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26th Aug 2018

Milo Yiannopoulos apparently triggered by his own fans in ranting FB essay

Calm and collected

Oli Dugmore

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 21: Milo Yiannopoulos announces his resignation from Brietbart News during a press conference, February 21, 2017 in New York City. After comments he made regarding pedophilia surfaced in an online video, Yiannopoulos was uninvited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and lost a major book deal with Simon & Schuster. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Calm and collected

Milo Yiannopoulos has exploded in an essay of a Facebook comment, calling his fans “entitled fucking babies.”

It comes after the darling of the alt right posted a video to his page on Friday of himself eating live baby crabs at a restaurant.

https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/videos/503023310109083/

This prompted one commenter to reply: “This lifestyle is why you’re not doing your promised podcasts and losing subscribers. Where did our old Milo go?”

From here, Milo meltdown.

Yiannopoulos said that he has been “betrayed and abandoned by everyone whoever called themselves my friend” and “lost everything standing up for the truth.”

The former Breitbart employee said: “Over the past three years, I have spent literally millions of dollars trying to do talks, speeches, events, rallies and protests, to say nothing of all the stuff I do behind the scenes I can never tell you about. A lot of that money was my own wealth, from before I even started in journalism. My events almost never happen.

“It’s protests, or sabotage from Republican competitors or social media outcries. Every time, it costs me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. And when I get dumped from conferences, BARELY ANYONE makes a sound about it — not my fellow conservative media figures and not even, in many cases, you guys. When was the last time any of you protested in the street at the treatment meted out to me or Pamela Gellar or Mike Cernovich or Alex Jones?”

https://twitter.com/MarinaHyde/status/1033674204888145921

He also claimed to be a “significant factor” in Donald Trump’s election to the presidency.