Groypers

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Groypers
Key figures Nick Fuentes [1]
Ideology
Political position Far-right
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The Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of alt-right, white nationalist, and Christian nationalist [4] activists led by Nick Fuentes. Groypers are a loosely defined group of Fuentes's followers and fans. [5] [6] They are named after a cartoon amphibian named "Groyper", a variant of the Internet meme Pepe the Frog.

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Members of the group have attempted to introduce alt-right politics into mainstream conservatism in the United States and participated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and the protests leading up to it. They have targeted other conservative groups and individuals whose agendas they view as too moderate and insufficiently racist and nationalist. [7] [8] The Groyper movement has additionally been described as homophobic, nativist, fascist, sexist, antisemitic, and an attempt to rebrand the declining alt-right movement. [6] [9] [10] [11]

The Groyper War began in the fall of 2019 when Fuentes and his followers launched a social media campaign targeting Turning Point USA's "Culture War" college tour, led by Charlie Kirk. Motivated by the firing of a Fuentes ally and prior conflicts, Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to challenge mainstream conservative figures like Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Ben Shapiro, whom they labeled "Conservative Inc." for deviating from their far-right views. The campaign gained traction after a November 2019 UCLA event with Trump Jr. was cut short due to Groyper heckling, exposing divisions among conservatives. Fuentes expanded the movement with the Groyper Leadership Summit in December 2019 and the formation of America First Students in January 2020. In August 2024, Fuentes initiated Groyper War 2, a digital war campaign pressuring Donald Trump's presidential campaign to adopt further-right stances, using memes, trolling, and threats to withhold votes.

In February 2021, the Groyper movement splintered between Fuentes and Patrick Casey over fears of infiltration by federal informants and doxing at the 2021 America First Political Action Conference, held by Fuentes. Jaden McNeil of America First Students joined in support of Fuentes' conference and accused Casey of disloyalty to Fuentes. [12] [13] In May 2022, McNeil distanced himself from Fuentes in an "interpersonal clash of egos" following conflict over his former position as treasurer of Fuentes' America First Foundation. [14]

Background and ideology

Origins and symbolism of Groyper Meme

Fuentes's followers began to be known as Groypers beginning in 2019. They are also sometimes called "Nickers". [6] [15]

Groypers are named after a cartoon amphibian named "Groyper", a variant of the Internet meme Pepe the Frog. Groyper is depicted as a rotund, green, frog-like creature, often sitting with its chin resting on interlocked fingers. [16] [17] There is some disagreement about the details: Groyper is variously said to be a depiction of Pepe, [18] a different character from Pepe but of the same species, or a toad. [16] The Groyper meme was used as early as 2015 and became popular in 2017. [19]

In 2018, a group of computer scientists studying hateful speech on Twitter observed the Groyper image being used frequently in account avatars among accounts identified as "hateful" in their dataset. The researchers observed that the profiles tended to be anonymous and collectively tweeted primarily about politics, race, and religion. They also found that the users were not "lone wolves" and could be identified as a community with a high network centrality. [20] The same year, Right Wing Watch reported that Massachusetts congressional hopeful Shiva Ayyadurai had created a campaign pin featuring a variation of the Groyper image, which RWW described as an attempt to appeal to far-right activists on 4chan, Gab, and Twitter who had adopted the meme. [21]

Social media engagement

Groypers are very active online, particularly on Twitter, and have engaged in targeted harassment. [15] Financial Times reported that many Groypers use "deceptively anodyne" Twitter biographies, describing themselves in terms that downplay their extremism, like "Christian conservative". [22]

In April 2020, The Daily Dot reported that Fuentes and other Groypers had begun to move to TikTok, where they streamed live and used the "duet" feature to respond to Trump supporters. Groypers particularly targeted one left-wing teenage girl for harassment, first on TikTok and then on other platforms. [22] [23] Fuentes and some other Groyper accounts were banned from TikTok shortly after the Daily Dot article was published. [24]

Departure from the Republican Party

Groypers present themselves as defenders of Christian conservatism, "traditional values", and American nationalism. Their ideology diverges sharply from mainstream American conservatives, including the Republican Party. Rather than conserving inherited institutions or practicing prudence and incremental reform, Groypers advance a racialized politics that appeal to xenophobia and resentment. [25] They criticize mainstream conservative organizations for being insufficiently nationalist and pro-white, and employ tactics of entryism and radicalization such as gradually introducing their targets to increasingly extreme ideas. [26]

