The shooter was talking about, and planning, his attack months in advance on Discord. As soon as he started live streaming, he shared his links to his discord, and the glowies immediately took those links and started spreading them around, including creating threads on 4chan.
Read through this thread here https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/377710317/ (Fair Warning: Theres some grotesque shit in this thread. Apparently the shooter also stabbed and beheaded a cat, theres images of that, as well as other footage of people dying (unrelated to the mass shooting))
Some interesting finds from his chat history:
Jimboboiii — 02/18/2022
Remove l210 from list
Coordinating his list of potential targets with someone else? (3 months before...)
Jimboboiii - 03/17/2022
"Attack low security targets. Even though you might out gun a security guard or police man, they likely beat you in armor, training and numbers. Do not throw away your life on an unnecessarily dangerous target."
But Sir Patrick, Who shall I attack? And where?
WHO is Sir Patrick??? And why does his advice GLOW SO FUCKING MUCH? Straight up telling him to just commit a mass shooting and to shoot unarmed people, don't waste it on someone higher profile?
This is starting to remind me of the saga of Kenneth Lamar Noid.
He was a paranoid schizophrenic in Atlanta. He saw the Domino's Pizza commercials featuring that little red goblin of a mascot, and his crazy brain assumed the ads were attacking him personally.
So he stormed into a local Domino's and took several employees armed hostage.
Thankfully, no one was killed. But the incident made national news, and was incredibly embarrassing for the pizza chain, who became the butt of jokes overnight about how "they couldn't Avoid The Noid THIS time!"
So they pulled the plug on their massively-popular mascot. Just like that.
That is seriously the reason why such a hugely popular character just vanished from the airwaves OVERNIGHT, not to be seen again for decades.
Kenneth Lamar Noid killed himself in 1995.