There's a BlazeTV YouTube video whose thumbnail shows the presenter with his arms around Anakin Skywalker and a gender-flipped Draco Malfoy called Malfoid. “Total Chud Victory?” It says. The video's title: “Young Right is Reclaiming Culture and Liberals Are Mad About it.”

BlazeTV posted the video on November 2, the day before Democrats swept the midterms and started a political realignment in America so overwhelming that Republicans lost control of all the most powerful state positions in Texas.

The video is a profound misreading of the political and cultural moment. It reminded me of stories of the Bolsheviks seizing the Winter Palace to discover tarot card playing courtiers who had no idea a revolution was happening in the streets.

The American version was watching defense contractor Palmer Lucky dress up like Harry Potter on Halloween while standing next to his Malfoid wife. And it was Elon Musk — who spent roughly half a billion on the election only to see his chosen candidates fail — posting an AI generated picture of Anakin Skywalker sitting at the head of a happy fascist Star Wars family two days before the midterms.

This is what they stole from us pic.twitter.com/q1GnpjF394

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2026

The online right has dominated American culture for a decade, or at least has dominated political narratives picked up by the mainstream media. Its memes and conspiracies drove news cycles. At first, the right’s memes filtered from random people on obscure Discord channels to Reddit’s r/the_donald or 4chan to Trump’s Twitter feed. More recently they’ve come from AI slop farms, from Musk, or from the administration itself. Powered by a well-funded media and podcast ecosystem, Fox News (and a propensity for shamelessness) its comedians, podcasters, and pundits became powerful celebrities and influencers, at least within Elon Musk’s X. 

This insular, often inscrutable world has given us Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, Gamergate influencers, the streamer Asmongold, and a revolving door of characters who have shuffled interchangeably between Twitterverse celebritydom and actual government; Kash Patel, DataRepublican, Laura Loomer, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Dan Bongino, the list goes on. 

It has been said many times that “Twitter is not real life,” and that posting too much anywhere will rot your brain. Never has that been more apparent than now: Much of Trumpworld spent the week before an election in which they would get utterly trounced using AI to generate barely legible Anakin and Malfoid memes for an inconsequential ingroup on the social media platform run by the biggest loser on the planet.

“It certainly seems like it has had its high water mark and that reality has FINALLY caught up with the Republican Party,” Michael Senters,  a research assistant at the Anti-Defamation League who studies online and gaming culture, told 404 Media.

In 2016, 4chan posters talked about  “meme magic” — the pseudo-ironic belief that pictures on the internet could manifest great change in reality. According to legend, Trump strategist Steve Bannon was running a World of Warcraft gold farm when he realized the angry gamers could be harnessed into a powerful reactionary political force. Bannon and others would successfully parlay Gamergate into an endless culture war that’s dominated online life in the Trump era.

During the midterm livestream of Bannon’s War Room podcast, his guest read exit polls that suggested the right-wing had lost young men — a group long thought to be its strongest soldiers. The split between the parties was even, the guest explained. “That can’t be right,” Bannon whispered, signalling he’d lost touch with the constituency he’d harnessed on behalf of Trump ten years ago. As the election results began coming in, right-wing podcasters, livestreamers, and newscasters across the internet went through at least a few of the stages of grief. First they struggled to understand what was happening, suggesting the votes must be wrong. Eventually, many of them ragequit. 

"Okay, I'm going to be honest. I'm absolutely rage quitting. I'm so frustrated. I am so unbelievably frustrated. I'm so mad. I think Trump didn't do 50 different things he should have done. I think he should have gone a thousand times harder. I think that he wasted his time selling trinkets and nonsense,” Asmongold said as the returns came in. He lives in Texas where Democrats swept in a shock victory.

“I wish that there were more people who thought like me that weren’t sorry about it. But you know what? There’s not. So it’s just me. And that’s fine. It’s fine. It’s OK,” he said, his voice catching in his throat.

