No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore
Adam Bumas
created: Sept. 18, 2025, 8:07 p.m. | updated: Sept. 22, 2025, 11:44 a.m.
In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there’s been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation.
Even commentators presenting themselves as experts on the internet are going down false trails in attempts to connect Robinson to established online movements.
Crucially, this coincided with a wave of support for right-wing extremism online, including the birth of the Groypers, an extreme far-right movement organized in the late 2010s by Nick Fuentes, a longtime rival of Kirk’s.
Since nothing was truly serious, there was nothing stopping hate speech and inflammatory rhetoric.
Based on what we've learned so far, Robinson, who has been charged with aggravated murder, does not appear to have been a supporter of right-wing extremism.
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