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A racist YouTuber—who achieved web infamy by urging pedestrians to say the N-word—has joined the ranks of Kanye West’s increasing, casual 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Nico Kenn De Balinthazy, higher generally known as “Sneako,” mentioned on Monday night time that he’s taking a hiatus from live-streaming to give attention to his new function with the antisemitic rapper.
“I met Ye, after which I ended up working with Ye,” the provocative YouTuber mentioned whereas calling West his “childhood hero.”
The controversial streamer added he’s been working for West behind the scenes and producing movies for the rapper’s Twitter web page. “I really feel like that is the final alternative America has,” De Balinthazy continued, not directly talking to West’s presidential candidacy.
De Balinthazy did not specify his actual function on the marketing campaign, which has but to be made official with the FEC, however mentioned the gig may eat two years of his life (within the unlikely occasion the marketing campaign lasts till the 2024 normal presidential election).
Whereas De Balinthazy insisted that it’s a profession transfer to “battle the brand new world order,” he admitted that he can be “subservient” in his new function. Up to now, West has additionally enlisted the assistance of far-right web troll Milo Yiannopoulos and white nationalist Nick Fuentes in his presidential endeavors.
In West’s Mar-a-Lago “debrief” video posted on Twitter final week, following West and Fuentes assembly with Donald Trump at his Florida membership, De Balinthazy was seated within the background.
The YouTuber—who in October was banned from the streaming platform—couldn’t be reached for touch upon Tuesday. Yiannopoulos declined to remark when reached by The Each day Beast.
Like Yiannopoulos and Fuentes, De Balinthazy traffics in misogyny and hate. He additionally has made violent threats on-line. For instance, after his Twitter account was briefly suspended in September, De Balinthazy threatened to “break” the face of fellow YouTube streamer Hasan Piker.
The Each day Beast reported on Monday that Fuentes had joined West’s haphazard marketing campaign, adopted by a Tim Pool interview that shortly devolved right into a practice wreck after the rapper was met with gentle pushback to his blatant antisemitism.
Regardless of the West meltdown, Yiannopoulos advised The Each day Beast that the walkout “was epic.”
—William Sommer contributed reporting.