Charlie Kirk becomes punchline among young people
Among Gen A he's basically become a funny meme with no context to who he was or his beliefs. Basically he's Keyboard Cat to them - ‘His legacy is cringe’: how Charlie Kirk became a punchline among the young - even his supporters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Itzena73"Previously, Turvy said, it used to take years for tragedies to become fodder for cynical internet humor (9/11 being one example)." hahahahaha no. Oh my goodness, no.
Laura Clemens44I have a Gen A and this is totally true although he was aware of Charlie Kirk before he was killed and that he was an appalling racist, but as my Gen A would say, it is what he would have wanted, and then he would cackle at the little Kirk eggs in a field bouncing about
Bald *w/Circular Glasses35Lived a lie,died a joke.
That One Other Guy28Amazing turn by The Guardian whose coverage of his death was so slavering and hagiographic that I pulled my financial support.
Sister Curry 23Well deserved. It's exactly the legacy he earned.
tooddd.bsky.social13I had 8th grade students who complained to our head of school because we didn’t keep the flags half mast after he was killed. Those same kids were sharing memes and making fun of Erica by the end of the year.
Annie Kelly195Good piece, but is this part really true? My impression was always that was how Kirk styled himself, but his audience was always older Republicans convinced they'd found someone who cut through to the young.
Matthew Downhour 63He was never not cringe
Patrick Chovanec45The problem is that when you traffic in nihilism, you get … nihilism.
💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️⚧️🔞34When this clown died, a lot of people seemed to think he would be a martyr whose death would forever transform our politics and propel the right and social conservatism in to a new era. But now? At MOST it had no effect on anything, except to push a few "liberal" podcasters to the right.
𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️28The trend of nihilism online isn't great, but this is a perfect example of why the young right is extremely incompetent at gaining power, holding it, and achieving much of anything with it (beyond inflicting suffering on others). They don't believe in *it* outside the realm of memes and posting.
River_Tam20I hear a 5th grader say "lowkirk" last week
Bsky's Goodest Girls 😇8presumably same reason 9/11 is such a punchline among millennials - when you elevate some tragedy beyond ridiculousness people are gonna meme on you
Jake Hamby7We Are Charlie Kirk (K-POP REMIX) youtu.be/6a1AbXA7Yug?...
Francis Wilkinson 7“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.”
Jinxe6If you try to force a martyr you may end up as part of the lulz.
They've been banning a bunch of people over the last 24 hours or so, some (maybe all) of them for reactions to Charlie Kirk's death last year. It's so weird that it's happening now
Erin Biba35I would not be in the least bit surprised if the Platner Stan’s are going through people’s old posts and report spamming them in retribution for criticism.
Nichole Hiltz 🧡31Posts from over a year ago? Or new posts?
Charles Ulysses Farleigh III, Esq.3I wonder when they, and others like them, will figure out that no amount of policing the kind of thought that makes MAGA-land mad will ever result in them being happy.
✨queer commie terrorist✨35huh. they really are creating a million charlie kirks.
Dmitri. #freeLink21some strange shit is going on
Alex9Welp, I wonder how long it’ll be this time
Shawn Connolly8Eventually Bluesky will learn that automating all their moderation decisions allows that automation to be abused any time someone with a handful of bot accounts decides to mass report someone but today is not that day
Crude memes of the Maga luminary are exploding online – less than a year after conservatives were suppressing any slander against him
Truth Dog8Charlie Kirk was always a joke.
PitBull4Justice3Just how many inappropriate tweets, comments,disrespectful and disparaging remarks did he repeatedly make about how many groups in his 15 minutes?
Happy-go-Loki.2A fitting end to a horrific legacy.
Rich2Kirk was a bigot. Most of the "slander" consisted of people just parroting back his own words. He was no hero and didn't deserve all the accolades (like flags at half staff) that was foisted on all the people he offended.
AZLady1He was always a hater and so is the wifey. While I don‘t agree with killing someone I am not sad that he is gone and will not be sad when his wifey is gone. They brought this on themselves.
