Just reading through so far, the knot kind of does matter, because it changes the situation from "Lynching a Black Man in Effigy" to "tied up a stuffed frog on a stick".
Also, the perpetrators clearly NOT being racially motivated should change this convo from "hey did something messed up happen in our name that we must snuff out" to "why does the media always do this, and how can we make them stop"
IMO
P.S. - there are much better ways to troll a rival. Very weak. We all know he has a funny voice.