The private gaming community used by a YouTube star-turned-UKIP-candidate to recruit supporters for his European election campaign is rife with white supremacism, anti-Semitism, support for the Christchurch mosque terrorist, and discussions about murdering members of the European parliament.

Sargon of Akkad, whose real name is Carl Benjamin, is UKIP’s candidate for the South West region of the UK, and one of the party’s most high-profile prospective MEPs having gained legions of online supporters through YouTube.

On Friday April 12, Benjamin posted a video to his Sargon of Akkad YouTube channel, which has almost one million subscribers, where the gaming developer and self-proclaimed “anti-feminist” announced his candidacy for European parliament.

Pinned to the top of the video’s comments, Benjamin said people could “join” his campaign by clicking through to a server on Discord – the US-based group chat platform likened to Slack or Skype, but for gamers. “Do not be a civilian, be a citizen,” Benjamin urged supporters.

People who clicked from the YouTube video were given an invite by Benjamin to join a Discord server called “Athens”, which has almost 15,000 members. Benjamin’s election channel within Athens is named #sargon-mep-help-offers. It works like a traditional chatroom and is used for organising Benjamin’s campaign.