On January 17, 50,000 online viewers watched as several “manosphere” influencers, who built their reputations on violent misogyny, and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, threw Nazi salutes and sang along to a song by Kanye West (“Ye,” who apologized for his recent antisemitism) with the chorus “n***a Heil Hitler.” Besides Fuentes, there was far-right streamer Nico Kenn De Balinthazy (“Sneako”), self-avowed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, antisemitic influencer Amrou Fudl (“Myron Gaines”), Justin Waller, and new-to-the-scene “looksmaxxer” streamer Braden Peters, better known as “Clavicular.”
They livestreamed themselves partying to the pro-Hitler tune in both a party bus and the Vendome nightclub in Miami Beach. The backlash was immediate. Steven Meiner, Miami Beach’s mayor, described the influencers as “twisted individuals glorifying Hitler and the murder of millions.” Vendome Miami, the nightclub responsible for playing the song at the influencers’ behest, conducted an internal review and “permanently banned” the group from the venue, citing a “zero tolerance policy towards antisemitism or any other form of discrimination.”
Antisemitic influencer Amrou Fudl (“Myron Gaines,” middle left) gleefully throwing a Roman salute to Ye’s “HH,” a song with the lyrics “Heil Hitler,” alongside Tristan Tate (top left), Nick Fuentes (top right), Sneako (bottom right), and Clavicular (bottom left). (Source: Kick).
The incident brought together some of the most prominent misogynists from around the world, including 39-year old Andrew Tate, who resides in Romania, and 20-year-old American Braden Peters (“Clavicular”). These transnational collaborations further entrench extremist beliefs, from the neo-Nazism that Nick Fuentes peddles to the rape apology of Andrew Tate, into the mainstream and the minds of young people who watch their content. The hateful ideologies they push can result in violence, continuing a disturbing trend of youths being involved in extremist rhetoric, organizations, and violent attacks against women and other marginalized groups.
The manosphere is a “loose network of communities that claim to address men’s struggles,” including dating and fitness, but often put the blame on, and subsequently promote hate towards, women. Frequently overlapping with the manosphere is the “incel” (“involuntary celibate”) movement, which purports that men are entitled to sex, and women purposefully deprive them of it. The manosphere’s influence on youth culture is clear — 73 percent of Generation Z (born 1997 to 2012) social media users have witnessed misogynistic content online, with half encountering it on a weekly basis.
In extreme cases, incels advocate for rape and other forms of violence against women, and have been involved in several acts of targeted hate against women, including murder. In 2014, a 22-year-old incel, now revered by the incels online, murdered six and injured another 14 people in Isla Vista, California. His manifesto described a “deep-rooted loathing of women, fueled by an intense frustration over his virginity.” His video published on YouTube spoke of “retribution.” Four years later, in 2018, an incel murdered eight women and two men after driving his van onto a busy sidewalk in Toronto, Canada. His act of mass murder, the deadliest in the city’s history, was inspired by the Isla Vista murderer and his own hatred for women who wouldn’t sleep with him. It is likely that he was radicalized in online spaces.
Here are profiles of key figures in this movement.
Braden Peters (“Clavicular”)
The now-infamous stream was hosted by 20-year old Braden Peters, who is known online as “Clavicular.” Peters is a relatively new influencer, gaining popularity on TikTok and the streaming platform Kick in 2025. He now sits at over 140,000 followers on Kick and over 718,000 on TikTok. He gained internet stardom as a “looksmaxxing” influencer, which is part of an incel subculture fixated on appearance enhancement, including extreme and unsafe practices, such as using methamphetamine to remain slim, and “bonesmashing,” which involves bashing your jaw with a hard object to have it regrow with stronger, thicker bones.
Scientific studies have shown that looksmaxxing “negatively impacts men’s and boys’ health and self-worth,” and the subtext of the practice has been described as white supremacy. Peters himself said that “saving European culture” requires steroids and looksmaxxing, and modeled his social media strategy after that of Fuentes, who also propelled into the mainstream in 2025. Peters’ and looksmaxxing’s negative influence on young men is evident through the r/Clavicular subreddit forum, where fans of Peters report having medical issues due to bonesmashing, while other young men claim to bleach their skin to appear more white, in what is described as “whitemaxxing.”
Peters’ misogyny runs deep. He has gone viral on TikTok for rating women’s attractiveness using pseudoscientific jargon, including on fellow misogynist Amrou Fudl’s (“Myron Gaines”) “Fresh and Fit” podcast. In November 2025, he injected his then 17-year old girlfriend with cosmetic peptides, made up of reportedly unapproved compounds, meant to break down cheek fat, during a Kick stream. The same month, in an interview on YouTube with far-right outlet The Daily Wire contributor Michael Knowles, Peters and Knowles blamed women for “enticing men” and “tempting them to sin” by making adult content on platforms such as OnlyFans. Further, Peters claimed “it’s the job of the men to shape the society (sic)” since “obviously women aren’t going to hold themselves accountable and be moral people.”
