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About

FBI Grooming Terrorists refers to a series of memes and parody posts that postulate the conspiracy theory that the FBI directly grooms potential terrorists or extremists and convinces them to commit domestic terrorism such as bombings and mass shootings. The memes are similar to glowposting and fedposting but often take a different, more direct tone with calling out the agency as responsible for alleged terrorist acts.

Origin

As early as the mid-2010s, reports of FBI agents allegedly grooming or encouraging terrorists began to receive press coverage, such as an article from The Intercept[6] on March 16th, 2015. On November 29th, 2017, CNN reporter Lisa Rose[1] then published an article telling the story of a man named Khalil Abu Rayyan, who at the age of 21 was approached online by two different women, with the second one reportedly pressuring him into talking about and committing a shooting attack in Detroit.

This news story and others like it would later become the real-world foundation for memes depicting FBI agents trying to catfish men online and convince them to act out. For example, on March 4th, 2021, X user @SerotoninIsaac[2] purportedly used a Facemorph to appear female and posted it to their X account, which was quickly called out by another X user as being a fedpost with intent to entrap people (shown below, left and right).

GUN G1RL (shadowbanned temp... @Serotoninlsaac hey guys! i'm new here :) 4:40 AM 04 Mar 21 Twitter Web App . . ⠀
Dr. Khalid PhD (New Acco.... Mar 4 Nice Photoshop FBI, but the noise levels on the forehead are not consistent with the noise levels on the skin of the arm (both of which are of the same smoothness). A warning to everyone else FBI agents on social media are real and they do try to entrap you to meet their quota. twitter.com/SerotoninIsaac...

Spread

Memes and references to federal agents posing as females online continued to be made, with their volume typically increasing after shooting tragedies occurred, particularly those embroiled in conspiracy theories. On July 6th, 2022, Memedroid user Trollmahn[3] uploaded a variation of the For The Better, Right? meme using the phrase "known to the FBI," which was said in reference to the Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz (shown below).

FBI Yeah, the shooter was already known to us Because your data collection helps you stop criminals, right? Because your data collection helps you stop criminals, right?

Memes referencing the story and acting from the POV of someone who was groomed by the FBI began to rise in early 2023.[5] For example, on January 6th, 2023, iFunny user @CoveySurplus[4] uploaded a Hold On, This Whole Operation Was Your Idea meme to the site, stating that the idea to shoot up a middle school with machine guns was planned out by the FBI officer pretending to be his friend (shown below).

when your new buddy gives you 3 machine guns, brings you to a middle school and suddenly has a FBI badge ULLLA Hold on. This whole operation was your idea. ifunny.co

Various Examples

@realnikohouse #fyp #foryoupage #rp #repost #tik #tok #viral #viralpost #viraltiktok #like #share #follow #politics #breakingnews #breaking #viralvideos #viralsounds #fbi #democrats #republicans #biden #trump #maga ♬ original sound – Niko House

@countrygirl7723 #greenscreenvideo #stay #safe #evening #vibes#2022 #hot #spring #random #food #4 #thoughts ♬ Thunderstruck – AC/DC
@fullright

♬ original sound – Jiro Dono

@rox_hughes Truth be told #conspiracy #facts #questionauthority #goodvsevil #fyp #Godwins ♬ original sound – rox_13✝️❤️‍🔥

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External References

[1] CNN – Lisa Rose

[2] X – SerotoninIsaacReUpload

[3] Memedroid – Trollmahn

[4] iFunny – CoveySurplus

[5] The Intercept – THE FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old with 'Brain Development Issues' to Become a Terrorist

[6] The Intercept – How the FBI Created a Terrorist

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About

FBI Grooming Terrorists refers to a series of memes and parody posts that postulate the conspiracy theory that the FBI directly grooms potential terrorists or extremists and convinces them to commit domestic terrorism such as bombings and mass shootings. The memes are similar to glowposting and fedposting but often take a different, more direct tone with calling out the agency as responsible for alleged terrorist acts.

Origin

As early as the mid-2010s, reports of FBI agents allegedly grooming or encouraging terrorists began to receive press coverage, such as an article from The Intercept[6] on March 16th, 2015. On November 29th, 2017, CNN reporter Lisa Rose[1] then published an article telling the story of a man named Khalil Abu Rayyan, who at the age of 21 was approached online by two different women, with the second one reportedly pressuring him into talking about and committing a shooting attack in Detroit.

