Right-wing Anakin Skywalker posting trend
The gist
Right-wing users on X spread Anakin Skywalker memes, and the Education Department and Elon Musk posted AI Star Wars images.
The trend uses a fallen Jedi to voice grievances about race, immigration and masculinity.
How it unfolded
- Oct 23, 2026X user fool2theworld posted "Boomers love Star Wars cuz it's democracy-slop / Zoomers love Anakin cuz he's a fascist incel," which drew over 475,000 views and 8,500 likes in a week.
- Mid-to-late October 2026Politicized Anakin Skywalker prequel memes kept spreading on X as users made more examples.
- Oct 28, 2026A viral X post shared a Phantom Menace screengrab of young Anakin before the Jedi Council captioned "The White male experience," viewed nearly a million times with 14,000 likes.