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Brendan Hartnett, rapid response editor here at the Bulwark. Welcome back to Bulwark Takes. I'm joined by Will Sommer, author of our False Flag newsletter. And he's out with a doozy of a piece today titled Right wing media and OnlyFans are in a Symbiotic Relationship. Will, great piece. Tell us about the piece.
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Thank you. Yeah, this is a trip into a sordid world, a world where sex sells. Okay, so this is a story mostly about a woman named Savannah Cannon. And you know, I suspect that may not be her real name but, but you know, she's a lovely young lady and she has caused quite a stir on the right over the past week. She's someone who is pumping out short form video content, very stuff that would not be out of place at the Daily Wire, Turning Point usa. Like she kind of shows a video and she's like, it's like an immigrant or a trans person, you know, acting in a crazy way. And she goes like, these people are, these liberals are out of control. But what's unique about her is, and what has agitated a lot of other women on the right is that she is sitting in an unusual way, a way that seems perhaps designed to provoke more than a political reaction. Let's play that clip.
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It blows my mind. She is the opposite of everything that we stand for in this country. And she literally married her brother.
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Sorry about Ilhan Omar.
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Do not marry our brothers here.
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C
So she has her, her legs, she's kind of reclining in a chair and she has her legs kind of posted up next to her and she's wearing thin yoga Pants. You know, for those who are just listening, you know, it's, it's, it's really outlining, let's say, like her entire body and perhaps the, the lower region in particular. And this is something that if you look at her videos, she has. This woman has nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram on her politics account. And I mean, this is something, if you look at her videos, this is. She's doing all the time, she's like hiking up the pants. So, Brennan, you know, I suspected there might be something else going on here.
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B
Yeah. So how did you come across her? Because I will say this week I've been seeing a bunch of her videos in my timeline as somebody who follows a lot of gripers.
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C
And I'm sure you have been seeing, seeing her in your timeline with your Elgo.
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B
Yeah. So why is she significant? Like, why does it matter that this woman is out here giving hot takes while showing off her crotch?
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C
Yeah. So what's going on here is let's just establish this. She's an only fans model and she's trying to get subscribers by hook or by crooked to sign up to see, you know, sexy pictures of her, pay for them on OnlyFans. Now what we're seeing is that she recognizes right wing media as a good client funnel, Customer funnel. And so she, she tried other stuff. Oh, here's me being sexy at the gym. Did okay, you know, whatever. But her big hit has been I just need to sort of pose as a conservative talking hat. Maybe these are really her politics. But, you know, she, it kind of looks like she has a podcast and stuff. As far as I can tell, that's not real. It's basically like it has the trappings of a conservative media woman, but instead it's just like, by the way, you know, once you kind of dig enough into my link tree, you're going to find my only fans. And the reason this is relevant is because this came across my feed when Lauren Witzke, who's sort of a far right woman. She, she was actually a Delaware Senate candidate. She was a Republican nominee in Delaware a few years back. She's kind of affiliated with like Milo Yiannopoulos. So she's like kind of coming from that world. She's like, I guess it's like Nick Fuente's adjacent, but basically she was Savannah Cannon, had some kind of like pro Israel or like anti Muslim comments. And Lauren was like, look at these kind of traditional or these, these kind of conservative establishment media women. You know, these are tramps, essentially. You can see, you know, look at how she puts her legs up. And so this sort of started a whole debate on the right about, you know, the place of sex appeal in political commentary. Are all these right wing boomer men just simps being preyed on by Savannah Cannon and her ilk convers like this.
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And I should say for those watching at home, it's not just her crotch and butt crack that's in the video. She is also showing her feet. And we at the Bulwark do not kink shame. So I know there's some people who are into that, but it's a really interesting strategy. Has it proven successful at driving subs to her only fans?
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You know, her sub count isn't, isn't public and, you know, I'll give you an example, Brennan, of how innocent my mind is. The first thing I noticed was the bare feet was I was like, oh, she's doing like, you know, because you'll see, you know, social media influencers will sometimes block out their feed and pictures, like, keep the word away the sickos or, you know, or whatever. But the. In this case. And then I thought, oh my goodness, there's even more going on here. What's with these legs? Why, why is she crouching this particular way? It's, you know, in a way, I think it's. I feel like sort of like I'm taking you down to the peep show and we're reviewing it or whatever and it's like, what's the point of this? But I think it illustrates, it points to something larger, which is there is this relationship between conservative media and which is to say that there is often this. These are men who hate women, who talk about women in awful ways, who say that women should be, you know, at best at home rare and raising children, have no other role in society. And yet. And they hate OnlyFans. You have to understand, really, these young Gen Z creators, they see OnlyFans is not just like a day class A operation or whatever, but like something that is like a scourge upon society because they believe it basically has turned every woman that would normally be dating them has turned them into like a trollop who's on Only Fans and has just so warped the market that, you know, this is like goes into hypergamy. The idea that the top 20% of men are taking 80% of the women, all this stuff. And so they hate OnlyFans. And yet all of these manosphere dating podcasts rely on OnlyFans women because they need like the hot ladies to come in so they can say what's your body count? And so I get into that a little in the piece as well.
