Mouthy Buddha



John Canales, better known as Mouthy Buddha, is a YouTube talker who was openly alt-right and who intentionally dog-whistled in multiple videos. However, Canales stated that he's trying to "walk away" from these alt-right views, and has eventually denounced the alt-right.

As of October 2017, Canales had 32 thousand subscribers and 2.6 million views.

On October 15th, 2020, the Mouthy Buddha YouTube channel was terminated "due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten."

William Fears
Canales is friends with William Fears. Fears is an active alt-right activist and was recently arrested and charged with attempted homicide for encouraging a fellow neo-Nazi to shoot into a crowd of protesters.

Conspiracy theories
In addition to the above conspiracy-fueled political ideology, Canales believes in several more specific conspiracy theories:


 * Canales published a video titled "THE SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK VIDEO WAS A HOAX" which claims precisely that, contrary to the United Nations.
 * Canales believes in creeping sharia, as he discusses in "Islamization of America" and "Angela Merkel: Islam's Pet Dog".
 * Canales believes that "SJWs" will destroy the world.
 * Canales appears to believe that "powerful governments" have "UFO departments", and that Tom DeLonge is just a "disinformation" agent by the CIA, NSA, or other US intelligence agency.
 * Canales has repeatedly included single-frame references to Pizzagate -- possibly in an attempt at subliminal messaging. The image that he uses is bizarre -- that of John Podesta with a 14 sharpie'd onto his left and fish onto his right hand -- and yet even Pizzagate nutters have debunked it as not meaningful.

Jewish Question
if it is possible for actual holocaust deniers to watch your video about them & agree with it, then you failed & should be deeply ashamed. if you are okay with this then you're nothing but an apologist for fascism

Canales produced a series exploring "multiple sides" of the Jewish Question. Each of the videos spends disproportionately more time (perhaps 4× more) on the anti-Jew "side" than the "Jews are actually normal people" "side". Canales also consistently undermines his own rebuttals to anti-Jew talking points. Indeed, in the "Was Hitler Bad?" video, he utterly fails to debunk his "summaries" of Holocaust denial arguments and Hitler apologist arguments. Instead, he merely ends the video with the following:

Canales presented a Nazi propaganda film made by (forced) political prisoners in the Breslau concentration camp as if it were video footage of a Jewish concentration camp.

Whether intentionally or not, Canales' videos ensures that viewers come away believing in the veracity of the Jewish Question and the possibility that some "solution" may be necessary.

Jewish control of the world
In a deleted video titled "We Are Powerless", Canales laid out many of his ideas about the alt-right and the people who really runs things:

Redemption arc
Canales later said that he was "embarrassed" for the views expressed in the above video and that he, in fact, desired to move away from those views:

A week later, Canales released a video in which he refused to choose between the "skeptic community" and "alt-right community", though he still believes virtually all of the views he'd expressed before. He also published a vlog titled, "Walking Away From The Red Pill", in which he described his alt-right time-period as a "state of shock". At length, he asserts that:

In the third part of his Jewish Question series, "PART THREE: The Pornography Chambers", Canales appeared to intentionally structure the video as a response to those who called him alt-right or anti-Semitic. Canales spent about 2/5 of the video on the "pro-Jewish-Question" side and 3/5 on the anti-Jewish-Question side.

After months of self-reflection, Mouthy Buddha officially denounced the alt-right on Twitter and stated that he has moved on from it, although, he's still a little soft on it:

Plagiarism
On the eve of the French general election, Canales published a video titled "Why Gays Loved Le Pen" in which he presents "his thoughts" before urging the people of France to vote for the far right presidential candidate. The entirety of the video is a virtually word-for-word recital of a National Review Online article published a day earlier.