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Overview

Charlotte Fosgate "It's a Pretty View" Tweet and Suicide refers to the May 2025 purported suicide of 17-year-old Charlotte Fosgate, known as @burntfishie on Twitter / X. On May 2nd, Fosgate tweeted a photo from a bridge at night, captioned, "It's a pretty view." Weeks later, close friends claimed that her body was found near the bridge, before an official statement from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office in Oregon was released. Charlotte Fosgate was notably transgender (male to female) and in the fallout of her tweet and purported suicide, many transphobic X users flooded her "It's a pretty view" tweet with hateful comments and remarks. Notably, webcomic artist StoneToss posted a comic in the tweet's replies, which amassed viral backlash. Overall, numerous people expressed shock at the hateful comments, fueling discourse about some right-wing users lacking empathy and human decency, especially for LGBTQ+ people.

Background

On May 2nd, 2025, X^[1] user Charlotte (@burntfishie) tweeted, "It's a pretty view," captioning a photo taken from a bridge at night. The tweet received over 69.8 million views and over 76,000 likes in three weeks (shown below). She later replied to the tweet^[2] on May 2nd, writing, "Long way down."

On May 4th, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office^[2] in Oregon issued a missing persons report about 17-year-old Charlotte Fosgate of nearby Oak Grove. She was last seen late in the evening on May 1st, 2025. The office released an infographic with the report (shown below).

Also on May 4th, 2025, Redditor PureParticular4569 shared the infographic to the /r/Portland^[4] subreddit, writing, "My friend is missing," receiving over 1,400 upvotes in three weeks.

On May 5th, X^[3] user @yinshon_ quote-tweeted the "It's a pretty view" tweet, drawing a line between the user and the missing Charlotte Fosgate. They wrote, "Please share this around. I hope it's not too late," gaining over 3,600 likes in three weeks (shown below).

On May 23rd, 2025, X^[5] user @MelliBean_ posted a tweet, which received numerous replies related to Charlotte Fosgate. @MelliBean_ then made their account private after posting it.

Although unconfirmed, a screenshot of a @MelliBean_ tweet received reposts on X^[6] after May 23rd, in which @MelliBean_ wrote, "I've been in contact with her mother. If you don't want to believe me right now, that's fine, but I am telling the truth" (shown below).

The abovementioned tweet received a slew of replies, many of which were transphobic and celebrated Fosgate's purported death. For instance, X^[7] user @rapeandpeating replied, "They found a male body, maybe she’s still alive," on May 27th, receiving over 1,300 likes in a day.

In the following days, @MelliBean_'s claim that Fosgate's body was found spread in viral tweets.^[8] As of May 28th, 2025, no official police statement or public obituary has been released.

Online Reactions

The original tweet received transphobic replies starting in late May 2025, such as a reply posted by X^[8] user @LardKing1448 on May 19th, who asked Grok to generate an AI image that added "an overweight generally unattractive man … saying 'long way down.'" The reply received over 3,200 likes in nine days (shown below).

The transphobic replies were credited to "right-wingers" and "conservatives" by others on X,^[15] who shared replies condemning the aforementioned comments as Fosgate's tweet continued to generate discourse.

For instance, on May 25th, 2025, X^[9] user @1066_2002 replied, "All the evil ass replies," attaching an image of people burning in hell screaming, "But I was based!" The reply received over 17,000 likes in three days (shown below).

Backlash against the transphobia continued in the following days. For instance, on May 26th, X^[10] user @ApexNebulae quote-tweeted the original tweet, writing, "[I don't care] if my future kids aren't intelligent, rich, successful etc. But if they're not empathetic and kind then that's when I know I've failed." The post gained over 55,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Developments

StoneToss Comic

On May 26th, 2025, controversial webcomic artist StoneToss shared a reply on X^[11] to Charlotte Fosgate's "It's a pretty view" tweet. The reply attached a comic StoneToss had previously made unrelated to Fosgate, which showed a transgender character about to jump to commit suicide and a cop below shouting, "Men are statistically more likely to follow through with it!" The post received over 29,000 likes in two days (shown below).

StoneToss' reply sparked outrage shortly after, expressed in viral replies and quote-tweets from other X users.

For instance, later on May 26th, X^[12] user @Feeteat25 quoted StoneToss, writing, "Do you believe this is funny? Do you think mocking a child's death is funny? The suicide of a minority is not some joke. Go fuck yourself…" The post gained over 7,400 likes in two days (shown below).

Also on May 26th, 2025, X^[13] user @217Problem quote-tweeted StoneToss, attaching a screenshot of the original StoneToss Doxxing tweet, gaining over 31,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Backlash against StoneToss' reply also surfaced in the /r/Stonetossingjuice^[14] subreddit, when Redditor pandasylverr posted a screenshot of the reply on May 27th, writing, "I need everyone's help to ratio him," gaining over 3,800 upvotes in two days.

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