Moon Man also frequently boasts of his love of killing black and Jewish people. One track that has proven especially popular mocks and celebrates the recent mass shooting at an Orlando gay club, over a sample of Kool & the Gang’s “Summer Madness.”

Hundreds of the racist songs have been produced, with more coming every month, even as sharing sites like YouTube continually remove them for terms-of-use violations. AT&T has also taken action against the Moon Man movement, setting up filters on its text-to-speech demonstration site that block submissions containing the rapper’s name and other offensive words. McDonald’s has probably filed more than a few trademark infringement complaints as well.

Like similar efforts on the part of the Anti-Defamation League to return Pepe the Frog to his nonracist origins, none of these actions have stopped Moon Man. Invariably, every time one of his clips is removed, it’s posted again by someone else. The reborn fast food icon’s tech-savvy fans have also figured out how to circumvent AT&T’s keyword filters and have even set up their own generator websites.

This unusual determination among Moon Man’s producers and admirers appears to stem from the belief that the robotic racist is giving voice to frustration of young white men who believe they have been betrayed by society — and especially by Republican elites whom they see as deceitful, incompetent and venal.

Earlier this year, the neo-Nazi website Infostormer defended the robotic racist, suggesting he is no different from more mainstream rappers:

Despite the criticism, Moon Man insists that his lyrics are no worse than what you hear from Jew financed n***er rappers. He has said that he is simply tired of political correctness, the non-White invasion of White countries, disgusting mentally ill faggots and feminist whores.

While we certainly don’t endorse Moon Man’s violent lyrics, he has tapped into an anger within the young White European male who is outraged at the endless amounts of third world filth that is being let into their nations.

The Moon Man phenomenon is also likely spreading because its white nationalist message is wrapped inside visual and audio packaging that is inherently absurd and idiotic — catnip to younger adults raised in a pop-culture environment where profane sarcasm has become the lingua franca.

The songs’ adoption and inversion of imagery and lyrical methods used by leftist rappers admired by music industry elites almost certainly adds to its appeal for the young right-wingers who are reinventing Dadaism. An iconic photo of the legendary ’80s rap act N.W.A., for instance, has been altered to depict Moon Man accompanied by three hooded Klansmen.

The fact that anyone can produce or archive Moon Man clips also makes it almost impossible to suppress Mac Tonight’s unauthorized alter ego and discern the motives of his legions of anonymous creators. Some undoubtedly embrace the message of all-purpose hate in Moon Man’s lyrics; still others are most likely in it for the lulz.

Mainstream political reporters and pop culture critics have largely been unaware of this alt-right’s musical sensation. But Moon Man may be about to blow up, thanks to a crowd-funded campaign to place billboards featuring Moon Man beaming down on a Pepe-Trump cartoon hybrid who’s guarding the GOP nominee’s long-promised border wall with Mexico.

As of this writing, the effort has brought in more than $5,000 and thousands of positive retweets on Twitter. Including Moon Man on the billboard has sparked some controversy, however.

Someone going by the moniker Sam Hyde, who claims to have produced the original image, said that while he was “honored that my work will serve the Trumpenkrieg,” he didn’t think that including the racist parody rapper on the poster was a good idea.

“You should probably take moonman out of it,” he argued in a comment posted to WeSearchr, the alt-right crowdfunding site that raised the money for the effort. His comment was echoed by another user on the site. Several others, including at least one contributor, said Moon Man needed to be included.

“Moonman stays,” wrote a commenter named Frontierland. “To the Anti-Whites, both Ron Paul and Hitler are racist, so it really doesn’t matter. If your White and don’t agree to your own genocide, your a Naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.”

At press time, WeSearchr had not announced any possible locations for the Trump-Moon Man billboard.