"As character creators get better, people are making nearly 1:1 recreations of celebrities , characters from other games, and digital versions of themselves . That is normally all well and good, but now players have started recreating Charlie Kirk, the right-wing commentator who was assassinated at Utah Valley University earlier this month, and they're using the basketball game's tattoo options to add, well, another detail to the recreation."
"If you didn't know, Kirk was fatally shot in the neck when he was assassinated, and footage of the moment has been circulating on social media since the day it happened. A lot of the online jokes regarding the event reference anything from the bullet's placement to the irony of his final words being about gun violence. AI mockups of gunpla models depicting Kirk at the moment the bullet struck him spread online, prompting Bandai Namco to condemn them ."
Advanced video game character creators enable near-identical recreations of real people, celebrities, and game characters. Players have recreated Charlie Kirk, the right-wing commentator assassinated at Utah Valley University, using a basketball game's tattoo options to add red neck tattoos resembling blood drips. Footage of Kirk's fatal neck shooting has circulated widely, and AI mockups of the moment spread online, prompting Bandai Namco condemnation. Some players upload tutorials to recreate Kirk's likeness. Some recreations express support while others mock. The incident rekindled debunked claims about video games causing real-world violence and provoked public commentary.
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