Amy Dangerfield Faces Harassment After $25,000 Ohio Event Sparks Nick Fuentes Backlash
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 27
Amy Dangerfield Faces Harassment After $25,000 Ohio Event Sparks Nick Fuentes Backlash
1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 27
Summary
Dangerfield said Nick Fuentes’s followers turned on her within hours of her Ohio "America First United" event, flooding X, Telegram and YouTube with doctored images, rape threats and accusations she was a traitor.
The backlash followed a conference she and her husband financed with roughly $25,000, which Fuentes cast to his roughly 100,000 Telegram subscribers as a "hostile takeover attempt" and mocked on his streams.
One alleged harasser was hit with a stalking-protection order, but Dangerfield said the abuse kept spreading, including fake porn, slurs and claims she was part of a conspiracy against Fuentes.
The episode has left Dangerfield disillusioned with a movement she once promoted, exposing how women who help market its anti-feminist message can be celebrated briefly, then targeted when they seek influence of their own.
Her retreat also underscores the fragile economics of far-right influencer culture: after earning about $10,000 a month from YouTube, the couple saw views slump as the online mob moved on to newer female personalities.