Far-right pundit and content creator Nick Fuentes recently tested the bounds of his own vapidness — while concurrently proving the loyalty of his core supporters — after two of the white nationalist’s followers taped a CNN segment, and one in all the young men didn’t, in keeping with the image-conscious pundit, look the “groyper” part.
The all-too-revealing series of events began last week when two of Fuentes’s devoted “groypers” — the term coined for the very online, performatively white nationalist, anti-immigration, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and sexist gaggle of men whose currency is being obnoxious or inflammatory, but all the time attention-seeking — sat for an interview with CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan to debate their growing online political movement.
John Lawrence was one in all these two young men, each of whom proudly agreed to the interview with the cable news outlet. It’s unclear exactly what they discussed with O’Sullivan, but they surely sang the praises of their groyper king. After the still-unaired segment was within the can, Lawrence posted some stills to his Instagram account, which is reportedly dedicated to groyper content and has amassed upwards of 40,000 followers. In a single still with O’Sullivan, Lawrence even reportedly asserted that he and his companion were “mogging” the young host — meaning they looked higher, hotter, more handsome and more masculine than the reporter.
As other images of Lawrence and friends from CNN’s segment circulated online, the vibe shifted. Possibly they weren’t the most popular guys within the room; possibly these two representatives of the movement were too pudgy, too nerdy, too lame to be the self-appointed avatars for the movement — not less than so far as CNN viewers are concerned.
This was about when Fuentes dropped in to trash the 2 followers — young men so dedicated to his particular brand of hatred that they were literally wearing T-shirts along with his likeness emblazoned on them while appearing on national television.
In what neatly encapsulates the uncomfortable, rude, thin-skinned yet cruel, sarcastic and ultimately juvenile communication sort of his online brood, the leader of the pack began with — what else — Lawrence’s looks.
“What the actual fuck is that this,” Fuentes posted, feigning confusion on the young men — who’re likely an accurate representation of his base — for agreeing to be representatives of his movement on a news segment.
“Don’t claim to represent me for those who are dressed like that and are +25 BMI,” he wrote next, pulling no punches as he went for the jugular, before becoming defensive of his lucrative brand: “As a matter of fact no person represent me in any respect.”
Then got here the mocking, hard-to-read-as-serious tone, alongside a picture of the three men doing what looks like a walk-and-talk interview: “For CNN. Can’t wait for this lmao. For fucks sake. It just keeps improving. I AM NEVER COMING BACK.”
Then he went dark: “All the things I supported up to now, I’m now against. Fuck goyim.”
And darker: “Can someone come kill me immediately,” he wrote, alongside a close-up of Lawrence’s questionable footwear.
He then posted a picture of Family Guy‘s Peter Griffin falling from a window, probably to his death.
The mob, in fact, piled on. Soon enough, they were calling for Lawrence to be doxxed and have his life ruined. They even drew a mean caricature of him. Fuentes and his hateful mob — together with the remainder of the world — are still waiting for the segment to air on CNN. That’s, in the event that they can stop tearing the topics to shreds.