Almost three months after Charlie Kirk was shot to death, the late American conservative political figure appears to have found himself on the annals of the internet, thanks to deepfakes and photoshops and a viral song that can be described as an ‘AI slop’ at best.
Indeed, photoshopped and deepfakes of Kirk’s face is being slapped on to any random person, have flooded the internet. People have started calling it the ‘Kirkification’ of the internet.
According to KnowYourMeme, the first instance of ‘kirkification’ appeared on Sept. 23, when popular streamer and YouTuber iShowSpeed’s face was replaced by Kirk’s facial cutout.