

Luigi bullet casings: clever, poignant in meaning, suggests he is well read and well developed in his ideology
Tyler bullet casings: low effort meme slop, no coherent ideology
It’s actually completely consistent with how the right often acts as a bizarro or distorted mirror reaction to the left. Like he wanted so badly to be the next Luigi, without understanding what exactly made Luigi so important and so popular. Irony shrouding how his social understanding only goes skin deep.
Even if we’re celebrating the poetic demise of Charlie Kirk, none of us out here celebrating Tyler like we did Luigi.
I definitely read that as a denegration, like it’s supposed to be a gotcha: you shouldn’t want to be gay, but now you read this and it’s too late, you’re gay, gottem.
Even if it’s all “in-group” there can still be internalized homophobia and transphobia (I still catch myself with it too), so I wouldn’t consider gay jokes to be automatically okay just because it’s from someone LGBTQ+. The context and audience are extremely important.
Tyler knew his audience was law enforcement, which is traditionally homophobic, so I read it as being a try at edgy ragebait.