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Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? (404 Media) [View all]
Every time you think RW conspiracy theorists can't get any crazier...
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
— 404 Media (@404media.co) 2026-04-27T19:15:03.203Z
https://www.404media.co/did-a-time-traveling-superintelligent-ai-try-to-warn-about-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-an-investigation/
Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation
Jason Koebler
Apr 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy theory that has taken over my timeline over the last few hours. A few hours after a gunman was taken into custody Saturday night, X users found an account called “Henry Martinez” that has posted exactly one tweet, on December 21, 2023. The tweet says “Cole Allen,” which is the name of the suspected shooter. The Henry Martinez account has a Pepe the frog holding a wine glass avatar, and, crucially, has the following 3D art as its header image:
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This image is key to an unhinged conspiracy theory that has gone viral on various platforms that suggests the Twitter account was run by a time-traveling artificial intelligence that was likely trying to warn us about the shooting and, possibly, the previous assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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This X post more or less sums up what the conspiracy is, most notably the idea that “the background photo is from a website called ‘Time Machine.’” The conspiracy believers argue that this 3D image is itself a coded magic eye message that is actually a version of one of the iconic images of Trump pumping his first after a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania. Here are the images side-by-side, with people arguing that it “looks like” the Butler image.
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Jason Koebler
Apr 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy theory that has taken over my timeline over the last few hours. A few hours after a gunman was taken into custody Saturday night, X users found an account called “Henry Martinez” that has posted exactly one tweet, on December 21, 2023. The tweet says “Cole Allen,” which is the name of the suspected shooter. The Henry Martinez account has a Pepe the frog holding a wine glass avatar, and, crucially, has the following 3D art as its header image:
-snip-
This image is key to an unhinged conspiracy theory that has gone viral on various platforms that suggests the Twitter account was run by a time-traveling artificial intelligence that was likely trying to warn us about the shooting and, possibly, the previous assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
-snip-
This X post more or less sums up what the conspiracy is, most notably the idea that “the background photo is from a website called ‘Time Machine.’” The conspiracy believers argue that this 3D image is itself a coded magic eye message that is actually a version of one of the iconic images of Trump pumping his first after a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania. Here are the images side-by-side, with people arguing that it “looks like” the Butler image.
-snip-
The last paragraph above links to that X post
https:// x.c om/ GregIsKitty /status/2048368943971082263
GregisKitty
@GregIsKitty
Latest conspiracy theory is out…
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting yesterday is linked to time travel?
1. An X account user ‘HenryMa79561893’ with only 1 post from 2023:
“Cole Allen” - the name of yesterday’s shooter.
2. The background photo is from a website called ‘Time Machine’
3. The account username ‘HenryMa79561893’ has a string of numbers.
Each number converted to a letter is an anagram of “Chief AGI.”
Chief Artificial General Intelligence. Did AI lead to time travel?
Starting to think the dead/missing scientists are linked to time travel.
@GregIsKitty
Latest conspiracy theory is out…
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting yesterday is linked to time travel?
1. An X account user ‘HenryMa79561893’ with only 1 post from 2023:
“Cole Allen” - the name of yesterday’s shooter.
2. The background photo is from a website called ‘Time Machine’
3. The account username ‘HenryMa79561893’ has a string of numbers.
Each number converted to a letter is an anagram of “Chief AGI.”
Chief Artificial General Intelligence. Did AI lead to time travel?
Starting to think the dead/missing scientists are linked to time travel.
More including thorough debunking at the 404 Media link.
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