Fuentes has said, "We are the right-wing flank of the Republican Party". He has summarized his political ambitions by saying, "We have got to be on the right, dragging [Republicans] kicking and screaming into the future... Into a truly reactionary party". [27] In 2022, Fuentes advocated for a "white uprising" to bring Donald Trump back to power and "never leave" and for the U.S. to "stop having elections" and abolish Congress. [28] [29] However, less than a year after Trump was reelected, Fuentes said "Trump 2.0 has been a disappointment in literally every way but nobody wants to admit it." [30] Among other topics, he criticized the president's support of Israel, failure to release the Epstein Files, and offer of student visas to Chinese nationals. [30]

White nationalism, anti-semitism, and social stances

Groypers are widely recognized as a white nationalist, antisemitic, and homophobic movement. [31] [3] [32] Fuentes has said he has been "oppressed" by "the Jews" and blamed the Jewish community for antisemitism, claiming that matters "tend to go from zero to sixty" and that "the reason is them". He has said that matters would get "a lot uglier" for their community if they do not begin to support "people like us". [33] [34] According to the Anti-Defamation League, Groypers blame the mainstream conservative movement as well as the political left for what they view as "destroying white America". They oppose immigration and globalism. Groypers support "traditional" values and Christianity and oppose feminism and LGBTQ rights. [3]

Groypers' questions often focus on United States–Israel relations, immigration policy, affirmative action, and LGBTQ conservatives. [8] [35] [9] They regularly use antisemitic dog-whistles, including questions about the USS Liberty incident and references to the "dancing Israelis" conspiracy theory alleging Israeli involvement in the September 11 attacks. [5] [3]

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Nick Fuentes in 2022

Groyper War (2019)

Origins

In September 2019, Ashley St. Clair, a "brand ambassador" for the conservative student group Turning Point USA, was photographed at an event featuring several allegedly white nationalist and alt-right figures, including Fuentes, Jacob Wohl, and Anthime Gionet, better known as "Baked Alaska". After Right Wing Watch brought the photographs to its attention, Turning Point USA issued a statement that said it had severed ties with St. Clair and condemned white nationalism as "abhorrent and un-American". [36] [37]

At the 2019 Politicon convention, Fuentes tried to attend several Turning Point events featuring its founder Charlie Kirk, including a line to take photos with Kirk and Kirk's debate with Kyle Kulinski of The Young Turks . Security repeatedly barred him from being allowed near Kirk, and Fuentes accused Kirk of suppressing him to avoid a confrontation, as Fuentes had grown critical of Kirk's positions, which he believes are too weak. [38]

In the fall of 2019, Kirk launched a college speaking tour with Turning Point USA titled "Culture War", featuring himself and guests such as Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and Dan Crenshaw. [3] In retaliation for the firing of St. Clair and the Politicon incident, Fuentes began organizing a social media campaign asking his followers to go to Kirk's events and ask provocative and controversial leading questions about his stances on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to expose Kirk as a "fake conservative".

At a Culture War event hosted by Ohio State University on October 29, 11 out of 14 questions were asked by Groypers. [15] Their questions included "Can you prove that our white European ideals will be maintained if the country is no longer made up of white European descendants?" They asked Kirk's co-host Rob Smith, a gay, black Iraq War veteran, "How does anal sex help us win the culture war?" [39] Fuentes's social media campaign against Kirk became known as the "Groyper Wars". [9] [40] Kirk, Smith, and others at Turning Point USA, including Benny Johnson, began calling the questioners white supremacists and antisemites. [38] [41]

Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin wrote an article for American Greatness attacking Kirk's immigration policies, particularly his stance that immigrants who graduate from U.S. universities should receive green cards. [42] After defending Fuentes and his followers, Malkin was fired as a speaker for Young America's Foundation, a rival organization to Turning Point whose events Groypers had also targeted. [43] [44] Malkin later called herself a mother figure to and leader of the Groypers. [45] [46] [47]

