An Indian medical student who wants to immigrate to the United States made a small fortune scamming “super-dumb” male Trump supporters.
A puff piece by Wired magazine reveals that the 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon, Sam, was broke and needed money, so he came up with the idea of creating an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini.
“But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting,” according to Wired.
At a loss for what to do, he asked Gemini, which is an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) bot, for advice.
“If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models,” the AI bot told him, adding that perhaps he could try posting an AI-generated girl in a “MAGA/conservative niche.”
“The conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” Gemini insisted.
Sam took this advice and created Emily Hart, a hot MAGA nurse, and started posting AI-generated pictures to Instagram of her doing MAGA things like drinking beer and shooting rounds at the rifle range.
For @WIRED, I spoke to a med student in India who made thousands of dollars duping MAGA fans by creating a blonde AI influencer named “Emily Hart.” Here’s how he did it. pic.twitter.com/oaCdDekIho
— ej (@ejdickson) April 21, 2026
Each Instagram photo of Hart included a right-wing caption such as this: “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported.”
“Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he told Wired.
To his astonishment, the Instagram account went viral.
“Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it,” he told Wired.
By the end of a month, he had over 10,000 followers, some of whom had also subscribed to an OnlyFans-like account for Hart that Sam had created at the AI-friendly OnlyFans competitor Fanvue. In total, he was bringing in several thousand dollars a month.
“I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he said. “In India, even in professional jobs, you can’t make this amount of money. I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.”
Valerie Wirtschafter, a fellow at the left-wing Brookings Institution, suggested Sam was successful because there are so few young conservative women, relatively speaking. After all, most young women are, just like the Brookings Institution, left-wing.
Sam, at one point, tried to double his earnings by creating an AI-generated left-winger, but that failed
“Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he explained.
So why did right-wingers, on the other hand, fall for his “AI slop”? Allegedly because they’re dumb.
“The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it,” he told Wired, dissing the same people responsible for him earning so much money.
“Emily Hart”‘s account blew up. “Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views,” he said. “I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.” He attributes his success to the following: “The MAGA crowd is made up of super dumb people. And they fall for it.” pic.twitter.com/wsMWGP2aEY
— ej (@ejdickson) April 21, 2026
Mind you, he admitted to fooling leftists, telling Wired that they’d show up on Hart’s page to leave angry comments, though he didn’t call them dumb.
“It’s a win-win situation, because you’re getting engagement anyway, and your content will go viral,” he said.
There were some drawbacks, like the time one of his Fanvue fans gave him a $50 tip to watch a dirty video of himself.
“Once a guy sent me a video with Emily’s nude on a tablet on a pillow, and he was basically recording himself f–king the pillow,” Sam said. “It was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip, so I was like, OK, do what you want.”
The good news is that Hart’s Instagram profile was nuked once Meta realized she was fake. The bad news is that Sam learned all the wrong lessons from this stunt.
“I don’t feel like I was scamming people,” he confidently told Wired.