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B
So you mentioned she had pro Israel comments, which I feel like is pretty rare for most new New Right influencers. What's her, where does she fit in the current MAGA media ecosystem amid this current civil war that's dividing them.
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Yeah, you know, this is something that's always interesting is when people who are like Gen Z or Gen Alpha really come out and are like trashing Muslims and are very pro Israel. And I think it gives because we're seeing on the right even increasing kind of antipathy towards Israel among young people. It kind of makes you seem Astroturf like right out of the gate. And I think that's partially what it would attracted people to this controversy, made them think like what's, what's going on here with this figure? You know, we saw this also with Matt Nuclear, who is this like 19 year old Ben Shapiro hired who was going to be like his, you know, pro Israel gladiator and you know, pretty, pretty quickly got got owned by the gripers. So I guess my point is her politics are very kind of like mainline Fox News. It's just she's doing this like crazy pose as well. You know, let's play another video here and kind of get, get a glimpse into, into what we're, what we're talking about ideologically.
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70% of all Pakistanis are inbred. Half of everybody living in the Arab
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world is in bread.
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They marry their first cousins and are the reason for all of these disorders in children at the highest rate ever. It's sickening.
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What a nice lady. So the other aspect here that I think is interesting is this has created a lot of commentary among the, you know, conservative pundit class. And so I'd like to play a video from Steven Crowder. Now. Steven Crowder, folks, he was once a child actor. He played the voice of one of Arthur the aardvark's friends on show. And since then his dreams have gone sour and he's become a conservative podcast guy. And, and let's say he's no friend to womankind. Famously there's a video of him berating his wife, his then wife who's pregnant with twins, just screaming at her and all this awful stuff. And so he kind of weighs in on this. So let's get his perspective.
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Not like that said all the other conservative female commentators selling sex appeal. Look, it's not lost on me that
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this person is using it to Sell only of probably an AI script. Go in talentless. There's nothing being contributed.
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Right.
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There's nothing of value. I get it. So you know what he's saying? There is like, there's this long history of kind of like hot babes, you know, succeeding. He then goes on to show a bunch of pictures of Fox News women and when they were wearing bikinis or whatever. Little bit of a pervy guy himself, to be honest with you. But the, that is sort of how this is all landing. And I think the Savannah cannon thing, while I realize people may think it's a bit lurid, it, it shows sort of the, the, the, the apotheosis of this kind of mix of like sex and conservative Punjab.
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I guess I'm just kind of struggling to understand how the two square with each other. I mean, obviously you have candidates like James Fishback in Florida running on a proposal to tax onlyfans models in the state 50% of their income. How can that be happening on one hand and at the same time we're, you know, doing real camel toe style videos for TikTok.
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Yeah, I mean, there is this. The psychosexual aspect here is very intense. So the, you know, you mentioned. So James Fishback, he really got his first, you know, Real attention nationally when he proposed tax on 50% of only fan creators incomes in the state of Florida were he to become governor. And this set off Sophie Rain, who I think is like one of the most prominent only fans models. And they began this kind of mutually beneficial kayfabe fight, you know, where she's saying, you know, James, you know, you're probably subscribed to me or whatever. And he goes, oh, young lady, you know, and then they go on Piers Morgan and they fight about it, whatever. And she gets attention, he gets attention. Similarly, Nick Fuentes, this is interesting to me. He will just, this is a guy white nationalist, should be talking about politics, one would imagine. And then he'll just go on a show. Oh, you know, Sophie Rain was looking so hot. Some fashion show she did. You know, you guys are, you know, he said the goyim if you guys can't see how hot she is and all this. And then she said, oh, thanks Nick, am I a great pet? Or whatever. And so there's this weird, you know, it almost makes you wonder if there's some kind of paid like promotional scheme going on here. But you can see that there's this, there's a symbiosis here where these people can get like heated up about the only fans models, oh, they're so sexy and we can't control them and blah, blah, blah. And then obviously the only fans women are being exposed to this audience that has a lot of time to sit on their computers and. And you know, look at, look at content. Right. And so, you know, you can see why they would see this as a rich field to plum.
