"The Daily Stormer" promoted readers' participation in the Unite the Right rally, a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 and 12, 2017, in which a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, died of a blunt-force trauma to the chest which was caused by a vehicular ramming. Weev called for readers of "The Daily Stormer" to locate and attend Heyer's funeral, calling her a "fat skank". Both Anglin and weev denied that Heyer died from vehicular impact, claiming instead that she was killed by a weight-related heart attack.