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Charlie Kirk Face Swaps, also known as Kirkified Memes or Kirkification, refers to a Photoshop and AI edit trend of face-swapping deceased right-wing political pundit Charlie Kirk's likeness onto different memes and reaction images as an exploitable element. The trend started on Twitter / X with a face swap of Kirk on the IShowSpeed Smiling Trying Not to Laugh clip in late September 2025, following Kirk's death earlier that month. Kirkified Memes spread to TikTok comment sections heading into October 2025, where the term "Kirkification" was coined.

Origin

On September 23rd, 2025, X^[1] user @wapzahra posted a GIF that showed Charlie Kirk's face swapped onto the IShowSpeed Smiling Trying Not to Laugh clip.

@wapzahra's account is private as of writing, making the tweet unviewable, but Instagram^[2] user @jermainestip reposted a recording of it on that same day, showing that it had received over 96,000 likes. Viral quote-tweets of the post are also still viewable on X, like one shared by X^[3] user @flackospalace on September 23rd, which captioned it, "Made a joke about Charlie Kirk at work now I have a Zoom meeting with HR scheduled for 2:30 tomorrow," gaining over 211,000 likes in a month.

Spread

On September 24th, 2025, X^[4] user @flackospalace quote-tweeted his own post, attaching a video that used Viggle AI to rotoscope Charlie Kirk onto the Michael Jordan 'No, No, No' Reaction, gaining over 22,000 likes in a month.

HR manager asked me if I could recall any inappropriate jokes I made at the time of Charlie Kirk’s death https://t.co/cpFjWEO2k3 pic.twitter.com/cGPlUCljhx

— Hasan 👁‍🗨 (@flackospalace) September 24, 2025

Heading into October 2025, the Charlie Kirk Face Swaps spread to TikTok comment sections. The images were compiled in video edit memes during the same timeframe.

For instance, on October 27th, TikToker^[5] @ilovetigbittys shared an edit that transitioned through several Kirkified memes with a top caption reading, "RIP Kirk, your sacrifice meant something." Over four days, the video received roughly 60,700 likes.

Also on October 27th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @ybg.charliekirk shared a video edit meme that used an image of Charlie Kirk's face on the realistic Bart Simpson artwork from the Mason Troy Adams meme, set to the song "50 Shots" by Pooh Shiesty. Over four days, the video received roughly 98,900 likes.

Later on October 27th, TikToker^[9] @2gif4u shared a video caption meme, using a clip from the IShowSpeed Trying Not to Laugh "Reunion Stream," captioned, "When you trying not to laugh at TikTok comments but they all got Kirkified." Over four days, the video gained over 30,600 likes.

On October 30th, 2025, X^[7] user @fltchrr shared a Charlie Kirk Face Swap meme, showing Kirk's face on an image of rapper Fakemink.^[8] The tweet received over 10,000 likes in a day.

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