Millennial Woes

Last updated
Millennial Woes
Personal information
Born
Colin Robertson [1]
Nationality Scottish
OccupationSocial media personality
Website millennialwoes.com
YouTube information
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]

Contents

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. [8]

Robertson stepped away from political activism after various accusations of sexual harassment and assault were levelled against him. [9] Other leaders in the far-right movement, such as Mark Collett and Jason Köhne, have stated that compelling evidence corroborates the allegations. [9] In response to the controversy, Robertson released a statement stating that "A few of [the allegations] are true, [but] many are not", apologized for "letting people down," and stated that he intended to "take some time away to actively work on my personal failings." [10]

In 2022, a documentary film was made about his alt right career, titled "Whovian Woes" [11]

Career

Robertson attended an art college in London in the mid-2000s. He launched his YouTube channel at the end of 2013. [12]

In January 2017, Robertson began receiving coverage from BBC News [13] and national newspapers, [14] after Scottish tabloid the Daily Record claimed to have doxxed Millennial Woes, "expos[ing]" his birth name, family's home address and sending reporters and photographers to his parents' home to try to find him. [15] Robertson was reported to have "left Britain", posting a video to his YouTube channel named "Fugitive Woes". [16] BNP-affiliated group Civil Liberty publicly defended him, claiming his outing by media was a "hate campaign fomented by Daily Mirror ". [17]

In August 2017, Salon claimed that Millennial Woes was one of only a few alt-right platforms to rapidly grow, alongside Red Ice, VDARE and The Rebel Media. [18] [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]

Speeches

Robertson delivered a speech at the National Policy Institute Conference in November 2016, in Washington DC. On 4 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech entitled " Withnail and I as Viewed From the Right" at The London Forum in Kensington, [22] which The Independent described as "a meeting of prominent far-right voices". [23] On 25 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech in Stockholm organised by Motpol, which had been promoted as "the most important alt-right conference in Europe". According to IBTimes, the event took place in a "secret location" in Södermalm. [24] On 1 July 2017, he appeared at the Scandza Forum in Oslo, a far-right conference [25] known for promoting racism and antisemitism. [26] Searchlight covered his appearance, reporting the title of the conference as "Globalism v the Ethnostate" and Robertson as a "scheduled speaker". [15]

Accusations

In May 2020, Robertson stepped away from political activism after various accusations of sexual harassment and assault were levelled against him by far-right communities online. [27] Other leaders in the far-right movement, such as Mark Collett and Jason Köhne, have stated that compelling evidence corroborates the allegations. [9]

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]

Related Research Articles

American Renaissance is a white supremacist website and former monthly magazine publication founded and edited by Jared Taylor. It is published by the New Century Foundation.

Mark Adrian Collett is a British neo-Nazi political activist. He was formerly chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party (BNP), and was director of publicity for the party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fourteen Words</span> White-supremacist slogans

Fourteen Words is a reference to two slogans originated by David Eden Lane, one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, and are accompanied by Lane's "88 Precepts". The slogans have served as a rallying cry for militant white nationalists internationally.

The National Policy Institute (NPI) was a white supremacist think tank and lobbying group based in Alexandria, Virginia. It lobbied for white supremacists and the alt-right. Its president was Richard B. Spencer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stefan Molyneux</span> Irish-Canadian white nationalist podcaster

Stefan Basil Molyneux is an Irish-born Canadian white nationalist podcaster and proponent of conspiracy theories, white supremacy, scientific racism, and the men's rights movement. He is the founder of the Freedomain Radio website. As of September 2020, Molyneux has been permanently banned or suspended from PayPal, Mailchimp, YouTube, and SoundCloud, all for violating hate speech policies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard B. Spencer</span> American white supremacist (born 1978)

Richard Bertrand Spencer is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and white supremacist. Spencer claimed to have coined the term "alt-right" and was the most prominent advocate of the alt-right movement from its earliest days. He advocates for the reconstitution of the European Union into a white racial empire, which he believes will replace the diverse European ethnic identities with one homogeneous "White identity".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rebel News</span> Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website

Rebel News is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lauren Southern</span> Canadian alt-right political activist (born 1995)

Lauren Cherie Southern is a Canadian alt-right YouTuber, political activist and commentator. In 2015, Southern ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in the Canadian federal election. Southern worked for Rebel Media until March 2017, when she began to work independently.

Paul Ray Ramsey is an American far-right vlogger, YouTube personality, and public speaker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Faith Goldy</span> Canadian white nationalist

Faith Julia Goldy, also known as Faith Goldy-Bazos, is a Canadian far-right, white nationalist political commentator, associated with the alt-right. She was a contributor to The Rebel Media and covered the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her contract was terminated in 2017 after she participated in a podcast on The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Enoch</span> American white supremacist blogger and podcast host(born 1977)

Michael Enoch Isaac Peinovich, more commonly known as Mike Enoch, is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, blogger, and podcast host. He founded the alt-right media network The Right Stuff and podcast The Daily Shoah. Through his work, Enoch ridicules African Americans, Jews, and other minorities, advocates racial discrimination, and promotes conspiracy theories such as Holocaust denial and white genocide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greg Johnson (white nationalist)</span> American white nationalist (born 1971)

Gregory Johnson is an American white nationalist and advocate for a white ethnostate. He is known for his role as editor-in-chief of the white nationalist imprint Counter-Currents Publishing, which he founded in 2010 with Michael Polignano.