Despite less than a year in the spotlight, Peters already has connections to violence. In December 2025, he ran over an alleged stalker with his Tesla Cybertruck. He reveled in the violence afterward, saying “Is he dead? I hope so,” and “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” later in a social media post. In January 2026, Peters bragged about removing condoms during sex without his partners’ consent, an act called “stealthing,” which is a civil offense in California and Washington and widely considered in the United States as “rape-adjacent” behavior. In Canada and the United Kingdom, stealthing is considered a form of rape and is therefore illegal.
Peters’ resume of bigotry and violence makes it unsurprising that he showed no remorse following the “Heil Hitler” nightclub incident. In fact, he celebrated that “we are everywhere on social media,” and defended the hateful messaging against criticism, saying “It’s just a song, no problem with rap songs about drugs and murder though,” suggesting a song with the lyrics “Heil Hitler” is no worse than a song about doing drugs.
Nico Kenn De Balinthazy (“Sneako”)
27-year-old Nico Kenn De Balinthazy, more commonly known as “Sneako,” put up his first YouTube video in 2013 (when he was around 14 years old). He spent his early years posting gaming videos, including those in which he said he was “all for gay marriage,” “very liberal [and] anti-conservative],” racists should “go to a mental institution,” and even posted a tribute to Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On April 4, 2015, Sneako’s politics apparently shifted when he released “Why I’m not a Feminist – The Hypocrisy of Feminism,” where he said “the third wave of feminism to me is a bullshit way for insecure women to get riled up over nothing.” From then on, his content took a turn for the worse towards inceldom and “anti-woke” rhetoric.
Sneako’s content moved from criticizing racism to “anti-woke” and incel content around ten years ago. (Source: YouTube).
Sneako was hired, and later reportedly fired, by popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson (“Mr. Beast”) for “promoting incel culture and transphobia.” He posted other controversial material on YouTube, such as simulating himself raping a woman YouTuber he disagreed with and threatening another content creator, saying he would “break [his] face.” Sneako was eventually banned from YouTube in 2022 for violating community guidelines (his account was reinstated in late 2025). Around 2023, Sneako started publicly supporting Nick Fuentes, and even worked with him on Kanye West’s unofficial presidential campaign.
Following his YouTube ban, Sneako began creating content on Rumble, a far-right video hosting platform popular among Trump supporters, which rose to prominence by platforming banned YouTubers. Rumble routinely hosts Nazi content alongside Trump allies and manosphere influencers like Sneako. In September 2023, Sneako was approached by a group of young boys during one of his livestreams. Ecstatic at meeting one of their idols, the children began yelling “Andrew Tate! Fuck the women! Fuck the women!,” “all gays should die,” and “fuck gays!”
Instead of denouncing the children’s calls for violence, Sneako absolved himself of any responsibility in promoting violence against women and gay people: “If it sounds egregious to you, blame the [rainbow emoji] flags in their classrooms. Blame the media for emasculating men. Its [sic] YOUR fault for forcing an obvious agenda. Not these kids. BOYS WILL BE BOYS.”
Sneako defends children, inspired by manosphere influencers such as himself and Andrew Tate, saying “all gays should die.” (Source: X).
Following the nightclub controversy, Sneako not only defended his part in it as “pro free speech,” but likened it to the Boston Tea Party, saying “It is the Founding Fathers dumping the tea into the ocean. You want to tax us? We’re gonna go flip over your boats. It’s a rejection of everything you’re not allowed to say.”
Andrew Tate And The Others
39-year old Andrew Tate, who was in attendance along with his younger brother, Tristan, is a former kickboxer who became a manosphere influencer by selling online courses promoting hyper-masculinity. Tate has graphically described how he would assault a woman for accusing him of cheating, and currently faces a civil trial over allegations that he subjected four women to physical or sexual abuse. The trial is set for 2027 in the United Kingdom. Tate denies the allegations.
Tate’s influence on young men is well-documented, with around 42 percent of children aged nine to sixteen holding neutral or favorable views of Tate, the majority being older boys, and reports suggest that the harmful views he purports “[translate] into harmful behaviors.” He has over 11 million followers on X and 2.2 million subscribers on Rumble, using both platforms to spread content supporting the racist “Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which purports that white people are being intentionally “replaced” by migrants, and whose believers have committed violence against immigrants, Jews, and Muslims worldwide. His posts on X are rife with misogyny, including accusations that “females always do the work of satan,” and claiming that all “women are sex workers” who seek out men to “pay for their entire lives in return for p*ssy.”
Self-avowed misogynist Andrew Tate claims that women “always do the work of satan,” and “usher in all great destructions.” (Source: X).
