Nick Fuentes - The Digital Cult

America First: The Digital Cult is a three-part investigative podcast examining how extremist influencer Nick Fuentes built a cult-like online movement and why thousands of young men are drawn into it. Episode one explores Fuentes’s background, rhetoric, and manipulation tactics. ...  Show more

America First: The Digital Cult is a three-part investigative podcast examining how extremist influencer Nick Fuentes built a cult-like online movement and why thousands of young men are drawn into it. Episode one explores Fuentes’s background, rhetoric, and manipulation tactics. ...  Show more

Episode 3 – “The Loyalty Test: Why People Stay—and How Some Escape” This episode examines why Nick Fuentes’s followers remain loyal despite scandals, hypocrisy, and mounting evidence of manipulation. Ava Grey analyzes cult psychology mechanisms including cognitive dissonance, sun ...  Show more

Episode 2 – “The Followers: How Radicalization Happens” This episode traces the step-by-step radicalization pipeline that draws teenage boys and young men into Nick Fuentes’s America First movement. Ava Grey follows the journey from ironic memes and edgy jokes to full ideological ...  Show more

Episode 1 – “The Leader and the Lie: How Charisma Becomes Control” This episode investigates how Nick Fuentes built a cult-like extremist movement through humor, grievance, and digital charisma. It traces his rise from teenage conservative commentator to white nationalist influen ...  Show more