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Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

Katherine Krueger
Sep 7, 2026 at 10:00
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Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

People outside Turning Point USA’s headquarters commemorate the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 20, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. Photo: Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images Charlie Kirk will live forever — at least online.  In the year since he was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University, the Turning Point USA founder has gone from a man cut down in his prime to a recurring internet meme, complete with an AI-generated song, “We Are Charlie Kirk,” which hit No. 1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 U.S. ranking. Audio of his killing became a TikTok sound for girlie outfit transformation videos; he’s been inserted into movies like “Avatar” and “The Odyssey”; he’s been AI’d...

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