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Yeah. I was struck in your piece. I'm starting to wonder if Nick Fuentes is getting just a little too horny to still be an incel because it, it seems like he's, you know, enjoying some content.
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Well, you know, one might also see it as a bit performative. Right. Like, you know, it, you know, obviously Nick Fuentes has sort of been you know, dog for a while about his interest in cat boys and hunky men, like clavicular, all this stuff. And then for him to say like, whoa, you know, like, like what a hot lady, you know, you know, what wonders, you know, but Dick Fuentes. And this also ties into an aspect of conservative media I've long been fascinated by, which is the dating podcasts. Now Brendan, do you tune into these shows? Whatever, Fresh and Fit.
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I'll listen to Fresh and Fit occasionally. Although it's a bit of a struggle to.
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You're tuning into womanizer Wednesday and Money Monday. So, so for folks who aren't familiar with this, thankfully these are, these shows that you may see see on short form social media, they're really made for it. They bring in whatever's in LA and Fresh and Fit isn't Miami. And they bring in, it's like two or three conservative men. Sometimes they'll have like Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens has been on. And then they, they bring in like a dozen scantily clad, I would say, women who are often not very prepared for a debate, many of whom are onlyfans models. And then they kind of say like, well, what would you rate yourself? And then the girl says, I'm an eight. And then the host goes, you're an eight? Are you kidding me? You're a five. You know, it's crazy. The last time about their body count, as I mentioned. And then you, so you say, why would a woman subject herself to this? What an awful environment to be in. Because sometimes, sometimes they're like, get out of here. You know, whatever. The answer is because often they're promoting their only fans pages. And so you have this, these shows, they rely on attractive young women getting on, getting yelled at. And often in the case, certainly in both of these cases, these guys, you would think the guys running these shows are like, you know, like Baptist preachers. The way they react to women, you know, like wearing low cut shirts or something. They're like, how dare you show up like this or whatever. But they're profiting off of it, obviously. You know, the fresh and fit guys, they got asked about this by a fan who said, you guys are telling us to watch out for. They call women 304s, which is like code for hoe, I guess. And I think if you type it into a calculator and turn it upside down. And so, so they're like, you bring on all those 304s and you're telling us to be strong men staying out of the club or whatever. And they're like, look like we gotta, you know, they said sex sells. We gotta get some hot ladies in here. And then, and then from there we're really gonna, you know, reform, you know, these, these, these simps, which, which I'm sure is really what's happening here.
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Yeah, no, I mean that makes total sense. It's, you know, an undeniable fact that sex sells. And I think the right has been pretty good at leaning into that. I look back to like Megyn Kelly's days on Fox News and You know, the clear glass table that she sat behind, famously on the five, there's a seat known as the leg chair where you're aware a woman's legs in a dress are more visible. So it definitely seems like something that the right has really run with and probably to some real success. I guess I'm starting to wonder if liberals and liberal leaning podcasts and media should start doing that. I mean, obviously Will, our sex appeal has really driven the bulwarks explosion and growth.
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But I guess it feels like this
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is not happening as commonly on the left. I don't know, is this an area that liberals should be tapping into more, do you think?
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You know, you know, it's interesting. This is what I love. Brendan, you always come up with these bold ideas. Ideas, you know, it's one that I think is, is, is complex. It's, it's, you know, I imagine these liberal dating podcasts, if you had in, you know, a liberal man and you know, eight women and what's your body counters, that's awesome. You know, or whatever it's. But, but for whatever reason, I do think it's just very interesting here that Savannah Cannon, who I think everything else aside, seems to be a very savvy operator, an apex predator in this conservative media ecosystem. She has recognized, you know, that this is really easily. You can kind of come in and dominate this with some very, I should say very crass, not especially subtle moves. These commenters will be like, why are you like constantly hiking up your pants?
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Why?
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I've never seen someone sit like this before. And she said, yeah, I'm trying to get straight men to watch, buddy. So, you know, that's. Sometimes it's as simple as that.
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Well, at least she's honest about it. Well, Will, it was great chatting with you about this. Thank you again for enlightening us on this incredible world of sex. Forward magapundits, everybody. Thank you for watching and listening. If you like, takes like this one, be sure to subscribe to the feed and be sure to check out Will's newsletter, false flag at the bulwark. Com. Until next time. See everyone later.