This news story and others like it would later become the real-world foundation for memes depicting FBI agents trying to catfish men online and convince them to act out. For example, on March 4th, 2021, X user @SerotoninIsaac[2] purportedly used a Facemorph to appear female and posted it to their X account, which was quickly called out by another X user as being a fedpost with intent to entrap people (shown below, left and right).


GUN G1RL (shadowbanned temp... @Serotoninlsaac hey guys! i'm new here :) 4:40 AM 04 Mar 21 Twitter Web App . . ⠀ Dr. Khalid PhD (New Acco.... Mar 4 Nice Photoshop FBI, but the noise levels on the forehead are not consistent with the noise levels on the skin of the arm (both of which are of the same smoothness). A warning to everyone else FBI agents on social media are real and they do try to entrap you to meet their quota. twitter.com/SerotoninIsaac...

Spread

Memes and references to federal agents posing as females online continued to be made, with their volume typically increasing after shooting tragedies occurred, particularly those embroiled in conspiracy theories. On July 6th, 2022, Memedroid user Trollmahn[3] uploaded a variation of the For The Better, Right? meme using the phrase "known to the FBI," which was said in reference to the Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz (shown below).


FBI Yeah, the shooter was already known to us Because your data collection helps you stop criminals, right? Because your data collection helps you stop criminals, right?

Memes referencing the story and acting from the POV of someone who was groomed by the FBI began to rise in early 2023.[5] For example, on January 6th, 2023, iFunny user @CoveySurplus[4] uploaded a Hold On, This Whole Operation Was Your Idea meme to the site, stating that the idea to shoot up a middle school with machine guns was planned out by the FBI officer pretending to be his friend (shown below).


when your new buddy gives you 3 machine guns, brings you to a middle school and suddenly has a FBI badge ULLLA Hold on. This whole operation was your idea. ifunny.co

Various Examples

@realnikohouse #fyp #foryoupage #rp #repost #tik #tok #viral #viralpost #viraltiktok #like #share #follow #politics #breakingnews #breaking #viralvideos #viralsounds #fbi #democrats #republicans #biden #trump #maga ♬ original sound – Niko House

@countrygirl7723 #greenscreenvideo #stay #safe #evening #vibes#2022 #hot #spring #random #food #4 #thoughts ♬ Thunderstruck – AC/DC
@fullright

♬ original sound – Jiro Dono

@rox_hughes Truth be told #conspiracy #facts #questionauthority #goodvsevil #fyp #Godwins ♬ original sound – rox_13✝️❤️‍🔥

Search Interest

External References

[1] CNN – Lisa Rose

[2] X – SerotoninIsaacReUpload

[3] Memedroid – Trollmahn

[4] iFunny – CoveySurplus

[5] The Intercept – THE FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old with 'Brain Development Issues' to Become a Terrorist

[6] The Intercept – How the FBI Created a Terrorist

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Chris the Lovable Jerk
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The conspiracy theory that the government was behind terrorist attacks/spree shooters is actually much older than you'd think. I'm certain most of you are aware that the Men in Black movies are based on comics right? Well, the comics, which only lasted six issues in the early 90's, are vastly different from the movies and only two of them deal with aliens.

The fifth issue is about a human headed bird monster that kills a kid for getting too close the abandoned house it lived in, when Jay and Kay are sent to investigate they come across another kid who dared the dead kid witness who dared the victim to go up to the house, being beaten by his dad for causing such trouble. After interviewing the boy, Jay and Kay do the neuralyzer thing, with Jay brainwashing the dad never hurt his son again…while Kay brainwashes the kid to shoot up a place on his 18th Birthday, with Jay never knowing what his partner is up to.

The comic has a more cynical depiction of the MiB, showing them as a somewhat sinister organization who don't really have the world's best interests at heart and that's one of the bigger moments that shows the reader that. The comic references a lot of old conspiracy theories, so the whole 'government is behind shooters' conspiracy must be an old one to be included in it.

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It's not entirely conspiracy theory either though. The leaked documents in the intercept article above do show a case where the FBI basically entrapped a paranoid schizophrenic guy who was an extremist but had no way of actually organising a bomb plot into becoming a "terrorist". The guy wanted to kill people but had no real knowledge of how to get explosives on the black market, how much they would cost, no money to even buy them, or no concept of how to plan his bombing campaign, so they had to help guide him through that to create a more convincing case on him for a jury.

I think it wanders into more conpsiracy theory territory when it starts to become "the FBI actually caused attack X". In reality for stories like that, they set a guy up as a terrorist so they can arrest him and look like they're doing a great job, and informants are willing to go along with this because they get paid well for it.

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