Across The Grifterverse

Sponsored by Aura! Get your 2 week free trial: https://aura.com/pillarofgarbage Check out my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/pillarofgarbage Or join my channel on YouTube with a Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7XOnnm5NYz6JxUuG_dSVw/join Watch my podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@PillarOfGarbagePoGcast Make a (free, easy) difference with TabForTrees: https://tabfortrees.org/pillarofgarbage Join the Pillar of Garbage Discord server! https://discord.gg/WQEk4UPeC6 Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PillarGarbage Follow me on BlueSky! https://bsky.app/profile/pillarofgarbage.bsky.social I'm on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@PillarOfGarbage or check out the Pillar of Garbage subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/pillarofgarbage Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcrbDaPcs-JWeBsdUXYukVQ #videoessay 0:00 Introduction 3:56 Lauren Chen 5:22 Alex Jones 9:38 The Architects of the Alt-Right 16:47 Conclusion Sources- Major sources: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism#.grEVqB2aa https://rewritingripley.medium.com/calling-out-hate-in-fandom-isnt-enough-we-must-deplatform-it-24ab2394ae5b Web pages shown: Reddit comment's thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1bgdcnr/pillar_of_garbage_uncovers_web_of_altright/ Chen as a Christian Nationalist: https://archive.is/iBcz9 Bannon USA today article: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/ The 'Breitbart did it' article: https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2016/05/05/heres-left-desperate-defend-new-feminist-ghostbusters/ Posobiec BIC: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/0*TnNRHZq33WJ7vwCP.png Misc: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/steve-bannon-will-lead-trumps-white-house https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/4-key-takeaways-from-the-monster-milo-yiannopoulos-leak.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/steve-bannon-has-a-nazi-problem https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-who-is-the-donald-trumps-chief-strategist-and-why-i/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/us/politics/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-paul-manafort.html https://cosmicbook.news/disney-marvel-race-swapping-x-men-remove-white-characters https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/a-deadly-ideology-how-the-great-replacement-theory-went-mainstream Videos: Chen for PragerU: https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1227979743363915776 Actual Fandom on Nerdwars: https://youtu.be/FGKkIcqjrOY?si=hZpFZ89HMqNj4Peq Nerdwars video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-UKyhnh1c&ab_channel=NERDWARS Bannon / Jones: https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/us-news/steve-bannon-alex-jones-interview-b2130070.html Old Heelvsbabyface WOW video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EndhQks4MiA&ab_channel=HeelvsBabyface# Gavin FNT: https://youtu.be/Zco4h0M1K_s?si=p-10DXkMXnVOqqxt Alex FNT: https://www.youtube.com/live/rDN6S-GR8yc?si=L_XLslboLopE_twx (nonattributed videos are from my previous video on this topic - https://youtu.be/iAg9zsBy7fo?si=VlchC7a_gZbWE_Ef - and are cited there)