For more than a year, Nexus has been tracking the connection between the “manosphere” and antisemitism. A new Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, brings that connection into full view.
The film, released on March 11, follows four influencers who have built massive audiences by selling self-improvement, entrepreneurship, and fitness to young men. But beneath the workout clips and hustle culture lies something much darker: misogyny, Holocaust denial, and conspiracy theories about Jewish power. And the audiences consuming this content number in the tens of millions.
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The Influencers
Harrison Sullivan (HSTikkyTokky)
In January, the British influencer was filmed drunkenly giving a Nazi salute while accosting Jewish bystanders on a livestream. He was reportedly heard saying “Send them back to f*cking Auschwitz” and “We’re throwing it back to Hitler days, mate.” The documentary shows livestream footage of Sullivan chanting “f*ck the Jews” and also making an antisemitic comment directed at Theroux.
Sullivan makes a point of painting Theroux as Jewish (he’s not) or as controlled by Jews, then blindsides him into stating his views on Israel-Palestine on a livestream as a “gotcha” moment in front of thousands of manosphere-indoctrinated fans. Clips went viral. People praised Sullivan as a champion of Palestinian rights, despite Theroux’s long track record of critical documentarian work on Israel.
What Sullivan was really doing was training his audience that Jews must submit to a litmus test about Israel/Palestine before they’re deemed acceptable. Demanding this test only for Jews (or people you are falsely portraying as Jewish or controlled by Jews) is overtly antisemitic.
Justin Waller
Remember when Nick Fuentes and Andrew and Tristan Tate were filmed partying to Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” in a Miami Beach nightclub? Three of the men involved are featured in the doc. One of them is Waller, a Louisiana-born influencer and Tate associate who boasts in the film about cozying up to Barron Trump and making inroads at Mar-a-Lago.
Myron Gaines
Gaines (born Amrou Fudl) is a Miami-based former DHS agent and co-host of Fresh&Fit, which bills itself as a men’s self-improvement podcast but in reality traffics in misogyny and antisemitism. He has a long record of spreading Holocaust denial and Jew hatred.
One viral Fresh&Fit clip showed Gaines asking a roundtable of women their thoughts on Hitler. The response: “What if the Jewish did something to the Germans that made them act a certain way… But the Jews don’t want to take accountability?” The room piled on in agreement, with one person asking “How do we take them down?” as Gaines goaded them on.
Sneako
New York City-based streamer Sneako has been banned from most social media platforms for hateful conduct and misinformation. He claims to have left the manosphere behind. His content nowadays is conspiratorial political commentary. The Epstein files and Iran have given him a “respectable”-sounding entry point to spew hateful content.
Like Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, Sneako uses criticism of Israel and Zionism to try to make his antisemitic views seem palatable to a broad audience. Criticizing Israel and Zionism is not inherently antisemitic. But Sneako’s commentary is tied to a broader conspiratorial worldview about Jews and power. What he presents as advocacy for Palestinian rights is old-fashioned Jew hatred: shouting “down with Yahood (Jews)” to Palestinian fans, or declaring “Israel is the source of all evil in the world.”
In a telling exchange in the film, Sneako rants about a “one-world government” and the Rothschilds while discussing queer British singer Sam Smith, “Satanists,” and LGBTQ+ people. Theroux asks him directly: “Is it Jewish in character? Because that does have some of the hallmarks of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.” Sneako denies it. But the subtext is clear. He’s referring to a bizarre, anti-pluralist conspiracy that claims Jewish intellectuals created feminism and LGBTQ+ rights to weaken men. You may have heard it called “Cultural Marxism.” It’s a core belief in the manosphere and a modern repackaging of Nazi propaganda.
The Pipeline
Teenage boys and young men all over the world view these guys as heroes. Unlike neo-Nazis, manosphere influencers frame their content around self-improvement, entrepreneurship, and fitness. But once young men start following them, they’re flooded with misogyny, antisemitism, and white nationalist conspiracies disguised as “truth.”
Once these conspiracies become embedded in their understanding of what it means to be a man, any attempt to challenge those beliefs is treated as an attack on their masculinity. They dig in further.
The manosphere thrives on grievance narratives, telling men they are victims of feminism, diversity, and “global elites.” From there, it’s a short jump to blaming Jewish people for “engineering” feminism and progressivism.
The irony is that many of these men have legitimate grievances. Many come from humble beginnings. They have been harmed by a system that prioritizes the few over the many. But blaming women and Jews for everything wrong in the world is fundamentally wrong, and harmful to their own cause. Instead of focusing on the real issues, they’re building alliances with the very people and groups who oppose the structural changes that would actually help them.
That these influencers quickly walk back their antisemitism when confronted doesn’t change the impact. They’ll say something hateful about Jews, then a minute later claim they don’t actually believe it. Sullivan calls it “clip farming.” Whether they believe it or not, they’re spreading antisemitic conspiracies to an entire generation of boys and young men.
The Numbers Tell the Story
In 2026, the manosphere is not a fringe online community. Its influence grows every day.
A recent survey from King’s College London and Ipsos found that Gen Z men (ages 18–29) often hold more traditional, conservative views on gender roles than older generations. A striking 31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should “always obey her husband,” compared to 13% of baby boomer men and 21% of Gen X men.
And it’s spilling over into how younger generations of men view Jewish people. A December 2025 survey from the Manhattan Institute found that 54% of Republican men under 50 believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe.
These are not random data points. This is the manosphere in action.
Why It Matters
It’s easy to dismiss all of this as a trend. But the manosphere is more than the latest flavor of toxic masculinity. It is a major recruitment ground for extremist ideologies. Ignoring it allows antisemitism and violence to grow unchecked.
It’s important to recognize the dangers of conspiracy theories and to educate ourselves on how to spot them. We need awareness, deplatforming of dangerous figures, and alternative narratives for young men.
Hatred against women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and other targeted groups often feeds downstream into antisemitism. The manosphere is another clear case of exactly that pattern. And as its reach grows, so does the urgency of confronting it.