A disturbing TikTok trend emerged following Charlie Kirk’s assassination that is having a resurgence.
The videos use a sound effect from the moment of Kirk’s murder and is being used in ‘transition’ videos.
The trend uses a 6-second audio clip from the moment Kirk was assassinated in September 2025, capturing his last words “Counting or not counting gang violence…”), followed by the sound of the fatal gunshot, and immediate background and screams/chaos.
The trend is mostly young women doing fashion/outfit transition, or “GRWM” (Get Ready With Me) content.videos where they start in casual or “boring” clothes and, at the exact moment the gunshot sound plays, they transition to party-style, glamorous, or revealing outfits with the timing making the gunshot the “reveal” beat.
The sound, which has been used in tens of thousands of videos, went viral in the days after the assassination and has had multiple resurgences.
TPUSA shared an example of the distasteful trend and condemned it.
The organization wrote on X, “Turning Point USA condemns in the strongest terms the TikTok audio trend that uses or references the assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, for entertainment.”
“Charlie Kirk was the victim of a real act of political violence. Turning that into viral content is grotesque and dehumanizing. There is nothing harmless, funny, or acceptable about it. It reflects a culture that trivializes violence and reduces real human loss to a punchline.”
“This has no place on TikTok. Or anywhere. This audio needs to be removed.”
Turning Point USA condemns in the strongest terms the TikTok audio trend that uses or references the assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, for entertainment.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
