# Guest Aydin Paladin: The First Right Wing Youtuber We Watched

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Podcast: [Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins](https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161)
Published: 2026-08-24T11:53:47+00:00
Episode link: https://basedcamppodcast.substack.com/p/guest-aydin-paladin-the-first-right
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## Resource

In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins sit down with longtime right-wing creator and social scientist Aydin Paladin (one of the earliest anti-woke voices online). They discuss her path from trying Norse paganism to Christianity after a near-death experience, starting her channel during the 2016 Trump campaign, the replication crisis in social science, and why the right needs its own researchers. Aydin shares details on the Beowulf Foundation’s projects—including Wolfings Publishing (reviving out-of-print and banned books), the Witan conferences, and upcoming parallel-economy tools like VPN and DNA services. The conversation covers the evolution of the online right: from libertarian edginess and Gamergate-era aesthetics to pro-natalism, tech optimism, monarchist thinking, and building real community instead of pure reaction. They also dig into what the left’s next major cause might be, the gender dynamics shift on the right, cancellations, the mentorship gap for young creators, and why democracy as currently structured is under strain. Check out Aydin channels ( AydinPaladin + ScienceSibyl ) and Wyflings Publishing for books by Ed Dutton, historical works, and more. Episode Transcript [00:00:01] Malcolm Collins: I am very excited to be with you all today. Today, we have on a guest, Aydian Paladin, who is a online right-wing content creator that I watched before we became right-wing. When we still voted Democrat, I watched her channel. So you can thank her channel in part for converting... [00:00:25] I don’t know what you did, Simone. But for converting both of us. And, and tha- this is one of the things that I often tell people about- Mm-hmm ... you know, you end up converting somebody between teams. , You often don’t think about it as just, like, a n…

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