It Could Happen Here - The Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter Was A "Femcel" Columbine Copycat: Here's What That Means

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

Garrison Davis does a deep dive into the dark online world of America's latest school shooter and unravels why right-wing influencers keep trying to portray her as transgender. https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madison-wisconsin-school-shooter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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TSMadison Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show Angelica Ross and more Make sure you listen to the black fat femme podcast on the Iio app, have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Welcome to What Could Happen Here, a show about things falling apart. I'm Garrison Davis, and this episode is going to be a special audio companion piece to an article published last night on Substack at Shatterzone. That's Robert's usual Substack, though last night I published an article detailing the online history and transvestigation discourse regarding a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin.

The article has pictures and hyperlinks which might help explain some of the stuff I'm talking about, but I'll do my best to relay it here to you on the podcast feed. Another Monday in America and another school shooting. On the morning of December 16th, a female student at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, shot and killed a teacher and fellow student and injured six others before killing herself. Initially, police falsely reported the shooter was 17 years old, but late Monday night, they correctly identified the deceased shooter

as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnau, who went by Samantha or Sam. In the aftermath of this horrific event, right-wing influencers and content creators wasted no time in blaming the shooting on trans people, labeling the suspect as another in a series of alleged transgender terrorists. But what really happened here had nothing to do with trans people and is, sadly, ordinary for the United States. In August of 2024, the father of the future school shooter took his daughter to a gun range to do trap shooting.

Samantha wore a shirt bearing the logo of a band, KMF-DM. In another photo of the shooter, we can see the front of the shirt. The same design was famously worn by Columbine shooter Eric Harris, who is a fan of the band. The bulk of this new shooter's online footprint suggests a general obsession with school shooters and the TCC, or True Crime Community, a nickname used for the de facto international Columbine fandom. This sort of content dominates Samantha's Tumblr, which last posted in May of 2024. An alleged online friend of the shooter said that she quote, posted about school shooters all the time unquote, and quote, had school shooter leanings unquote. Samantha is hardly alone in this. There have been over 100

copycats inspired by the Columbine shooting since 1999. A Twitter account believed to have belonged to the shooter posted a series of videos that teased and glorified school shootings in the days leading up to her own shooting. The account was created in December of 2024, and the profile picture featured a young man in camo pants and a tactical backpack. The male profile picture was used as evidence by some conservative influencers that the shooter must have transitioned, though these same influencers could not agree on whether she was female to male or male to female.

One user constructed an overlay trying to compare the photo of the shooter with her Twitter profile picture. This is a ridiculous diagram with about seven images overlaid at different opacities trying to layer the faces and body shapes of these two people on top of each other. This post is only proof that most of what gets passed off as quote unquote, Ossent online, today is just completely incompetent rambling and propaganda. The main issue with this diagram is that the male profile picture is actually another Columbine copycat, a school shooter from Russia who, similar to Samantha, was only 15 years old

when he carried out his shooting. Hours after the shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, while right-wing accounts were still arguing about what sort of transgender the shooter had been, a neo-Nazi Twitter account named Nitro claimed to be friends with the shooter on Discord and repeatedly denied accusations that the shooter was transgender, calling her a quote-unquote biological woman. An early complicating factor in establishing the motive and identity of the shooter is that her alleged Twitter account posted a link to a Google Doc of her manifesto, but seemingly forgot to make the visibility setting public. So you couldn't access the

Google Doc, you had to put in an email for approval, and the person who was supposed to approve your email was now dead. So there was no way to actually look at this person's manifesto. The shooter's alleged Discord friend, Nitro, claims to find what he believes to be a snippet of a manifesto draft shared by the shooter in a Discord group chat. Nitro is based out of the UK, and so if this is legitimate, and that is a big if, this message would have been sent about an hour and a half before the shooting per the Discord timestamp.

