Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America (BBC2) <br>Rating: <br>The Promise (BB4)<br>Rating: <br>Approaching the door of a far-Right U.S.
internet troll, Louis Theroux pledged to keep his cool. ‘I will be attempting to maintain my composure,’ he murmured.<br>Well, yes. He’s Louis Theroux. Perfect composure comes as standard. That’s like Billy Connolly assuring us he’ll tell a few funny stories, or Mary Whitehouse promising to keep her clothes on.<br>The troll, an infantile man called Tim whose online name is Baked Alaska, makes money by broadcasting live video of himself on the streets of Tampa, Florida. <br>Viewers donate a dollar or two to see him hurl insults at passers-by or play Nazi marching songs from a speaker round his neck.<br>Moments after Louis joined him, in the first of a three-part documentary, Forbidden America (BBC2), a fan called Doomersquidward stumped up $100.<br> Louis Theroux can be an incisive interview, but he barely needed to open his mouth before these gibbering man-babies lost their tempers in BBC2’s ‘Forbidden America'<br> RELATED ARTICLES
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That seemed such a fortuitous coincidence, you might almost wonder if Mr Alaska had set it up. <br>Louis didn’t ask, and he didn’t need to. <br>Nothing he could do or say would make the troll look any more pathetic than he already did.<br>This flabby, desperate show-off was one of a growing tribe of ineffectual young men with no social life who meet through online video games. <br>’It’s the new golf course,’ says their 22-year-old self-styled leader.<br>His name is Nicholas J.
Fuentes and he hosts a nightly online chat show that, Онлайн кинотеатр бесплатно без регистрации – hd-kino.biz at first glance, looks almost professional. <br>With a city nightscape behind him, he leans on a desk and inveighs against Jews, Muslims, gays and journalists.<br><div class=”art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news” data-version=”2″ id=”mol-e0a50650-8d34-11ec-805e-9b036d69ad73″ website STEVENS: Louis stays cool in land of the far-right trolls
