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TikToker Guy Christensen is a Liar and a Grifter

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About this Guy Christensen dude….

For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, or, dodging Iranian missiles like the rest of us here in Jerusalem, Guy is a very white, twenty-year-old TikToker from Pittsburgh who goes by @YourFavoriteGuy, has 3.5 million very real followers, was expelled from Ohio State for celebrating the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim (a young couple shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington), got a federal judge to reverse the expulsion on First Amendment grounds, then flew to Qatar to address the Al Jazeera Forum as a “digital soldier in the information battleground.” He wears a keffiyeh in every video like it’s load-bearing. He appeared on the Wikipedia talk page of his own article to complain it was “defamatory.” He is, in short, a lot.

But today I’m not here to relitigate all of that. Today I want to talk about a specific claim Guy has been peddling since October 2023, one he recently repeated, with a straight face, apparently, to podcaster Kyle Kulinski. And I want to be very precise about why it doesn’t hold up, because the details matter and the details are hilarious.

Here’s the story Guy tells: an “Israeli news outlet” – or a “Zionist organization,” he can’t quite keep his own story straight depending on the audience, reached out to him and other online influencers and offered them $5,000 to “shill for Israel.” He and his pal Remi Kanazi made a whole video about it. He told Kulinski the video was “mysteriously scraped from the Internet” by, presumably, the shadowy forces of Hasbara.

I found the video in three minutes. It’s still on X. Right where Remi Kanazi posted it. If the Zionist conspiracy can allegedly suppress a Substack and intimidate university administrators across the country, they somehow missed the tweet that’s been viewed millions of times? Sure, Jan. I uploaded the video again myself, lest Guy loses it again. You’re welcome.

But forget the video. Let’s talk about the letter. Because Guy actually shared the text of this supposed offer. Here it is:

Shalom,

We have been following your content on TikTok and appreciate your passion for the Middle East. Our organization, which seeks to help understanding, would like to offer you a sponsorship opportunity. We have noticed your support for the Palestinian cause and we respect your dedication to important issues. However, we believe that there may be some misunderstandings and misperceptions regarding Israel and you have fallen for the lies of the rabid dogs.

We are willing to offer you $5,000 to go live and pledge your support for Israel. We aim to provide you resources and experts who can make you see the truth.

Your voice is influential, and we believe it’s essential to not spread the lies of terrorists on accident.

We look forward to working together to promote greater truth in the world.

Toda Raba

Now, before I take this apart, let me be charitable for a moment, which, as regular readers know, does not come naturally to me but I try.

Is it possible Guy actually received something like this? Sure. The internet is full of idiots. Some lone pro-Israel troll with a keyboard and too much time, working completely on their own, with zero institutional backing and zero intention of ever paying anyone anything, could absolutely have dashed this off and hit send. That happens. Random people do dumb, trolly things online every single day. I do not rule it out.

What I rule out, completely, categorically, and without hesitation, is that this letter represents what Guy claims it represents: a serious, funded, coordinated offer from a mainstream Zionist organization or Israeli news outlet. Because if that were true, the organization in question would be run by the least professional people in the history of organized Jewish life, and we are a people who have been arguing about brisket recipes for three thousand years. We know how to run things.

Let me explain why.

“Rabid dogs.” A real organization engaged in professional outreach, one that has budgeted $5,000 per influencer and presumably has at least one adult in the room, opens its pitch by calling the recipient’s entire audience literal animals? That’s not how professional communications work. That’s not how any professional communication works. Any actual PR person, nonprofit comms director, or communications intern would have their contract terminated before the end of the day for sending something like this. It reads like someone who wanted the screenshot to look sufficiently villainous wrote it that way on purpose.

“On accident.” Actual native English speakers say “by accident.” “On accident” is a well-documented error — the kind that shows up in language learner writing, not in the professional correspondence of a funded organization whose entire pitch depends on winning someone over. A sophisticated outfit that identified and wants to recruit a major influencer for a coordinated information campaign cannot correctly deploy a two-word prepositional phrase? One of these things is not like the other.

The identity crisis. Is this Haaretz, a left-wing Israeli newspaper that has spent fifty years being a thorn in the side of the Israeli government and would sooner cease publication than run a covert influencer campaign, or a “Zionist organization”? Guy has given both answers, to different audiences, at different times. This is not a minor inconsistency. This is the central claim of the story. If you can’t keep straight who sent you the letter, that is a problem.

The logic. Why would any pro-Israel organization spend $5,000 converting Guy Christensen, whose entire brand, livelihood, and identity is built on being maximally, performatively anti-Israel? His audience would destroy him the moment he said anything remotely positive. And the conversion plan is… “resources and experts”? That’s it? Not a trip to Israel, not a documentary, not a conversation,resources and experts, floating in the vague middle distance. Real outreach operations exist, openly, and they don’t work like this.

But here’s the thing. Here’s the actual thing. All of these questions, about the tone, the grammar, the logic, the sender’s identity — could theoretically be answered. Guy could put this to rest tomorrow. All he would need to do is show us the full email. The headers. The sender domain. The name of the organization or outlet. One verifiable human being who can confirm they sent this. Anything that would survive ten minutes of scrutiny from a journalist, a lawyer, or frankly anyone who’s ever filed an expense report.

He has not done this. Not in October 2023 when he and Remi Kanazi first went public with it. Not when I called on both of them to name the organization and was rewarded with silence and a block. Not in the years since. Not when he told the story again to Kyle Kulinski in 2026. Never. Not once.

Instead, what Guy has done is keep telling the story. The same story. To bigger and bigger audiences. With zero new evidence. Presenting himself as the heroic digital soldier who refused the corrupting gold of the Zionists, while quietly monetizing his millions of followers, accepting speaking invitations from the Qatari state, and flying to Doha on Al Jazeera’s dime to give speeches about information warfare. The irony of Guy Christensen, scourge of Zionist money, on the payroll of a Qatari state media empire, lecturing people about who’s funding whom, that irony is genuinely something.

Kyle Kulinski, and anyone else who platforms this story: you are owed receipts. You didn’t ask for them. You should have.

So here is mine. A real offer, from a real person, with real money attached:

Guy Christensen: I will personally pay you $5,000 — Venmo, PayPal, wire transfer, your choice — if you can prove this offer came from a legitimate, identifiable organization. A full email chain with verifiable headers. A sender domain that resolves to something real. One human being, employed by said organization, who can confirm they sent this and intended to pay. Anything that survives basic scrutiny.

I am very confident I am keeping my $5,000.

Because the story has never been about what’s in the letter. The story is that Guy Christensen, to this day, will not show us the letter — not the real one, not the headers, not the sender, not the organization. Just the screenshot. Just the vibe. Just the same recycled victimhood on a slightly bigger podcast every year or so.

That’s not activism. That’s a grift with a keffiyeh on it.

Prove me wrong, Guy. The $5,000 is on the table. All you have to do is show your work.

Toda raba for reading.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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Founder and Publisher of Jewlicious, David Abitbol lives in Jerusalem. Blogging as "ck" he's been blocked on twitter by the right and the left, so he's doing something right.

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