I'm going to read a bit of this alleged writing from the shooter. Quote, women are the only hope for this wretched world, but even women have been brainwashed by moids for too long. They've internalized the patriarchy and turned on each other, always begging for male approval and validation. It's disgusting. I realize the truth. Men are irredeemable. Radfem Hitler was, is fucking vindicated now. They can't be reformed or redeemed. They are a fucking scourge upon the earth. The only solution is to total exterminate them. And every foy who worships these fucking parasites. Every single male must be wiped out, from babies to the elderly. Only then can women

be free to create a new world. I'll be the pioneer. I'll be the first one to take the first step. I don't care if they're fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, teachers, police, and especially N-words or politicians. I've been craving to kill them all. This is my mission. Only when their parasitic sludge has been expunged from the earth is when then the world will be clean

and women can start over. It's the only way. In approximately 10 minutes, I should be dead. It's the only way. In approximately 10 minutes, I should be dead. It's strange, but it feels good." Hopefully to most people, this should read like unintelligible gibberish, a reactionary, quote unquote, feminist screed about initiating a wave of male targeted violence to cleanse the, with pepperings of moids and foids — which is internet incel slang for male and female respectively — also included our racial slurs, and something called quote-unquote radfem Hitler.

That last part is a reference to a Twitter influencer by the same name and the handle Hollow Earth Turf, whose content is a mix of trad-influenced right-wing feminism with anti-trans flourishes, advocating for a mass purge of moids. This includes trans women. This account is derided by those both on the right and left, but has a small dedicated following of conservative radfem and anti-trans women with trad or often occult interests. The Discord Nazi Nitro claimed that the shooter was quote-unquote a fan of radfem Hitler and talked about the account frequently on Discord, though Nitro previously believed her interest in the account was merely ironic.

Now obviously an anonymous Twitter Nazi is certainly not the most reliable source, but Nitro was the first person to correctly identify and post photos of the shooter, though they could be utilizing this newfound clout to troll a widely disliked Twitter user. But the fact that he's been right about all other details inclines me to not discount his claims altogether, but instead just hold them with a billion pounds of salt. Allegations that the shooter was a neo-Nazi radfem certainly sent radfem Hitler into a panic who quickly deleted her account.

Meanwhile, some of her online associates worked damage control, claiming to have contacted the alleged boyfriend that the shooter had been quote unquote, e-dating, with the apparent intention of disproving any ties the shooter had to the Twitter radfem orbit. Through this alleged online boyfriend, the right-wing turf ecosystem

claimed to have acquired a copy of the quote-unquote FULL manifesto. This purported manifesto lacks the anti-male, anti-moid ramblings of the Discord screenshot, but unsurprisingly shares its use of racial slurs and glorification of violence, at times evocative of Pekka Erikska Erik Avinen's manifesto, a Finnish school shooter from 2007 who killed eight people. Avinen considered himself a quote-unquote natural selector, who had evolved beyond the classmates he gunned down.

In Samantha's purported manifesto, he is mentioned by name as a quote-unquote true inspiration. Over the course of eight hours, a radfem Twitter account released six pages of what they claimed to be Samantha's writing. It contains general misanthropic rambling about humanity and parents being quote-unquote scum. The writing describes a difficult family life, suicidal thoughts, and admiration for school shooters and white supremacists.

Though it briefly references the accelerationist terror gram saints, the whole of this piece of writing is much more reminiscent of old school columnbiners than the modern white nationalist terror milieu. The alleged manifesto directly names the two Columbine shooters and includes a paragraph on Vladyshkov Roslyakov, another Columbine copycat but from Crimea, who also cosplayed as one of the Columbine shooters during his own mass shooting. Though the Discord Nazi and the reactionary Radfems questioned the authenticity of the other's alleged manifesto, what both sides

of the incel war do agree on is that Samantha was not transgender. We're going to go in a quick ad break and come back to discuss Transvestigation and the Trans Terror Panic. We want to speak out, we want to raise awareness, and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a playboy model.

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than I had anticipated. Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in. It's not just me. We're an army in comparison to him. Listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid.