Asmongold (@Asmongold) realizing in real time that he's a total fucking moron who got duped by the most cartoonishly obvious con-man of all time and ragequitting his election night coverage pic.twitter.com/XgtnqNjAaf

— kilo (@kilotonics) November 4, 2026

Many right-wing personalities went into Tuesday somehow expecting to win despite a disastrous war, a disastrous economy, disastrous polls, and a doddering president whose closing argument seemed to be more about his ballrooms, golf courses, and the Reflecting Pool than anything else. Since Trump was re-elected, these same people have called everyone else out of touch, convinced by their X algorithm and prediction markets that no blue wave would materialize. The media has similarly spent many thousands of words suggesting that Bluesky is an out-of-touch leftist echo chamber while mostly failing to suggest anything of the sort about the AI-pilled Silicon Valley executives, bots, and racists shitposting on X. Tuesday’s election wipeout highlights how detached from reality the Malfoid/Anakin-shipping, X-brained billionaires and their acolytes have actually become.

“Blueskywave. Those of us on here, across the board, were out of touch. I see no other conclusion,” Joe Weisenthal of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast (who is a serious, good journalist), said in a post on X after the election amidst a sea of Anakins tonguing Malfoids.

"I see through the lies of the Democrats."

VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET REPUBLICAN pic.twitter.com/i1HjdHdAn7

— Utah College Republicans (@UtahCollegeReps) November 1, 2026

The meme game and general demeanor of Trump and his followers has grown wildly tiresome in his thus far-disastrous second term. Under the guidance of White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, official government accounts have posted racist Halo memes, used AI to put a studio Ghibli face on anti-immigrant propaganda, and fully embraced Malfoid and Darth Vader as cultural heroes. The base on X loved this stuff. No one else did. 

As our friend Gita Jackson over at Aftermath wisely put it immediately before the election,”The idea that they can meme magic their way into a red sweep by posting about Anakin Skywalker a lot is pure desperation [...] Their values have been rejected by popular culture at large, and they are now resigned to exist in the margins.”

Senters said the midterms showed the hard limits of memes as a political tool. “The power that memes have has always been, in my opinion, the power to help define linguistic and community lines in the amorphous space of the Internet. You create a community when you ‘get the joke’ behind a meme but memes generally don't persuade,” he said. “I'll be curious to see if the government accounts will continue to post these far-right cultural memes in the wake of the defeat or if they'll change their tune at all. Like do they double down on the meme posting to try to rally their base? Because it very clearly had ZERO appeal to anyone outside their base.”

Yet the right-wing has spent the last ten years acting as if their memes had moved the country politically. “They deluded themselves into believing that memes carry persuasive power and that their bubble on X represented material reality in a meaningful way when that was no way close to the truth,” he said. “They saw how many ‘numbers’ the Malfoid and Anakin memes did on X and convinced themselves that this was a real cultural awakening moment and that the volk were on their side.”

It cannot be overstated how culturally significant Anakin poasting is. I dont think you could engineer a better anti-progressive memetic virus in lab if you tried.

— Max (@minordissent) October 31, 2026

Alyssa Mercante, an internet culture reporter who is writing a book about politics and video games called Rage Game, agreed. “I think what it's really showing is that when you start to get a little bit too deep in the weeds of this hyper online culture war stuff, it cannot escape the internet,” Mercante told 404 Media. “It is not working anymore. The material reality of America is just not good enough.” Gas prices are up. Everything is more expensive. And ICE has killed Americans in the streets. 

“This conspiratorial mindset is wrecker mentality. It is just destructive for the sake of destruction. There is no goal beyond pulling away any sort of legitimacy from the media or from democracy,” Mercante said. “When you get so deep in the weeds of this anti-establishment conspiratorial thought process, you just can't make anything or do anything of value. You're just upending tables and pointing at them and laughing.”

