Rockstar has pulled a fan-made mission in Grand Theft Auto Online designed to copy the real-life assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Variety studies {that a} user-created degree named “We Are Charlie Kirk” was just lately pulled from the sport, and that Rockstar has now added “Charlie Kirk” to its checklist of banned phrases — which means that gamers will now not see missions labelled along with his title.
It is unclear how rapidly Rockstar acted to take away the mission, although footage of it was uploaded to YouTube that is now over a month outdated. Rockstar added the power for gamers to create and publish their very own in-game missions as a part of the A Safehouse within the Hills replace that launched on December 10 — which means this content material was made inside a day or two of the mode going dwell.
In the present day, IGN has seen that footage of “We Are Charlie Kirk” mission nonetheless exists on YouTube, the place we have now noticed comparable footage of not less than one different fan-made GTA Online Charlie Kirk assassination degree that existed at one level, too.
Each missions characteristic comparable gameplay, the place the participant takes on the function of Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Finishing every mission requires the participant assassinate Kirk at lengthy vary from a close-by rooftop, with the degrees’ layouts acquainted to anybody with information of the killing.
Kirk’s dying in September 2025 despatched shockwaves by way of America, and raised political tensions ever increased. Within the wake of the right-wing political activist’s homicide, chat present host Jimmy Kimmel was briefly suspended by ABC — solely to be introduced again following public stress. The CEOs of on-line platforms similar to Discord, Steam, Twitch and reddit had been additionally referred to as earlier than a U.S. Home committee to testify at listening to on the “radicalization of on-line discussion board customers.”
Rockstar has not but commented on its elimination of Charlie Kirk-related content material from GTA Online, although it seems to have an uphill battle on its arms to take away comparable missions showing in future. A fast examine of the sport’s mission listing exhibits different examples exist, together with “Charlie Kirk assassination” (written in Korean and apparently created by a South Korean participant) that also seems once you search in English for “Kirk.” A translated description of the mission reads: “Kill Charlie Kirk to realize cash and fame.”
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