An ongoing normalization of extremist beliefs, coupled with social media platforms’ recalcitrance to take appropriate action, has manifested in popular influencers monetizing neo-Nazi, Holocaust denial, and other antisemitic content on Instagram, which has an estimated two billion monthly active users worldwide. These influencers include Hayden McDougall, Dylan Shane, Jake Shields, and Myron Gaines, who use their accounts and collaborations to boost bigoted content from each other. They also boost bigoted content from influencers who are banned from Instagram, such as Holocaust denier and antisemitic podcaster Nick Fuentes, as a way to subvert Instagram rules. They all spread extreme antisemitism on their multiple platforms (usually coupled with misogyny and other forms of bigotry), and monetize their hatred by guiding users to their online storefronts, which feature antisemitic and neo-Nazi merchandise.
The United States is currently in the midst of a “dramatic rise in antisemitism…that most Jews alive have never seen” before, including several acts of violence targeted at Jews and synagogues in 2025. And there is an ongoing schism in the political far right about the influence and mass sanitization of Nick Fuentes. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts (architect of Project 2025) had to apologize to his staff and membership after declaring critics of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes a “venomous” coalition “from the globalist class,” with globalist often used as a euphemism for “Jews.” These high-level scandals relating to antisemitism reflect a growing trend in not only the normalization of bigotry, but also the platforming and monetization of neo-Nazis enabled by companies such as Meta and Patrick Bet-David’s Minnect consultation platform.
Hayden McDougall
One influencer to reach prominence on Instagram through his bigoted content is Hayden McDougall who has an account called “WomanPropoaganda,” and his own website called “Angry Patriot Media.” McDougall claims to have earned a Bachelor of Science in business finance, and has a background in social media, videography, and editing. He’s been working freelance as a “social media marketing manager” since June 2021, and is the head of marketing at Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes’ Censored.tv livestreaming platform. His largest audience is on Instagram, but he also has a YouTube channel and a storefront, the latter of which is used to monetize bigotry such as Holocaust denial through t-shirts advertising neo-Nazi documentaries such as Europa: The Last Battle.
Woman Propaganda’s first post on Instagram was made on February 8, 2025, and has since skyrocketed to over 1.3 million followers and 471 posts in just nine months. McDougall claims to be “Debunking the internet’s most viral feminist propaganda,” an obviously misogynistic goal, although he also traffics in racism and antisemitism. On his posts, McDougall has claimed that Mexicans should “go back to Mexico,” suggested he doesn’t feel safe around Black people, and called for women to have their rights stripped from them. In one video of Charlie Kirk criticizing left-wing non-profits as “a beast created by secular Jews”, McDougall questioned whether “Charlie [was] noticing too much,” and got killed as a result. “Noticing,” or “Naming the Jew,” is a conspiratorial antisemitic strategy meant to portray Jews as controlling powerful institutions, usually in order to disenfranchise white people. For example, “always blame the Jews for everything” is mentioned in the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website’s style guide as a strategy to radicalize other right-wing readers.
A post by McDougall speculated that Charlie Kirk was “noticing” too much, an antisemitic dogwhistle. As a result, users spread conspiracies that Israel was responsible for Kirk’s murder. (Source: Instagram)
McDougall’s meteoric rise to online fame clearly earned him the admiration of other prominent antisemites and white supremacists such as the Legend Valley Proud Boys, leading to collaborations with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, neo-Nazi Paul Miller, antisemitic and “manosphere” influencer Myron Gaines, and others. McDougall’s posts with Miller can only be described as grotesquely anti-Black. One clip, with over 69,000 likes, features McDougall calling a Black person a “fa***t n****r” and Miller hoping the same person dies of monkeypox. Other posts feature McDougall and Miller spewing more anti-Black racism, such as a call to segregate all Black people, and anti-Arabic and Islamophobic vitriol. Fans seem to love their content, and associate both McDougall and Miller as being part of a larger “Groyper” online ecosystem, referring to the white supremacist movement permeating the mainstream led by Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. In a photo featuring McDougall next to Paul Miller (over 256,000 likes), one user commented “Future cabinet members of Nick J Fuentes,” which alone received over 20,000 likes.
