One of the strangest cultural phenomena to arise out of the 2016 election and its aftermath is the growing popularity, in far-Right circles, of a purportedly chiseled Twitter provocateur named Bronze Age Pervert. A self-proclaimed "Aspiring Nudist Bodybuilder. Free speech and anti-xenoestrogen activist" with about 20,000 Twitter followers to date, BAP (as he's known) has managed to become an unlikely symbolic figurehead for powerful corners of the far-Right Internet. Back in 2017, for example, Curtis Yarvin, aka the Neo-reactionary philosopher Mencius Moldbug, used BAP's name as part of an elaborate troll: telling The Atlantic's Rosie Gray that BAP was, in fact, Moldbug's point of contact for the White House.
"Apparently there's a big underground movement of right-wing bodybuilders—thousands," Yarvin told Gray. "Their plan is to surface spectacularly this April, in a choreographed flash demo on the Mall. They'll be totally nude, but wearing MAGA hats. Goal is to intimidate Congress with pure masculine show of youth."
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