Religious Influencers Repackage Christianity For Always-Online Generation

It was midnight in the final hours of his college spring break, and Richard Ackerman was hyped up on four coffees and a fervent belief in his evangelistic mission.

Sitting in his Dallas dorm room in 2023, Ackerman set his computer’s font to the cartoonish Comic Sans, sketched digital stick figure drawings and within several hours created one of the videos that have helped make him a popular gateway to religion. “All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes,” which he posted under the name Redeemed Zoomer, has been watched more than 14.5 million times.