I’m the journalist who reported this story. We investigated how much money Nick Fuentes makes by using an AI tool to catalog all his superchat donations since Jan. 2025. More than $900,000, not counting merch and his $100/month membership club.
Here’s a gift link, no paywall and totally free to read: [https://wapo.st/4mERkhv](https://wapo.st/4mERkhv)
TripleVoid on
How is this relevant to technology?
Cult is a cult.
theshadow1983 on
“He has said that Adolf Hitler is “awesome,” that most Black people should be imprisoned, that “organized Jewry” has corrupted society and that women should be locked in “breeding gulags” and serve only as “mothers, whores or nuns.”
In any healthy society, Nick Fuentes should be in prison
ldssggrdssgds on
„MAGA“ = grifters
SomeBloke on
Before I opened this, this could have been about any one of a number of personalities.
EntertainmentIcy7883 on
Grifting angry, lonely young men on the internet has unfortunately become one of the most lucrative business models of the modern era tbh. outrage is a hell of a product.
Accomplished-Run221 on
Is it the president?
Mystrasun on
„He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars“
Me: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
EasedCeiling586 on
He’s also GAY
lord-dinglebury on
American conservatives are garbage.
Patara on
Welcome to the apocalypse fellers
MrValdemar on
„Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?“
Antelino on
Do you have to clear real journalism with Jeff personally or does your editor tell you who you can investigate?
I don’t disagree Nick Fuentes is a racist piece of shit, however it’s very interesting that you’re allowed to investigate him now that he’s been so anti-Trump.
How do you actually expect people to take you seriously as a journalist when you work for one of the biggest billionaire propagandist tools in the country?
shableep on
How we connect on the internet was given to the most anti-social people in the world. They created the algorithms that choose what we see. So it’s no accident that outrage algorithm monsters like Nick Fuentes bubble to the top.
Worried_Silver3587 on
The lolcow Josh moon?
etham on
Is this the same Nick „Is it gay to have sex with your wife?“ Fuentes? Or the Nick „Is it gay to kiss your wife?“ Fuentes?
NomadGeoPol on
i called hasan before i clicked.. close enough on the horseshoe theory
jmthornsburg on
Elon?
tylerthe-theatre on
I didnt know Fuentes followers gave him that much… what sad societies we live in
thewebspinner on
Big Money?
Leowcp on
The real product here isn’t even the hate, it’s the parasocial subscription model around outrage. We used to talk about “attention economy” like it was abstract, but now it’s basically a guy yelling into a camera and cashing checks from people who want their bias premium-delivered.
ACW1129 on
A Nazi named FUENTES.
BeautifulGlum9394 on
Was hoping this was a hasan article before I clicked on it
JtheLeon on
How the fuck do you have a Latin american last name and are far right?
xxxlovelit on
So this woman who failed at raising her son “adopted” another maladjusted child?
White trash nonsense all around!
Skibidi_67_Rizzler on
Reminder that hate is anything someone doesn’t agree with
GamerGramps62 on
Racist douche bags attract other racist douche bags.
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I’m the journalist who reported this story. We investigated how much money Nick Fuentes makes by using an AI tool to catalog all his superchat donations since Jan. 2025. More than $900,000, not counting merch and his $100/month membership club.
Here’s a gift link, no paywall and totally free to read: [https://wapo.st/4mERkhv](https://wapo.st/4mERkhv)
How is this relevant to technology?
Cult is a cult.
“He has said that Adolf Hitler is “awesome,” that most Black people should be imprisoned, that “organized Jewry” has corrupted society and that women should be locked in “breeding gulags” and serve only as “mothers, whores or nuns.”
In any healthy society, Nick Fuentes should be in prison
„MAGA“ = grifters
Before I opened this, this could have been about any one of a number of personalities.
Grifting angry, lonely young men on the internet has unfortunately become one of the most lucrative business models of the modern era tbh. outrage is a hell of a product.
Is it the president?
„He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars“
Me: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
He’s also GAY
American conservatives are garbage.
Welcome to the apocalypse fellers
„Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?“
Do you have to clear real journalism with Jeff personally or does your editor tell you who you can investigate?
I don’t disagree Nick Fuentes is a racist piece of shit, however it’s very interesting that you’re allowed to investigate him now that he’s been so anti-Trump.
How do you actually expect people to take you seriously as a journalist when you work for one of the biggest billionaire propagandist tools in the country?
How we connect on the internet was given to the most anti-social people in the world. They created the algorithms that choose what we see. So it’s no accident that outrage algorithm monsters like Nick Fuentes bubble to the top.
The lolcow Josh moon?
Is this the same Nick „Is it gay to have sex with your wife?“ Fuentes? Or the Nick „Is it gay to kiss your wife?“ Fuentes?
i called hasan before i clicked.. close enough on the horseshoe theory
Elon?
I didnt know Fuentes followers gave him that much… what sad societies we live in
Big Money?
The real product here isn’t even the hate, it’s the parasocial subscription model around outrage. We used to talk about “attention economy” like it was abstract, but now it’s basically a guy yelling into a camera and cashing checks from people who want their bias premium-delivered.
A Nazi named FUENTES.
Was hoping this was a hasan article before I clicked on it
How the fuck do you have a Latin american last name and are far right?
So this woman who failed at raising her son “adopted” another maladjusted child?
White trash nonsense all around!
Reminder that hate is anything someone doesn’t agree with
Racist douche bags attract other racist douche bags.