For days, speculation swirled about what the engravings on Tyler Robinson’s bullet casings meant. Both sides of the political divide drew their own conclusions — however self-interested — from cryptic memes outside mainstream American culture.
On Tuesday, the answer was seemingly revealed, this time directly from the shooter himself: Some of the messages meant nothing.
In a style typical of today’s very online internet culture, some of Mr. Robinson’s coded messages were apparently not meant to signal his political intention, but were inside jokes meant for himself and his roommate.
“Remember how I was engraving bullets,” Mr. Robinson texted his roommate. The engravings, he said, “were mostly a big meme, if I see ‘notices bulge uwu’ on fox new I might have a stroke.”
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