Weekly Scroll: Freaks and Gatekeepers
Nick Fuentes, the rise of clip culture, and one good AI song
We cover a wide variety here at Infinite Scroll, from the deeply silly to the deadly serious. But what I really want, in mixing the silly and the serious, is to give you a set of tools to analyze the things that happen online. The online world matters. You can’t understand modern politics or culture if you don’t understand what’s happening on the social internet. Viewed through the correct lens, the chaotic social media landscape becomes more legible, the nebulous nature of online discourse becomes clearer, and you end up understanding the world around you better. And one story last week made that especially clear.
The Business of Grifting Groypers
The Washington Post published a very interesting article last week about the superfans of Nick Fuentes, leader of the far right Groyper movement. As you’d expect, they discovered a new Type Of Guy so bizarre that scientists previously thought him to be impossible:
