Neil Naik
@neil-naik.bsky.social
Faustian Basement dweller, B2 Proto-Indo-European Speaker, L*beral
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How Short Form Content Fuels the Far Right
Over the past few months, the specter of the far right and its personalities have become more visible to the American public.
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"Far right content has a much larger audience in the short form than it does in the long form. Fuentes has around 650 thousand followers on Rumble... whereas on Instagram clips of him regularly break a million views. His reach via short form content is what gives him his influence."
"The Chuds aren’t a few odd people in obscure group chats anymore, they are bleeding into our political discourse, and he who fails to see this fails to evaluate this moment in our history correctly."
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January 19, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"The Chuds aren’t a few odd people in obscure group chats anymore, they are bleeding into our political discourse, and he who fails to see this fails to evaluate this moment in our history correctly."
"Far right content has a much larger audience in the short form than it does in the long form. Fuentes has around 650 thousand followers on Rumble... whereas on Instagram clips of him regularly break a million views. His reach via short form content is what gives him his influence."
How Short Form Content Fuels the Far Right
Over the past few months, the specter of the far right and its personalities have become more visible to the American public.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"Far right content has a much larger audience in the short form than it does in the long form. Fuentes has around 650 thousand followers on Rumble... whereas on Instagram clips of him regularly break a million views. His reach via short form content is what gives him his influence."