For whom the boys troll
“Groypers,” fans of far-right streamer Nick Fuentes, insist that his sexist and racist comments are “jokes.” How does the idea of transgressive humor appeal to young men, and what do they do when the joke turns against them?
“It’s just jokes,” 19-year-old Lucas “Luke” Nevcherlian told his mother. The two were outside their family home in Edgewater, Florida, this past October, going over Luke’s internet history.
That might make for an excruciating private exchange between many teenagers and their mothers. But the Nevcherlians were being recorded on a police officer’s bodycam , as an FBI agent read out a slew of sexist and antisemitic messages that Luke had allegedly been sharing online.
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