It has emerged that the bullet casing left behind from the fatal shooting of right-wing political campaigner Charlie Kirk features references to gaming, internet memes, and fascism.
For those not embedded in internet culture, phrases such as “OwO” and “Bella Ciao” might mean very little, but to some gamers and people termed “chronically online”, the meaning appears to be instantly clear.
It comes after Kirk was shot dead while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, which was the first stop of his “American Comeback Tour”, with planned appearances across the US.Kirk was known for his hard-right views. He was opposed to gay marriage, abortion and diversity programmes; spread misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, voting fraud and climate change; made statements that many considered to be racist and sexist; and was highly critical of Islam.
He was a staunch proponent of Christian nationalism and famously said that gun deaths were “worth it” for the right to own firearms.
A 22-year-old college student from Utah, Tyler Robinson, has been named as a suspect in the killing after a two-day police manhunt.
There have been unconfirmed reports in the right-wing American media that Robinson lived with a transgender roommate, who is now cooperating with the FBI.
Here’s everything we know about the suspect, and what we can learn from the memes referenced on the bullet casing.
Tyler Robinson has been named as the suspect in the shooting of Charlie KirkThe bullet casing memes, from ‘OwO’ to ‘Bella Ciao’
A series of phrases were engraved onto the bullet casing left behind from the shooting of Kirk, a 31-year-old hard-right activist and close ally of Donald Trump.
Experts have warned against trying to interpret what the shooter’s motive was from the engravings because common phrases used on the internet often have multiple meanings.
But here’s what we can learn from the notes the shooter left behind.
‘Notices, bulges, OwO, what’s this?’
Within the furry community – an internet subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters – “OwO” is an emoticon of a cute face with the Os as eyes and w as a mouth or nose.
Jamie Cohen, an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College who researches memes, told NBC News that the furry community uses the emoticon as a way of flirting, but others use it as a way of mocking or trolling.
It is unclear what the relevance of this emoticon is to Kirk’s shooting, but Cohen noted that messages like this are usually “purposely vague” so that it stays in the “undercurrent of the internet”.
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