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Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 11h

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10h

wow... young republicans are nazis..?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9h

Young Republicans group chat.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 11h

Frying brains online

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10h

Do not disturb: Otterly exhausted

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10h

Having a great time over here just posting and deleting and reposting

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Nobody:

GQ Magazine: Are nazis sexy?

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Sean Parker @seanforfive.bsky.social · 12h

TIL that billionaire Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk dresses up fancy and hunts coyote recreationally.

It’s unclear whether they kill the coyotes or just chase them around

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13h

i’m sorry what does this mean. is he calling off the peace deal because he thinks they’re hoarding corpses

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 14h

Bad teams

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(((Brady Surface))) @sirfache.bsky.social · 14h

Burn everything. 2025 is officially the worst

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...