The Pissant and the Frog
A twenty-seven-year-old virgin is dragging Nazism back into the mainstream.
September 2025, Orem, Utah. On a sunny day at the Utah Valley University Campus, about twenty-three minutes into a speaking engagement for the American Comeback Tour, Turning Points USA founder and prominent racist Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck by a single bullet from a Mauser model 98 rifle.
In the wake of the shooting, blame was cast in myriad directions, including that of ‘radical liberalism’, ‘transgender ideology’ and — most interestingly — Groypers, the young white followers of conservative firebrand, neo-Nazi, and burgeoning gay porn star Nick Fuentes, a vocal ideological adversary of Kirk’s from within the American right.
Although Fuentes immediately condemned the shooting and disavowed any followers who would choose to “take up arms,” the rumors were not completely unfounded. Fuentes’ history of violent rhetoric provided plenty of reason to suspect that the shooter may have been influenced by him, at least in part.
But what is a Groyper? Who is Nick Fuentes? And what could he have possibly said and done for so many people to credibly believe that he might have inspired the public execution of a fellow American conservative?
Nicholas J. Fuentes was born in 1998 to a Roman Catholic family in Illinois. As his surname suggests, he is partially of latino descent — ironic, given that he is a xenophobic, traditional Catholic (“trad-Cath”) neo-Nazi who opposes immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and the existence of pretty much any type of minority group.
By all accounts, though he was politically engaged at quite a young age, Fuentes held middle-of-the-road conservative opinions up until college. As a freshman at Boston University, he attended the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, for which he later claimed to have received death threats. The rally appeared to have taught Fuentes a formative lesson that he clearly took to heart: that controversy and outrage can provide attention and —crucially — a genuine political platform.
Galvanized by this epiphany, Fuentes dropped out of college and — literally, from his mother’s basement — launched America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes, an overtly white-supremacist livestream which spewed Nazi talking points couched in edgelord humor to an astonishingly young male audience.
His genius was in the realization that he could say almost anything he wanted, no matter how detestable, as long as he did it with a wink, a charming smile, and plausible deniability. The king of weasel words, Fuentes made insanely anti-Semitic comments that were so drenched in irony that many of his teenage viewers could not tell whether they were serious. Over a long enough time, his consistent neo-Nazi propaganda desensitized his viewership to his heinous political ideas.
Among other things, Fuentes routinely questioned the historical validity of the Holocaust (“If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies and Cookie Monster has fifteen ovens working twenty-four hours a day, every day for five years, how long does it take Cookie Monster to make six million batches of cookies?”), claimed that the protection of the First Amendment should not apply to “Muslims or immigrants,” declared that it was “time to kill” the “globalists” who he claimed controlled the media, and insinuated that CNN leadership should be “arrested and deported or hanged.”
“[Fuentes’] following quickly became much more about the cult of personality quickly forming around his controversial and attention-seeking behavior rather than any coherent worldview.”
Fuentes dubbed his supporters “Groypers,” in reference to an internet meme popular among 4chan’s /pol/ posters and r/TheDonald Redditors, which featured a sassy white nationalist frog. Memes and trolling were a large part of Fuentes’ recruitment of young, disenfranchised white men on the internet, appealing to an existing infrastructure of incels, edgelords, and unemployed losers by adopting their language and mannerisms.
Although initially founded as a means to drive support online for Donald Trump and right-wing populism in general, his following quickly became much more about the cult of personality quickly forming around his controversial and attention-seeking behavior rather than any coherent worldview. Accordingly, he often targeted other political figureheads with harassment, thriving off the attention and increased engagement that such antics drove.
One major example of this phenomenon is the so-called “Groyper War,” in which Fuentes, in opposition to Turning Point USA and other conservative new media organizations (i.e., “Conservative, Inc.”), directed his followers to confront Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., Lara Trump, Ben Shapiro, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and others at public speaking engagements.
With Fuentes’ encouragement, his followers engaged in a campaign of entryism, posing as casual attendees at such events and asking loaded questions about immigration, US support of Israel, LGBTQ+ rights, and race realism in an effort to prove the ideological differences between Fuentes’ following and that of the ‘mainstream’ new conservative media.
For example: “how does anal sex help us win the culture war?”, “can you prove that our white European ideals can be maintained if the country’s majority is no longer made up of white European descendants?”, and various leading references to the 9/11 “dancing Israelis” conspiracy theory.
As a result of Fuentes’ activities during this period, he became a pariah among the American right and was disavowed by many other rising stars within TPUSA, Fox News, and the Trump administration.
Fuentes was initially an outspoken supporter of Trump in 2016 and 2020, arguing that the Trump presidency was a vehicle through which conservative alt-right populism could flourish in America. Following Trump’s loss to Biden in the 2020 election, Fuentes and several other prominent Groypers were present at the January 6 Capitol attack, flying the Groyper flag and celebrating the riots.
Several Groypers were arrested and charged for their part in the attack, including Riley Williams, who stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop from her office, Joseph Brody, who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a metal barricade, and Anthime Gionet — also known as “Baked Alaska” — a terminally stupid online personality who live-streamed his own storming of the U.S. Capitol building.
In 2022, while acting as an advisor to rapper Kanye West’s brief presidential campaign, Fuentes attended a Donald Trump-hosted dinner at Mar-a-Lago as West’s personal guest. Trump claimed at the time that he was not aware of Fuentes’ political views and did not receive advance notice that Fuentes would be attending the dinner.