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that's a weird concept but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show. I live with my boyfriend and I found his pizjar in our apartment. I collect my roommates toenails and fingernails. I have very overbearing parents. Even at the age of 29, they won't let me move out of their house. So if you want an excuse to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it. Okay, we are back. It seems these days the fastest way to get transvestigated is to do a school shooting. Transvestigating is the practice of trying to determine if an individual is transgender. It's often levelled against celebrities, athletes, and politicians. But in recent years, there's been a new common subject of transvestigation.

Mass shooters. In particular, school shooters. Myself, Robert Evans, and James Stout previously reported on this trend back in 2023, right as it grew in prominence after the Nashville Covenant School shooting, which police say was committed by a trans man. We theorized that the online right was testing out a new strategy to attack trans people by associating them with mass shootings via the use of selective bias reporting and plain disinformation. That fear has come to pass.

The modicum of believability provided by the Nashville shooting, as it's the only legitimate trans-related incident that meets criteria for mainstream mass shooting databases, was enough to fuel this ongoing strategy for the next two years. Since then, conservative influencers have attempted to link nearly every viral mass-slash-school shooting to trans people to create a false trend. The strategy operates as follows. During the first few chaotic hours after a shooting, a small group of right-wing content creators weaponized the lack of verified information to make posts framing an alleged shooter as being transgender. This can be done through the use of out-of-context social media posts, doctored photographs, photos of other people, or simply pictures of long or dyed hair.

All they need is a collection of loose evidence to affirm on social media that a mass shooter is really transgender. For more context on this, you can listen to an episode of It Could Happen Here I wrote earlier this year, covering the rise of fake trans terrorists. The goal is to get as many of their followers to see and spread these claims as fast as possible. Even if it's widely debunked the next day, many who heard the false claim won't be aware of the verified correction. All these anti-trans influencers need

is a brief window of time to plant the idea into people's minds, and then that becomes remembered history. If this strategy is repeated every few months, whenever there's a new mass shooting, then it's pretty easy to create the false perception of a growing trend. Now, in reality, trans people per capita are actually way less likely to commit a shooting compared to cis people, and are much more likely to be the victim of gun violence. But this past Monday, conservative and anti-trans influencers tried once again to weaponize a tragedy for their own hateful agenda. Monday afternoon, Ian Miles Chung posted, Trans Terrorism Must End. Hours later, Laura Loomer wrote,

The trans movement is really turning out to be a terrorist movement. wrote, quote, the trans movement is really turning out to be a terrorist movement, unquote. Just minutes after police responded to the shooting, the conservative influencer Matt Wallace posted that an unknown, quote unquote, witness said that the shooter, quote, looked to be transgender, unquote. Wallace, who has over 2.2 million followers on Twitter, provided no source or citation and has since deleted this post. But others in the online mega orbit parroted this language before any identifying information

was released. With the user Just Jeff From Cali writing, a trans person targeted an open fire on students at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin, 12th hit." The right-wing content creator Ryan Mata baselessly claimed that the shooter was on hormone replacement therapy, calling the shooter, quote, another mentally unstable psychopath who was prescribed puberty blocker and hormones, unquote. Mata hosts a show on the right-wing YouTube alternative Rumble and has over 123,000 followers on Twitter. His tweet claiming the shooter was on HRT racked up 1.6 million quote-unquote views

and 17,000 likes in just 12 hours. Larger accounts like Chaya Rychek's libs of TikTok fueled undue speculation about the gender identity of the shooter, seeding confusion into the growing discourse and weaponizing a tragedy for political gain. Quoting the police chief saying, quote, I don't know if the shooter is male or female, unquote. A small group of conservative influencers have just so successfully created an alternate reality in which nearly every new mass shooter is transgender that they don't even have to outright say it anymore. Accounts like Libs of TikTok and Malaysian blogger Ian Miles Chung

can merely gesture to this reality tunnel they've intentionally created. And now thousands of people will affirm this fake reality as the obvious truth, backed up by historical precedent of fabricated memory. Matt Wallace posted a photo of the shooter and the male profile picture, saying, what do you notice about the shooter again? Ian Miles Chung posted, quote, Police are unable to identify if the school shooter in Madison,

