Reposted by Aidan WalkerJames Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Kirkification saved America from a civil war.” It’s a bold claim/hook, but in remembering those days after Charlie Kirk’s death, I can’t really argue against it. 3103
Reposted by Aidan WalkerEnchantedHickie @enchantedhickie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#meme #digital #AI thanks @aidanwalker.bsky.social howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/cuck-skibi...howtodothingswithmemes.substack.comCuck Skibidi: a theory of autonomous warfareBack in May, I proposed “cuck internet theory” kind of as a joke and ended up having to take it seriously when the idea made its way into The Atlantic under the pen of Charlie Warzel. In his great pie... 021
Reposted by Aidan WalkerMarcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"The media class continued to read X like a thermometer offering data about the climate of opinion when it was actually a probe taking the rectal temperature of the internet’s loneliest men." @aidanwalker.bsky.social 💯 howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/shift-slop...howtodothingswithmemes.substack.comshift, slop, chud: operating a vibeVincent Bevins recently wrote a great essay re-evaluating the effects of the Musk reign over the platform formerly known as Twitter. 6584103
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026when they call me unc on tiktok in the comments section 0120
Reposted by Aidan WalkerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026People on here will post anything. "Rahm Emanuel is a plausible nominee for president." No he isn’t. That isn’t true. 1533757300
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026upping my YouTube thumbnail game and cashing in on the Clavicular viral cycle during its last gasps www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtB...youtube.comThe Ideology of ContentmaxxingYouTube video by Aidan Walker 0101
Reposted by Aidan WalkerCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026One point @aidanwalker.bsky.social made about why we ought to take the some of the dumbest shit ever seriously is because of the way that the right wing has fully surrendered itself to extremely online brain rot as part of its political project. prime example right here: 1314620
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026probably my favorite podcast appearance i’ve ever done on my least favorite topic i’ve ever researched 1426
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 05/02/2026it goes without saying the kamala hq rebrand is hollow, hopeless, and a likely flop from an internet culture perspective 1142
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026when will we as a society progress past the need for a yuval noah harari 1162
Reposted by Aidan WalkerNathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026really good piece by @aidanwalker.bsky.social on the "nihilism by default" embodied by influencers like clavicular and nick fuentes and consumed by younger zoomers who've never known anything other than an online, politically fucked world howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/clavicular... 05516
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026you can totally force him to back down. he’s a coward. for the past year, everyone’s been throwing their hands up going “there’s nothing we can do.” well, now we know you can support street protests, mutual aid networks, and direct pressure. fuck the midterms. this matters more. 0111
Reposted by Aidan WalkerJustin Maxwell @303.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I seriously hope some fbi investigating chats have an “are we the baddies?” moment Yeah guys guess what Entire tv/film genres exist about the elite craft and secrecy. People aspired to be part of the organization. Now you’re a Temu KGB Investigate internally and show up please 161
Reposted by Aidan WalkerMarcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 25/01/2026By @aidanwalker.bsky.social via @mattmuir.bsky.social . Doing the rounds, probably mostly among people who, like me, now cherish the lost innocence of a halcyon time before I knew his name. Also, JFC, he hits himself in the face with a hammer. /subtext is for cowards.gif etc.howtodothingswithmemes.substack.comClavicular and contentmaxxingthe next step after groyperfication 032
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I pray that what happened today does not become the new normal, but as it stands there’s nothing but the people who can keep that from happening 0130
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 10/12/2025My new pamphlet “ON SKIBIDI: Cyborg Violence, Brainrot, and the Phenomenology of Digital Witness” coming to a handheld screen near you. Link in bio to the metalabel place where u can get pdf for $2.67 0100
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025american canto is like joan didion but if she were kinda dumb 010
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 04/11/2025was this how y'all felt about obama? like for real... the feeling that we're in the story, rather than at its end or epilogue. people who look like me and friends I love fist-bumping, hugging, walking proud in the streets, all kinds. got me libbed out heavy x.com/ZohranKMamda...x.com 170
Reposted by Aidan WalkerAndy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Watch the full video with @aidanwalker.bsky.social in THE BACK ROOM. We talk Bill Maher, memes and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnT0...youtube.comAidan Walker on Bill Maher, Memes and More!YouTube video by The Back Room with Andy Ostroy 0104
Reposted by Aidan WalkerAndy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Did you catch his epic appearance recently on Real Time with Bill Maher? Writer, creator and internet culture researcher @aidanwalker.bsky.social's in THE BACK ROOM talking memes, Maher and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... 081
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025i am going to write a letter to the editor of Harper’s magazine about Gooning 080
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025last winter: eye of rah, bought a property in egypt, chopped chin this summer; eeffoc, adrian, barbershop haircut, etc. now: burger in vegas. i hazard the prediction that we’ll see new standard collage elements emerge to go with that burger clip, seems to be how these edit trends work 050
