The internet has fundamentally changed — and almost no one has noticed. In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins break down how the explosion of global internet users (especially from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and other developing nations) has dramatically reshaped online discourse on both the left and the right. They explore: * Why environmentalism, anti-Black racism, and anti-Hispanic racism faded from leftist priorities while Gaza, Pakistan, Jews, and “Hindu Indians” suddenly dominate * Audience capture, botting, and engagement farming * Why certain right-wing creators (Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate) shifted toward international/Islamic audiences * The hidden influence of third-world users on Western political conversation * Christian-majority vs. non-Western audience patterns * And why the “online right” often feels disconnected from actual American conservatives A paradigm-shifting look at how the internet is no longer majority American — and what that means for culture, politics, and influence.Based Camp - The Internet is No Longer American Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today I am genuinely excited, because this theory has completely changed the way I see our society today. This is one of the big ones. And- It is so explanatory to me of so many things that I didn’t have a good explanation for. For example, why did the left so quickly and over the very explicit time period that we are looking at completely abandon environmentalism? Why did they abandon anti-Black racism as a cause? Why did they abandon anti-American Hispanic racism as a cause? Why did they start focusing on Gaza and, and Pakistan and the problem of Jews all of a sudden? Why all of a sudden did they start complaining about Hindi Indians all of the time? Why all of a sudden... not that there aren’t legitimate grievances here but these are changes that we’ve seen in both the left and the right. So we’re gonna [00:01:00] talk about, like, where these changes have happened in both the left and the right. And I’m not saying, again, I’m not saying that these grievances don’t have, like, a genuine reason for them, right? But when I hear about, for example regularly, like, women being dragged off the streets in parks and graped, okay? And then I see Nick Fuentes crashing out about Indian tech workers I’m like, “Your hierarchy of racism seems off.” Not, I’m not saying that, like... Or like the, the, the three boys of a certain ethnicity, you know, recently beat to death a, a disabled kid. What? It’s three Black kids, yeah. There was a w- white disabled kid that they mocked and beat to death. There was the, I think it was like they got, like, Yeah, so they live-streamed themselves beating him over the course of three days, it looks like, and they only got re-respectively, , three years in prison, seven years in prison, and eight years in prison. That’s it But I was wrong. He [00:02:00] survived, and so that is why people say, “Oh, it’s okay they got these relatively light sentences.” Malcolm Collins: There was a recent incident of the Black guy, like, murdering some Asian old guy in San Francisco, and they said that putting him in jail would be bad for him. Like, it would be bad for him, like, mentally or something, and so he’s not. No, it’s, it’s, g- there’s, like, a lot- And he’s just not using that Simone Collins: i- if I ever get in trouble as a defense. This, this would be, this would be bad for me. Yeah, this would be bad for my emotional health- The timing is, it’s- ... if I got raped I’ve got a lot going on right now. Yeah. Not a good time. Speaker: For context, he murdered an 85-year-old Vietnamese immigrant and he was only given five years in prison, after which he was released. First he was only sentenced to eight years in prison, then he was released after only five years because it was considered bad for his mental health. Malcolm Collins: Well, there was the recent incident of the the Muslim guy who drove into a crowd. Ooh. And they said it was a mental health issue, even though he said he just wanted to kill them all. Simone Collins: Well, [00:03:00] at least there’s, you know, a long documented body of, of comments and analysis online talking about how unhinged we are. We basically have an get out of jail free card. Malcolm Collins: Exactly. Well, not anymore. Not that many people talk about how unhinged we are. Now most people are like, “Oh, they, they’re crazy, but they make a lot of points, and they’re barely ruthless.” That was your thing on Christmas. But okay, theory. Theory. We’re gonna get to the theory. Yeah. Then we’ll talk about us. So, this was in a recent episode where we were looking at the expansion of internet users. Ooh. And we were going over data on this, Simone and I. And what happened over the past 10 years or so- ... is that the internet went from being predominantly an