BitChute is an alt-tech video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It describes itself as offering freedom of speech, while the service is known for hosting far-right individuals, conspiracy theorists, and hate speech. Some creators who use BitChute have been banned from YouTube; some others crosspost content to both platforms or post more extreme content only to BitChute. Before its deprecation, BitChute claimed to use peer-to-peer WebTorrent technology for video distribution, though this was disputed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lana Lokteff</span> American white supremacist

Lana Jennifer Lokteff is an American far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist, who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent YouTube personality before being banned. She is the host of Radio 3Fourteen.

The London Forum is a loose organisation of far-right individuals based in London but with regional headquarters across the United Kingdom. Emerging in 2011 out of a split within the British far-right, meetings were regularly held by the organisation. These have been met with significant protests by anti-fascist activists and have been infiltrated by journalists, most notably a 2015 investigation of the group by The Mail on Sunday with the help of Searchlight, an anti-fascist magazine that focuses on the British far-right.

The Traditional Britain Group (TBG) is a British far-right pressure group that describes itself as traditionalist conservative and "home to the disillusioned patriot". It was founded in 2001 by Gregory Lauder-Frost, with Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley as its president. Sudeley was still in office when he died in 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-François Gariépy</span> Canadian neuroscientist and far-right political commentator

Jean-François Gariépy is a Canadian white nationalist, former neuroscience researcher, and alt-right political commentator. Gariépy hosted the YouTube channel The Public Space before launching his current channel JFG Tonight where he calls for the creation of a white ethnostate, promotes antisemitic messages, and advocates for the genetic superiority of white people. The Anti-Defamation League lists The Public Space among "White Supremacist Channels". Gariépy has been described as a "standard bearer of the alt-right."

Red Ice is a white supremacist multimedia company based in Sweden and led by the married couple Lana Lokteff and Henrik Palmgren. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described Red Ice as being important in the YouTube alt-right radicalization pipeline, further radicalizing people tentatively on the far-right and having "a history of embracing white supremacist rhetoric and talking points".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patriotic Alternative</span> British far-right hate group

Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a British far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group which states that it has active branches nationwide. The Times described it in 2023 as "Britain's largest far-right white supremacist movement". Its stance has been variously described as Islamophobic, fascist and racist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Anglin</span> American neo-Nazi and webhost

Andrew Barret Anglin is an American neo-Nazi and conspiracy theorist, and editor of the website The Daily Stormer. Through this website, Anglin uses elements of Nazism combined with Internet memes originating from 4chan to promote white supremacy, fascism, and antisemitic conspiracy theories such as Holocaust denial to a young audience.

References

  1. ↑ "Fallout from modern protests: naming and shaming online". The Christian Science Monitor. 17 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Are these the faces of London's young 'alt-right'?". The Standard. 2 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "I Love Hans Hoppe!". LewRockwell.com. 23 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Exposed racist vlogger flees home and faces police probe". Sunday Herald. 15 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 "WATCH: 'Alt-Right' Owns up to Anti-Semitism". The Forward. 16 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Warwick student's leading role in Facebook hate group exposed". The Boar. 27 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Townsend, Mark (August 24, 2019). "Far-right activist posted to serve on Trident submarine". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  8. ↑ "PATRIOTIC ALTERNATIVE: UNITING THE FASCIST RIGHT?" (PDF). Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  9. 1 2 3 "White Nationalist YouTuber Goes Dark After Allegations of Sexual Misconduct". 5 May 2020.
  10. ↑ "Millennial Woes". Telegram. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  11. ↑ Porter, Liam (2022-08-01). "Whovian Woes". YouTube. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  12. ↑ "Government suspends its YouTube advertising, amid concerns about where revenue goes". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 April 2017.
  13. ↑ "Scotland's papers: Crime figures 'fiddle' and Brexit warning". BBC News. 9 January 2017.
  14. ↑ "Racist vlogger who became global YouTube sensation unmasked as jobless ex-student who lives with dad". Daily Mirror . 9 January 2017.
  15. 1 2 "International Nazi movement meets again in Norway". Searchlight. 4 July 2017.
  16. ↑ "Vile YouTube racist flees to US and puts out the begging bowl after Record exposes him". Daily Record (Scotland). 11 January 2017.
  17. ↑ "You Tube vlogger faces hate campaign fomented by Daily Mirror". Civil Liberty (UK). 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  18. ↑ "Trump and the Nazis: Our troll-in-chief has a deep affinity with the alt-right — and with their ancestors". Salon . 20 August 2017.
  19. ↑ As it was then known.
  20. ↑ "'Sargon Of Akkad' Cites White Nationalist Propaganda, Reveals His Alt-Right Sympathies". Right Wing Watch. 11 January 2017.
  21. ↑ "Faith Goldy Recites The '14 Words'". Right Wing Watch. 20 December 2017.
  22. ↑ Poulter, James (12 March 2018). "The Neo-Nazi Home of the UK Alt-Right". Vice .
  23. ↑ "Activists blockade London meeting of 'secret Neo Nazi society'" . The Independent . 6 February 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14.
  24. ↑ "Inside the alt-right: Stockholm conference brings together US and European white nationalists". International Business Times . 3 March 2017.
  25. ↑ "US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway" . The Independent . 2019-11-03. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  26. ↑ Cotovio, Vasco. "Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference". CNN. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  27. ↑ Holt, Jared Holt (2020-05-05). "White Nationalist YouTuber Goes Dark After Allegations of Sexual Misconduct". Right Wing Watch. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.