Once a controversial but highly talented figure in the Dissident Right, who distanced himself from "the movement" in pursuit of "muh literature" some years ago, but who is now (2025) striving to come back in DR circles.
Born 1988 in upstate New York to a Catholic family, Forney was a writer for alternativeright.com (the fountainhead of the entire Alt and Dissident Right), but became an early cynic and critic of the Alt-Right and its failed leaders, especially Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson, whom he Christened "Grindr Greg." Earlier he was a involved in the manosphere and associated with Roosh V.
He also wrote for Daniel Friberg's now defunct RightOn.net and lived in Budapest for a time. As Friberg "glows up" as a Kremlin asset, Forney is of course tainted by this association, and suspicions should at least be entertained about this part of his career. There is also a "theory" that he was one of the writers ghosting for Andrew Anglin at the Daily Stormer.
Forney in his Budapest days
Forney has long struggled with weight problems, for which he has been unfairly mocked, but this mockery has apparently helped him to get a little more in shape in recent years (see top photo). Even when obese and relatively defenceless, he was however a lot more adept at dealing with antifa than Richard Spencer. Note how he faces his assailants, ignores their petty jibes, films them on his phone to record criminal acts, and seeks authority figures for protection:
In the past he has feuded with boomer edgytarian Jim Goad. This was in part fuelled by Goad's attempt to carry water for Forney's ex-girlfriend, novelist and rape victim Ann Sterzinger. Sterzinger disputes that Formey was ever her "boyfriend" although there was clearly some sort of intimate relationship between them.
Forney has pursued a "global nomad" lifestyle, something of a red flag TBH, and has claimed to live in a number of odd places like Hungary, Georgia, Greece, etc. He now edits Terror House Magazine, an underappreciated outlet for fiction, poetry, and other self-indulgent writing. His YouTube channel was active until about 2020 but is now mothballed.
In 2022, he claimed to be living in Mexico. In 2025 he was active again on Twitter with uncritical pro-Trumpist views. He is also a great admirer of pudgy Catholic hillbilly JD Vance. However, in my honest estimation, these views seem somewhat simplistic and inauthentic for someone of his background (high intellect + cynic-forming experiences) and are probably adopted mainly to "trigger the libs" and boost his social media presence in the new on-line environment.
In 2022, he claimed to be living in Mexico. In 2025 he was active again on Twitter with uncritical pro-Trumpist views. He is also a great admirer of pudgy Catholic hillbilly JD Vance. However, in my honest estimation, these views seem somewhat simplistic and inauthentic for someone of his background (high intellect + cynic-forming experiences) and are probably adopted mainly to "trigger the libs" and boost his social media presence in the new on-line environment.
Read other entries like this in Who's Who in the Dissident Right, an ever-expanding biographical guide to the colourful characters and quaint Quislings of the on-line Right.
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