Wisconsin is male or female, but they do know who did it and identified them as a student. Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?" This speculation fueled conspiracy theories which spread claiming that police were intentionally withholding information about the shooter's gender identity in service of some hidden agenda. And actually they were just waiting to let the family know that their daughter was dead and making sure they had the correct identification. Very basic stuff, police always do this. But no, it's all part of some secret agenda and some hidden narrative. As early as 1 p.m. EST on Monday, which is just like an hour after the shooting would have taken place, the neo-nazi Twitter account Nitro correctly identified the shooter as his online friend Sam slash Samantha.

As this name spread online, the multi-gendered nature of the name added to the speculation that the shooter was trans. Scarlett Johnson, an activist with the ultra-conservative parents' rights group Moms for Liberty, shared self-admitted, unconfirmed reports that the shooter was quote-unquote a transgender teen who went by Sam or Samantha. As alleged pictures of the shooter started to spread online, courtesy of Nitro, the transvestigation of the shooter only intensified. An unfortunate coincidence is that the shooter's given name matches the ancient Sam Hyde meme,

in which extremely online people try to trick journalists into believing the culprit of a new mass shooting was the American comedian Sam Hyde. In recent years, the meme has turned into the Samantha Hyde meme, used to falsely label mass shooters as trans women. One Hyde post from an unassuming boomer named Ed Massey raked up over 600,000 views, 4.5,000 likes, and 1.5,000 retweets. Massey posted, quote, when you put disturbed children on hormone blockers and sexually mutilate them, you're not curing them, you're creating potential school shooters." Now, it should go without saying, but the

use of puberty-suppressing medication has no link to increased violence. We're going to go on one last break and return to conclude our discussion of transvestigating school shooters. We want to speak out, we want to raise awareness, and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a playboy, my doll.

Lingerie, topless. I said yes, please. Because at the center of this murky world is an alleged predator. You know who he is because of his pattern of behavior? He's just spinning the web for you to get trapped in it. He's everywhere, and has been everywhere. It's so much worse and so much more widespread than I had anticipated.

Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in. It's not just me. We're an army in comparison to him. Listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid.

Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF. And me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex and love. That's right. every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity,

we share our personal journeys navigating our 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engage in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that'll resonate with your experiences, bottom relationships, and engage in thought provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that'll resonate with your experiences, Decisions Decisions is going to be your go-to source for the open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world.

Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections. Tune in and join in the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, I'm Danny Trejo.

Would you join me at the fire and dare enter, Nocturnal, Tales from the Shadows, presented by iHeart and Sonora. An anthology of modern-day horror stories inspired by the legends of Latin America. From ghastly encounters with shapeshifters to bone-chilling brushes with supernatural creatures. I know you.

Take a trip and experience the horrors that have haunted Latin America since the beginning of time. Listen to Nocturna, Tales from the Shadows, as part of my cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan, or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast.

A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angelica Ross, and more. Make sure you listen to the BlackFatFilm Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Alpha Podcast, or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Oh, I know that's right. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly.

I am talking to a felon right now and I cannot decide if I like him or not. Those were some callers from my call in podcast, Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives.

I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact, here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show. I live with my boyfriend and I found his piss jar in our apartment. I collect my roommates' toenails and fingernails. I have very overbearing parents.

Even at the age of 29, they won't let me move out of their house. So if you want an excuse to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it. Okay, we are back.

