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What the Data Says About Young Men and the Manosphere — feat. Charlie Sabgir

We're looking at a multi-front war here: social, political, and yes ... financial.

Young men are a fixture of societal discourse right now, but conversations about them can be shallow and misguided at best, inflammatory and injurious at worst.

Charlie Sabgir and the Young Men Research Initiative are cutting through the noise, wielding razor-sharp perspective and an arsenal of data to boot. We chatted as the dust looks far from settled in the wake of Netflix’s new manosphere doc.

I highly recommend you read his piece I refer to in our interview right here:

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Who Are The Young Men ‘Inside the Manosphere?’
Louis Theroux’s long-anticipated Inside The Manosphere dropped last Thursday on Netflix: a 90-minute exploration of the hypermasculine, hypermisogynistic online influencers who’ve built massive followings and financial fortunes off of young men. Theroux spent the bulk of the runtime pressing the subjects – Harrison Sullivan (aka HStikkytokky), Justin Wa…
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And in case you missed my take:

“Three of the seven members of the crew I wrote about [previously] serve as main characters in this doc. Watching it swiftly remediated whatever minor uncertainty I felt for painting them with such a broad, negative brush. They are morally bankrupt on a cellular level, sustained by grifting so obvious, it cleared the bar for most popular accusation in all the pieces I watched and read.”

BREAKING: I’m headed to CPAC in Grapevine, TX, next week. Hit me up with all contacts, tips, recs, curiosities, complaints, what have you!


This is Who Broke It: You’re here because you’re watching politics get body-slammed by digital culture and content creators. I’m here because I’m the only one who can guide you through it.

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