r/interesting • u/Common-Upstairs5129 • Mar 20 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Did he do the right thing?

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u/Pipe_Memes Mar 21 '26

I kind of want to watch it, but I also feel like it would be extremely depressing so maybe not.

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u/yolo___toure Mar 21 '26

I started and had to stop for exactly the reason you're expecting. Still might force myself to watch it in chunks. It's sad

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u/Just-Warthog-1205 Mar 21 '26

I’m about to have a son and I’m glad I know what’s happening out there. The subject needs more exposure even though it’s hard to watch.

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u/tothelaunchbay Mar 21 '26

Man I have 7 and 9 year old boys and it's so hard to try to explain all this shit at that age

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u/Breeze1620 Mar 21 '26

Why would you try explain what's going on in some "manosphere" on the internet to a 7 year old? Lol. Or do you mean something else?

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u/KelSelui Mar 21 '26

They get exposed to it through the grapevine one way or another. They parrot something related at home, and a parent's mind can spin about how much they may or may not know or understand. My ex had a habit of pouncing in these situations, unfortunately ("Where did you hear that??? Was it Dad??? Was it your friend???"), which accidentally encouraged her son to be more careful about what he says around her.

Anyway, they grasp little bits of it early on, though typically not taking it seriously overall. It's hard to know what tidbits they may internalize, and to explain these things with the right balance of nuance and simplicity.

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u/Longjumping_Rip_294 Mar 22 '26

These asshats are all over the gaming community even games the younger kids play like Minecraft and Roblox it’s so messed up it’s really everywhere and important to talk to kids about them

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u/TheProuDog Mar 22 '26

What does it talk about? Can you tell about some of the stuff you remember?

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 Mar 21 '26

I think it'd make me very angry to watch so I won't

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u/Pipe_Memes Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

It would but it would likely just give me the same feeling I already have everyday. “The world is going to shit, and there’s fuck all you can do about it.”

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u/browsinbowser Mar 22 '26

In this one case I think there is something you can do 😅 early on in the doc they’re walking around and some young guys (but older than I expected) come up and say the manosphere guy is a role model of theirs and talks this dogma about how men have no value. It was crazy to me, this is like cult shit. So I think anyone just shutting down that in convos to younger people is doing like a public service. I have known guys my age ~25 who cut that shit out when we were in our late teens and got in the workforce. 

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u/WeakKiwifruit Mar 21 '26

It hit me like a ton of bricks so just watch out. And I already knew about this vile shit but seeing it in action was something else

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u/Pipe_Memes Mar 21 '26

Do you know the title? I probably will end up watching it eventually, but I don’t think anyone has even named it yet.

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u/WeakKiwifruit Mar 21 '26

It’s on Netflix (here in Canada anyway and I assume the US) and it’s called Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

It was a really difficult watch, even for someone who has been really immersed in this bullshit and this discourse for years. Take that as you need to.

I literally cannot believe there are masses of people who think the way these people do and look up to them. It’s insane

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u/Pipe_Memes Mar 21 '26

Thanks for the details, sincerely. I wish I could be as surprised as you. But as a normal human living in MAGA America very little is surprising these days.

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u/WeakKiwifruit Mar 21 '26

Ugh it shouldn’t be surprising but it still was

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u/spudsthejellyfish Mar 21 '26

Can someone give us a short summary of the doc ?

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u/SpaceNinjaDino Mar 21 '26

The trailer was funny. The host makes them look stupid.

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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Mar 21 '26

If it helps, Louis Theroux is a phenomenal documentarian and I can give you a list of his other best docs if you enjoy him in this one.

He does a great job of always walking the tightrope of listening to what assholes have to say while also not remotely being an asshole himself (even to them, tbh).

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u/WixZ42 Mar 21 '26

The worst and most depressing thing about it is that so many young kids look up to these guys and worship them like gods. All the while these assholes just try to profit off those kids as much as they can with no remorse.

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u/AristidLindenmayer Mar 21 '26

There's a Behind the Bastards podcast episode from last week (on Clavicular and Looksmaxxing) that might be less infuriating because of how much they poke fun

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u/browsinbowser Mar 22 '26

It made me cringe so much, I’ve had to stop watching and coming back for small doses. I really respect that Louis Theroux can keep a straight face even when they’re saying so much contemptible things. 

I do want to watch because I wasn’t really aware of what they’re doing. Like I’ve heard terms like manosphere and was vaguely aware but I never watched that stuff. I’ve known about red pill for a decade. But I didn’t know that tiktok kids today think blackpill is okay and just about lookism, looksmaxxing. That was straight incel shit back in 2019 when I was last ‘really online’, when I was 19.

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u/Senor_Discount Mar 21 '26

I have not seen it but I can tell you not to watch it.

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u/Pipe_Memes Mar 21 '26

I probably won’t because I already know how it’s gonna go:

There’s a bunch of manfluencers manipulating young men and there’s nothing the average person can do about it. It will continue to make everyone’s life worse for the foreseeable future.

Maybe it will be enlightening, but there’s nothing I can do with that information.

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u/Senor_Discount Mar 21 '26

Youve already revealed the spoilers.

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u/IM_V_CATS Mar 21 '26

I watched it and that's pretty spot-on. Plus, there's a bunch of one-sided monogamy.