BREAKING🚨 A MAGA influencer harassed a gay couple holding their baby about “child molesters” — then cried victim when one dad finally snapped. The video starts the way these videos always do. Conservative influencer Ryley Niemi and his “Off the Record USA” crew prowl the streets of West Hollywood with cameras rolling, looking for people to bait. They spot two men with a stroller, a baby in their arms. Niemi walks up with a mic and a smile and tells viewers he’s going to ask “tough questions” about parenting. What he actually does is accuse gay men, in front of their child, of being statistically more likely to molest kids. The clip, shot on April 16 and now bouncing across right-wing feeds, shows the pattern in plain sight. At first, the couple tries to answer calmly. They say they’re just out with their baby. Niemi pushes harder. He name-drops vague “stats” about abuse by gay men, suggesting that by existing as parents, these two are part of a threat. He asks if they paid $50,000 to a woman to carry their child. He’s not trying to understand anything. He’s trying to humiliate them, on camera, for an audience that already thinks queer families are dangerous. At some point, one of the men tells him to leave them alone. Niemi doesn’t. The tension spikes. The dad who’s had enough warns him to back off and says he’ll “kick his ass” if he doesn’t. Even then, Niemi keeps the cameras rolling and keeps pushing. He doesn’t turn away from a family with a baby. He stays in their space because that’s the point: get a reaction, get a clip, get paid. Then the line breaks. In the second part of the video, the dad who issued the warning chases Niemi and hits him several times on the back of the head. Niemi falls into his own equipment as the camera jerks around. One of the men being interviewed yells that the crew “deserve to be killed” and “shot in the head.” In the chaos, a Sony A7C II camera gets smashed. Over a dozen emergency responders end up on scene. Sheriff’s deputies arrest one of the dads, identified in booking logs as David Vullin, on a felony vandalism charge tied to the broken equipment and later release him. You can almost storyboard what happens next. Within hours, Niemi’s team posts a heavily edited version of the encounter. Gone is the long lead-up about gay men being more likely to molest children, the insinuations about their baby’s origins, the repeated refusals to leave. What’s left is a gay dad throwing punches, a stroller nearby, and an influencer telling viewers that “this is what happens when you simply ask questions.” They launch a GoFundMe claiming Niemi was “physically assaulted” in a “routine interaction” and lament the loss of their expensive camera. They tell followers they are “pursuing justice through the proper legal channels” and need help covering costs. The story ricochets through right-wing outlets as proof that “gay parents are unstable” and “can’t handle scrutiny.” Sky News Australia, the New York Post, and others run with headlines about a “conservative influencer attacked by a gay couple with a baby.” The baby becomes a prop in their story too, a way to make the parents look unhinged and dangerous. What disappears in that retelling is the basic power imbalance baked into the setup. A crew with cameras, mics, and a built-in platform approaches a family pushing a stroller. They bring misinformation about abuse and call it data. They frame their questions so that any answer can be cut to look like guilt or evasion. Then they stay after being told to leave, because leaving doesn’t give them a clip. None of this is an endorsement of throwing punches. Violence gives people like Niemi exactly what they want: a frame-by-frame narrative where they’re the victims and queer people are the threat. But it’s dishonest to pretend the only thing that happened on that sidewalk is that a “conservative influencer” was minding his own business and got attacked. He built his content model on cornering queer strangers, poking at their deepest vulnerabilities, and waiting to see who snaps first. Ask any gay parent what their worst fear is and you’ll hear some version of this: that someone will decide they’re a danger to their own child because of who they are. That someone will film them, misrepresent them, and send a wave of hate straight into their family’s life. On that April afternoon in West Hollywood, a man with a camera turned that fear into a business opportunity. Now he’s turning it into a paycheck.