09/10/2026
This morning, something happened that blew my mind and made me realize how absolutely WILD it is to be a social media content creator.
Last spring, I connected with another content creator (Hunter Kozak) without realizing who he was. We had a brief conversation in the DMs, and I watched some of his content, but I never connected the dots...
This morning, he posted a video, and that's what woke me up to who he actually is: he is the young man who asked Charlie Kirk his final question. He is the last person to speak to CK before everything changed.
I immediately had one of those "Oh my god" moments, realizing how wild being a social media content creator actually is, and how many interesting people it connects me to... A privilege I don't always realize the full weight of.
Hunter released a video today, on the anniversary of CK's death, chronicling the harassment he has faced from conspiracy theorists in the last year.
Friends, life has a wicked sense of humor... The timing, for me, could not have been more significant.
For the past week, I've been fielding a fresh wave of anonymous posts about me. Most of the people engaging, I've never actually met... I don't know them. And the handful I do know? We're not friends. They don't actually know me. They just think they do.
I'm used to this by now. I can shake it off before my coffee gets cold... And it's nothing compared to what Hunter has faced, I'm sure... but the timing of realizing who he is, and watching his video essay this morning, could not have been more significant for me.
My week of internet nonsense is not his year of navigating something unimaginable. There's no equivalence, and I won't pretend there is.
..But I sat with his video a long time this morning. A regular guy, refusing to be rewritten by strangers who need a story more than they need the truth. And I thought about how the universe has a way of placing people in our path... sometimes months before we understand why.
Sometimes exactly when we need to remember that someone else's steadiness, even when we watch from afar, can hold us up, too.
I would encourage anyone to watch Hunter's video on YouTube... It has truly been a fascinating, and eye-opening story.