From plugs to incredible messages. A few days after the murder of Charlie Kirk, a figure of the American conservative movement on Friday, September 12, the Utah police announced new disturbing details.
Several bullets found in the crime scene carried an inscription recorded by the alleged suspect, a 22 -year -old. The four messages seem to refer to several memes and references to video games.
One of the plugs was recorded with the phrase “Hey Fascist! In addition to the invective, it is above all a sequence of touches of the shooting game 2released in 2024. In this universe, this combination, called Ploy, triggers the call of an air attack called “Eagle 500 kilos”, the fall in an extremely destructive bomb.
Inspired by the universe of Space Saved Soldiers and showing an assumed crunchy tone, 2 The stages “Soldiers of Democracy” sent to exterminate giant insects, cyborgs and other extraterrestrial creatures. Its controlled democracy form is “fundamentally fascism,” according to Harry Batchelor, independent researcher on extremism and working with extremism and the game research network interviewed by Wired.
“A daring way to express it in the plugs”
“The game takes so seriously to pretend to be a democracy and, in reality, to be a fascist government that has become a joke,” adds the researcher.
The “Eagle 500 kilos” bomb has become a famous meme in video game forums for its comic and excessive side. It is often used to indicate that a user is preparing “to commit a violent and important action,” Don Caldwell, editor, tells us in the main Know Your. “It can be a daring way to express it in the plugs.”
After the Police Press Conference, the Sub -Biddit moderators dedicated to Diverse He closed it temporarily. “Due to recent events and the large number of publications on the subject, we will temporarily block the Subnet”, we can read in the forum. “We are aware of what happened, and our moderation team does not support these events.”
But Diverse It is not the only reference to the video games found in one of the plugs. Another ball took the words of Bella CiaoAn Italian song of anti -fascist resistance. The song became famous thanks to the Netflix series The Money Heist. Since then, it has been used regularly as a hymn of rebellion, as in Far Cry 6.
Another socket was recorded with the message “Avents of notices, what is this?”, A reference to the hairy communities where “Owo” is supposed to be an emoticon represents the surprise. A final record indicates “If you read this, it is Gay Lmao” (“If you read that, it is gay, MDR, note of the editor), a prayer used regularly on the Internet aimed at awakening online reactions.
Inscriptions that show the importance of video games in popular culture and online memes. But we will be careful not to relaunch the debate on the influence of video games on certain shootings and violent events … especially because in recent years, studies tend to demonstrate that there is no cause and effect between playing violent games and becoming a reality.
Source: BFM TV
