RFK Jr. Confessing

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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).

Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024

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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