Oddities after the Kirk killing

A whirlwind of a news cycle has developed. We still don’t officially know who the Charlie Kirk killer is. But countless suspects are being bantered about on social media. Even 4chan got into the mix, digging up someone with a SoundCloud track about Charlie Kirk being dead at the age of 31—written long enough ago that it reportedly drew an FBI visit to the person’s doorstep. There’s also surveillance video of a purported shooter on a roof. Yet, at the same time, crowd reactions are claiming that everything was just a little too well-done for it to be a lone wolf.

As the investigation into the crime plays out, the post-crime world has become just as strange. Two particularly poignant stories stand out.

The first came from Jezebel, the pop culture website. Just one day before Kirk’s assassination, they published an article joking that they hired some Etsy witches to put a hex on him. After the murder, the piece had to be updated so Jezebel could clarify that they did not, in any way, support the killing that took place less than 24 hours after those “witches” supposedly placed their hex.

But maybe even more interesting than the paranormal world of Etsy witches is the AI-contrived world of books on Amazon. Here’s the catch: a book titled The Shooting of Charlie Kirk appeared almost instantly. No big shock there—AI could probably crank out a book like that in seconds. The real shock was the publication date: September 9th. That’s the day before the shooting.

We verified this ourselves. The listing existed on Amazon, and we saw it both on the app and the website. The screenshots we’ve shared weren’t taken from some third-party site—they’re ours. Whether what we were seeing was a glitch or not, the fact remains: both platforms showed the book live on September 9. Now it’s gone.

We’ve been searching since and haven’t seen much of an official response from Amazon. What we did find, though, is that books submitted to Amazon’s system usually sit in the ether for 24 to 72 hours before they’re approved for sale. So how did this happen? Really—how did this happen?

People can joke all they want about conspiracy theories, but this isn’t just funny. It’s weird. Very, very weird.

With all of this going on, there are also strange rumors that the President was AI during his Oval Office response to the killing..

There are people who are being doxed over their celebrations of the Kirk killing..

Some people became very blood thirsty in the immediate aftermath.

At this point, amid this messy aftermath, Congress is freaked enough that members are talking about not being in crowds anymore..

Meanwhile, the manhunt continues for the shooter, and the reaction across this divided nation continues right alongside it.