McDougall’s online collaboration with antisemite Amrou Fudl (“Myron Gaines”), for example performing a Roman Salute together, is rife with bigotry. In a clip of his appearance on Gaines’ Fresh and Fit podcast posted on Instagram, he supported the abolition of Section 8 housing, which provides rental assistance to low-income households, often associated by racists to Black people, and called for police brutality to be used against them. That clip has amassed over 90,000 likes. McDougall also shared a clip of his collaboration with podcaster Lilly Gaddis, who dressed in Blackface in a now-removed video posted on Twitter in October, captioned “Least favorite race???” in which they disparaged Black and Mexican people. McDougall has had posts removed from Instagram in the past for breaking Meta’s Community Standards, but it was simply reposted on Twitter, where content moderation is virtually non-existent.
McDougall’s 1.3 million followers can access his other overtly bigoted content through a link available on his Instagram profile page. This leads users to his YouTube channel, where he regularly platforms content created by Nick Fuentes, McDougall’s Censored.Tv (Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes’ platform) channel, and storefront. McDougall sells a series of overtly racist and antisemitic merchandise, including a t-shirt advertising “Europa: The Last Battle,” a neo-Nazi documentary film promoting Nazi Germany and Holocaust revisionism. He also sells shirts featuring violent crusader imagery and “WANGHAF,” short for “white-ass n****s going hard as fuck,” a term popularized by Fuentes, and a shirt depicting Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, holding a gun captioned “drop commies.” Rittenhouse was later found not guilty on all charges related to the shootings.
Hayden McDougall sells neo-Nazi merchandise, including those advertising the Nazi cult documentary “Europa: The Last Battle,” on his storefront to his 1.3 million Instagram followers. (Source: Red Pill Threads).
Dylan Shane
Dylan Shane is an Instagram influencer with over 509,000 followers on his primary account and 31,000 followers on his “backup” account, a common ban-evasion tactic used by so-called “edgy” content creators. For the most part, his post history is filled with juvenile misogyny. Since early October 2025, his posts have featured neo-Nazi hashtags, such as #14, representing the 14 words (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”), and #88, numerology for HH or “Heil Hitler.” He now calls to “Nuke Israel” because he believes “Israel is the synagogue of Satan,” posts Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” song, and strongly alludes to being radicalized into neo-Nazi beliefs by comparing himself to Inglorious Basterds Nazi villain Hans Landa. The most concerning posts feature explicitly Nazi imagery, such as the Totenkopf (“Deaths Head”), which he openly shows himself wearing, a Swastika flag, and a series of stickers featuring the SS lightning bolts, Black Sun, and the Totenkopf, which is advertised as merchandise.
Dylan Shane posts a video on Instagram featuring stickers with neo-Nazi imagery, such as the SS lightning bolts, the Black Sun, and Totenkopf. (Source: Instagram).
This merchandise is accessible through another Instagram account linked in his profile, called “Curb Stomp MFG,” which links to its own storefront. The online shop is littered with neo-Nazi symbolism, such as the SS lightning bolts with an American flag design, and an SS face mask. ICE’s face mask policy opens the door to violent extremists using masks to commit acts of vigilantism, and the FBI has warned other agencies to properly identify themselves to avoid this violence. Other items include accessories such as Nazi stickers, Totenkopf duffle bags, rings, and even a t-shirt closely resembling the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain logo featuring a Klan member.
Dylan Shane advertises an online shop selling an SS facemask. (Source: Curb Stomp MFG).
Jake Shields
Former UFC fighter turned podcaster Jake Shields is also a peddler of antisemitism on Instagram, boasting over 200,000 followers on the platform. While not his preferred platform (Shields has over 800,000 followers on Twitter), Shields still spreads content purporting that Jews “own” the Republican and Democrat parties, even using “fashwave,” a style of online fascist propaganda also currently employed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Twitter. One video, posted on October 26, features Charlie Kirk speaking about left-wing organizations being funded by “secular Jews” (the same clip shared by McDougall, mentioned above). Behind Kirk appears to be a Black Sun, an explicitly Nazi symbol popularized during Hitler’s reign, composed of rifles. Much of Shields’ content on Instagram features clips from his “Fight Back” podcast, made available through a link on his Instagram profile, where he has interviewed a variety of antisemites and white supremacists, including Nick Fuentes, neo-Nazi David Duke, Holocaust denier E. Michael Jones, antisemitic influencer Ian Carroll, neo-Nazi Paul Miller, and “manosphere” influencer Myron Gaines. Shields’ posts on Instagram feature outright Holocaust denial, anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and anti-Black content. Shields’ continued popularity, along with far-right extremism becoming increasingly mainstream, has apparently led him to consider running for office “so we can take our country back from these parasites [Jews].”
