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Rockstar Video games, the corporate behind in style online game Grand Theft Auto, has reportedly added “Charlie Kirk” to a listing of blocked phrases for user-generated content material within the on-line sport after some gamers created missions recreating Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk, the founding father of Turning Level USA, was shot and killed whereas talking at a campus occasion at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10, 2025.
In December, GTA On-line rolled out a brand new Mission Creator software permitting gamers to design and share their very own missions for others to play.Â
Selection and gaming retailers reported Tuesday that some gamers used the function to create assassination-style missions that seem to recreate Kirk’s homicide.
Charlie Kirk throws hats to the gang after arriving at Utah Valley College on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Pictures)
A viral video cited by gaming outlet Kotaku exhibits one such mission, titled, “We’re Charlie Kirk,” which has since reportedly been taken down.Â
The mission places a participant with a sniper rifle on a rooftop overlooking a university campus setting, much like that of the Utah Valley College setting the place Kirk was shot.Â
The participant’s mission is to shoot a personality named Charlie Kirk, who’s standing underneath a tent in entrance of a crowd of individuals.Â
Rockstar Video games has reportedly responded by including “Charlie Kirk” to its “profanity filter” within the sport’s code.
Charlie Kirk speaks earlier than he’s assassinated throughout Turning Level’s go to to Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah on Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret Information through AP)
In response to Selection, the gaming firm plans to vary the filter’s title to extra appropriately describe content material it doesn’t need customers to deliver into the sport, resembling real-life occasions like Kirk’s assassination.
Kotaku reported that some gamers have tried to get round this filter by utilizing the title “Charlie Pink” or different variations of his title to proceed making these missions referring to his killing.
Rockstar Video games didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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A window show advertises Grand Theft Auto IV on April 28, 2008, in New York Metropolis. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
After Kirk was killed, some figures on the left took to social media to mock or have a good time his homicide, leading to self-discipline or terminations in some instances.
Final week, a Clemson College professor who was fired over a social media submit calling Kirk’s homicide “karma” reached a settlement with the college.Â
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Austin Peay State College additionally reportedly agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a dispute with a professor fired after sharing a headline about Kirk’s views on weapons within the wake of his dying.
