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...
Itzena45"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 Clemens29I 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 Glasses21Lived a lie,died a joke.
That One Other Guy17Amazing turn by The Guardian whose coverage of his death was so slavering and hagiographic that I pulled my financial support.
Sister Curry 16Well deserved. It's exactly the legacy he earned.
Rob Willoughby7It's pretty mad to try and spin this as a meme "with no context" – I think there is an awful lot of context here, and a awful lot of young folk using his death to make political statements. I think a lot of people don't want to hear those political statements, so they'll pretend "it's just a meme"
Patrick Chovanec36The problem is that when you traffic in nihilism, you get … nihilism.
River_Tam17I hear a 5th grader say "lowkirk" last week
Francis Wilkinson 4“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.”
Jinxe3If you try to force a martyr you may end up as part of the lulz.
McJulie3Live by the cruel meme, die by the cruel meme, have all your works crumble to dust by the cruel meme
Momus Jones3Appropriate that Kirk's cultural legacy equivalent to skibidi toilet