Time to talk about the potential double flipper. So as this transvestigation continued, the quote-unquote, we can always tell crowd, ended up transvestigating in both directions, seemingly unsure of what assigned gender at birth the shooter must have had. Some believed the shooter was trans-fan, while others concluded they were trans-mask. With one reply to an end-wokeness tweet reading, quote, those do not look like female hands. And another transvestigation post saying, the shooter is a trans kid, a female,

pretending to be a male. Exactly why we keep our second amendment rights to protect our children from this mental health crisis. Zoom in close on her shirt and hand gesture, unquote. A now deleted post from a turf account also attempted to pass off the shooter as a trans girl, saying, quote, the Wisconsin school shooter was a 17-year-old trans-identified male. It just keeps happening. Now, quote, unquote, trans-identified male was usually a transphobic dog whistle to refer

to a trans woman, as in a male who identifies as a trans woman. But sometimes transphobes get confused by words and use the phrase to refer to trans people who quote unquote identify as men, like this other trans investigation post saying, quote, shooter was a 17 year old trans but identified male. Now, one of the most widespread posts claiming the shooter was a trans guy came from an anti-semitic doctor in Denmark with 1.4 million followers. She falsely claimed with no evidence that the shooter was taking testosterone writing quote the Wisconsin school shooter has been

identified as a 17 year old trans identified male another mentally ill girl on testosterone." As of Tuesday morning, this post has over 3 million views, 22,000 likes, and 8.3 thousand retweets. In a following post, this doctor blamed quote-unquote, the Jews for inventing transgenderism. As a note, extremism researchers have argued that transphobia is structurally similar to antisemitism. Now a common piece of anti-transmimetic propaganda deployed in the wake of mass shootings is the Trans-Shooter Collage.

This format spread after the Nashville school shooting in 2023, and this week Matt Wallace provided us with a brand new version. This post is an ugly mishmash of one two three four five six seven people's faces with a variety of backgrounds, a purposeless red circle in the middle of the image, and text that reads quote, almost every child killed in a mass shooting in the last few years was killed by a transgender shooter. Now out of all those pictures in this collage, only one person in this collage has actually reported to be transgender, the Nashville shooter in the upper left. The rest of the people pictured are not trans and have never claimed to be trans.

The person with long hair in the lower half of the image is Colt Gray, who is falsely labeled as trans by far-right influencers like N. Dwokanis and Mike Cernovich. Colt Gray's Discord posts reveal he actually held transphobic beliefs. A more classic version of the trans shooter collage format is just five pictures with text next to each of them reading, the ex-shooter identified as trans, the ex-shooter identified as trans, right ex-shooter identified as trans, right? Just a big list of five of these names saying that they all identified as trans. The version I'm using here is courtesy of Libs of TikTok admin Chaya Rychek,

who posted this earlier this year. But just as before, the majority of the subjects in this meme aren't actually trans, and it's just full of disinformation. The Colorado Springs shooter who targeted a queer club is not actually non-binary, and simply tried to weaponize a false identity to get out of hate crime charges. The person labeled as the Denver shooter is not trans, has never claimed to be trans, he just has dyed hair. This individual pictured did plan the shooting with a transgender male who is not pictured. Now lastly, though the person pictured as the Yuvaldi shooter is trans, this is not the actual Yuvaldi shooter. It's a random trans girl

who was one of two trans women whose photos were used to falsely label the shooter as transgender. The other two people in this image is the Nashville shooter who does appear to be trans, and the perpetrator of the Aberdeen workplace shooting. But back to Madison, Wisconsin. So after all of that transvestigating, what do we have? Just another column binder with neo-Nazi ties. The right has gotten so good at deploying the trans-shooter as a smoke bomb.

It obscures the reality of the over-availability of firearms, the dynamics of online radicalization, and the social issues that fuel alienation and anger in youth. Instead of focusing on all that, on the victims of this epidemic of white supremacist violence, we instead have to spend a whole day debunking the late shooter's pronouns. And that's the point, that's what they want us talking about. Those who delete their quote unquote trans-terrorist posts after being conclusively proven wrong will try the exact same shtick in a few months after the next mass shooting goes viral. Others won't even care that much, they'll just leave up their post, secure in the stability of the reality tunnel they helped to create.

I'm going to close with a quote from Sartre. Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge, but they are amusing themselves. For it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. This post has been deleted. It Could Happen Here is a production of Cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media, visit our website, coolzonedmedia.com, or check

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