There was a time when Emily Murphy was the ultimate fan of the millennial pop culture podcast The Morning Toast. The show, hosted by Instagram-famous meme queen and comedian Claudia Oshry and her sister Jackie, is a daily morning show about pop culture. Murphy, 28, listened daily. She joined more than 100 affiliated Facebook groups. She even paid more than $700, and drove four hours, alone, to rural Pennsylvania for “Camp Toast,” a weekend touted as a chance for fans to hang with the sisters IRL.

Then, in January, she attended Claudia’s comedy show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. When the show started, Jackie entered the theater with the sisters’ mother, the anti-Muslim, far-right commentator Pamela Geller. Geller, a former journalist turned blogger, gained prominence in 2010 for her campaign against the so-called Ground Zero mosque and is now known as “one of the most flamboyant anti-Muslim activists” in the US according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The crowd burst into wild cheers, Murphy said, describing it as if Geller were “Justin Bieber or something.”

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“She was literally paraded through the audience,” Murphy said. “People were yelling, ‘Oh you’re a queen, we love your outfit!’ Just craziness.”

For Murphy, the incident cemented a growing unease she had felt about what she said was once her “complete stanhood” of the sisters, who have long courted controversy for their own perceived racist and insensitive behavior, and for not publicly disavowing their mother’s most extreme views.

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In fact, it wasn’t two years ago that the sisters were written off by some as canceled. In 2018 the Daily Beast revealed that Geller was Claudia and Jackie’s mother — and that the sisters had racist tweets of their own. Verizon’s Oath quickly dropped their old podcast and online show, The Morning Breath. Claudia lost big Instagram sponsorships. They both deleted their Twitter accounts.

But, since then, Claudia and Jackie have only become more influential. They relaunched their podcast a month after the Daily Beast story, keeping and adding to their now-huge network of fans. Claudia’s Girl With No Job Instagram meme account has grown from approximately 2.8 million followers before the 2018 scandal to at least 3.1 million, according to SocialBlade. Their devoted fans, known in the community as “Toasters” or “Steens,” have created more than 250 Facebook groups. They buy the podcast’s merch. They go to the events.

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