Within hours, the man who calls himself “Handsome Truth” was on X, raging about a “boomer-brain psychopath” at a Nashville TV station who had just blown up his business model.
What that station—NewsChannel 5 in Nashville—had documented was chilling and concrete. Reporters captured hours of Minadeo’s livestreams as he entered video chat apps popular with minors, mocked children of color, waved assault-style weapons on camera and urged white boys to “get ready to kill n—rs” in a looming “race war,” all while his audience showered him with donations.
Minadeo is on a mission to meet America’s kids in online video chats and convince them to hate.
The sudden disappearance of goyimtv.com and gtvflyers.com in November 2025 stands as a triumphant moment when local journalism proved its power to directly disrupt a global neo-Nazi operation—one that has turned child-targeted propaganda into more than $100,000 in supporter revenue this year and seeped into at least one shooting in 2025, an attack at a high school in Nashville.
The takedown itself was methodical. NewsChannel 5 traced Minadeo’s streaming infrastructure to Redoubt Networks—now Crunchbits—in Washington state, and to a Hong Kong registrar, NiceNIC.net, before sending both companies detailed questions. Within hours, the neo-Nazi’s websites went offline without explanation. When the sites briefly reappeared, internet records suggested traffic was being routed through Comcast; then, after another round of questions, they vanished again. (Comcast later insisted there was “no evidence of any contract, partnership or intentional hosting relationship,” saying any traffic was incidental routing, not hosting.)
Understanding why this matters requires knowing who is behind the sites. The Goyim Defense League is a decentralized neo-Nazi network built around what the Britain-based nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) describes as “a core group of provocateurs and thousands of online supporters across the US and globally” who advocate the “expulsion of all Jews” from the US and the creation of a whites-only “ethnostate.”
Since 2018, researchers say, GDL has become one of the country’s most prolific distributors of antisemitic flyers and propaganda, staging banner drops, synagogue pickets, council meeting disruptions and harassment campaigns that have led to more than 20 arrests for offenses ranging from trespass to assault and threats against officials.
Yet GDL’s most disturbing frontier is children. In a Scripps News/NewsChannel 5 investigation, Minadeo is on a mission to meet America’s kids in online video chats and convince them to hate. When he encounters children of color, he tries to push them toward self-loathing, sometimes brandishing a gun and warning them to expect violence. When he meets white boys, he tells them they need to get their own guns and prepare to “kill n—rs.”
“We need more kids like you on this website because we’ve got to be pushing this white power, f—k this n—r bulls—t,” he told two teen boys in one clip. Each episode carries the tiny on-screen text “for entertainment purposes only, I disavow violence”—a disclaimer aimed at liability, not the children who never see or understand it.
To a group of Nashville parents invited to watch the footage with reporters, the show’s production value was part of the horror. Minadeo used filters, sound effects and rapid-fire edits to make his racist personas feel “trendy,” “popular” and “cool,” as former Metro Nashville Human Relations Commission Chair Maryam Abolfazli put it. The guns are props and bait: When boys spot what looks like an assault rifle, they rush around the room, shouting “Get the Glock!” while donors push contributions past $1,000 an episode.
“What I hear you saying is the gun is used as the hook to sell the hate,” reporter Phil Williams suggested to another parent. “Absolutely,” replied Amber Posey, whose 17-year-old daughter succumbed to gun violence five years ago. Jason Sparks, a member of Nashville’s Jewish community, summed up his reaction to Minadeo’s focus on kids with one word: “sickening.”
From those livestream encounters, the pipeline runs straight back to GoyimTV and its sister site. Once he has charmed or cowed children into performing, Minadeo nudges the white kids to visit his platforms, wave Nazi salutes, read aloud from GDL flyers and repeat slogans like, “Every single aspect of the media is Jewish.” Teen girls gasp when he falsely claims that outlets from Fox News to Comcast are Jewish-controlled. When kids respond with shock, laughter or complicity, he clips and reposts the moments to his Telegram channel and on his now-dark websites, turning their confusion into evergreen propaganda—and fresh fundraising content.
Across Nashville and beyond, the quiet disappearance of two URLs is a start, not a solution.
