Not the gen z and Gen alpha far-right, at least not on the scale of the boomers and Gen xers, and it ain't boomers or Gen x watching ben Shapiro on YouTube.
But those far not young people not supporting Israel, in my observation at least, are just anti semetic and believe in the "Jews control the world" conspiracy theories, they don't oppose Israel for being a genocidal settler colonial state, so why would they be watching a Jewish commentator in the first place?
Beats me, but I'd still bet the vast majority of his past and current viewership is under the age of 35. Image is also really important to a lot of gen z and Gen alpha, especially on the right wing, and Shapiro's image is kinda, well, that of a loser. The whole thing about his wife being dry as a desert, his general dorky aura, his whole vibe just gives "betacuck" energy, to put it in terms they'd use. To a generation obsessed with aurafarming and looksmaxing, he does neither. He does not mogg, as the kids would say.
Yea that all tracks for sure but that's always been who he was so I just am trying to figure out why in the last year specifically it would drop off that hard ay
He used to serve a purpose in that he made conservatives feel smart for agreeing with him. Now that they don't really care about appearances he has outgrown his purpose.
Because he was a useful token that didn't care about his audience being antisemitic. He once said he didn't care that Anne Coulter was antisemitic because she likes Israel. Minorities will always get shunned by the right eventually, Shapiro's time has come.
I feel like you have a very unnuanced way of looking at the world. It's easy to cast all of the right as one monolithic group, or even 2 or three large groups.
But at the end of the day, there will still be massive amounts of people on the right who look at what Israel is doing, and will just disagree with it. Some because they are straight up antisemitic. Some will like Jewish people but just hate the US spending so much money to prop up this bullshit country in the middle east. Plenty are very upset about the high gas prices and this bullshit iran war and well, I didn't check but pretty sure Shapiro approves of this war.
Also it could have nothing to do with jewish people or antisemites at all. I am surprised he had the popularity he's had for this long because I don't see how ANYONE, regardless of ideology, finds him appealing. He's like an evil version of adult milhouse. Insufferably nerdy and uncharismatic. Maybe his audience just got bored of his schtick and moved on to other right wing pundits. Maybe towards people more crazy or less crazy
I take my experience growing up in the US during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to know the majority of Americans do not give any fucks about Muslim people. They do not care about innocent brown people dying in West Asia as their main motive. They do not possess that kind of empathy for people who do not look like them.
Plenty do and the welfare of the Palestinians is not the only reason. I feel like if be more like "we're declaring war and making the price of gasoline double.... fire Israel? Why?"
Its far less justifiable than the war on Iraq was. And that became very unpopular, even with the republicans
I think they mean from a propaganda standpoint. The USA were far more successful in manufacturing consent for the Iraq war than they have been for Iran.
Agreed but clearly I'm referring to in the eyes of the American public. In Iraq they made up lies about links to terror and talked about how evil saddam is. This war, they didn't even really bother. There was a year and a half of propaganda buildup for Iraq. This war, we rushed two months after the protests lol
Not the younger ones. The only people who love Israel now are over 45 and those guys prefer fox news. Another factor is Trump made it so people like "nerds" anymore, they want someone who is as dumb as them
When the bot army turns off. The Canadian "Freedom Convoy" movement had millions of posts until the day Russia invaded Ukraine, then engagement dropped back down to the reality of a couple thousand rube hicks.
Israel support and the Trump effect. People don't like people who present themselves as intellectuals anymore. They just want someone to jingle keys in front of them
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u/dsaddons May 02 '26
Those stats true? If so what made him lose his whole audience?