Turning Point USA found Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left-wing zealot over his political beliefs. And in the nearly 9 months since that horrific act of violence the left has repeatedly said his death was justified, he should not be honored, and they make fun of the way his wife grieves. Not to mention the ridiculous theories they’ve made up about her since his death. It’s disgusting–all of it. And now, leftists on TikTok have decided to take things one step further. They are using the audio from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and turning it into a viral outfit-change trend.
Let’s walk through exactly what’s happening here, because the details matter. TikTok creators — and we’re using that word very loosely — are grabbing audio clips of Kirk being shot (the gun shot sound and resulting crowd reactions) and layering them over those little fashion transition videos where they spin around and change outfits. The sound of genuine political violence has become a beat drop. A man’s death is the soundtrack to some 17-year-old’s prom photos transition.
Turning Point USA put out a statement calling the trend “grotesque and dehumanizing,” which is honestly being generous. They urged TikTok to pull the audio immediately. “Charlie Kirk was the victim of a real act of political violence,” the organization said. “Turning that into viral content is grotesque and dehumanizing. This has no place on TikTok. Or anywhere.”
And TikTok’s response? Crickets. Not a word. Not a content moderation flag. Not a single removed video. The audio is still up and still trending.
Now here’s where we all need to pause and ask the most obvious question in the world: what would happen if this were reversed?
Imagine — just for thirty seconds — that someone had assassinated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Nobody wishes that on anyone, for the record.) Now imagine conservatives took the audio from that attack and turned it into a TikTok dance trend. What do you think would happen?
We all know exactly what would happen. TikTok would have nuked every single video within the hour. CNN would run a three-day panel. The FBI would open an investigation into the “trend” itself. Nancy Pelosi would give a tearful press conference. And every Republican in Congress would be asked to personally condemn the videos before being allowed to discuss literally any other topic.
But it’s Charlie Kirk? A conservative? Eh. Let it ride. Let it trend. Algorithm says it’s performing well — wouldn’t want to mess with the engagement metrics!
Riley Gaines — who knows a thing or two about being targeted by the tolerant Left — called it exactly what it is. “These people are devoid of decency and humanity,” she said. Reverend Jordan Wells put it even more bluntly: “A man’s final moments… turned into content for likes. Our culture is completely broken.”
He’s not wrong. But the culture didn’t break itself. It was broken by platforms that selectively enforce their own rules based on who the victim is. TikTok has banned users for misgendering. They’ve shadow-banned creators for questioning COVID narratives. They’ll memory-hole your account for saying there are two genders. But an assassination attempt on a conservative figure? That’s entertainment, baby. That’s content.
This is the same platform, by the way, that Congress spent two years trying to ban over national security concerns. The same app that hoovered up American user data and shipped it to servers that definitely, absolutely, pinky-promise had no connection the Chinese Communist Party. And they can’t even muster the basic human decency to pull audio of a father getting murdered.
We’ve been saying for years that Big Tech has a double standard on political violence. They don’t just have a double standard — they have NO standard, as long as the target has an (R) next to their name. Remember when Trump got shot at a rally and half of Twitter was cracking jokes before the Secret Service even had him off the stage? Remember how long those posts stayed up?
The pattern is always the same. Violence against conservatives gets treated as comedy. Violence against liberals gets treated as a national emergency. And the platforms — the ones who control what billions of people see every single day — just let it happen. They’re not neutral. They never were. They’re curators, and they’ve chosen a side.
TPUSA asked TikTok to remove the audio. That was two days ago. Still up. Still trending. Still racking up millions of views while some kid does a cute little spin to the sound of political violence.
If TikTok won’t police its own platform when the last moments of a man’s life gets turned into a dance trend, then every single member of Congress who voted to keep this app alive in America needs to explain why. Because right now, the message from TikTok is crystal clear: conservative lives aren’t just expendable — they’re entertaining.
