Has been created in dark online worlds they have inhabited for tens of thousands of hours. Gaming, imagining themselves demons and listening to slander and false witness.

"In addition to their shared fixation with transgenderism, [the guys who shot the praying children and presumably Charlie Kirk] immersed themselves in peculiar digital subcultures. These online spaces were not hubs of Marxism—or even transgenderism, strictly speaking—but of memes, attitudes, copycatting, in-jokes, and irony that, in certain cases, spilled over into violence. Both men allegedly acted out their fantasies not to advance a coherent ideology shaped by study or political organizing but to gratify an obscure personal urge."

Christopher F. Rufo