Mass shooters deliberately weaponize media fame to achieve posthumous immortality

Evidence

Brenton Tarrant’s life story, in a matter of minutes, claimed permanent territory in our minds. This was, after all, his aim: to become immortal in our imaginations and remain alive even after he took his last breath. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 969

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the same dynamic of remembered-monster vs forgotten-victim developed at [967] and anticipates the martyr-vs-monster frame running through the case chapters.
• SEED: Angle: the memorial asymmetry between white supremacist killers and their Muslim victims as a structural feature of Western media coverage.