Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015. A common hypothesis seems to be a combination of goy (“a non-Jewish person; a Gentile”) and griper (“a person who complains naggingly or frequently”). Other conjectures include an alteration of grope (“to touch sexually”), as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here. The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a cartoon frog distinct from Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.
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Internet A large, green, cartoon toad with a mischievous expression, based on Pepe the Frog.
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Government, PoliticsUS Alternative letter-case form of Groyper (“a member of certain political groups”).
Slating Trump to speak at [Madison Square Garden]^([sic]), putting ‘poisoning the blood’ in his speeches, setting up Odal runes at CPAC, etc. In a few years, one of those groypers [slang for white supremacists]^([sic]) might even quietly bring me back in, with a stern warning for me to ‘be more careful next time’.”2024 November 5, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Luke Meyer, “Trump staffer fired from Republican party for being a white supremacist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025:
You look at the groypers, you look at Nick Fuentes, you look at people who are by any measure white supremacists and people we would have called the kooky Nazi right, with their Pepe the Frog memes — they all felt very ill at home in Mitt Romney’s Republican Party. […] For a lot of these groypers — Nick Fuentes is one example, but there are a lot of people on the young right who feel this way to varying degrees and with varying levels of Holocaust revisionism — a definition of Americanism is more about your history here, your ethnonationalism, your connection to an Anglo-Protestant culture.2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2025:
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Once again we’re debating the programming choices of prominent podcasters: In March the instigating event was Joe Rogan giving a platform to Ian Carroll, a propagator of perfervid critiques of Israel; this time it’s Tucker Carlson giving a platform to Nick Fuentes, the Hitler-admiring leader of the so-called groyper right.2025 November 4, Ross Douthat, “What Conservatives Should Do About Nick Fuentes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2025:
Groyper
noun
UK /ˈɡɹɔɪ.pə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈɡɹɔɪ.pəɹ/
Etymology From the groyper meme.
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Government, PoliticsUS A member of the far-right and ethnonationalist America First group led by Nicholas Fuentes (b. 1998).
Nick Fuentes, an attendee of the Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville and host of the podcast America First, is also one of the leaders of the Groypers, or the Groyper Army, a White nationalist group named after the meme of Pepe the Frog, which was co-opted in 2016 as an antisemitic symbol.2022, Sara Kamali, Homegrown Hate, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24:
Watch any event with a prominent conservative speaker these days, and you’ll find Groyper or Groyper-adjacent young men asking the questions that end up going viral on social media. […] It’s fun for Groypers in 2025 to gush about Newsom’s beautiful white family and hint that they’re going to jump ship at the prospect of an Indian First Lady.2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025:
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The conservative writer Rod Dreher, a close friend of [JD] Vance, warned, “I am told by someone in a position to know that something like 30 to 40 percent of D.C. G.O.P. staffers under the age of 30 are Groypers.”2025 November 4, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Rod Dreher, “Nick Fuentes Is Becoming Charlie Kirk’s Successor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2025:
“If [JD] Vance condemns the Groypers, we are deploying to Iowa,” Mr. Fuentes said. “I swear I’m going to move to Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina and one primary after the next.”2025 November 6, Clyde McGrady, quoting Nick Fuentes, “Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025:
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Broadly A person who associates with any far right or alt-right groups.