THE SNEAKO ERA: A Complete Timeline of Nick Fuentes & Sneako’s Friendship (2022-2025) [PART ONE]
Future Naz: Here is my Feb 2025 draft going over the Snicko timeline, if some links are dead, sorry, I can’t change them. This is largely going to be unedited to how I left it originally.
Hi guys! I’ve been thinking of doing timeline posts of Nick’s many friendships over the years for newer Nickstorians to read up on, if they are ever unfamiliar, since I know reading up on Nickstory can be, a lot, even I’m still learning about stuff, so it’s okay.
Info can often be obscure too since, Nick info isn’t too readily available to find, especially not in a concrete, cohesive way, and maybe some folks don’t want to read a plethora of forum speculative posts on Kiwi Farms, as it can be overwhelming and would instead want something like this to learn more about Nick and his history, given to them with a more neutral-leaning lends so they could come up with their own conclusions and opinions.
I thought today I’d cover a friendship that I don’t think people realize just how impactful this was to Nick’s overall growth, exposure, and his history in recent years, and that was his friendship with Sneako, A.K.A., Nicolas or “Nico” Kenn De Balinthazy. I have personally witnessed this friendship form almost since the beginning, so I am quite knowledgeable on it, more than most of Nick’s friendships over the years, which is why I decided to do this one first.
I will be compiling this hopefully into two or three parts for Tumblr, the history is quite long, and I fear I am already pushing my limits with this site enough. I want to make sure I compile mostly everything. In this part, we will just cover the first year of their friendship.
All of the [x's] are links to clips or tweets!
I want to preface that some Nick mentions from Sneako’s POV in the beginning may not be mentioned here, because Sneako’s YouTube channel is banned (at the time I made this in Feb 2025), and there are hardly any public archives of his 2022 YouTube VODs that I could find.
August 4th, 2022
The earliest recording of Sneako's first interaction with anything Nick related, seemed to have happened on August 4th 2022, where in a livestream, someone in Sneako’s chat spammed him to watch Nick, and Sneako found a compilation of funny Nick moments to react to and Sneako, impressed by Nick, finding him funny and charming, says that Nick should come on his stream: [x] [x]
This prompted one of Nick’s friends, Tyler Russell, on the same day to post the clip of him reacting to Nick onto his Telegram.
Nick was currently live doing a show when all this happened. People in chat began to spam Nick to check Russell's Telegram, and he then reacted to the clips and said he'd be down to stream with Sneako: [x]
Sneako, already in contact with Nick's team on Instagram, eventually got the collaboration quickly set up, and they showed up on each other's streams:
This was the first time they talked.
Afterwards, Nick went on his telegram saying he was “looking forward” to bringing Sneako onto his streaming platform, Cozy.tv:
Although this never actually ended up happening.
August 5th, 2022
Nick would then share some clips of the stream of them talking on his Telegram the day after, and even shared one of leftist streamer, Destiny, reacting to their collab. [x]
This would lead to a joke between them three on who's going to “win” over Sneako's soul, the left (Destiny)? Or the right (Nick)?
August 16th, 2022
Nick while on America First, was spammed in his chat for him to check his DM's, as Sneako was simultaneously streaming on YouTube and DM'd Nick on while on his stream to jump on a call with him.
From Nick's POV: [x]
This prompted another collab between the two of them, though this time shorter than the first one:
In this stream, Sneako tells Nick that a lot of people began to warn him about Nick and said to him, “A lot of people told me things about you”.
In a much later stream, Sneako would reveal that people in his online course/network, “The Creativity Kit” would tell him to not platform Nick and warn him that he is a Nazi.
Sneako tells him that he does think he's a white supremacist, to which Nick denies this claim and clarifies what he actually believes. They also talked about Nick being at the Capitol Riots on Jan 6th, Destiny, and more.
August 17th, 2022
Nick shared some tweets about Sneako on his Telegram, the first tweet is deleted, but thankfully there was an archive of it. It seems to be a clip from Sneako's stream.
The video doesn't play, so I'm not sure what's exactly being said but it's obvious it's about Nick: [x]
The second one is a clip of Sneako reacting to a Pearl Harbor documentary that Nick seemed to have suggested for him to watch: [x]
Later that day, in the late afternoon maybe early night, Nick would join on a huge panel stream with Sneako, JiDion, Aba (from the channel Aba N Preach), and YoungDon for a chat/debate:
These streams gave Nick a lot of exposure, you can imagine. This particular stream had about 35,000 people watching it live, and garnered 300k+ views before the stream was unlisted by Sneako.
