Top MAGA influencer's unbelievable true identity revealed
Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online
A comely MAGA influencer who racked up millions of fans on Instagram who posted patriotic content and often posed in a bikini while ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting guns has been unmasked — as an Indian man who put himself through med school on the proceeds.
“Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told WIRED that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation.
He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to WIRED.
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Sam created the persona using Google’s Gemini AI. Facebook/Emily Hart
And that’s how Emily Hart was born.
According to her profile, she was a registered nurse with Jennifer Lawrence looks who offered red meat posts to lonely conservative men online.
One post showed her firing a rifle with the caption: “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported,” and “POV: You were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal.”
Sam told the magazine, “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration.”
The account “blew up,” and Emily Hart had 10,000 followers within a month.
Every reel he posted garnered millions of views and earned him more followers.
The account “blew up,” and Emily Hart had 10,000 followers within a month. Facebook/Emily Hart
He then cashed in on the AI model’s appeal — selling MAGA-themed T-shirts and creating an account on the OnlyFans competitor Fanvue, where paid subscribers could access lewd AI-generated content.
Fanvue has differentiated itself from OnlyFans by allowing AI-generated content on its platform, the outlet said.
The move made him a mint — and Sam was soon raking in thousands of dollars a month.
“I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he recalled.
“In India, even in professional jobs, you can’t make this amount of money. I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.”
Valerie Wirtschafter, a fellow at the Brookings Institution studying emerging tech and democracy, told the outlet that “AI has made them [fake profiles] more believable, and there has perhaps been an amplification of it.”
Every reel he posted garnered millions of views and earned him more followers. Facebook/Emily Hart
The tech expert added that young MAGA women are “more attention-grabbing” since most women ages 18 to 29 skew liberal.
Despite MAGA fans making him rich, he still looks down on them, calling them “super dumb.”
He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said.
“The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it,” Sam said.
Sam used Grok AI to generate nude photos of Hart and uploaded them to Fanvue, where fans sent him money for exclusive content and messages.
Despite MAGA fans making him rich, he still looks down on them, calling them “super dumb.” Facebook/Emily Hart
“I was basically doing nothing,“ he said. “And it was just flooded with money.”
Hart’s profile on Instagram — which requires creators to disclose whether their content is AI-generated —was taken down by the platform in February for “fraudulent” activity, the outlet said.
A Facebook account that WIRED said remained online has been taken down since the article was published about Sam’s scheme.
The medical student added that he would have stopped posting content of Hart anyway.
“I don’t feel like I was scamming people,” Sam said.
Instead, he’s hoping to focus on his studies in medical school.
My 3-Year-Old Pointed at My Stepmom's Stomach and Said, 'Daddy's in There' - Then I Read the Tattoo She Had Hidden for 35 Years
At my daughter's third birthday pool party, she pointed at my stepmom's stomach and said, "Daddy's in there" — I laughed until I saw WHAT she was actually pointing at.
For my daughter Ariel's third birthday, my husband, Glen, and I decided to keep things simple and celebrate at home with a family pool party.
Her preschool friends came over, along with pretty much our entire family. The backyard filled up fast—kids splashing in the pool, adults talking around the food table, people moving between the water and the lawn chairs.
Even my stepmom, Clara, showed up.
That surprised me more than I wanted to admit.
Clara had married my father fifteen years earlier, back when I was still a rebellious teenager, and she had NEVER liked me. I couldn't point to one terrible thing I'd done to her. We simply never became close, and after enough awkward years, avoiding each other became easier than pretending otherwise.
Still, this was Ariel's birthday. When Clara arrived, I was genuinely glad she'd made the effort.
And for a while, everything was great.
The kids swam. Everyone ate. Ariel raced around with her friends like she had enough energy for the entire backyard.
Then Clara climbed out of the pool wearing a beautiful ONE-PIECE swimsuit.
At almost the exact same moment, Ariel came running past with a group of kids headed for ice cream.
She stopped.
She stared at Clara.
Then she pointed straight at CLARA'S STOMACH and shouted loudly enough for nearly everyone nearby to hear:
"Mommy, Daddy's in there!"
People burst out laughing.
I did too.
For about two seconds, I figured this was just one of those completely bizarre things a three-year-old says—the kind of sentence that turns into a family joke for the next ten years.
Then the embarrassment hit me.
I hurried over, gently lowered Ariel's pointing hand, and told her it wasn't polite to point at someone's stomach.
"Come on, sweetheart," I said, trying to guide her back toward the other kids.
But Ariel planted her feet.
Her little face tightened.
"But DADDY'S IN THERE! You have to save him!"
A few people laughed again, but this time the laughter sounded confused.
Glen was standing nearby, watching the whole thing with a helpless shrug.
I pointed directly at him.
"Sweetheart, Daddy is standing right here. See?"
Ariel looked at Glen.
Then she looked back at Clara.
And suddenly, she started CRYING.
Not the dramatic crying she sometimes did when she wanted another scoop of ice cream. This was different. She looked genuinely frightened and frustrated, and that was the moment the whole thing stopped feeling funny.
"Daddy's on her stomach!" she kept insisting.
I crouched beside her and tried to calm her down, but Ariel wouldn't let it go.
Clara rolled her eyes.
She muttered that Ariel was talking nonsense, walked over to her lounge chair, and lay down as though the whole thing wasn't worth another second of her attention.
I stayed beside Ariel, trying to understand what she thought she had seen.
Then she grabbed my hand.
Her small fingers locked around mine, and before I could stop her, Ariel pulled me across the poolside toward Clara's lounge chair.
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