How the Groyper Subculture Became Tangled in Kirk's Death

Showing 2 Groypers videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Groyper movement, an online nationalist subculture associated with Nick Fuentes, became entangled in coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination when reporting connected suspect Tyler Robinson's Discord activity and engraved shell casings to that same online community, a detail multiple commentators cited without establishing a formal organizational link between Robinson and Fuentes himself. Brandon Tatum directly criticized Tucker Carlson afterward for interviewing Fuentes without meaningfully challenging his praise for Stalin and Hitler or his sustained attacks on Kirk's legacy, arguing Carlson's failure to push back amounted to a betrayal of his stated friendship with Kirk. Tim Miller separately covered a real, tragic school shooting in Antioch, Tennessee, in which the shooter reportedly cited Fuentes and Candace Owens as influences behind antisemitic beliefs, using the case to argue that online extremism translates into real-world violence regardless of whether it's framed as humor. A left-leaning creator using the name Professor Pride argued that Republican outrage over Kirk's killing was disproportionate to the broader scale of American gun violence, while explicitly condemning political violence from any direction. Will Sommer separately reported on an emerging rift within conservative media itself, describing Candace Owens's sustained conspiracy-theory campaign as a genuine and growing source of division among Kirk's own allies.