Democrats crushed Republicans who leaned into the online culture war during the midterms. Bo French — an overt racist who ran for railroad commissioner in Texas — sent text messages to voters that depicted himself as Master Chief from Halo. His opponent beat him by more than a million votes.

In Nevada, Halo composer Martin O’Donnell ran as a Republican for a House seat and lost to incumbent Susie Lee. O’Donnell announced his campaign on Discord and leaned hard into an extremely online gamer identity. “He’s like, ‘I wrote the Halo music and I’m voting for Trump and you should too.’ He did a Halo LAN party campaign fundraiser. The imagery was him as Master Chief,” Mercante said. “This dude is like: ‘My personality is gamers, gamers are not woke and they're resisting this [...] and Trump is the person that is going to help us resist,’ and he's polling like absolute dog water.”

It’s been 12 years since Gamergate set the tempo for online culture wars and a decade since Trump won in 2016. In 2026, Star Wars, Halo, Harry Potter feel dated in a way they didn’t back then. “What 22-year-old kid is going to be like ‘they took Halo from me.’ They don’t know Halo to have it taken away from them,” Mercante said. 

She stressed that so much right wing online culture is about distraction — she likened it to jingling keys to capture the attention of a baby. “If the economy is the number one issue for both Democrats and Republicans going into the midterms, no amount of Malfoid scissoring Anakin Skywalker is going to change that need for people to be in a better financial position,” Mercante said. “The tech oligarchs pushed this stuff straight into our eyes for two years straight unfettered [...] And I wake up and gas is this expensive? I don’t care if you take a Taylor Swift song and make JD Vance walk out to it.”

“[They] really thought that this would just last forever,” she added. “When you build up a meme presidency, eventually the cards just collapse underneath you, and there's just nothing to show for it.”

Though this midterm signals a move away from Gamergate-style culture war politics, both Senters and Mercante cautioned that this type of rhetoric is still dangerous, and can still be destructive. “They’re still very good at doing propaganda on the internet — they wrote the book in many cases,” Mercante said.

For months I’ve been speaking to an AI fraud kingpin. You might remember in 2024 we revealed the existence of OnlyFake, an underground site that let anyone generate realistic photos of fake IDs using ‘neural networks’. The creator of that site went by the handle John Wick. A while later, the creator was arrested.

Turns out there was a lot more to that story. Yuriy Nazarenko, the creator of OnlyFake, told me his side of it. How when I published my initial article he panicked, and destroyed his laptop and emails and got a new phone, paranoid that authorities were about to bust down his door. How the pressure of a growing fraud empire pushed him to drugs. And how North Korean fake IT workers used his site. Read below for his story. 

The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin

A few years ago, Yuriy Nazarenko sat at a desk in his grandfather’s apartment in Ukraine and, on a diet of cigarettes, Lay’s chips, and beer, painstakingly made digital copies of fake identity documents. One of his four computer screens had the messaging app Telegram open. Another displayed a scan of a passport in Photoshop filling the entire monitor.

Pixel by pixel, with rap music blaring, Nazarenko edited each part of the passport. That included the MRZ codes, the block of text printed at the bottom of identity documents; the photographs to superimpose someone else’s face into the document; and the overall dimensions and quirks of each different type of passport. Nazarenko would sometimes sit for more than 12 hours at his computer, obsessively tinkering away, with a single, high-quality fake identity document taking up to a week of work.

When someone thinks of fake IDs, maybe they imagine a spotty underage teen buying a physical counterfeit drivers’ license so they can score some beer. But in the global criminal underworld, digital copies or scans of IDs are like a skeleton key. A convincing scan of an ID or utility bill, loaded with a bogus name or someone else’s identity, can unlock the ability to make bank accounts, bypass checks on cryptocurrency exchanges to buy or sell more Bitcoin, or rent a safehouse, all while keeping the criminal’s real identity hidden. The digitally altered IDs need to fool both human reviewers and automated systems that scan them for inconsistencies. Making fake IDs requires exquisite attention to detail.

