I saw this post.