Later that year, alongside West, Fuentes appeared for the first time on Infowars, an internet show hosted by Sandy Hook denier, crackhead carnival barker, and homeless street lunatic Alex Jones — the man who famously claimed that the U.S. government was “putting chemicals in the water to make the frogs gay.” It was in this interview that Kanye West, clad in a full-face black balaclava, asserted that he “love[d] Hitler” and that the Nazis “didn’t kill six million Jews,” claims which with which Fuentes appeared to agree.
Fuentes was later fired by West after a scandal became public involving Fuente’s friend, Ali Alexander, who allegedly engaged in sexual predation of minors — but not before West recorded his single, Heil Hitler, in front of Fuentes, who at the time, claimed the record would be the “song of the summer” (later, in 2026, Fuentes would be banned from Vendôme in Miami Beach for playing the song and dancing to it alongside Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Clavicular).
But Fuentes’ star was rising with so much velocity that even Kanye West couldn’t drag him down. He spent most of 2024 and 2025 accumulating pop culture influence by making regular appearances on popular livestreams, like those of Adin Ross and NELK, and internet shows like Alex Jones’ Infowars, Myron Gaines’ Fresh & Fit (wherein Gaines pays women to suffer his sexist schoolyard-child-level insults), and the PBD Podcast — hosted by Patrick Bet-David, a blustering multi-level-marketing grifter who markets his brand as “Valuetainment.”
Trump’s 2024 presidential run saw Fuentes’ first major ideological split from the Republican Party during an election cycle. Opposing Trump’s politics for falling short of outright white nationalism, Fuentes called for 'Groyper War 2,' directing his followers to pressure the Trump campaign into embracing far-right policy platforms. He also criticized Vice Presidential candidate and 2000’s-emo-band-bassist-lookalike J.D. Vance, calling him a “fat race-mixer” for marrying a woman of Indian descent.
Though he ultimately proved to have less political sway than he anticipated in 2024, Fuentes’ recognizability continued to grow after the election. He made appearances on mainstream news broadcasts like The Tucker Carlson Show and Piers Morgan Uncensored and admitted on the latter to being a 27-year-old virgin, claiming that while he is “attracted to women,” they “are very difficult to be around.”
But Fuentes, unscrupulous little Nazi that he is, was about to become embroiled in yet another scandal. Later in 2025, Fuentes again appeared on Fresh & Fit to argue with leftist debate-lord Steven Bonnell, known online as Destiny. Shortly thereafter, a video was leaked on alt-right forum KiwiFarms which appeared to depict Fuentes and Bonnell engaging in sexual acts with each other. This trans-political bisexual hate-fuck tape became so popular that it crashed the KiwiFarms website. Both parties involved denied its veracity— but many viewers still seemed convinced.
“Fuentes is on a quest to weaponize the ignorance of the young, the ornery, the uneducated, and the frustrated, directly against their own interests.”
Today, Fuentes is more popular than ever. Still the same little shit-stirrer as when he began streaming in 2017, he has only become more polarizing with time. He, like many other figures in the online conservative space, has mastered the art of maintaining cultural relevance through any means necessary. Like Donald Trump himself, he has accumulated a diehard fanbase who worships his every move, regardless of ideological incoherence.
Nick Fuentes has reshaped the online alt-right — brick by brick — through his cult of personality. Even his mistakes have meaningful ripple effects across the conservative landscape. His actions online (like his “your body, my choice” movement) have led to cognizable upticks in abuse against women and minority groups on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (“X”), and Reddit.
He’s cunning — much more than the media often gives him credit for. Thanks to Fuentes, ideas that used to exist on the fringe have now moved far closer to the mainstream, despite their obvious absurdity — ideas like Holocaust denialism, Christian nationalism, and autocracy. Nazis on the internet used to hide in the shadows, resorting to code-speak on specialized forums to avoid public ridicule. Thanks in large part to Fuentes’ targeted outreach toward young white teenagers, Nazism has once again become acceptable, if only as a joke — but remember Fuentes’ guiding principle: ‘that which is tolerated with a chuckle today will be embraced with a salute tomorrow.’
His followers in the real world engage in widespread, coordinated, and effective harassment campaigns that have actual consequences in the physical world. His bombastic outbursts and calls for action cut across all social, political, and economic lines; he is just as likely to call for the head of a liberal commentator as he is for a conservative one who, in his own estimation, lacks appropriate dedication to the far-right cause.
Is it any wonder, then, that some people speculated in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination that Tyler Robinson — the shooter — may have been a Groyper? Fuentes called for “war” against Kirk’s media organization, and has an extensive history of giving calls to action which spur on political violence. It seems entirely possible that Robinson, a disenfranchised young white man living in a rural setting, could have been a Groyper — even if, as it very likely now seems, such allegations turn out to be false.
And — to set aside the thousands of other thresholds which Fuentes has crossed — when it becomes plausible that you could have feasibly inspired a public execution, you know you’ve gone wrong somewhere along the line.
On March 28, 2025, Nick Fuentes stated the following on his America First livestream:
Fuentes is on a quest to weaponize the ignorance of the young, the ornery, the uneducated, and the frustrated, directly against their own interests. He asks his followers to forsake their humanity in the furtherance of his own political conquest, with no regard to reality, ethics, or their dignity — and he doesn’t even have the courtesy to maintain a coherent ethos. Fuentes is an autocrat, a despot, a dictator, and, of course, a Nazi.
In the hopes that a would-be Groyper might one day come across this piece: please don’t allow yourself to make decisions based on the whims of an impossibly lame Nazi virgin in denial about his own sexuality. Consider the following call to action from Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 classic The Great Dictator:
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