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Millennial Woes
Personal information
Born
Colin Robertson[1]
NationalityScottish
OccupationSocial media personality
Websitemillennialwoes.com
YouTube information
Years active2013[2]–present

Colin Robertson, known as Millennial Woes or simply Woes,[3][4] is a Scottish former YouTuber, white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist.[5][6][7]

According to anti-racism and anti-fascism research group Hope Not Hate, Robertson is known for supporting slavery, and has called for the bombing of refugees crossing the Mediterranean.[8] In 2022, a documentary film was made about his alt right career, titled "Whovian Woes"[9]

Career

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Robertson attended an art college in London in the mid-2000s. He launched his YouTube channel at the end of 2013.[10]

In January 2017, Robertson began receiving coverage from BBC News[11] and national newspapers,[12] after Scottish tabloid the Daily Record claimed to have doxxed Millennial Woes, "expos[ing]" his birth name, family's home address and sending reporters and photographers to his parents' home to try to find him.[13] Robertson was reported to have "left Britain", posting a video to his YouTube channel named "Fugitive Woes".[14] BNP-affiliated group Civil Liberty publicly defended him, claiming his outing by media was a "hate campaign fomented by Daily Mirror".[15]

In August 2017, Salon claimed that Millennial Woes was one of only a few alt-right platforms to rapidly grow, alongside Red Ice, VDARE and The Rebel Media.[16][17]

On 10 December 2017, he began an interview series named Millenniyule 2017, inviting various internet personalities from the alt-right movement,[18] including an appearance from Faith Goldy.[19]

Speeches

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Robertson delivered a speech at the National Policy Institute Conference in November 2016, in Washington DC. On 4 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech entitled "Withnail and I as Viewed From the Right" at The London Forum in Kensington,[20] which The Independent described as "a meeting of prominent far-right voices".[21] On 25 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech in Stockholm organised by Motpol, which had been promoted as "the most important alt-right conference in Europe". According to IBTimes, the event took place in a "secret location" in Södermalm.[22] On 1 July 2017, he appeared at the Scandza Forum in Oslo, a far-right conference[23] known for promoting racism and antisemitism.[24] Searchlight covered his appearance, reporting the title of the conference as "Globalism v the Ethnostate" and Robertson as a "scheduled speaker".[13]

Views

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Robertson is a proponent of the white genocide conspiracy theory.[4] He has claimed in interviews that "there are problems with the Jewish people".[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Fallout from modern protests: naming and shaming online". The Christian Science Monitor. 17 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Are these the faces of London's young 'alt-right'?". The Standard. 2 March 2017.
  3. ^ "I Love Hans Hoppe!". LewRockwell.com. 23 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Exposed racist vlogger flees home and faces police probe". Sunday Herald. 15 January 2017.
  5. ^ a b "WATCH: 'Alt-Right' Owns up to Anti-Semitism". The Forward. 16 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Warwick student's leading role in Facebook hate group exposed". The Boar. 27 November 2017.
  7. ^ Townsend, Mark (August 24, 2019). "Far-right activist posted to serve on Trident submarine". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  8. ^ "PATRIOTIC ALTERNATIVE: UNITING THE FASCIST RIGHT?" (PDF). Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  9. ^ Porter, Liam (2022-08-01). "Whovian Woes". YouTube. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  10. ^ "Government suspends its YouTube advertising, amid concerns about where revenue goes". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Scotland's papers: Crime figures 'fiddle' and Brexit warning". BBC News. 9 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Racist vlogger who became global YouTube sensation unmasked as jobless ex-student who lives with dad". Daily Mirror. 9 January 2017.
  13. ^ a b "International Nazi movement meets again in Norway". Searchlight. 4 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Vile YouTube racist flees to US and puts out the begging bowl after Record exposes him". Daily Record (Scotland). 11 January 2017.
  15. ^ "You Tube vlogger faces hate campaign fomented by Daily Mirror". Civil Liberty (UK). 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  16. ^ "Trump and the Nazis: Our troll-in-chief has a deep affinity with the alt-right — and with their ancestors". Salon. 20 August 2017.
  17. ^ As it was then known.
  18. ^ "'Sargon Of Akkad' Cites White Nationalist Propaganda, Reveals His Alt-Right Sympathies". Right Wing Watch. 11 January 2017.
  19. ^ "Faith Goldy Recites The '14 Words'". Right Wing Watch. 20 December 2017.
  20. ^ Poulter, James (12 March 2018). "The Neo-Nazi Home of the UK Alt-Right". Vice.
  21. ^ "Activists blockade London meeting of 'secret Neo Nazi society'". The Independent. 6 February 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14.
  22. ^ "Inside the alt-right: Stockholm conference brings together US and European white nationalists". International Business Times. 3 March 2017.
  23. ^ "US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway". The Independent. 2019-11-03. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  24. ^ Cotovio, Vasco. "Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference". CNN. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
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