He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/20/nick-fuentes-stream-donors-funding/

Fuentes, 27, has been kicked off most mainstream social networks because of his viral provocations and extreme bigotry: 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.”

But he has become an increasingly influential and disruptive force in the American conservative movement, thanks to a shadow economy of loyalists who cut and promote viral clips from his hours-long streams in pursuit of their own online clout.

Through his superchats, Fuentes has funneled that attention into a lucrative financial engine fueled by the handouts of hardcore fans. He said he also makes money selling swastika-imprinted T-shirts and $100-a-month subscriptions to a private chatroom, where he talks with devotees.

In the years since he began streaming from his parents’ basement, Fuentes has emerged as one of the far right’s most contentious agitators, most notably for his scathing criticism of President Donald Trump. Though he dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2022, Fuentes now argues that the president “betrayed MAGA” by supporting Israel in a war with Iran and “blew it” by not working more aggressively to deport people of color.

The heart of Fuentes’s message was that young men in the United States have gotten a rotten deal. In his telling, a nation of entitled baby boomers, like those leading the Republican Party, had poisoned American society with bad jobs, unbearable women and a racially diverse population intent on depriving White people of what they’re owed.

Fuentes, however, was practically swimming in superchat funds. In 228 videos since Trump took office in January 2025, donors initiated more than 26,000 superchats totaling more than $896,000, The Post’s analysis found. Ryan called The Post’s findings “awesome” and said that he hoped Fuentes “can put that [money] to something good.”