All of that manual labor doesn’t really scale, Nazarenko thought to himself as he meticulously edited passport after passport. He went on to make templates of fake identity documents that sped up the process, but it was still slow. 

After many of these quiet nights, he had an idea. He built a website to automate the process that autopopulated a fake ID with the personal data a customer wanted, rather than having him do it by hand. Then, when generative AI became mainstream a short while later, he incorporated that too.

“That gradually became OnlyFake,” Nazarenko told me.

OnlyFake, the underground website Nazarenko made, landed like a bomb in the fraud world. It allowed anyone to generate not only convincing scans of drivers’ licenses or passports, but also realistic looking photos of those fake identity documents laying on a sofa, carpet, or desk, as if someone had taken the ID out of their wallet and snapped a picture of it on their phone. Needed a convincing looking photo of a California drivers’ license to open a cryptocurrency account in someone else’s name? Or a British passport to incorporate a company overseas? Or a Social Security card? No problem. The results were photos of identity documents that didn’t really exist, of people who may not be real, but yet could trick the sorts of people and companies that verify documents.

With OnlyFake, you didn’t have to be a master forger like Nazarenko to make fake documents. Now, anyone could churn out fake IDs at scale, sometimes even hundreds or thousands at a time. OnlyFake threatened the entire idea of know-your-customer, or KYC, where financial institutions take steps to know who exactly are using its services. When anyone can make a photo of a fake ID for just a few dollars in Bitcoin, is anyone really who they say they are?

Nazarenko didn’t know it then, hunched over his desk, but OnlyFake would soon become so influential that it would spawn copy cats, and the FBI would eventually arrest Nazarenko and shut down some of its competitors. The Department of Justice said in an announcement about Nazarenko’s guilty plea that OnlyFake made more than a million dollars selling fake IDs for just $15 a pop.

Now for the first time, Nazarenko, 28, free after a year in prison and living in Asia, is telling his story: how North Korean fake IT workers used his creation, how he ended up in ICE detention for months after serving his sentence in the U.S., and how OnlyFake unleashed a new age of AI-powered fraud. Nazarenko said he wanted to talk to me because I was the first journalist to reveal that OnlyFake existed. This article is based on interviews with Nazarenko and his lawyer; court records; and my own reporting in the online world of fraud that OnlyFake inhabited.  

“OnlyFake was the first time I saw how quickly a small internet project could turn into something global. Unfortunately, it also taught me, in a very painful way, what can happen when the scale of something grows faster than your understanding of its consequences,” Nazarenko told me.

Growing up, Nazarenko’s parents questioned whether Nazarenko would ever find a job. His father worked for the Security Service of Ukraine. Raised in a suburb outside of Odesa, Nazarenko jumped between a few different gigs. He worked as a cook, a waiter, at a supermarket, and as a cameraman at a local Ukrainian TV station.

Read the rest of this story here.

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Creep Russell Brand is door een Amerikaanse rechter SCHULDIG bevonden aan verkrachting en herhaaldelijk seksueel misbruik. Dat wordt zeepjes rapen - later zal duidelijk worden wat de straf wordt. U kent Russell Brand als komiek, grappenmaker, schrijver, presentator (BBC uiteraard), acteur (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), z'n relatie met Katy Perry (die nu Justin Trudeau mag neuken) en later van allerlei weird compotgekletter, drugsverslavingen, bekering tot het christendom en meer. De 51-jarige Brand is nu schuldig bevonden aan de verkrachting van een toen 21-jarige fan in 2009. Z'n straf hoort Brand maandag, de rechter geeft alvast aan dat een celstraf waarschijnlijk is: "He adds that "given the verdict on count six at least, obviously a custodial sentence of some length will result."

To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together.

This is the most time-consuming photo edit I’ve EVER done!

I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt Taranaki for nearly TWO HOURS, capturing 578 photographs.

