AS AMERICANS SETTLED IN to watch the midterm results last Tuesday, neo-Nazi internet personality Christopher Pohlhaus had different plans: World of Warcraft. And perhaps something a little bit more erotic after that.
Pohlhaus, a tatted-up white supremacist influencer who goes by the name “Hammer” online, streamed the fantasy game to his fans for hours. But eventually, Pohlhaus wanted to talk to a lady outside of the fantasy land of Azeroth. And this conversation was not meant for his fans to see.
Before video-chatting with the woman, Pohlhaus turned off the recording on his streaming software. Crucially, however, Pohlhaus did not also end his broadcast on the streaming site Kick, which meant his romantic talk with a neo-Nazi hanger-on known by the screen name “Iron Maiden 14” was still broadcast online to the roughly fifteen viewers who had originally been watching the World of Warcraft stream.
As Pohlhaus dirty-talked and eventually began to masturbate with the woman, his commenters desperately tried to warn him they could see everything.
“DOES HE KNOW HE’S STILL LIVE?” asked one horrified commenter.
This was, to say the least, not a great look for a white supremacist leader hoping to embody traditional values and hypermasculine strength. After more than two-and-a-half hours of cybersex and talking (interrupted by Pohlhaus taking a break to eat some chicken he’d prepared), “Iron Maiden 14” said—again, live on the broadcast—that she had received a message from another man asking her if she was streaming with Pohlhaus.
“Oh, nooo!” Pohlhaus said, as his eyes grew wide. “I hope not!”
Then the stream went dead.
I’ll get into what transpired during those two-and-a-half hours in a moment. (Warning: Don’t read this edition of False Flag out loud to your kids.) But it’s worth stepping back first to talk about who this guy is and why we should pay attention to this far-right corner of the internet.

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