Archaeologist harrasses a pagan influencer

22 April 2026

First, I want to share the video and comment of Lady of the Library.

As a leftist, my frustration is that legitimate correction and awareness is being masked by stupid internet fighting tactics such as degrading people, internet stalking or harassing offline. As a result, any legitimate criticism is overshadowed by their poor tactics, resulting in the party doing more harm being framed as a victim, growing in popularity and “winning”. As a result, the left leaning academic removes all their content, and their methodology in critiquing dangerous rhetoric only resulted in the other garnering more sympathy and popularity. Meanwhile, the academic is forced to remove all their criticism of her. If other people do research on why he was criticising her in the first place, they can’t find it, because all his criticism was made with tactics that resulted in him facing the threat of a lawsuit, and thus without deeper digging, makes her look innocent.

If your tactics to educate people about the dangers of right wing pseudo-archaeology result in the promotion of the right winger, growing their popularity, as well as the deletion of all criticism of her, you have a poor methodology and that should be criticised, as it harms the movement of educating people as a whole.

In the sewage that is social media, I ran into a tweet of a young pregnant woman in Sweden who was being attacked by a crazy man on Tiktok who was calling her a Nazi. He really came off as unhinged, an older man, though claiming to be an academic, attacking a young woman with misogynistic statements and frankly, ridiculous claims. For example, he implied that her bio "Under an Ancient Sun" somehow implied far-right ideology. As someone with a deep and growing respect towards the Sun goddess, I find that a bit alarming. Could I, a leftist queer woman, be accused of Nazism because of my growing fondness of Päivätär?

Now, when you start looking into it, this lady in question... Well, none of the things the man pointed out really proved that she was far-right, but she most likely is. A great chunk of the people defending her were volkish/folkish, or basically the far-right kind of pagans, so that is certainly an audience she attracts. She uses language of European anti-immigration nationalism, speaking of "our ancestors" and such. All of that ended up being kind of irrelevant, though.

This archaeologist decided to take the weird angle of pointing out some pretty superficial, even inaccurate things about this influencer and then make attacking Tiktoks on her as some kind of a brainrot gotcha of our Tiktok-brained times. Instead of, you know, actually looking up the facts on her and presenting them accurately. In a tactic that backfired miserably, a lot of people obviously took the side of the woman who swore these claims were lies, that's how unhinged the Tiktoks of this guy came off as. As a result, this influencer who seems to indeed be far-right, got a massive boost while anyone's chances to call out anything about her in the future got substantly more difficult. He also ended up deleating all of his criticism of her, unsurprisingly as he got attacked for it after this influencer's video.

Lady of the Library seems to be right in that due to the piss-poor execution of this "callout", it seems that this far-right pagan "won" the situation and has now only grown in popularity. If pointing out pseudo-archaeology, I suggest taking a more fact-based stance than vague theories on someone's character just because they mention the Sun in their bio. If pointing out the far-right in paganism, educate about the folkish movement, advice to stay away from them, and teach how to spot the signs of such. Targetting a specific influencer with brainrot-takes on a Tiktok has, in this case, done more harm to "the left" than good. And obviously, for myself and other queer pagans, a blanket label of "all pagans are far-right" is unacceptable.