Millennial Woes

Colin Robertson, known as Millennial Woes or simply Woes,^[3][4] is a Scottish former YouTuber, white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist.^[5][6][7]

Millennial Woes
Personal information
Born	Colin Robertson[1]
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Social media personality
Website	millennialwoes.com
YouTube information
Years active	2013[2]–present

Robertson was previously aligned with the neo-fascist group Patriotic Alternative, but after a falling-out with them in 2020, his public influence has significantly diminished.^[8]

Robertson has supported slavery, called for the bombing of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, and endorsed the white genocide conspiracy theory.^[4][9]

Career

Robertson attended an art college in London in the mid-2000s. He launched his YouTube channel at the end of 2013.^[10]

Robertson delivered a speech at the National Policy Institute Conference in November 2016, in Washington DC.^[11]

In January 2017, Robertson began receiving coverage from BBC News^[12] and national newspapers,^[13] after Scottish tabloid the Daily Record doxxed Millennial Woes, exposing his birth name, family's home address and sending reporters and photographers to his parents' home to try to find him.^[14] Robertson was reported to have "left Britain", posting a video to his YouTube channel named "Fugitive Woes".^[15]

On 4 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech entitled "Withnail and I as Viewed From the Right" at The London Forum in Kensington,^[16] On 25 February 2017, Robertson gave a speech at a white nationalist event in Stockholm organised by Motpol.^[17] On 1 July 2017, he appeared at the far-right Scandza Forum's "Globalism v the Ethnostate" conference in Oslo.^[18][14]

In August 2017, Salon described Millennial Woes as one of only a few alt-right platforms to rapidly grow, alongside Red Ice, VDARE and The Rebel Media.^[19]

On 10 December 2017, he began an interview series named Millenniyule 2017, inviting various internet personalities from the alt-right movement,^[20] including an appearance from Faith Goldy.^[21]

Until 2020, Robertson was aligned with the neo-fascist group Patriotic Alternative until that group distanced themselves from him following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.^[22] Since then, according to Hope Not Hate, Robertson's influence has been "radically diminished".^[8]

Views

Robertson is a proponent of the white genocide conspiracy theory.^[4] He has claimed in interviews that "there are problems with the Jewish people".^[5] According to anti-racism and anti-fascism research group Hope Not Hate, Robertson is known for supporting slavery, and has called for the bombing of refugees crossing the Mediterranean.^[9]