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Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?

Hint: He's the most fabulous super-villain on the Internet right now.

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Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?
Milo Yiannopoulos

The swashbuckling Milo Yiannopoulos has no time for Social Justice Warriors, trigger-warned college students or political correctness. This priceless, professional provocateur has caused controversy, Twitter feuds and even protests, and if you don't know who he is now, you will soon.

He is called the “pitbull of tech media” by Ben Dowll of "The Observer" and has twice been featured in Wired UK’s yearly top 100 most influential people in Britain’s digital economy. Milo is a journalist, technology editor and contributor for Breitbart News.

Here's what you need to know:

1. He is a Fearless Entrepreneur and Journalist

Milo is responsible for the founding of "The Kernel", an online magazine with the mission to “fix European technology journalism.” In 2011, Milo also devised a method of ranking technology start-ups "The Telegraph Tech Start-Up 100".

He began coverage on the Gamergate Controversy early, calling it an attack on the video game industry by “an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners, abetted by achingly politically correct American tech bloggers.”

This professional provocateur has an impressive resume under his fabulous belt, and he is not even a college graduate. Milo attended University of Manchester and shortly dropped out, and then studied English Literature at Wolfson College, Cambridge where he dropped out to pursue his career.

Of his decision to leave school, Milo said, "I try to tell myself I'm in good company, but ultimately it doesn't say great things about you unless you go on to terrific success in your own right.

2. He Is a Walking Contradiction

Milo is openly gay, but he does not support gay marriage, or believe that children should be raised in gay homes.

He speaks with brutal honesty about his experience as a gay man. “Is being homosexual 'wrong'? Something somewhere inside of me says yes.” And he has no tolerance for the modern homosexual agenda* (see Gay Rights Have Made Us Dummer)

When defending his stance on refusing to raise children in a gay environment, Milo wrote, “Ironically, it’s precisely that profound feeling of being somehow broken that means a gay man’s sexuality often comes to be the defining characteristic of his personality."

3. Twitter Can't Even Handle Him

Milo’s infamous twitter account, @Nero, is no stranger to controversy. I bet you're curious and want to read all the deliciously savage tweets of Milo’s, right? Well you can’t.

In December 2015, Twitter removed Milo’s verification. Milo’s account was later temporarily suspended after the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting for his criticism of Islam.

Just last month, @Nero was banned for life from Twitter, after his scathing review of the 2016 Ghostbusters re-make.

Milo went so far as to thank Twitter in a 2016 Interview for making him even more famous, “Do they have any idea how dumb this was of them? I’m on like every station in the world. It’s wonderful — obviously, I hate the attention,” he said (not bothering to hide his sarcasm).

Lets all have a moment of silence for the late twitter account, @Nero.

4. He Is The Self-Proclaimed "Dangerous Faggot"

In early 2016, Milo began a speaking tour of colleges around the country, calling it The Dangerous Faggot Tour. His stops are met with protests from “triggered” students accusing him of sexism and promoting rape culture, while intruding their “safe-spaces”.

The University of Manchester Student Union even went so far as to ban Milo Yiannopoulos, and fellow guest Julie Bindel, from speaking, citing their “student safe-space policy”.

Despite attempts to stop this “most dangerous faggot” from speaking, he has appeared at sold-out venues across the nation and was even given a Queen's Welcome at UC Santa Barbara, throne and all.

His tour includes merchandise such as a Feminism is Cancer t-shirt and an Everyone Who Hates Me Is Ugly sweatshirt.

Despite the uproar, Milo's tour isn't slowing down any time soon. You can see him in all his fabulous super-villian-ness at Clemson University in October.

5. His Skin Is As Thick as His Platinum Hair

Milo is not one to back down from confrontation, whether it's talking about his love for “Daddy Trump”, criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement or lambasting feminism.

On a visit to DePaul University, where they have since banned him from returning, Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the stage and tried to shut down his forum.This scene, and every other attempt to shut him down, have only served to garner more attention to him and his tour

6. He’s Devilishly Stylish.

See for yourself.

All images courtesy of Milo Yiannopoulos instagram: @milo.yiannopoulos

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