When law-enforcement agents confronted a 19-year-old Florida man about threatening online posts, he dismissed his messages as jokes.
The far-right streamer Nick Fuentes has built a following by promoting misogyny and antisemitism while claiming much of it is humor.
The article explores how young men use irony to mask views until the jokes turn on them.
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“It’s just jokes,” 19-year-old Lucas “Luke” Nevcherlian told his mother. The two were outside their family home in Edgewater, Florida, this past October, going over Luke’s internet history.
