The zealous_monkey_55095 Discord Confession Screenshot
The confession screenshot. The red box around the timestamp was drawn by whoever circulated the image, not by Discord. Full write-up →
This is the image the entire Discord story rests on. It is a dark-mode chat capture covering two days in one friend-group server. Nothing in it is a native export — it is a picture of a screen, and the red rectangle around the timestamp was drawn on afterwards by whoever circulated it. We reproduce the text exactly as it reads.
What the screenshot says, line by line
September 10, 2025
| Timestamp on the image | Message |
|---|---|
| 9/10/25, 3:17 PM | Charlie Kirk got shot |
| 9/10/25, 3:44 PM | Dead |
| 9/10/25, 4:40 PM | I just saw the video holy shit |
| 9/10/25, 4:40 PM | Rip I guess |
| 9/10/25, 4:40 PM | Bro didn't deserve to go out like that sad |
Those five lines carry no username in the crop. They read as an ordinary group chat reacting to breaking news, the same way millions of chats did that afternoon.
September 11, 2025
Below a second date divider the crop shows a blue Discord avatar, the username zealous_monkey_55095 in purple, and the timestamp 9/11/25, 8:57 PM boxed in red. The message:
Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. it was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this. im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments. thanks for all the good times and laughs, you've all been so amazing. thank you all for everything
The timestamp is the whole argument
The image reads 8:57 PM. Court filings and nearly all reporting cite the message at 7:57 PM MDT. That is a one-hour offset, which is what a screenshot taken on a device in a different timezone would produce — but it also means the picture and the paperwork do not agree on their face, and neither figure has been reconciled in open court.
Either figure is a problem for the official account, because Bates-stamped discovery places Robinson Mirandized at 6:25 PM on September 11. See Bates 003996-R2 — Miranda at 6:25 vs. the Discord clock.
Five words that read oddly
The message says "all" five times in three sentences — bad news for you all, sorry for all of this, thanks for all the good times, you've all been so amazing, thank you all for everything. Analyst Chris Friel has flagged this as a post written to an audience rather than to friends. That is a stylistic observation, not proof of anything.
It also says "surrendering," while the charging document quotes Robinson as saying he was "gonna turn myself in willingly." Those are two different sentences describing the same act. See Two Different Surrender Messages.
What the screenshot cannot tell you
- Which server it was posted in, and who else was in it.
- Whether the account was in Robinson's hands at the moment of posting.
- Whether the five earlier messages were sent by the same person as the confession.
- What was above, below, or between the messages — the crop hides all of it.
Discord itself has since said the messages that reporting described as planning material were not Discord messages at all. See Discord Says It Found No Plotting and Discord Denies the Planning Messages Came From Its Platform.
We do not claim the screenshot was forged. We document that it is a photograph of a screen whose clock, authorship, and context are all still open.
The same messages, as a numbered state exhibit
Everything above is the screenshot. In late July 2026 the text of it entered the record in a different and much stronger form: quoted inside the State's memorandum supporting bindover, cited to a numbered exhibit.
"Hey guys. I have bad news for you all. it was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this. im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments." — State's Ex. 16.2 at 1
"it was [me]. ... look at the pictures from the surveillance footage. it was me. ... im serious." — State's Ex. 16.2 at 2
The state's own exhibit numbering splits the message evidence into exactly four categories:
| Exhibit | Content |
|---|---|
| 16 | Transcript of the Lance Twiggs police interview |
| 16.1 | The Robinson–Twiggs text messages — at least 17 pages, the largest by far |
| 16.2 | The Discord messages — two pages |
| 16.3 | The handwritten note |
| 16.4 | Cited alongside the surveillance screen captures |
Three things follow from that table, and they matter for this page.
The Discord exhibit is two pages. Not a log, not an export, not a corpus — two pages, against seventeen or more for the texts off Twiggs' phone. The confession everyone remembers is the smallest message exhibit in the case.
The bracketed "[me]" and the ellipses are in the filing itself. That is a partial rendering of a longer message, not a full line. Compare it with the screenshot transcription above and with the warrant's re-typed version — three renderings, no two identical, and no released native artifact behind any of them.
