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The account is part of Frogtwitter, a group of pseudonymous online writers with a highly negative view of contemporary American society.<ref name="Tablet">{{cite news |last1=MacDougald |first1=Park |date=5 February 2020 |title=The New American Millennial Right |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-new-millennial-american-right |work=[[Tablet magazine]]}}</ref><ref name="Politico-Aug2019-Trumpworld">{{cite news |last1=Schreckinger |first1=Ben |date=23 August 2019 |title=The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/right-wing-manifesto-that-has-trumpworld-talking-military-rule-bap-bapism-cult-book-bronze-age-mindset/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Burton|first=Tara Isabella|date=2019-07-16|title=Rise of the Titans: Fascism, Christianity, and the Seduction of the Brutal|url=https://mereorthodoxy.com/fascism-christianity/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Mere Orthodoxy |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101131200/https://mereorthodoxy.com/fascism-christianity/ |archive-date=2020-01-01 }}</ref><ref name=":16">{{Cite web |last=DeCarlo |first=Dan |title=An Epic Pervert |url=https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/an-epic-pervert/ |date=23 October 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026184123/https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/an-epic-pervert/ |archive-date=2019-10-26 |access-date=2021-07-04 |website=The American Mind |language=en-US}}</ref> This group mythologizes an aristocratic past while engaging in racism and [[antisemitism]], often through memes laden with heavy irony.<ref name="Politico-Aug2019-Trumpworld" /> BAP frequently condemns [[alt-right]] leadership figures, such as [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]].<ref name="Vox-Jun18-JordanPeterson">{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/6/1/17396182/jordan-peterson-alt-right-religion-catholicism |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |last1=Burton |first1=Tara Isabella |title=The religious hunger that drives Jordan Peterson's fandom |date=1 June 2018}}</ref>
A number of right of center politicians have been criticized for following or interacting with BAP on Twitter, including former White House speechwriter Darren Beattie,<ref name="HTFAS">{{cite web |title=Republicans Embrace Fascist and Antisemitic "Alt-Right" Manifesto, Bronze Age Mindset |url=https://www.howtofightantisemitism.com/timeline/republicans-embrace-fascist-and-antisemitic-alt-right-manifesto-bronze-age-mindset |work=Bend the Arc: Jewish Action |date=11 September 2020 |access-date=7 August 2023 }}</ref> Minnesota
Josh Vandiver of [[Ball State University]] observed that Bronze Age Pervert's "cult" following seems to be global in nature with images appearing on social media of "readers holding the book aloft before beaches and mountains across the world".<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Vandiver|first=Josh|title=The Radical Roots of the Alt-Right |url=https://www.gale.com/intl/essays/josh-vandiver-radical-roots-alt-right |publisher=Cengage Learning (EMEA) Ltd|year=2018|pages=6–7}}</ref> Bronze Age Pervert's followers often imitate elements of his Twitter account, his writing style, and repeat catchphrases such as "SUBMIT!" and "ghey". Vandiver uses the example of the last term to explain "[w]hen accused of being 'ghey,' [BAP's] preferred spelling of 'gay' – one of many insider code words, partly necessitated by social media censors – BAP accuses his accusers of being themselves hopelessly effete, often by way of comparison to imagined forefathers from a more virile, [[Bronze Age|'bronze' age]]".<ref name=":4" /> Additionally, Bronze Age Pervert's Twitter followers will "post images of their own physiques, sometimes under the hashtag '#frogtwitter,' seeking BAP's approval and coveted retweet"<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Mathias |first=Christopher |date=2021-05-26 |title=An Elementary School Teacher's Secret Life As A White Nationalist Writer |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-welton-white-nationalist-elementary-school-teacher-writer_n_60ae5e89e4b0d45b753140fb |access-date=2021-06-25 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref> as well as self-publish their own 'BAPish' books, [[meme]]s and writings that BAP will generously [[Cross-promotion|crosspromote]] via [[retweet]]s.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Anton |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Anton |title=Are the Kids Al(t)right? |url=https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/are-the-kids-altright/ |access-date=7 August 2023 |journal=[[Claremont Review of Books]] |issue=Summer 2019}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> By 2023 Vandiver notes that "[d]espite multiple instances of [[deplatforming]] from social media, BAP’s following is now large and we can identify 'BAPism' as a masculinist subculture" and that BAP's influence and essays can be found in and on multiple (web)[[Zine|zines]] where "masculinist identitarians move feverishly between high theory and jocular memetics, metapolitical musings and geopolitical ambitions."<ref>{{Citation |last=Vandiver |first=Josh |title=Masculinist Identitarians, Strategic Culture, and Eurocene Geopolitics |date=2023 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003197607-15/masculinist-identitarians-strategic-culture-eurocene-geopolitics-josh-vandiver |work=Global Identitarianism |pages=175–196 |access-date=2023-12-29 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003197607-15 |isbn=978-1-003-19760-7}}</ref>
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