Introduction
Ian Miles Cheong, posting as @ianmiles under the display name “Ian Miles,” is a Malaysian right-wing commentator with roughly 1.24 million X followers and one of the platform’s highest-volume political accounts. He built his audience as a video-game journalist in the early 2010s and has written for the Daily Caller since 2017. His output runs heavily to crime, immigration and culture-war material. In September 2026 it also included dismissing the criminal case against a 20-year-old influencer charged with drugging and raping a 17-year-old as “extortion,” and then, five days later, a post lamenting that gang-rape victims had become “the subject of public mockery.”
Background Information
Cheong began his career in the early 2010s as a video game journalist and editor of the gaming site Gameranx. Know Your Meme records that he was accused of writing biased articles in exchange for perks from game developers, that his Reddit account was banned in 2012 for spamming and promoting links to specific websites, and that the Boston outlet GlobalPost told the Daily Dot it had hired him as a “Social Media Consultant” hired to promote links to its website. Since 2017 he has written for the Daily Caller, the right-wing publication co-founded by Tucker Carlson. He is a Malaysian native and resident, a fact critics raise when his commentary concerns American politics.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations. The criminal case described in this section consists of charges, not convictions. Braden Eric Peters, the influencer charged in Massachusetts, is presumed innocent and has not been convicted of anything. Cheong’s own posts, by contrast, are published statements in his own words that he has never withdrawn or corrected.
On 22 September 2026, two days after the influencer known as Clavicular — real name Braden Eric Peters, 20 — was charged in Massachusetts with rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse and providing liquor to a minor, Cheong posted: “So Clavicular had sex with a consenting girl his age and her parents are calling it rape because both of them were drunk when they did it? Oh right, I forgot the ’law’ strips females of all responsibility because all men are bad, especially famous ones you can extort for cash.” The post drew roughly 450 likes and 40,000 views.
The charging documents describe a different sequence. According to the criminal complaint, a 17-year-old told Chatham police she woke in Peters’ bed to find him having sex with her after he supplied her with alcohol: “I was getting fucked when I woke up,” she told the officer. The Guardian reported that Peters faces up to life in prison on the felony counts.
Cheong’s posting on sexual-violence cases is not uniform. In August 2026 he wrote of three men who lured a 13-year-old child into an apartment to gang rape her that “they should face the gallows,” and on 25 September 2026 he complained that “you can get two years for throwing a plastic bottle that hurts no one but rape someone and you’ll get a slap on the wrist.” The 22 September post remains his only published comment on the Clavicular allegations, and was not amended after the complaint’s details were reported.
Public Reaction and Consequences
No news outlet has reported on the 22 September post, and X has taken no visible action against the account, which was still live and postable at the time of writing.
What is documented is a pattern of platform friction and public mockery. On 19 September 2026 the progressive outlet Daily Kos flagged Cheong for taking a clip from HBO’s “Peacemaker” — a scene in which a Black character is chased by a mob in a Nazi-ruled alternate America — and repurposing it as a racist meme, publishing the clip’s source so readers could flag it. In May 2026 X’s director of product Nikita Bier publicly accused Cheong of promoting scam cryptocurrency, attributing his falling reach to “robbing” his followers rather than to algorithmic suppression. British coverage has been less flattering still: the Daily Star reported Cheong was “widely mocked” after he claimed a Dutch study of headphones showed the devices can make people gay.
Current Status
On 1 October 2026, Cheong posted: “Even gang rape victims become the subject of public mockery. At the risk of sounding like some kinda pussy it’s fair to say that decency is dead and the internet killed it.” It drew roughly 80 likes and 22,000 views — a fraction of the reach of his September post.
The post arrived while the Cornell Chi Phi case dominated American news, after commentators including Sam Tripoli and Michael Tracey had drawn attention for their posts about the accuser. Cheong’s post names no case, victim or defendant, and he has offered no explanation of how it squares with his 22 September post. The account remains active, with 1,242,762 followers at the time of the post’s capture.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Nothing documented has followed. Cheong has not been suspended, has not deleted or edited the post, and no employer, sponsor or platform has publicly reacted to it. Unlike most subjects on this site, his career is the engagement itself: more than 558,000 posts, a following above 1.2 million, and a documented public dispute with X’s own product chief over that reach. The documented cost of the 22 September post is, so far, none — the record rests on his own words.
Sources
- X, “Ian Miles on X” (post, 22 September 2026), source
- X, “Ian Miles on X” (post, 1 October 2026), source
- X, “Ian Miles on X” (post, 25 September 2026), source
- X, “Ian Miles on X” (post, August 2026), source
- X, “Ian Miles (@ianmiles)” (profile), source
- The Guardian, “Influencer Clavicular charged with rape and drug offenses in Massachusetts,” source
- Miami New Times, “Complaint: 17-year-old says she woke up to Clavicular raping her after he gave her alcohol,” source
- Know Your Meme, “Ian Miles Cheong,” source
- Daily Kos, “Ian Miles Cheong stole a clip from ‘Peacemaker’ and turned it into a racist meme,” 19 September 2026, source
- Crypto News, “X product chief accuses Ian Miles Cheong of promoting scam coins,” May 2026, source
- Daily Star, “MAGA influencer claims headphones ‘make you gay’ sparking social media mockery,” source