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

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.

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

He preached to the choir in the MAGA Church of Treason, Pedophilia, and Corruption. Good, decent, moral people have never set foot in that church.

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.

Never knew him before his death because I’m not 'murican

I only ever knew him from his JDV-adjacent tiny face memes, and never by name.

I still don’t know who he was. Just that many people were deeply unhappy with his existence and that he was perceived as far right. I also don’t care.

I heard about him once before when he said that Finland shouldn’t join NATO because they are too ”russian”. Well you can’t expect knowledge from an uneducated nazi.

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

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

Same. No clue who he was…

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 was aware of the “change my mind” meme. I put it down to being British, so less aware of USA political figures.

The amount of posts and discussion about him getting shot is way out of proportion to his level of fame/influence, especially over here.