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025the last time i wrote about gooning — spring of 2024. On a rainy afternoon in richmond, VA visiting a friend. Was on a deadline to get an explainer for the term “gooncave” posted to know your meme dot com by 5:30 pm. remember eating chicken tikka masala later that night. core memory. 080
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025have consulted the group chat and it looks like i gotta write something about gooning because print media has gotten a piece of story very well, but the depths still demand to be plumbed 040
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025one cause of the bothsidesism we still see, even today, is the left isn’t really foreign to the center like the right is. when they get mild opposition from the left it hurts more because it’s in a language they understand, from the kind of people they respect, so it leaves a deeper impression 060
Reposted by Aidan WalkerMichael Smerconish @smerconish.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Episode 5 of The Mingle Projects starts RIGHT NOW, streaming live on the Michael Smerconish YouTube Channel with Special Guest @aidanwalker.bsky.social . Tune in to watch 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtLL3e7AHkyoutube.comAre the Kids Alright? Aidan Walker joins The Mingle Project with Michael Smerconish (Ep 5)Vote on Today's Poll: https://www.smerconish.com/daily-poll/ Subscribe to The Smerconish.com Daily Newsletter: https://loom.ly/8oqcf-0 332
Reposted by Aidan WalkerMichael Smerconish @smerconish.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Watch the Trailer for The Mingle Project Episode 5: "Are The Kids Alright?" with special guest @aidanwalker.bsky.social Full episode streams Thursday Oct 23 at 8 PM ET, exclusively on the Michael Smerconish YouTube channel. Subscribe ➡️ loom.ly/QzHOoAg 0114
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 10/10/2025the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world 161981438
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2025nothing like looking at moving water while one is melancholy. this is what it’s all about, a good feeling 1260
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Phrenology reply guy on twitter looked at my head shape when i was on bill maher and really went “physiognomy check failed, not listening to a word he’ll say” internet is a great place 2110
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025it is all about the simple joys: herringbone sidewalks paved with brick, the smell of wood fire, the precisely-chosen typeface on an esoteric shitpost 030
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2025memory is a contest -- rambles about the difficulty of internet archival work and the deficiency of progress narratives to explain history open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...open.substack.commemory is a contestwhy memes matter, especially now 090
Reposted by Aidan WalkerChris Egusa @goosenaut.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social 0154
Reposted by Aidan Walkermorgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 17/09/2025we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent www.kqed.org/news/1205620...kqed.orgGroypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post | KQEDWhat is a “groyper?” The term began trending on Google in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk, the right-wing podcaster and Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot last Wednesday during... 23714
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2025another take on if MrBeast is devil open.substack.com/pub/howtodot... 062
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2025asking the important questions: open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...open.substack.comis MrBeast the antichrist?the woe of more and more and more and more and more and more and more 050
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025finally, Abundance reviewed in the proper context www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comHow to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor JacksonWhat happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared 000
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025strangely charming to imagine these man-children fumbling about their lives, screenshotting the email draft with 30% battery on the smartphone and posting it to the official department of justice account -- the country being run by sad sack losers pbs.twimg.com/media/G0CltA... 041
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025This is the way I felt after watching a program called “bailing out baddies,” on instagram reels open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...open.substack.comeverywhere is ohiothe spiritual alienation of american weird, part two 050
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Does anybody have a good explanation for why congressional democrats arent on 14th street heckling the occupiers? I’m not angry so as much as just wanting to understand why 230
Reposted by Aidan WalkerAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This TikTok from a researcher on the thesis he wrote about the distracted boyfriend meme is the most succinct explanation of how the internet info ecosystem has changed in the last decade that I’ve maybe ever seen. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BrkPe6/tiktok.comdistracted boyfriend 8th anniversary post #distractedboyfriend #memes #critique TikTok video by Aidan Walker 412632
Reposted by Aidan WalkerBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law 55152102727
Reposted by Aidan WalkerMike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 18/08/2025A sneaky Barred Owl from this morning here in Washington state. #birds #owls #nature 804609392
Reposted by Aidan WalkerWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too 19967281849
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I am beginning to believe, unironically, that Jacques Derrida and deconstruction is the best way to understand AI-generated brainrot open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...open.substack.comItalian Brainrot and AI semioticspart one 1151