Nick, after the stream, proceeded to post these on his Telegram:
He also, a bit later, linked some tweets:
One deleted tweet from Nicholas Deorio that I managed to find an archive of: [x]
And another from Sneako himself: [x]
August 18th, 2022
Nick forwarded a post from UtahZoomer's Telegram, showing the comments under Sneako's panel stream being favorable towards Nick:
The comments if you want to read them: [x]
Nick forwarded fanart someone made of him, Sneako & Destiny:
He also shared a tweet by Sneako thanking him for tweeting to "free" him: [x]
August 19th, 2022
Nick appears on a stream with Sneako & Destiny: [x]
Nick & Sneako argued with Destiny about the government and talked about conspiracy theories for the most part.
August 22nd, 2022
Nick mentions Sneako in a Telegram post:
Later Nick would appear on a stream with Destiny IRL. They talked to Sneako and JiDion (+ JiDion's friend?) for a little bit:
August 30th, 2022
Sneako’s video, titled, “Nick Fuentes And SNEAKO Hate on Liberals for 27 Minutes and 40 Seconds” gets removed from YouTube. Archive of the video: [x]
Nick forwards UX's Telegram post and then tells his followers to 'juice' Sneako's tweet: [x]
Later, on Nick's show, he goes onto talk about why he associates and talks with people like Destiny & Sneako, saying that he wants to bring in more people from their audience.
August 31st, 2022
Nick talks about influencers going after and attacking Sneako & Andrew Tate on his Telegram:
September 1st, 2022
Sneako gets banned from Twitter.
Nick forwards a post from UtahZoomer's Telegram, and responds below it:
September 4th, 2022
Nick makes a post on Telegram talking about how there has been a shift since the panel stream he did with Sneako, citing that liberals are doing damage control and Sneako getting deplatformed:
September 11th, 2022
Nick posted this about Sneako on his Telegram, after I assume Sneako getting a strike or suspension of some kind, because his channel was still up during this time, he didn’t get fully banned until a month later:
September ???, 2022
I’m not sure what specific date this clip is from; it looks like it was during early September. It’s a clip of Sneako talking about Nick and how he finds him super funny, and how he was saying the n-word around him during the panel stream he did with Nick & Destiny on August 19th. [x]
September 13th, 2022
Nick forwards a clip of Sneako saying how he needs to lay low on the Nick stuff for a bit because of the channel strikes he’s been getting on YouTube, but he reassures that he still likes Nick: [x]
Nick seemed to be understanding of this decision.
This sparks the beginning of Sneako dipping in and out of Nick’s world, where he will interact with Nick a lot, but in fear of his career at stake then starts to dip out and ignore him for a while.
You will see this become even more prevalent as we go farther down the timeline.
September 15th, 2022
Nick shared a tweet on his Telegram, of a clip of him, Sneako & Destiny being played in the US senate:
Video doesn’t seem to play on the Wayback Machine, so here’s the clip from YouTube: [x]
September 17th, 2022
Nick shared a tweet of presumably a Sneako clip, however I tried to look up an archive of it, and it doesn’t work, the tweet doesn’t show up, so unfortunately, I don’t know the content of the clip and what was said in it:
September 18th, 2022
Nick on Telegram mentioning Sneako:
September 21st, 2022
Sneako while on a panel, facetimes Nick for 3 minutes: [x]
Later, Nick would talk about it a little bit on his show: [x]
He more so went into Destiny than much on Sneako, which is why it’s a shorter clip. This isn’t a Nick & Destiny timeline post, although, as you can see, a lot of the stuff with Sneako are closely intertwined with Nick & Destiny’s history as well.
Nick talked again about how much exposure he was getting from appearing on the stream and the combined viewership.
October 2nd, 2022
Nick talks about Andrew Tate kicking Sneako off his show, and calling him a “liability” assuming that it’s, in-part, because of him:
He links a YouTube video, the video is now removed and not available via archive, but I managed to find the title:
October 3rd, 2022
Sneako’s YouTube channels officially get banned.
Nick reports about this on his Telegram, sharing a twitter link: [x]
Nick dedicates an episode to his show about Sneako’s ban and his situation with Andrew Tate: [x] [x]
He first talks about the Andrew Tate situation with Sneako and goes onto talk about how he feels like he shouldn’t be compared to other people who get banned, like someone like Tate or even Sneako because he is the “most persecuted and banned person” on the right. That he is on a “deeper layer” than everyone.
Nick: “When are people going to start walking the walk, and stop hiding behind people like me? […] There’s no boldness at all.”
He goes onto say during the segment.
October 6th, 2022
Nick announces that he’s going live with Sneako, since being banned:
In this stream, Sneako asks Nick’s advice on how to spread the America First message and says that he thinks his role in AF is to bring in more “normies” by “redpilling” them with the message in what he calls, “wrapped in 17 layers of ham”.
