Ethan Ralph
Ethan Oliver Ralph (born September 20, 1985) is an alt-right American podcaster who came to prominence as a leader of the Gamergate harassment campaign, during which he doxed and harassed game developer Brianna Wu, via his now-defunct blog, The Ralph Retort. His primary platform is his podcast, the Killstream (stylized #Killstream). Ralph has been banned from services including YouTube, where he formerly hosted his show. , the Killstream was hosted on Trovo Live, after receiving a month-long suspension from the alt-tech streaming service DLive earlier in January. The show is also published on Apple Podcasts . On January 5th, 2022, Ralph pled "nolo contendere" (no contest) to disseminating revenge porn of his former girlfriend with whom he has a son and received a suspended sentence of 12 months. Career. Killstream. Ralph hosts a podcast called the Killstream. Among the Killstream's guests have been Red Ice co-founder Henrik Palmgren and Lana Lokteff. According to "Washingtonian", the Killstream "frequently shares extremist propaganda". Ralph's political views are alt-right, and "Politico" has described Ralph as a "white supremacist-sympathetic livestreamer". According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ralph has "featured numerous prominent white nationalists" on the  Killstream. Ralph self-identifies as a right-wing conservative, though in 2016 he told "The Washington Post", "if you want to call me alt-right, that's probably fair". Originally hosted on YouTube, the show was distributed on the alt-tech platform DLive after YouTube banned the account in November 2018. In January 2021, DLive suspended Ralph's account for a month and Ralph began broadcasting on Trovo Live. The show is also published on Apple Podcasts. In the period of April–October 2020, the Killstream earned Ralph on DLive. Controversies. Gamergate. Ralph came to prominence as a leader of  the Gamergate controversy, during which he doxed and harassed game developer Brianna Wu. Section::::#Healstream. In 2018, Ralph accepted multiple donations via YouTube's Super Chats feature to be donated to St. Jude's Children Hospital, some of which had attached messages written by Ralph's fans that Ralph read aloud verbatim to encourage more fans to donate despite some of the messages denying the Holocaust or celebrating the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting only days after it happened. St. Jude's refused the donations from Ralph's fans, refunding all the donations from YouTube that came via the Killstream channel. After a  report in the "Wall Street Journal" on the incident, YouTube terminated Ralph's account on November 3, 2018. Bitcoin donations. Bitcoin payments totaling ₿28.15 (then worth US$522,000) were made to 22 different virtual wallets, most of them belonging to far-right activists and white nationalist personalities, by a French donor before the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. From this total, Ralph received a donation of approximately 0.5BTC, then worth . Revenge porn conviction. On August 11th, 2020, Ralph shared a video of him engaging in sexual intercourse with his then-girlfriend—without her knowledge or consent —with his viewers. He was arrested for disseminating revenge porn (Va. Code §18.2–386.2) in mid-December of that year. The case, initially tabled by the prosecution the following February, was reinstated by the prosecution upon request of his former girlfriend's father by August. On January 5th, 2022, Ralph pled "nolo contendere" (no contest) to disseminating revenge porn and received a suspended sentence of 12 months. The woman he distributed revenge porn of is also the mother of his child, and has two restraining orders against Ralph, one for herself and one for their son.