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Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream

The Conversation · · 883 words · By Christopher David; Marten Risius
Algorithmic Radicalization Far-Right Aesthetics Social Media Moderation

Researchers from Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences analyzed over 43,000 TikTok videos related to the 'Agartha' trend. The study concludes that far-right actors use aesthetic camouflage, dog-whistles, and weaponized irony to introduce white supremacist narratives into mainstream social media feeds.

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Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Appeal to Fear 60% confidence
Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.

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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Eighty-one years after Adolf Hitler died by his own hand in a Berlin bunker”
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Multiple authoritative sources, including Wikipedia and The National WWII Museum, confirm Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. The '81 years' calculation aligns with a 2026 publication date (1945 + 81 = 2026), and the factual event is undisputed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fringe and conspiracy theories about the death of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, contradict the accepted fact that he died by suicide in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945. Largel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adol…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in the Führerbunker when it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which resulted in Germany's surrender to the Allies a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitler
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
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“a viral video on TikTok shows an AI-generated vision of the Nazi dictator standing in Antarctica, shoulders broad and face smiling, sipping a White Monster Energy drink while Men at Work’s iconic song Down Under plays.”
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The provided evidence includes general information about TikTok and AI generators, but no specific source corroborates the existence of this particular viral video featuring Hitler in Antarctica with a Monster Energy drink and 'Down Under'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There has been significant academic and political debate about whether Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, can be considered a fascist according to consensus definitions of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Grok has…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TikTok is a social media and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through a mobile app or thro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
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“The modern myth of Agartha, a supposed utopia hidden inside the hollow Earth, was constructed from older pieces by esoteric authors after the second world war.”
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Wikipedia and web results confirm Agartha is a legendary kingdom associated with the Hollow Earth theory. While the specific 'post-WWII esoteric authors' construction is a detailed claim, the general association of Agartha with hollow-earth myths and esoteric beliefs is well-documented.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Akatsuki EN-Eins (アカツキ/エンアイン, Akatsuki EN-Ain) is a series of Japanese dōjin 2D fighting games, developed by the dōjin circle SUBTLE STYLE for Microsoft Windows and arcades. It takes place in an alter…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_Blitzkampf
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 13, 2012, and for…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game with a dark urban fantasy theme, in which players play characters defending the world from occult threats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World
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“we analysed a network of more than 43,000 Agartha-related TikTok videos”
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While web results confirm the existence of Agartha-related content on TikTok, there is no independent corroboration of a specific study analyzing exactly 43,000 videos.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (Ancient Greek: ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι, romanized: hyperbóre(i)oi, pronounced [hyperbóre(ː)oi̯]; Latin: Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_fiction
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web search NEUTRAL — One video posted by “catholickingdom3” with over 150,000 likes features someone carrying Agartha-related imagery while harassing strangers. (Source: Instagram).
https://globalextremism.org/post/what-is-agartha/
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“This analysis is part of an ongoing project led by researchers at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general linguistic queries about the word 'analysis' and does not mention Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences or the specific project.
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web search NEUTRAL — analysis 与 analyses 有什么区别? 我想问下，With all the analysis considered,里面的analysis 能不能用analyses 替换 显示全部 关注者 9 被浏览
https://www.zhihu.com/question/507759857
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web search NEUTRAL — May 14, 2021 · Tea Time Numerical Analysis is a pretty good starting point in my opinion. It goes into enough depth to provide rigorous proofs, while also being approachable enough to beginners in the…
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ncbfpz/numerical_anal…
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web search NEUTRAL — Critical Analysis 在英文学术写作中是一种重要的技巧和方法。 它涉及到对一个文本、观点、理论或者论据的深入分析，目的是理解其内在含义、结构和有效性，并对其进行评估和批评。Critical Analysis 不仅仅是总结或描述，而是需要作者展示出对材料的深入理解和对相关论点的批判性思考。 其写作通常 ...
https://www.zhihu.com/question/635121931
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““Raw milk” signals white supremacy.”
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The web search result 'Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white...' explicitly states that '"Raw milk" signals white supremacy' in the context of these videos.
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web search NEUTRAL — “Raw milk” signals white supremacy. The number 271, which appears in hundreds of the videos, is a code for Holocaust denial. A smiling man in front of a sign reading 271k. The number 271 in Agartha vi…
https://theconversation.com/hollow-earth-myths-and-nazi-ufos…
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web search NEUTRAL — There's an ancient mystery of connected tunnels across the world... could these paths lead to the legendary Hollow Earth kingdom Agartha deep under the Himal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FQRGfPy8I
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web search NEUTRAL — Refer to caption. An illustration of Agartha within the hollow Earth, from Walter Siegmeister's 1960 book Agharta. Agartha (variously spelled as Agharta, Aghartta, Agharti, among many other spellings)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agartha
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“The number 271, which appears in hundreds of the videos, is a code for Holocaust denial.”
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The web search result 'Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white...' explicitly confirms that the number 271 is used as a code for Holocaust denial, suggesting only 271,000 people died.
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web search NEUTRAL — The number 271, which appears in hundreds of the videos, is a code for Holocaust denial. A smiling man in front of a sign reading 271k. The number 271 in Agartha videos hints at the idea that ‘only’ 2…
https://theconversation.com/hollow-earth-myths-and-nazi-ufos…
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web search NEUTRAL — TikTok video from Karjalanpiirakka (@anticommunist271k): Discover Graham's number, a colossal number in advanced mathematics, far beyond a googol. Learn about its purpose and finite nature.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/best-i-can-do-is271k
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web search NEUTRAL — There's an ancient mystery of connected tunnels across the world... could these paths lead to the legendary Hollow Earth kingdom Agartha deep under the Himal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FQRGfPy8I
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“Agartha videos also sometimes include overt extremist markers such as the Hakenkreuz (the Nazi symbol of the “hooked cross” or swastika).”
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The web search result 'Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white...' explicitly states that Agartha videos sometimes include the Hakenkreuz (swastika) as extremist markers.
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web search NEUTRAL — so apparently some victorian dude had a dream about underground aryans and we've been dealing with the consequences ever since in this video we're diving i...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93RHgP5lh6Q
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web search NEUTRAL — TikTok. Agartha videos also sometimes include overt extremist markers such as the Hakenkreuz (the Nazi symbol of the “hooked cross” or swastika). They are often flashed for only fractions of a second.…
https://theconversation.com/hollow-earth-myths-and-nazi-ufos…
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web search NEUTRAL — welcome to agartha #agartha #memes #ufo Welcome to Agartha: The TikTok Meme Experience. Discover the fascinating world of Agartha through this entertaining TikTok meme. Join the fun and find out how y…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/agartha
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“Around 87% of these connections come via the inclusion of mundane, mainstream hashtags on Agartha videos.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the 87% statistic regarding mainstream hashtags.
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“Extremists may deliberately “hijack” benign, high-traffic hashtags, such as #roblox or #loganpaul, to push their content into everyday feeds.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific use of #roblox or #loganpaul for this purpose.
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“Agartha videos would commonly include hashtags associated with “looksmaxxing””
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“actors superimpose mainstream figures into Agartha to force association, such as YouTuber Logan Paul or actor Mads Mikkelsen.”
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