{"id":197824,"date":"2026-04-15T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:49:16","slug":"manosphere-influencer-sneako-sucker-punched-by-stranger-during-livestream-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197824\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Manosphere&#8217; influencer Sneako sucker-punched by stranger during livestream in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sneak(o) attack! <\/p>\n<p>Controversial, Hitler-praising <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/09\/us-news\/sneako-says-his-offensive-views-are-a-joke-but-parents-beware\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmanosphere\u201d influencer Sneako<\/a> was taken out by a stranger while he was livestreaming in Manhattan on Tuesday \u2014 seconds after stating masturbation should be punishable by public execution.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right provocateur, whose real name is Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, was marching through downtown Manhattan Tuesday afternoon when a stranger suddenly swung his arms around his neck and dragged him to the ground in a chokehold, as captured on his own <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kick_Champ\/status\/2044171586874269758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">livestream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Far-right streamer Sneako was attacked while recording in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon. Sneako<\/p>\n<p>Moments before the unidentified man slugged the contested influencer, Kenn De Balinthazy was ranting about male masturbation, which he asserted warrants death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[If] you put your life-force into a sock, yeah, you deserve to be publicly executed, yes,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old streamer was silent for a few seconds and started to reiterate his point when the beanie-wearing stranger jumped him out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The man grabbed Sneako in a chokehold and dragged him to the ground. Sneako<\/p>\n<p>The men appeared to scuffle for several more seconds off-camera, swapping expletives back and forth, before eventually going their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIm fine we got it handled,\u201d Kenn De Balinthazy wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sneako\/status\/2044173529810157851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">X<\/a> shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, which appeared to be removed from his archived livestream, went viral online \u2014 as other \u201cmanosphere\u201d affiliates weighed in on the takedown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSucker punch didn\u2019t even land. What a coward,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/us-news\/nick-fuentes-andrew-tate-and-other-influencers-party-to-kanye-wests-heil-hitler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi-loving troll and 27-year-old virgin Nick Fuentes<\/a>, who has collaborated with Kenn De Balinthazy, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickJFuentes\/status\/2044172855638929879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">commented.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sneako later tweeted that he was \u201cfine\u201d and \u201cgot it handled.\u201d Sneako<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Hitler-praising streamer, meanwhile, flooded the comments with memes making fun of Kenn De Balinthazy and praising his assailant.<\/p>\n<p>Kenn De Balinthazy, who boasts upwards of 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube, is widely regarded as a mouthpiece for young misogynists in the vile \u201cmanosphere,\u201d helmed by other controversial figures like Andrew Tate and Fuentes. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, the native New Yorker <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/09\/us-news\/sneako-says-his-offensive-views-are-a-joke-but-parents-beware\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told The Post <\/a>that the secret to his success is his willingness to say what he believes others are thinking, no matter how offensive it is.<\/p>\n<p>He bizarrely used the example of people who \u201ccan\u2019t say \u2018Hitler had aura\u2019 because they\u2019ll get fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His other repugnant tenets include \u2014 but are not limited to \u2014 the insistence that women shouldn\u2019t be able to vote and an endless collection of antisemitic dogwhistles supplemented by his Nazi sympathizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sneak(o) attack! Controversial, Hitler-praising \u201cmanosphere\u201d influencer Sneako was taken out by a stranger while he was livestreaming in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,4686,41678,75,57,9,24,55,54,56,58,4693],"class_list":{"0":"post-197824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-influencers","10":"tag-livestream","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}