Millennial Woes

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Millennial Woes
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Born
Colin Robertson [1]
Nationality Scottish
OccupationSocial media personality
Website millennialwoes.com
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Years active2013 [2] –present

Colin Robertson, known as Millennial Woes or simply Woes, [3] [4] is a Scottish former YouTuber, white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist. [5] [6] [7]

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Robertson was previously aligned with the neo-fascist group Patriotic Alternative, but after a falling-out with them in 2020, his public influence has significantly diminished. [8]

Robertson has supported slavery, called for the bombing of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, and endorsed the white genocide conspiracy theory. [9] [4]

Career

Robertson attended an art college in London in the mid-2000s. He launched his YouTube channel at the end of 2013. [10]

Robertson delivered a speech at the National Policy Institute Conference in November 2016, in Washington DC. [11]

In January 2017, Robertson began receiving coverage from BBC News [12] and national newspapers, [13] after Scottish tabloid the Daily Record doxxed Millennial Woes, exposing his birth name, family's home address and sending reporters and photographers to his parents' home to try to find him. [14] Robertson was reported to have "left Britain", posting a video to his YouTube channel named "Fugitive Woes". [15]

On 4 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech entitled "Withnail and I as Viewed From the Right" at The London Forum in Kensington, [16] On 25 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech at a white nationalist event in Stockholm organised by Motpol. [17] On 1 July 2017, he appeared at the far-right Scandza Forum's "Globalism v the Ethnostate" conference in Oslo. [18] [14]

In August 2017, Salon described Millennial Woes as one of only a few alt-right platforms to rapidly grow, alongside Red Ice, VDARE and The Rebel Media. [19]

On 10 December 2017, he began an interview series named Millenniyule 2017, inviting various internet personalities from the alt-right movement, [20] including an appearance from Faith Goldy. [21]

Until 2020, Robertson was aligned with the neo-fascist group Patriotic Alternative until that group distanced themselves from him following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. [22] Since then, according to Hope Not Hate, Robertson's influence has been "radically diminished". [8]

Views

Robertson is a proponent of the white genocide conspiracy theory. [4] He has claimed in interviews that "there are problems with the Jewish people". [5] According to anti-racism and anti-fascism research group Hope Not Hate, Robertson is known for supporting slavery, and has called for the bombing of refugees crossing the Mediterranean. [9]


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