This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube commentary video titled "Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Backfired on a Business" (published 2025-09-15). A single speaker (transcribed as SPEAKER A) describes an incident in which a woman posted a video celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death, which led internet users to locate her husband’s business and flood it with 1-star Yelp reviews. The speaker discusses online backlash, doxxing on platforms like X, Threads, and Bluesky, broader U.S. political polarization, and warns against celebrating deaths or engaging in such posts.
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how celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination actually destroyed a business. And so what happened here was, if you can see, there's this woman here that's basically mocking his passing, right? And she's laughing. Yeah, she's, she's mocking it. She's cheering for his death. That's sad. And actually, this person said after this, this woman posted a video celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, thousands of people on the internet found her husband's company and flooded the Yelp reviews with 1-star. It's got so bad that she had to remove the video. So I'm just saying that there's a lot of these situations where people are celebrating his death right now. And the problem is on X, which is more right-leaning, they're doxxing all these people, right? So you're better off just not posting and not engaging. Or in this case, she got her husband's business in trouble. I actually, for fun yesterday, I decided to engage with one of, um, let's call her an acquaintance on Instagram. She posted something about like not celebrating it, right? Or like basically saying that doesn't support the views and like, oh, all you people that were silent before about how his like he had violent rhetoric are like speaking about his death. And I'm like, those are like Those can exist in the same world. You can actually agree with him and actually, you know, mourn his death, right? And she was just like going off. And so I've noticed if you log on to Threads and you log on to Bluesky, which are more left-leaning, a lot of people on those platforms, and this is— they're celebrating death. Like, if I disagree with you or whatever, you say things I really don't agree with, that's your opinion. But we shouldn't be celebrating anybody's death. And I think the United States at least has become a lot more polarized. But the key point from this one is celebrating anybody's death and getting a lot of views is actually not a good thing. You don't want to be seen doing that.