The result? An estimated 14,450 satellite trail appearances, representing approximately 1,400 individual satellites! 😱

I manually masked in EVERY SINGLE TRAIL from the original photographs — approximately 45 HOURS of editing to create this one image!

The Guardian has more on how he created the image (which, despite many online commenters’ beliefs, is not AI):

Larsen, 51, says he set his camera up to take an unlimited number of eight-second-long shots, with a two-second gap in between each photo. “I left her running for two hours and captured 578 photos … That was the easy part.”

The hard part came next. Larsen spent about 45 hours layering the individual photos – each of which contained about 25 satellites – over one another, using Adobe Photoshop. Much of the time was spent painstakingly erasing stars, to reveal the satellites.

“I could start to see the pattern emerging and realised: ‘Wow, this looks really awesome.’ I knew if I carried on it would look even better and more impressive in terms of satellite numbers.”

Fellow photographer Vincent Laforet called Larsen’s image “an important photograph”:

I was initially startled. Then confused. Then fascinated all in quick succession.

And then I felt a deep sense of betrayal once I realized that what I was tracking with my eyes were a series of small satellites. And btw: that they likely had ruined my long exposure that I was capturing at the time.

I remember asking in the moment:

Who gave anyone permission do this?

Tags: astronomy · Brendan Larsen · photography · satellites · Vincent Laforet

De Britse komiek en acteur Russell Brand is door een jury schuldig bevonden aan verkrachting en meerdere aanrandingen. Brand stond de afgelopen weken in Londen terecht in een zaak waarin hij van meerdere verkrachtingen werd verdacht.

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"Zijn verlies raakt me in elke seconde van mijn leven", verklaarde de vrouw van een van de slachtoffers, een 44-jarige man uit Griekenland. De vrouw woont daar met haar drie kinderen. Ze vertelde dat de opvoeding zonder haar partner onmogelijk is. "Mijn leven als mens is voorbij", citeerde de rechter. "Ik leef als robot."

Een agent tekende het verhaal op van een jongen van 8 jaar oud, die zijn ouders en zus verloor bij de explosie. De jongen werd wakker van een harde knal, hij hoorde zijn vader om hulp schreeuwen en zag dat er brand was. Hij wist via de tak van een boom te ontsnappen en werd gered door een brandweerman. Volgens een tante hield hij zich sterk toen hem verteld was dat zijn gezin was omgekomen. Pas toen hij zich realiseerde dat hij ook van school zou moeten wisselen, kwamen de tranen.

Gokautomaten

De eigenaar van een café aan de Tarwekamp vertelde hoe de gokautomaten hem hadden gered. "Ze hingen als een brug boven ons." Ook een vriendin met wie hij die ochtend in het pand was, kon gered worden en lag daarna vijf dagen in coma. Ze beschreef dat ze twee knallen hoorde vroeg in de ochtend. "Bij de eerste dacht ik aan vuurwerk, bij de laatste dat Rusland ons zou aanvallen."

"Ik vind het vreselijk wat er is gebeurd", reageerde verdachte Mourad B. (31). Hij wordt verdacht van de uitvoering van de aanslag. Zijn neefje en vermoedelijk mede-uitvoerder Ilias B. (25) zei: "Iedere dag ga ik ermee naar bed en sta ik ermee op."

Wraak

De vermoedelijke opdrachtgever Moshtag B. (35) zei de gevolgen te betreuren. Hij zou wraak hebben willen nemen op zijn ex-vriendin door haar bruidswinkel te vernielen. Door de explosie is ze financieel en mentaal kapot, bleek uit haar verklaring. "Ik probeer er het beste van te maken", las de rechter voor.

Adil A. (34), tegen wie een minder zware verdenking geldt en die niet bij de aanslag aanwezig zou zijn geweest, sloot af. Hij richtte zich tot de nabestaanden en slachtoffers in de rechtszaal: "Mijn woorden hebben geen waarde. Ik kan alleen de waarheid bieden."

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