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RFK Jr. Confessing, also known as RFK Jr. "So It's X," refers to a series of memes using a photo of politician Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (aka RFK Jr.) sitting with his arms crossed, wearing a blue shirt and tie, confessing to famous disasters and contentious events, often alongside the phrasal template "So It's X and I'm Y" that begins with a date and year and then the story. The image macro was from a video that RFK Jr. posted to Twitter / X in August 2024 in which he confessed to the Dead Bear Story when he reportedly left a dead bear cub in New York City's Central Park in 2014 because he thought it'd be funny.

Origin

On August 4th, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video to X^[1] in which he confessed to the Dead Bear Cub Story in which, back in 2014, he placed a dead bear cub in New York City's Central Park. The video received over 14.5 million views and 20,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On August 5th, X^[2] user @ING2Firebrand posted a screencap from the video and added a caption that sounded like RFK Jr. confessing to the 9/11 Attacks because he was playing Microsoft Flight Simulator with some Saudis in 2001, gaining over 25,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Spread

In the following hours, multiple X / Twitter users added to the format, like X^[3] user @MikeOllen on August 5th, 2024, who referenced the 2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident when a tour bus belonging to the band dumped 800 pounds of human waste through the Kinzie Street Bridge onto an open-top sightseeing boat, gaining over 17,000 likes in a day (shown below, left).

Also on August 5th, X^[4] user @elsecaller_ posted an iteration about the Suez Canal Jam, receiving over 7,700 likes in a day (shown below, right).

Creators used other image macros for the trend as well. For instance, on August 5th, 2024, X^[5] user @mynamehear captioned a different photo of RFK Jr. and made him say, "My family and I ate Jimmy Hoffa for Thanksgiving in 1975," amassing over 24,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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