--- title: "Far-Right Dweebs Are Getting Scammed by an AI-Generated Waifu" description: "Online fair-right weirdos are falling head over heels — and emptying their wallets — for an AI-generated schoolgirl called \"Amelia.\"" date: "2026-01-28" modified: "2026-01-28" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/far-right-scammed-ai-waifu" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" --- # Far-Right Dweebs Are Getting Scammed by an AI-Generated Waifu ![Online fair-right weirdos are falling head over heels — and emptying their wallets — for an AI-generated schoolgirl called "Amelia."]() *AI generated* Terminally online right wing dorks are falling head over heels for an AI-generated waifu — and setting themselves up to get scammed in the process. The damsel at the center of all their fawning is "Amelia," who, we must stress, is not real. Nonetheless, she's everywhere on places like X, where users ask Elon Musk's AI Grok to imagine her as a purple-haired British schoolgirl — because of course she is — who's also the anti-woke rebel of their dreams. Often proudly displaying a Union Jack, Amelia does things like [burn]() pictures of British PM Keir Starmer and rail against Islam and immigrants. She's also been shown [reading]() the [notoriously racist book]() "The Turner Diaries" and [proudly appearing alongside a sieg heiling comrade](), flagrantly betraying white supremacist and neo-Nazi sympathies. But where did "Amelia" come from? According to [reporting from *The Guardian*](), she was initially a spoof of a goth-looking character in a video game called "Pathways." Funded by the UK government, the game was designed to be a classroom tool for teaching teenagers how to avoid falling into online extremism, but quickly became the target of mockery by far-right figures on social media. The trend was heavily pushed by an anonymous right-wing account on X starting on January 9, according to an analysis by Peryton Intelligence shared with *The Guardian*. Since then, "Ameliaposting" has surged from 500 posts per day to over 10,000. Of course, where there's right wing outrage involved, there's a grift. An account [roleplaying as Amelia]() began pushing a new Amelia-branded cryptocurrency called $AMELIAJAK, which was retweeted, and thereby effectively endorsed, by Musk, *The Guardian* noted. (Musk, it's worth mentioning, has a [documented]() [fondness]() for AI-generated women, with even his own followers [mocking him]() for openly "gooning to AI anime.") The meme coin reeks of a scam called a rug pull, in which followers are baited into buying the coin to boost its value, before the founder sells all their assets at a higher price. This causes its value to crash, leaving the duped fans with worthless currency. Not all meme coins end up as being overt scams, but clearly someone intends to profit off of Amelia's "fame." And in any case, the coins' value often collapses on their own, since they're propped up by nothing except a fleeting moment of internet virality. Amelia may be out there owning the libs and destroying woke, but she's also emptying the wallets of many far-right memelords who see her as the imaginary, wildly racist goth girlfriend that they never had — but wish they did. **More on AI:** [*Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()