American and minoritely a European platform, to today being a much, much more international platform. Yes. Where- In terms Simone Collins: of sheer internet users, like we’re talking broadband and mobile internet subscriptions, there’s only one Western nation, the [00:04:00] USA, represented in the top 10 countries that are out there. So the top are China, which of course doesn’t count ‘cause they’re sort of walled off, India, the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Japan, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. We are the only Western country there. Whereas contrast that with 2008, and the top 10 internet users were China, but still doesn’t count, and then the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, and Brazil. This is a very different landscape. It was mostly Western countries. We didn’t think... I mean, like it makes sense. I don’t think this would come as a surprise to anyone, but I, I... What I don’t think we’re really thinking about is how that has impacted the discourse online and our perception of what, like- Simone, can you send me- ... people’s normal views are ... that list Malcolm Collins: of countries? Simone Collins: But you can actually, even if you go all the way to like 34, you’re like, “Oh my God,” like in terms of internet and broadband users today. Malcolm Collins: And so what you’re going to notice is essentially what has happened to the internet over the past 10 years, [00:05:00] without people grokking that the internet has fundamentally changed, is the internet has become a platform where the majority of consumers, not the majority of creators, have become uneducated third worlders. Mm-hmm. Sorry, I didn’t- Well, well- Savage third worlders ... people Simone Collins: from, people from developing countries in, in many cases who may have- Okay, yes, Malcolm Collins: developing countries, people from developing cou- the developmentally challenged ... up and Simone Collins: come, up and comers, and so- ... rising Malcolm Collins: stars Speaker 2: I found some video footage here that depicts their daily life in a way that I think really humanizes them Speaker 3: Attacker! Malcolm Collins: What this has done is a lot of online content creators who get shaped by their audience have begun to drift [00:06:00] towards causes that the developmentally challenged, we’ll call them- Oh my God. Thank you so much ... prefer and champion. This explains perfectly why the left gave up on environmentalism. Does your random Malcolm Collins: care about environmentalism? Does your random person from Bangladesh care about environmentalism? No. Will they tune in if you go on a rant about how much you hate Jews and Israel? Of course, they’re Muslim majority countries. And this is what we’re seeing throughout the internet is we have gotten waves and waves and waves of potentially high attention spam, and we can even see this provably. If you look at a channel like Nick Fuentes, there was this thing where it came out that he was being rapidly retweeted after his tweets at a rate that was higher than even Elon, and when it came out where these were based, they were mostly in Muslim [00:07:00] majority countries like- Yes, I Simone Collins: can br- I can, for those who want receipts the Network Contagion Research Institute reported in December of last year, 2025, that around 50% of retweets on Nick Fuentes’ most viral posts were originated from foreign accounts, though that was from before Charlie Kirk’s death. And they were heavily concentrated in countries like India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia, though there were some additional shares from the UK and Canada among foreign sources. It’s just- All of which- ... the important thing is that the majority were non-Western countries. And then additionally, the New York Post reported that the pattern matched known engagement farm bot activity, so it’s not just, like, natural interest in those- But, but hold on non-Western countries. No, the point Malcolm Collins: I’m making here- Yeah ... isn’t the point you’re making. I’m saying they might be wrong in this, okay? It might be genuine engagement from these countries. Every one of- Yeah ... the countries you mentioned has a large Muslim [00:08:00] population. The point I’m making is that across the internet, in both the left and the right, we have allowed ourselves to be heavily influenced by Muslim third worlders, basically. And it’s caused a dramatic shift in the causes that the left claims to care about and the causes that the right cares about, and this shift has been exaggerated by a secondary issue which is something that we’ve been exploring in recent videos. But I have been digging deeper on, and it’s been completely changing my perspective of the right and the internet Which is the amount of large mainstream right-wing creators that are incredibly heavily botted and rely on incredibly heavy in