Shields posts a video of Charlie Kirk discussing “secular Jews’” influence on left-wing organizations, with what appears to be a Sonnenrad in the background composed of rifles. (Source: Instagram).
Through his Instagram profile, users are able to access a link to Shields’ merchandise where he sells a myriad of bigoted materials. Shields sells t-shirts with antisemitic dog whistles, such as “Professional Noticer,” and “Just Say No To ZOG,” both of which reference an antisemitic narrative meant to portray Jews as controlling powerful institutions. The juice box, featured on the “Professional Noticer” shirt, is a common emoji used to say “Jews” on social media platforms to avoid content moderation.
Jake Shields sells a t-shirt called “professional noticer,” which is an antisemtic dog whistle. (Source: Fight Back Podcast).
Myron Gaines
Amrou Fudl (aka “Myron Gaines”) is the host of the Fresh and Fit podcast, and recently 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.” Gaines has more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, and features misogynistic content regularly. He also spreads antisemitic rhetoric about “Jewish control,” such as listing the “Jews” as the “most problematic influence” in the United States alongside Indians from southeast Asia and Chinese people, and claiming that Jews own the media.
Myron Gaines posts a video claiming Jews own institutional power and use it for their own gain, calling it a “Cohencidence.” (Source: Instagram)
Users can find Gaines’ other social media platforms, such as Twitter (363,000 followers), and his own storefront through his Instagram profile. Gaines’ Twitter feed is rife with posts praising Hitler (“a revolutionary leader [who] saved Germany”), and spreading Holocaust revisionism. He also espouses a number of misogynistic beliefs such as claiming that “sexuality is [women’s] only agency,” women are “chopped, r*tarded, and delusional,” and that Black women are “always so god damn fat.” Gaines’ monetizes his antisemitism and Holocaust denialism through his storefront, in which he sells a t-shirt titled “Let Em Cook,” featuring the Cookie Monster character from Sesame Street holding several cookies in an oven. The “cookie” analogy, which falsely purports that six million Jews were not exterminated during the Holocaust, supposedly because of a lack of Germany’s available resources, was popularized by white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, whose bigotry is currently undergoing a mass sanitization by podcasters and other media on the mainstream right.
The “Let Em Cook” t-shirt on Myron Gaines’ online storefront references a Holocaust denial analogy popularized by fellow antisemitic podcaster Nick Fuentes. (Source: MGX).
Even with the relaxation of some of its content rules, Meta’s policy on hateful conduct still prohibits content that supports political exclusion (such as women’s right to vote), “harmful stereotypes historically linked to intimidation or violence,” which includes claims that Jews “control financial, political, or media institutions,” mocking hate crimes, and “dehumanizing speech” that generalizes groups to “animals, pathogens, or other sub-human life forms.” Additionally, Meta’s Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy forbids the “glorification” of “violent or hateful acts of a designated entity,” and “celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity.” It also targets and removes the “glorification, support, and representation” of “hateful ideologies,” which specifically include “Nazism,” “White Supremacy,” “White Nationalism,” and “White Separatism.”
Meta’s continued refusal to act on their own policies is actively contributing to the rise of neo-Nazi influencers and the spread of antisemitism. Meta has already shown how little concern they have for this – allowing for the monetization of Nazi content in early 2025 while undergoing a purge in content moderation practices, and in October 2025 allowing for misogynistic and antisemitic AI videos to go viral. As the United States reckons with an exponentially rightward shift and normalization of bigotry, social media companies and political figures alike have a responsibility to denounce, and prevent, the continued spread of rabid and genocidal antisemitism in the mainstream.
