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But the longer someone watches, the more extreme the videos can become. To keep you watching, YouTube serves up videos similar to those you have watched before. To turn himself around he used the same medium that got him involved in the alt-right world in the first place - YouTube.The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube. In today's podcast Cain talks to Emile Donovan about how he found his way out of that way of thinking, to the extent that he travelled to New Zealand for the first anniversary of the mosque attacks, in a gesture of support. Those ideas came from his community - the internet, the 4-Chan and 8-Chan boards. But I saw myself in that guy."Įven though Cain believed in a watered-down version of the same ideologies, that was still what he believed. And it really disturbed me because I never thought about going out and shooting anybody. and went home that night I watched the video, saw the memes that he shared. And I went into the bathroom and I read the manifesto, I read the articles. Because I knew what the Great Replacement was. It wasn't until I got to work and I started seeing alerts about white nationalism, Great Replacement, that my heart dropped. and I'll be honest with you there are so many shootings in the United States that I didn't think much of it.

And because of all the improvements I was making when he started talking about the political stuff, I just fell right into it."įor years, Cain devoured alt-right content on YouTube, spending hours every day on the platform - and with each video, his views grew more and more extreme and harmful. "He filled a deep, deep void that I had - and that's true for a lot of people who fall down this alt-right rabbit hole.

"And also, because I had such strained relationships with my family. "He was giving me advice that on the outside was improving my life: I got up out of bed, I got a job, I got a girlfriend.

Molyneux filled a void in Cain's life, serving as an online father figure and offering advice and answers to difficult questions. And those were all things that appealed to me." "He styles himself on being a philosopher and making arguments, and caring about the truth, and honour, and virtue. "Molyneux has a very charming personality. Progressive, opinionated - obnoxious, in his own words.Īfter graduating high school, he went to community college looking to become an engineer.īut after three years, aged 21, his life took a turn: he dropped out of college, moved back home, and found a saviour: alt-right YouTuber Stefan Molyneux. Molyneux - whose speaking tour of New Zealand in 2018 with fellow Canadian Lauren Southern was cancelled after venues backed out of hosting it - has been accused of hate speech, white supremacy and racism.īut with Cain, his rhetoric clicked immediately.