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“ Fuck muslims tbh” wrote Discord user ‘Double Negative’, who went on to praise the shooting as “ calculated and efficient.” “ is a hero” wrote ‘ K3‘, one of the more prolific posters in Outer Heaven, praising the self-described white nationalist who had just murdered 50 unarmed Muslim worshippers. A Discord user’s view of the Outer Heaven chat. After the mosque massacres in New Zealand, several members of Outer Heaven expressed an intention to carry out similar mass shootings themselves. While much of the content in Outer Heaven is ‘shitposting’ that seems to use hateful content mostly for its shock value, at times the chat users expressed genuine ideological sentiments.

One such Discord server, called Outer Heaven, is a neo-Nazi chat made up of thousands of users ranging from young, impressionable teens to grown men in their 30s and 40s.

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This more private part of the radicalization process often takes place in ‘servers’ or chat rooms on Discord, a free chat service marketed to gamers and hugely popular with the alt-right. While much has been written about the role of sites like 4chan and 8chan in the neo-Nazi mass murder radicalization process, the networks encouraging alt-right terrorism also rely on less-public online spaces to gather, share memes, plan harassment campaigns, and strategize. Newer shooters since the New Zealand massacre have also played directly into online subcultures that promise to reward alienated young men with praise and attention if they kill for the cause of white supremacy. The gunman placed himself in a lineage of white nationalist and alt-right killers such as Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers and Dylann Roof who shot and killed nine black churchgoers in North Carolina in 2015. When an Australian neo-nazi murdered 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, he was playing into a pre-existing online racist subculture that encourage the kind of attack he carried out.