They're only a "thing" in the sense that the "boogaloo" was a right wing meme in loosely associated prepper communities, 2A advocates, and "geardos," a euphemism for societal collapse. But this was almost exclusively disaffected young men saying edgy shit on the internet, like the dude in the article. The narrative that this is some centralized, organized faction, anything more than immasculated nu males LARPing online as insurrectionists with airsoft or guns they are legally allowed to own, is completely made up.

I get that the "enlightened centrist" administration wants a return to "normalcy," but that isn't going to happen, and I'm not certain coming down on dudes like this guy does anything more than delude a handful of boomers at the local HOA that everything is peachy.