UCLA incident

Another Turning Point USA event the Groypers targeted was a promotional event for Donald Trump Jr.'s book Triggered , featuring Trump, Kirk, and Guilfoyle at the University of California, Los Angeles in November 2019. Anticipating further questions from Fuentes's followers, it was announced that the event's Q&A portion would be canceled, which led to heckling and boos from the mostly pro-Trump audience. [48] The disruptions forced the event, originally scheduled to last two hours, to end after 30 minutes. [49] [50] [5] [51]

The Groyper Wars earned widespread media attention after the UCLA incident with Donald Trump Jr. Chadwick Moore of Spectator USA commented that the ordeal revealed deep divisions within the American right among young voters, particularly Generation Z. Moore claimed this divide is due to the Groypers viewing Charlie Kirk and others in the mainstream conservative movement as "snatching the baton and appointing themselves the guardians of 2016's spoils", despite holding beliefs that Fuentes and his followers believe conflict with Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda. [52] Another Spectator author, Ben Sixsmith, claimed that Turning Point's unwillingness to respond to controversial questions and use of insults to dismiss its critics revealed the organization's hypocrisy after having "promoted themselves as the debate guys". [53]

Other targets including Ben Shapiro

Groypers' targets for heckling quickly expanded beyond Kirk and Turning Point USA [40] [43] to other mainstream conservative groups and individuals, which they sometimes collectively call "Conservative Inc.", including Young America's Foundation and its student outreach branch Young Americans for Freedom, which included such speakers as Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire and Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch . [7] [43] In December 2019, outside a venue where a Turning Point USA event was being held, Fuentes crossed paths with Ben Shapiro, who was on his way to the event with his wife and children. Fuentes confronted Shapiro over his past public speaking comments. Shapiro refused to acknowledge him. [54] Fuentes faced widespread condemnation from politicians and various pundits—including Nikki Haley, Meghan McCain, Sebastian Gorka, Megyn Kelly, and Michael Avenatti—for confronting Shapiro while he was with his family. [55]

Addressing the increase in attention to the far-right due to the aggressive questioning of Kirk, Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University in which he attacked Fuentes (without naming him) and his followers as essentially a rebranded version of the alt-right. [56] [57] [58]

Groyper Leadership Conference

In December 2019, Fuentes held the Groyper Leadership Summit in Florida. A small group attended in person, and others joined via livestream. The event was held at the same time and in the same city as Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit (SAS); Groypers argued with SAS attendees outside their venue, and Fuentes, Patrick Casey, and some Groypers were removed from the SAS venue after attempting to enter. At the Groyper Leadership Summit, Fuentes, Casey, and former InfoWars contributor Jake Lloyd spoke about the Groypers' strategy and ideology. [59]

In January 2020, Groyper and former leader of Kansas State University's Turning Point USA chapter Jaden McNeil formed the Kansas State University organization America First Students. The group, which shares a name with Fuentes' America First podcast, was conceived at the Groyper Leadership Summit, and Groyper leaders have helped promote it. The America First Students organization, which says it formed "in defense of Christian values, strong families, closed borders, and the American worker", is considered to promote the Groyper movement. [60] [61]

In February 2020, Fuentes spoke at several events held as rival events to the Conservative Political Action Conference. One of these, hosted by the online publication National File , featured Fuentes, Alex Jones of InfoWars, and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. [62] [63] Fuentes hosted the first annual America First Political Action Conference, which included such speakers as Patrick Casey, former Daily Caller author Scott Greer, and Malkin. [64]

January 6 United States Capitol attack

Groypers were present at the January 6 United States Capitol attack and prominent among those who participated in the early waves of attack on the Capitol. [65] Exact numbers are not known, but several were arrested. In February 2021, the Anti-Defamation League reported that it had identified ten Groypers or related white supremacists involved in the riots. [66] Fuentes and Casey were on the Capitol steps and celebrated the temporary disruption of Congress, but have not been charged. [67] [68] Both were subpoenaed by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in January 2022 for their role in planning the attack. [68]

Groyper War 2 (2024)

