#online-trolling

#online-trolling

At first glance, the image has all the trappings of a Serious Tactical Raid Photo, à la Pete Souza's famous Situation Room snapshot, which showed President Barack Obama and his national-security team tracking the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. But then you see what's behind Hegseth: a large screen displaying an X feed. The photo is blurry, but it seems to show Hegseth and company using X's search function to monitor tweets about the raid.

When it happened, the right was quick to tear down anyone who didn't suddenly forget his prejudiced rhetoric when he was killed , but in the months since, a lot of the fallout of Kirk's death has been in memes, whether that be in "Kirkifying" images by photoshopping his face on anything you can find, AI mock-ups of gunpla sets of his death, or creating characters that look like him in video games .

"The impact on me was extremely upsetting and damaging. I now suffer from anxiety and am seeing a therapist due to the abhorrent things Dr Cartland said about me. My reputation is everything. This has been a horrific experience."