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I had never heard of him either.

I spent half a day wondering why anyone would want to kill the Black Mirror guy. And wtf was he doing in Utah?

I had no idea until this occurred.

It's like he popped up out of thin air, which was nice.

I'd only heard of him in the sense of him being one of a flock of fascist wastes of oxygen who grifted around the country spewing hate and violence and making people's lives worse and more dangerous. He was a name on a list of scum who we'd be better off with them never having been born.

All I've learned about him since is that I was fucking right. Having him not exist anymore is a net gain in the long term but he's still pissing me off for now by the fact that I'm wasting my fucking time and my fucking attention and my fucking blood pressure on his fucking bullshit even more than I was.

He can fucking rot with Rush Limbaugh and Joseph Goebbels and the rest of their fucking detestable cabal of fucking filth. If I never hear his fucking name again it'll be too fucking soon and the universe still owes me my fucking time back from every moment I've wasted having to fucking be exposed to this shit.

I had no idea, but I watched one of the early South Market episodes this season. And Cartman was pretending to be him.

As soon as I watched some of the footage of the deed, I knew exactly who he was based on the South Park. But prior to that, no, absolutely not.

I was aware of his existence. Saw him say some racist shit once. Wrote him off as a chud mouthpiece. Maybe a Podcaster or something.

Never heard about the guy before his death, but to my credit, i live in Europe. Paradoxically, his death looks like a benediction for the reps, they have now a new pretext to cancel or condemn the dems, they just have to look a bit too happy about his assassination.

I knew barely, just some of stuff he said. He was a nazi cunt. And member of the paedophile cult (christian).

Who gives a shit about him anyways

I never had, but after being told I figured out that he was that meme face.

Before the assassination, I just knew him as the tiny face chud with Turning Point USA who spewed insipid talking points to "own" the left.

If you've seen him before, it was probably in a meme like this.

You probably saw images of Kirk and assumed they were bad photoshops of Shapiro. They basically were two cheeks of the same ass spewing hateful shit for far right to gobble up.

Kirk was often mocked for having a round head and relatively small face, where Shapiro was generally mocked for his numerous bad takes and awful admissions. Both of them had almost identical debate styles of just doubling down on false narratives and denying anything contrary to their agenda even in when presented with proof.

Heard of the name but just like ben shapiro, don't know or care about them. The memes about kirk were funny but now getting bored of it. There are worse things going on right now than some streamer getting shot.

Only know him from the Jubilee videos where that have guests on and sit in a circle of 20 people with a different view point than the one in the middle.

He came off as the shamelessly smarmy, creepy, dishonest, and that first impression never got any better any of the few times his videos came up in my feed.

Whomever shot him has made the world a better place. Fuck Charlie Kirk and everyone like him

Being a non-American, zero clue. Seems he was more useful to the regime dead rather than alive.

I heard of him, but never thought he was this damn important. And this is why the censorship campaign is so frustrating to me. For anyone who hasn't heard of him, he was not "doing politics the right way".

Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

Charlie Kirk was a bigot. Charlie Kirk was a bigot. Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

All the firings and censorship and hand-wringing about "lowering the temperature" do not change this simple fact.

Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

Anyone who thinks Charlie Kirk was just some nice Christian who loved the First Amendment needs to get MUCH better sources of information than they currently have.

I'm not even American and I knew who he was. For years I've been seeing memes about his face to head ratio and his gummy teeth.

I barely knew him as the guy that said fuck the kids and let them die when school shootings happened. Picked that up randomly in the periphery. I think he's from the Fox News idiocy, echo chamber space.

Be thankful that you're not online enough to know him. Enjoy the beautiful outside!

I literally had no idea who he was until the campus videos of the shooting hit Lemmy. I'm in the US but don't regularly follow US media sources because gestures vaguely. Lemmy is also my only social media at this point, everything else has been deleted, so when something pops up here, I go digging through the Guardian or El Pais to get an idea of what's going on.

I will say, I had the absolute delight of taking all the wind out of my deeply religious and conservative coworkers sails by innocently asking, "who's Charlie Kirk?", when they were discussing a moment of silence idea and a poem one of them wrote about him. Of course I knew who he was at that point, but I enjoy being an agent of chaos in a small southern town lol (send help!).

I probably heard of him and saw pictures of him but all the alt right folks look alike and say the same things, so he particularly never registered for me. Whoever he was.

I would wager 90% of Americans had never heard of Charlie Kirk before his death. It's just this fucking regime is SO FUCKING ONLINE!

He’s a master debater obviously

A hateful, young alt-reich kid was taken out by another hateful, young alt-reich kid because one of them didn't think the other was hateful enough. So the entire MAGA cult is in overdrive trying to convince the world that charlie was killed by "the left". You're only hearing about it because its a completely insane political spin.

Getting out of reddit and US centric socials/media does remove a lot of trash you don't need to know from the feed. You can't avoid some, when they get through, and filters don't catch them, but it's significantly better.

Lemmy and Mastodon FTW.

Never heard of him before. Now I've learned that he seemed like a really horrible person...

Only heard of him when I subscribed to r/ToiletPaperUSA which was a parody to Turning Point USA and learnt tiny bit of what he said but I never gone out my way to research about him as I know Far-Right figures (even the online one) just pissed me off.

I only learnt lot more about him when he died when Liberals on Bluesky pull the "we should debate" and sided with Right-wingers who said it's "The Left" is responsible. Mind you, that's even before we found out both the killer and their political stance which turns out, he's the Groyper (some 4Chan far-right bullshit). Think he killed Charlie as they believe he wasn't Right-wing enough and had for years spread an smear campaign I believe against him.

I had seen his face on Rick & Morty before. That's it I had no idea the hate he peddled or anything

I had no idea. Turns out if heard of him a couple times but he was not relevant enough to remember. He was just another bootlicking sycophant and quite frankly I laughed out loud when I heard a conservative advocate for 2nd amendment rights had been shot. After reading through his history of opinions I just wish I'd had the opportunity to laugh harder. I'm not really political as an accelerationist, but it is pretty fucking funny, and the pearl clutching from all the big talking conservatives is simply priceless.

He's famous for creating a conservative organization while in college, called Turning Point USA. The org puts out a lot of smug memes to appeal to young conservative folks, so naturally people made fun of them and counter-memed.

He's said a lot of very vile things, like "Black women don't have the same kind of brain processing power" (paraphrased) when talking about how bad DEI is.

My BFF hadn't heard of him either, but they curate their feeds to be mostly uplifting fluff, and they aren't terminally online like I am lol. I was kind of surprised that he was the influencer that got shot though, I might have expected someone like Loomer or Fuentes

I knew who he was, but just grouped him together with all the other manosphere shitspinners.

i knew he existed but i didn't know he was actually relevant. i thought he was just, like, an annoying guy

Never heard of the dude either. Didn't care, still don't.

I was just perma'd from reddit for commenting on him "getting slimed." It was a fucking JOKE.

Look, if people are celebrating your death, no amount of revisionism is going to change a god damn thing -- you're a terrible human being. All this censorship and chilling effects? Not going to make people shut up forever. You're going to embolden them.

I learned about him from South Park, just trying to make his nut

You're lucky. I normally would disagree with ignorance being bliss, but as someone who's seen his stuff and probably gotten angry enough to kill my own brain cells, be glad.

I knew him because of the memes that distorted his face to look like “Butthead” from the cartoon and the “change my mind” meme. I didn’t know how ingrained his shitty answer-as-accusation or racist dogwhistle was in right wing circles.

I'd never heard of him. Or Ben Shapiro. Online shit talkers are boring on average.