In August 2024, Fuentes began a "digital war" against Trump's presidential campaign, which he dubbed "Groyper War 2", referencing his followers' activities in 2019. [83] In response to Trump's poor polling, Fuentes began calling on his followers to "bring the energy with memes, edits, replies, and trolls" aimed at pressuring Trump's campaign to adopt further-right positions on race and immigration, as well as urging Trump to fire his campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. [84] In addition to directing his followers to make their demands trend on X (formerly Twitter) and Truth Social, Fuentes threatened to "escalate pressure in the real world", urging followers to withhold their votes and protest Trump rallies in battleground states. [83] A senior researcher for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue speculated that Fuentes's "crude" attempts at platform manipulation could be a blueprint for more sophisticated actors, such as hostile states, to engage in foreign election interference due to the lack of enforcement actions taken by Twitter and Truth Social in response to Fuentes's brief influence campaign. [85] [86]

Shortly after initiating this effort, Fuentes took credit for Trump's rehiring of Corey Lewandowski as a senior campaign advisor. An anonymous source cited by The Washington Post claimed that Fuentes was making it "far more difficult for Trump" to make changes to his campaign "if it looks like he's responding to the groypers". [83]

Political activism

Disavowals and challenges

The Groyper movement has repeatedly failed to gain political traction, often being disavowed by the politicians it has attempted to support. Congressman Paul Gosar, the keynote speaker at Fuentes's AFPAC II in 2021, disavowed Fuentes and his followers the next day while addressing CPAC. [87] At AFPAC III in 2022, several political figures whom Fuentes claimed were slated to speak, including Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and former acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan, did not attend and disavowed the event upon learning of Fuentes's views. [88] [89] The conference's keynote speaker, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, later said she did not know who Fuentes was and, upon learning of his views, condemned him. [90]

One of the candidates Fuentes endorsed in the 2022 midterms who later disavowed his endorsement was Joe Kent, who ran for the 3rd congressional district in Washington. [91] In response to Kent's disavowal, Fuentes began organizing an online campaign against him, but Kent won the Republican nomination and defeated incumbent Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler. [92]

Electoral involvement

Of the AFPAC III speakers who did not rescind their support for Fuentes, only two ran for major office: Lieutenant Governor of Idaho Janice McGeachin and Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers. Rogers won a competitive primary that year and was reelected, but she was censured for her remarks at the conference calling for political violence. [93] McGeachin, who ran for governor of Idaho that year, lost the primary to incumbent Governor Brad Little by a 20-point margin.

Fuentes and the Groyper movement later supported Laura Loomer's candidacy for Florida's 11th congressional district in 2022. [94] On the night of the primary, Fuentes attended Loomer's election watch party, and they were filmed sharing a toast as results came in that seemed to suggest Loomer would defeat incumbent Congressman Daniel Webster; Loomer toasted "to the hostile takeover of the Republican Party". [95] When additional results came in confirming Loomer's loss to Webster by 7 points, she claimed without evidence in a speech to her supporters that her loss was due to voter fraud. [96] [97]

Kanye West campaign

In late 2022 and early 2023, the Groyper movement shifted away from its longtime position of supporting Trump and instead began promoting Kanye West's presidential campaign. West brought Fuentes to a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trump, which generated significant controversy and raised Fuentes's profile; Trump later disavowed Fuentes, saying he was not initially aware of Fuentes's views. [98] [99] West's campaign soon included other figures in the Groyper movement, including Milo Yiannopoulos, [100] Ali Alexander, [101] and Rumble streamer Sneako. [102] Many Groypers, including fellow streamers on Fuentes's website Cozy.tv, began using their platforms to promote West's antisemitic views. [103] Two Cozy streamers, Dalton Clodfelter and Tyler Russell, began streaming themselves harassing students at college campuses with a table display reading "Ye is Right—Change my Mind", a slogan that derived from a college tour by right-wing commentator Steven Crowder. [104] [105]

Jewish student groups and allies frequently protested these events, playing music on loudspeakers and chanting in order to drown out the streamers' speeches. [106] The planned college tour was canceled after less than a month after Clodfelter lost the funding for both the tour and the Rumble channel associated with it. [107]

On May 4, 2023, it was reported that West had fired Fuentes and Alexander, the latter of whom had become embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal involving young men and underage boys, and rehired Yiannopoulos, who had since split from Fuentes and was the first person to leak the allegations against Alexander. [108] [109]

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