The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem
How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology
Illustration by Hunter French
In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a
man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the
shock jock duo Opie & Anthony a safe space to say what cannot be said
offline. He’s posted in threads like “N r
hate thread #1,” “The
K-ke Hate Thread,” “Juno
comes out as a tranny,” and “OFFICIAL
Post-Election Voter Fraud THREAD,” where he called Joe Biden “a pedophile