Nick tells Sneako that he thinks he should stay on his mainstream platforms for as long as he can.
For the rest of the call, they talk about the Kanye interview, the Tates, the collective tide turning, etc. [x]
After the call, Nick tells his chat how pleasantly surprised he is by Sneako, and how Sneako gives him hope:
Nick: “I didn’t really know what to expect when I first met Sneako, […] we get disappointed by a lot of people and let down by a lot of people, […] it’s small things like that [Sneako not being afraid to talk to him], that just renew your faith in humanity.”
Nick also says that he discouraged Sneako from bringing him back on his streams, and at the end says Sneako is an inspiration to him.
October 7th, 2022
Nick shares a tweet on his Telegram [x] In the tweet it says that Nick won the battle in winning Sneako’s soul:
October 11th, 2022
Nick forwards a Telegram post by UtahZoomer, sharing Sneako’s new, shortly lived, clip channel named “Soldier of God” that he made on YouTube:
October 12th, 2022
Nick said this about Kanye and Sneako on his Telegram after posting some clips of Destiny reacting to Kanye being debanked:
October 14th, 2022
Nick announces that he’ll be going on a panel stream with Sneako on Monday, and said he’d give details on his show, but the show had to be cancelled due to medical emergencies:
October 16th, 2022
Nick posts an info-graphic edit on his Telegram of him and Sneako, announcing that he will be coming onto the No Jumper podcast on the 17th.
Nick mistakenly thought it was going to be a live event, but it ended up being pre-recorded, so it did not end up coming out on the 17th.
October 18th, 2022
Nick forwarded a Telegram post sharing that Sneako was live streaming on YouTube using Sneako’s friend, Cas’, YouTube channel:
October 19th, 2022
The No Jumper podcast is released. [x]
Adam said in the podcast that Sneako was begging him to “accept” Nick into the Hip-Hop scene, and to bring him on the show.
Adam: “This was all his [Sneako’s] plan, I think that the whole theme here is Sneako saying that Nick Fuentes should be normalized and treated like a part of acceptable society, and that’s what we’re trying to hash out today.”
Sneako knew Adam22 before he met Nick, and even did a stream with him IRL in July 2022:
It’s pretty clear to say that without Sneako, Nick would have never been on the podcast and given him exposure to a new audience.
October 21, 2022
Sneako, on Fresh&Fit, shouts out Nick to 15k live viewers and calls him the future president of the United States: [x]
Nick shares this clip on his Telegram and responds:
October 22nd, 2022
Nick, while responding to a Destiny clip, posts on Telegram why he likes Sneako:
November 3rd, 2022
Nick posts on his Telegram that he’ll be streaming with Sneako on his show:
The conversation they had ended up being more of a debate.
Sneako asked if Nick was involved with the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
He pushed back on Nick’s defense of the statue of Robert E. Lee, saying that the statue represents the defense of slavery and confederacy and thinks it’s fine that people wanted it removed because of what it represents.
Sneako then proceeded to asks him if he supports people waving the Confederate flag, and the Nazi flag, and Nick defends people waving the former, but disavows the latter.
Sneako then asks him if he ever considers changing his approach if he wants to truly “make it” in politics, and how he thinks it’s okay to compromise the truth a little bit in order to have a larger reach, rather than getting banned off everything.
You can watch the full debate here: [x]
After the call, Nick’s chat was spamming “L’s” and he told them to stop:
Nick: “That was different, but I prefer that! He’s honest. If I were only his friend when he agrees with me, I’d be an asshole, […] I’d be a total douchebag!”
November 9th, 2022
Sneako live reacts to Nick’s documentary, “The Most Canceled Man in America” on Rumble: [x]
Sneako: “I think they [elites] realize that he has the power to become the future president. […] He has every quality he needs to become a future politician.”
Sneako during the reaction, says that AF needs more minorities and then says he wants to help Nick appeal to “normies” and be his PR manager.
During the segment in the documentary about AFPAC, Nick’s very own political conference, he asks when is the next one, so that he could come.
Sneako offers to do a podcast with Nick multiple times during his reaction.
At the end Sneako asks his chat, “Should I bring Nick on Fresh & Fit?” foreshadowing Nick’s eventual appearance on the podcast in the summer of 2023.
Nick shares the reaction with his followers on Telegram:
November 15th, 2022
On the day Donald Trump announced his presidential race in the 2024 Election, Nick goes live to react to it.
Sneako seemed to be watching a bit of Nick’s reaction on his stream as well.
Afterwards, Nick then joins on a call with Sneako to talk about it.
Nick’s POV: [x]
Sneako’s POV: [x]
Sneako says to Nick that he sounds bitter, to which Nick agrees and says he is.
