Source: Quillette
by Claire Lehmann
“Whether Robinson’s online milieu tilted left may end up being beside the point. What matters is the profile: a socially adrift 22-year-old dropout searching for meaning online. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the task is not to pin a tidy ideology on the act, but to confront the scourge of online brainrot. … As video game critic Superjoost notes about Roblox — one of the world’s most popular online game platforms — the most powerful communities don’t aim for mass appeal; they cultivate experiences that ‘deliberately exclude outsiders,’ producing worlds that look ‘frenetic, chaotic, and nonsensical to anyone who’s not in on it.’ According to this critic, the chaos is the point.” (09/13/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/13/brainrot-not-ideology-charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-discord-memes/