Episode 2 – “The Followers: How Radicalization Happens”
This episode traces the step-by-step radicalization pipeline that draws teenage boys and young men into Nick Fuentes’s America First movement. Ava Grey follows the journey from ironic memes and edgy jokes to full ideological commitment, showing how loneliness, identity crises, and economic anxiety make followers vulnerable to extremist recruitment. The episode explains how platform algorithms, livestream culture, and online communities accelerate radicalization, normalizing antisemitism, misogyny, and white nationalism. Through research and former-follower testimonies, it reveals how entertainment becomes indoctrination and why the movement feels like belonging, purpose, and truth to those caught inside it.
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