Who Are the ‘Groypers’?
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October 21, 2025This post was originally published on this site
A word associated with right-wing pundit Nick Fuentes and his followers is suddenly part of the national vocabulary.
Conservatives have a problem, and it is named Nick Fuentes.
An avowed white nationalist, Mr. Fuentes commands an immense following of young men he has recently been mobilizing in opposition to President Trump, who he feels has not moved far enough to the right.
On Oct. 27, the influential podcaster and former TV host Tucker Carlson posted an interview with Mr. Fuentes in which he gave him over two hours to air his views, which are well outside the American mainstream, even for some of the most provocative members of the conservative movement. As some have disavowed Mr. Fuentes, a single word keeps appearing: Groyper.
The word is impossible to disentangle from the figure who now entirely embodies it. Mr. Fuentes is “the leader of the Groypers,” said Will Sommer, author of “Trust the Plan,” a book about right-wing internet conspiracies.
Who is Nick Fuentes?
After attending the deadly “Unite the Right” rally as a freshman at Boston University in 2017, Mr. Fuentes left college and devoted himself fully to making pro-Trump videos on a YouTube show called “America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes.”
He has since moved the show to Rumble, a right-wing video platform, where he has nearly half a million followers. In 2020, he branched out beyond social media with the America First Foundation. A statement on the foundation’s website says the group champions “the role of God in society and upholding the principles of nationalism, Christianity and traditionalism.”
After the 2020 presidential election, Mr. Fuentes helped publicize the “Stop the Steal” campaign, which resulted in a violent rally at the U.S. Capitol, and has continued to rise in prominence during the second Trump administration.