The conversation was another debate-style conversation, with Sneako pushing back on Nick, similar to their last conversation on November 3rd.
They go back and forth. Nick tells Sneako that he thinks he’s insightful.
At the end, Nick asks Sneako if he’ll be in LA soon for “No Jumper”. He tells him he doesn’t want to spoil it and that he will text him. This was very obvious foreshadowing to the YE24 presidential campaign fiasco that would happen later in the month.
After the call ends, Nick, from his stream, calls Sneako a genius.
November 19th, 2022
Nick forwards a post of Sneako’s Instagram post where he posted a picture of Nick:
November 21st, 2022
Sneako gets unbanned on Twitter.
Nick reports this to his followers:
Later that night, Sneako while live, reacts to two videos that talked about Nick.
One, an older Matt Walsh video of him critiquing Nick and calling him a White Supremacist. He compares Walsh, to the content creators that are in Sneako’s old “soy boy collage”. [x]
And two, a No Jumper podcast clip with Aba from Aba N Preach, talking about Nick, and Sneako defends Nick throughout watching the two videos. [x]
Sneako: “Remember this: If anybody can save America, it’s Nick Fuentes.”
Nick texted him during the No Jumper video, Sneako gets super hyped and yells, “I can’t tell you, but Nick just texted me the dopest shit of all time!”
Again, alluding to the eventual meeting with Kanye.
November 23rd-26th, 2022
I am lumping these days together, because they pretty much signal the same thing. But during these days it’s revealed to the public that Nick Fuentes and Sneako have been hanging out with Kanye “Ye” West, in LA for his presidential campaign.
Nick got access to Kanye through Milo Yiannopoulos, and Sneako got access to Kanye, presumably through Nick? Although in later years, Sneako would claim it was Milo that got him connected to Kanye as well.
Looking back, this entire thing really was such a fever dream.
November 28th, 2022
Sneako ended up coming back home for the holidays he says, and streamed in his home in Miami.
He talks about meeting Ye and reflects on his friendship with Nick. [x]
Sneako: “On that journey of seeking truth through funny, I met Nick Fuentes. […] And I talked to him, and I listened to him even though everyone was saying he was the most cancelled man on the internet.”
He later reacted to the TimCast interview with Ye & Nick.
November 29th, 2022
Sneako flies back to LA to work on the campaign.
Nick and Sneako get stopped and get asked questions by paparazzi.
Nick’s video: [x]
Sneako’s video: [x]
December 1st, 2022
Nick and Ye appear on Infowars with Alex Jones.
Sneako didn’t appear on camera, but he was behind the camera during this.
A rare image I found of Sneako & Nick (most likely) during this day.
December 2nd, 2022
Sneako does a stream in Ye’s warehouse and Nick joins him before his show:
December 3rd, 2022
Nick & Sneako were out at an In-N-Out late at night, and got into an altercation where Nick ended up infamously chucking his drink at a bunch of people. Full video: [x]
Nick types this out on his Telegram:
They talk more about this altercation, in a future 2023 stream.
December 14th, 2022
Sneako reacts to Nick’s debate with Alex Jones. [x]
In this, he says he took a break from YE24, because he didn’t feel he was fully ready for the transition from being a streamer to working in a political campaign.
Sneako also admits that he did get “a little triggered” when Ye said the “I love Hitler” statement.
December 21st, 2022
Sneako responds to BeardsonBeardly’s accusation that Sneako is a fair-weather friend to Nick. [x]
He disagrees with Beardson that he got more views and clout because of Nick and says if anything associating with Nick and with YE24 has hurt his career to the point that he might spend Christmas alone and not with his family, he says.
He says he would never disavow Nick, and that he texted Nick after he saw Beardson’s clip and he says that they’re good.
December 24th, 2022
Nick shared a tweet by Sneako on his Telegram: [x]
Later that night on his show, Nick got a superchat asking if him and Sneako are still friends, and he says yes, and clears up any misinformation about him and YE24. [x]
This seems to be the last significant Sneako mention by Nick in 2022.
Nick & Sneako likely mentioned each other in quick and short passings after this, but those references I don’t find to be particularly significant and are buried in long videos and streams that I don’t have the time to sift through, so for now I will stop here for the 2022 timeline.
Next, I will cover the 2023-2024 timeline, hopefully I can manage to fit it in one post, but if I have to make a third post, I will do so.
Future Naz: With the lack of sources to old Nick streams due to the NJF Archive Telegram being shut down, I most likely won’t be able to continue this timeline. Perhaps if I’m crazy enough in the future to purchase the 30$/month subscription service to AF+ with the AI search tool could I continue to do this series, but until then, this is where it ends.
Hope you all enjoyed this!