The consequences have already turned deadly. On January 22, 2025, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, a Black student at Antioch High School in Nashville, fatally shot classmate Josselin Corea Escalante and wounded two others before killing himself. Investigators later found a manifesto and online trail steeped in white supremacist and antisemitic ideology—multiple outlets reported that the writings included a GDL flyer and references to extremist content. Henderson described being “ashamed to be Black,” echoing the kind of self-hatred parents saw in Minadeo’s abuse of biracial and Black children on OmeTV, an online platform the neo-Nazi leader uses to find and target children with video chats.
In July 2024, during a 10-day “Name the Nose” tour in Nashville, Minadeo and his followers marched through downtown with swastika flags, harassed Black minors and disrupted a Metro Council meeting, according to a detailed case study by the ISD. One marcher, Canadian GDL member Ryan Scott McCann, assaulted 19-year-old Deago Buck, a biracial worker, striking him with a flagpole bearing a swastika and, the day prior, assaulting a 20-year-old Jewish man. McCann was later convicted in both incidents and is now serving a nearly four-year sentence.
The attack on Buck is at the heart of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in June 2025 on his behalf. The complaint, Deago Buck v. Goyim Defense League, et al., alleges assault, battery, malicious harassment and violations of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, accusing Minadeo and multiple GDL associates of orchestrating a campaign of racial terror in Nashville. “If we get a judgment against these folks … some of the things that are available is to go after … their assets and their instrumentalities,” which “include things like their websites,” Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director Scott McCoy told Northern California Public Media.
Behind the ideology sits an aggressive fundraising engine. Barred from mainstream payment processors like PayPal, Minadeo solicits donations via fringe platforms such as GiveSendGo and Entropy, along with cryptocurrencies—while selling swastika flags, Nazi-themed trinkets and downloadable antisemitic flyers through his site. ISD researchers note that his near-daily livestreams routinely bring in hundreds of dollars, with the total surpassing $100,000 so far this year—an income stream that parents in Nashville watched scroll faster as the on-screen cruelty intensified.
If the shutdown of goyimtv.com and gtvflyers.com shows what targeted accountability can do, it also exposes its limits. In his own video response, Minadeo told followers: “Currently, the website’s down for a little bit, but I’ve got another option. I’ve got a few other options,” promising to announce where he would be livestreaming next. The infrastructure he exploits—chat apps like OmeTV and Monkey, many of which claim to be for individuals 18 or older but have little meaningful age verification—remains largely intact, primed to connect the next 10-year-old with whichever extremist hits “start” at the same moment.
GDL itself is deeply networked, overlapping with other neo-Nazi outfits like Blood Tribe and the Nationalist Social Club, and moving easily between street demonstrations and online trolling. In 2023, Minadeo marched with Blood Tribe members under swastika flags in Orlando, one of the largest open Nazi displays since Charlottesville. In 2024 and 2025, his followers displayed hateful messages outside synagogues, left antisemitic flyers in neighborhoods and experimented with 3D-printed weapons, according to court records and watchdog groups. Each stunt is filmed and fed back into the content-donation loop that now targets children as a key demographic.
Across Nashville and beyond, the quiet disappearance of two URLs is a start, not a solution. Radicalization is unfolding at the speed of a swipe, in apps built for anonymity but repurposed to pull children into racist performance and violent fantasy, replete with financial incentives that reward the most depraved performances. Whether law enforcement, regulators and tech companies treat NewsChannel 5’s investigation as a blueprint for further action—tightening age verification, following the money and backing civil actions that go after the assets of hate groups—or as an outlier will help determine just who meets kids the next time they open a random video chat: a teacher, a counselor or a man grinning in front of a Hitler portrait, waiting to turn their curiosity into another clip, another donation, another step toward violence.
For now, goyimtv.com and gtvflyers.com are blank pages, casualties of one newsroom’s decision to follow the trail and name what it found. How far that silence reaches next is in the hands of lawmakers, regulators and tech companies.
Meanwhile, parents and communities will keep waging their own quiet defense, hoping that the next time a child taps “start” on a random chat, they find a friend—not a neo-Nazi with a gun, a camera and a business plan.