The state characterises the set as messages to a group. Its summary sentence reads: "Defendant also admitted to Mr. Twiggs and other friends that he had shot Mr. Kirk." "And other friends" is how the Discord posts are distinguished from the one-to-one Twiggs thread. Those other friends are the people whose usernames the warrant redacted — see Discord Friends, Servers and Handles.
The excerpt was surfaced by defense-side legal commentator @aburkhartlaw reading the docket, and circulated by @MsJaneDoeUKnow — not by the prosecution's press operation. The full memorandum is hosted here: State's memorandum supporting bindover.
What the state uses Ex. 16.2 to prove
Beyond the admission itself, the memorandum leans on the Discord exhibit for identity:
"not only did Defendant admit that he was the one depicted in the published screen captures from the UVU surveillance footage, State's Ex. 16.2 at 1, Defendant's roommate and romantic partner confirmed that the individual in those screen captures showing the individuals full face 'definitely' looked like Defendant. State's Ex. 16 at 29:10-30:20."
So the line "look at the pictures from the surveillance footage. it was me" is read by the state as self-identification with the published campus images — the post is doing identity work, not just confession work. That is a heavier load for two pages of unauthenticated chat to carry, and it is the load the no-extractions filing appears to remove the support from.
The Location Field Is Typed In. The IP Address Is Not.
On Discord, on Steam, and on every platform in this section, the country shown on a profile is a text box the user filled in. Anyone can type Utah, or Egypt, or nothing at all, and change it again in seconds. Whether it is shown publicly is a setting. It is not evidence of where a person was sitting when they typed a message.
What is not typed in is the IP address. Every session, every login, every message send is written to the platform's own logs with the address it arrived from, alongside device fingerprints and session timing. Discord holds that record for the servers named in the Utah State Bureau of Investigation's warrant — Craftopia, Gamin and The Corruption — and for the account that posted the confession.
That is the question this section keeps returning to: is it known where the people in these servers actually were? The FBI reportedly examined twenty or more people in Robinson's Discord circle and charged none of them, and nothing in the public record states where any of them were. To be explicit, because it matters: being in another country is not wrongdoing, no one in those servers has been accused by any authority of anything, and nothing on this site suggests any of them did anything improper. The point is narrower — that a location nobody has verified should not be treated as if it were verified, in either direction. Self-reported locations circulated widely — see the Egypt claim on a Steam profile — and self-reported locations are worthless.
The answer exists. It is in Discord's subpoena return and in the login-IP history for September 10–12 — records that investigators can obtain through lawful process and the public cannot. What we are asking for is that the record for the account that posted the confession be established through that process and, so far as the law allows, made public. Until it is, every claim of foreign involvement in these chats — and every denial — rests on a field somebody typed.
We are not asking anyone to identify, locate, contact or expose any private individual, and readers should not attempt it. We name no one and we accuse no one. This is a request for a record, not an allegation against a person.
Other Parts of the Discord Messages
How the Screenshot Reached the Public
The image travelled from a roommate's phone to a Substack post to a congressional hearing. Every hop was a place the original could have been checked, and was not.
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The Planning Messages Were Not Discord Messages
Discord told TMZ the reported planning details were not Discord messages at all. Two of three sources agree, and the odd one out is what established probable cause.
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The State Will Not Offer Forensic Extractions
A filing says the state does not intend to offer evidence from forensic extractions of the seized electronics. That removes the one path that could authenticate any of these logs.
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The Steam Wall After the Shooting
The same profile once the public found it: comments in the thousands, and one September 2 post that reads like a shooting joke only in hindsight.
Read thisThe Steam Friend List May Matter More
Discord is where the confession appeared. Steam is where the friendships actually lived. A server can hold hundreds of people who have never spoken to each other; a friend list is chosen one person at a time, and the people on it are the ones you spend hundreds of hours in voice chat with, night after night, for years. If anyone in Robinson's online life knew him well enough to matter, they are likelier to be on that list than on a server roster.
The two circles overlap directly: visitors to the Steam profile posted their Discord handles on its public comment wall. And Steam stores exactly what Discord stores — the IP address each session came from — no matter what country a profile claims.
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