He also has a long history of antisemitism, such as making references to the “Jewish Question,” an antisemitic term implying that the existence of Jews is a “question” that needs to be solved, to which Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the persecution and eventual extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Tate also claimed “we should bring the Nazi salute back,” mimicking Elon Musk’s salute at a pro-Trump rally, and claimed that World War II, during which Hitler and the Nazis committed the Holocaust, is a “psyop” (“psyop” is short for psychological operation, military language describing “someone or something used by the government to influence the population’s opinions and values”). Tate has previously used Ye’s “HH” song in his videos, but chose to distance himself from the club incident following media backlash, saying “I didn’t want to go to the club, I said I don’t want to go, I said this is bullshit” and “I’m sorry to anybody who was offended.”
Andrew Tate replicating Elon Musk’s Roman salute in January 2025, saying “my heart goes out to you.” (Source: X).
Sitting on the party bus, and later standing awkwardly in the back of the club, was 27-year old neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who self-identifies as an incel, believes “women need to shut the fuck up,” inspired a wave of online misogyny after the 2024 presidential election, and has his own history of violence. In November 2024, Fuentes attacked 58-year old Jewish feminist activist Marla Rose, during which he pepper sprayed and pushed her down the stairs in front of his house. Fuentes was charged with one count of misdemeanor battery. In December 2025, Fuentes was sentenced to an anger management course, ordered to write a formal apology to the woman he assaulted, and 75 hours of community service. Fuentes’ “Groyper” movement is predominantly made up of teenagers and college students, most of whom are boys.
Also present was 35-year old Sudanese-American Amrou Fudl (aka “Myron Gaines”). Fudl is the host of the Fresh and Fit podcast, which has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a popular male supremacist podcast.” Fudl referred to Hitler as a “revolutionary leader” who “saved Germany,” pushes Holocaust denialism on his live streams, and has written a book called “Why Women Deserve Less.” Fudl specializes in making juvenile livestreaming content, such as dancing to AI-generated antisemitic songs. Like most of the others, Fudl doubled-down on his Nazi salute and support for Hitler (Fudl claimed his podcast co-host was responsible for getting the song played), donning a KKK hood in one of his subsequent streams. The KKK were infamous for lynching Black people, often leaving them hanging from a tree as a warning to other Black people living close-by. From 1882 to 1968, over 4,700 lynchings occurred in the United States.
Amrou Fudl, aka Myron Gaines,dons a KKK hood shortly after he threw Roman salutes live on stream to the song “HH” (“Heil Hitler”) by Ye. (Source: X).
Radicalizing A Young Audience
Misogyny is already imbued within social media platforms, with 73 percent of Gen Z social media users witnessing misogynistic content online, half of whom encounter it every week. This trend is evident in the amount of hate experienced by Gen Z women online, as 44 percent of Gen Z women users reported receiving unsolicited explicit images, 32 percent experiencing hate speech, and 27 percent reporting online stalking.
The manosphere is raising young boys to participate in this culture of violence against women. Forty-one percent of women have experienced sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime. Sneako’s previously-mentioned encounter with boys yelling “Andew Tate! fuck the women!” and “all gays should die” is a clear example of how the manosphere influences young boys into hating women and cheering on violence against the LGBTQ+ community. This is a transnational phenomenon. A study by White Ribbon, a Canadian non-profit, found 80 percent of educators witnessing sexist or misogynistic behaviors in the classroom, and “67 [percent] of professionals that work in education, mental health, child and youth care and related sectors [encountering] situations where incel-influenced beliefs or attitudes were linked to incidents of gender-based violence.”
Similarly, neo-Nazi content, once confined to the darkest corners of the internet, is now readily available for young audiences to view on platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. Fudl and Fuentes constantly go viral on Instagram, with the former even capitalizing on his virality in order to sell antisemitic merchandise on the platform, including clothing which promotes Holocaust denial. Teenage boys radicalized into the same white supremacy pushed by manosphere influencers have engaged in real-world acts. For example, the Patriot Youth, a youth group based on the American white supremacist Patriot Front, harassed people on Roblox (an online video game) before teaming up with the neo-Nazi Tennessee Active Club (Active Clubs are a transnational neo-Nazi movement dedicated to training for an upcoming “race war”) to harass a book club at Middle Tennessee State University in October 2023. Two years later, as more youths became radicalized into white supremacy, offshoots of Active Clubs dedicated to teenage boys aged 15 to 18, dubbed “Youth Clubs,” began emerging all over the United States, with at least 19 chapters representing 42 states. Youth Clubs explicitly state that its members need to “fight back against… great globalist evils” such as “Jews” and “liberal sycophants and homosexuals.”
While some may write off the Miami nightclub incident as unimportant drama involving online influencers, the damage that their misogyny and bigotry causes to the minds of young men cannot be overstated. Misogyny is regularly promoted by mainstream influencers. Educators worry about a rising tide of misogyny coupled with a lack of resources available to combat rising levels of hate in the classroom. The convergence of manosphere, incel, misogynistic content and neo-Nazism is a dangerous cocktail which will only continue to stoke hate and violence against women, the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized communities both online and in the real world.
