#cozy.tv

[nazalieee]

cozy.tv, Nick’s streaming website, officially went offline, now whenever you type in the URL it redirects you to americafirst.plus.

Thankful to all the friends I made on there, @theomnigroyper, baggles, rabbi, twinky, gradientdescent, salty, etc. I’ll miss all of you 🫶 I’ll never forget when you guys first found our little Tumblr community last year.

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

Only mentioning Rumble, but no Cozy.

I wonder if this will be the year that he retires Cozy.tv once and for all.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media

+ Inside a Russian influence operation, a 'Who TF Did I Marry' TV show, TikTok's alien invasion, and why Gen Zs love choking each other out

Taylor Lorenz at Substack:

We need to know who is funding the creator economy

Yesterday, a federal indictment revealed that a Tennessee media company working with right-wing influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern, was receiving significant funding from the Russian state-sponsored network RT to push Russian disinformation. The indictment is absolutely wild and WIRED has a great rundown on the details, including how the propaganda efforts worked. The case serves as the latest high profile example of how “independent media” on the right is anything but independent, and underscores the need for more transparency around funding models in the creator economy. It also shows how disinformation efforts have increasingly focused on penetrating U.S. media through content creators, and how lucrative being a pawn in these schemes can be. While right wing content creators position themselves as scrappy upstarts, leaning into anti-establishment and populist brand positioning, they frequently accept money from far right interest groups, extremist billionaires, and even foreign actors.  Tenet Media received nearly $10 million, distributed out across a network of YouTubers and podcasters. As part of the disinformation campaign, Tenet Media influencers published hundreds of videos on social media that promoted Kremlin talking points. The videos were shared across platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, reaching tens of millions of viewers.

[...] The far right recognized the opportunities in personality-driven media decades ago. After boosting talk radio stars in the 80s and 90s, when social media proliferated, they began to invest heavily in news influencers who seamlessly blend entertainment, news commentary, and far right political messaging into YouTube videos, Instagram memes, podcasts and more. 

[...]

Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire has been heavily funded by wealthy Republican donors, including the Wilks brothers, Texas-based billionaires known for their oil and fracking fortune. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, has benefited from significant funding from conservative mega donors including the Koch network.  When right wing creators began getting deplatformed more frequently on mainstream social media apps in the second half of the 2010s, an entire ecosystem of alternative platforms aimed at helping extremist influencers monetize and amass audiences, cropped up. Rumble, a video sharing platform similar to YouTube backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, began paying far right influencers and anti vaxx content creators hundreds of thousands of dollars to create content on its platform in 2021. Locals, a newsletter platform owned by Rumble, allows influencers to monetize through newsletters in a similar way to Substack. DLive, a right wing Twitch competitor, allowed influencers storming the Capitol building on January 6th, to make thousands of dollars off their live streams. Kick and Cozy.tv, two other right wing live streaming platforms, permit nearly any far right extremist the ability to create content and start earning money. And X, under Musk, has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to right wing influencer accounts.

The robust financial backing the right wing content creator ecosystem enjoys, allows extremists the ability to fund professional production teams, social media ad buys, and marketing initiatives that give them a competitive advantage online. In contrast, progressive creators are left to rely on meager donations and crowdfunding efforts to sustain their work. This financial imbalance has made it nearly impossible for left-wing content creators to match the reach or production quality of their right-wing counterparts. Already, several Russia-backed Tenet Media influencers, including Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, have been doing damage control. They've publicly stated that they had no idea about the origins of the money and claimed that they were merely unwitting victims who were misled by the company. 

Right-wing media influencers like Nick Sortor (even though he wasn’t named in the indictment), Benny Johnson, and Tim Pool aren’t “independent media” in any way.

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

Always rewatching Nick Fuentes going on about tomboys. It's rare for him to seem actually attracted to women, but this came off as genuine enough for me to consider that he might actually be bi.

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

Wow, Cozy and Dlive died within a day of each other.

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

I've had a similar experience withing this past week.

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

Create a Guys Nick Fuentes has been accused of being attracted to Tier List

Ranking of the guys that Nick Fuentes has been accused of being attracted to, taking both appearance and personality into account (on a curv

I finally did it: I made the tier list thing for guys Nick has been accused of being attracted to.

I left off that one guy from Twitter because we have only one bad picture of him and don't know much about him as a person, but the rest are fair game.

Edit: this has since been updated to include more

Create a Guys Nick Fuentes has been accused of being attracted to Tier List

Ranking of the guys that Nick Fuentes has been accused of being attracted to, taking both appearance and personality into account (on a curv

[llamhigyn-y-dwr]

A bunch of Nick gifs that I shamelessly stole off of Tenor