An American MMA fighter has shared his shock at flying into Australia only to find it full of immigrants from third world countries, and followed up with a series of scathing observations about Sydney.
Vance Elrod, who is training with Australian UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski in Wollongong, wrote on X after arriving before Christmas: “Just landed in Australia… Where the fk are all the Australians?”
The post attracted thousands of likes and comments from Aussies saying he was right about the state of Sydney, and wrote “it’s fucking 80% brown I’m not even kidding” in response to one person who said they hadn’t been back since 2019 but couldn’t imagine it had improved.
Just landed in Australia…
Where the fk are all the Australians?
— Vance 🌞⚡️ (@VanceE) December 22, 2025
So far I’ve learned it’s not polite to fly an Australian flag in Australia.
To be patriotic for Australia is considered racist.
You cannot say aboriginal out loud without someone being upset.
They brought in 2 million migrants. https://t.co/D3J9orAFXm
— Vance 🌞⚡️ (@VanceE) December 23, 2025
Me in Australia right now pic.twitter.com/RSo4iwnu80
— Vance 🌞⚡️ (@VanceE) December 23, 2025
Imagine going to Mexico and everyone’s Canadian. https://t.co/I6gCoNgpYO
— Vance 🌞⚡️ (@VanceE) December 24, 2025
Elrod, who also runs a medical company, wrote in a follow-up post: “So far I’ve learned it’s not polite to fly an Australian flag in Australia. To be patriotic for Australia is considered racist. You cannot say aboriginal out loud without someone being upset. They brought in 2 million migrants.”
“I thought the US was bad, they fucking steamrolled you guys,” and posted a photo of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wearing a Sikh turban with the caption: “Me in Australia right now”.
He later wrote “imagine going to Mexico and everyone’s Canadian”, and “White nations are under attack and there is no one in power doing anything to stop it”, and shared a photo with Volkanovski on Friday saying: “Merry Christmas from down unda!”
Some Australians objected to Elrod’s observations, but many agreed while others said there were still parts of the country that felt Australian and where patriotism was alive and well.
“It really does hit differently when someone not from Australia says it. We have leadership problem but the beaches are nice,” one Aussie woman replied.
“Wait till you hear how much a small house in a moderately populated urban area costs and how that compares to wages,” another said.
“In Australia you have to pretend it’s not filled with Africans, Muslims and Indians. Otherwise you get arrested for hate speech,” remarked a third.
A record number of immigrants have been allowed to move to Australia since the Albanese Labor government took office in May 2022 with more than 2 million arrivals, while net overseas migration hit 1.27 million during the past three financial years, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data.
Header image: Left, Vance Elrod and Alexander Volkanovski. Right, one of Elrod’s posts (X).
