Charlie Kirk’s murder is a shock to me and prior to that I really have not thought about him for months (he apparently shared a stage with Hassan piker), of course the south Park parody.
I have ran into a few of Kirk’s supporters and apparently his legacy is his family and his apparently endless college debates that get rephrased as “debated an entire generation” and governors.
To me, it seems like Kirk was just a content creator.
If you take podcasts as the zines of yore, their place in culture makes a decent bit of sense.
If zines were delivered directly to all of humanity instantaneously and were an actual money maker financed by mega corporations, sure.