Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes mocked his followers after they were interviewed for a CNN segment, the network reported on Friday.
CNN senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan interviewed two men in Miami named Rich and John, who are Groypers — young, white men who are followers of white supremacist Fuentes.
"These men have come to seethemselves in Nick Fuentes," O'Sullivan said. "Hiscancellation across social mediaplatforms for his spreading ofhate they view as part of abroader attack on men like them."
John, a 25-year-old Groyper, described what drew him to Fuentes.
"And you look at his audience,they feel like they can relateto him because they're youngmen," John told O'Sullivan. "A lot of them can't getgirlfriends. A lot of them arestruggling financially. They're not going to have the life theirparents had. Their grandparentshad."
But after the interview, things changed.
"Soon after I left Miamipictures, John posted of ourinterview on social media, got Fuentes' attention and he wasn'thappy. His followers had spokento CNN," O'Sullivan said.
Fuentes talked about it.
"How about that CNN thing? Ohmy gosh, these like two absolutechuds who look at us. 'We're in our Nick Fuentest-shirt and hat,'" Fuentes said about his followers featured in the interview.
Then Rich and John started getting attacked online.
"In online audio chats, Groypers began to turn on Richand John," O'Sullivan said.
And John tried to defend his "Groypers honor" in a 30-minute social media interview.
"I consider myself a Groyper, and I know everyone's saying I'm not a Groyper and giving me death threats and telling me to kill myself and that they're going to rape me. And that's fine. I don't really care," John said.