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Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has raised over $1.3 million from Super Chat donations on the platform
Some of his top-earning videos feature far-right guests, including Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes
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Over the past five years, prominent right-wing influencer Tim Pool has raised over $1.3 million from YouTube’s “Super Chat” feature, which allows users to pay creators to highlight their livestream comments, with one video alone drawing nearly $20,000 in donations. (YouTube takes an estimated 30% cut of those donations.) Even though Pool has pushed extreme rhetoric on his show, Timcast IRL, and frequently hosts far-right guests who push false claims, YouTube has allowed and even profited from his channel.
Pool’s guests have included former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio; Naomi Wolf, who has pushed COVID-19 conspiracy theories; and Andrew Torba, the notoriously antisemitic founder of far-right social media platform Gab. Pool himself has baselessly accused teachers, journalists, and LGBTQ people of being “pedophiles,” made misogynistic comments, and falsely claimed that a news story about a 10-year-old rape victim was a “hoax.”