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The Rise and Fall of Online Culture Wars
- PaulHoule 5y agoExhausting if not exhaustive. I think everybody has their own history. I get into discussions about race IRL all the time but never online. (If race gets talked about online where I see it is secondary to the ‘war on woke’ —- BLM only matters because a BLM critic got ‘canceled’.) Lately a friend of my son fell under the spell of a notorious ‘black pill theorist’ which got me looking at the current manosphere on YouTube. My understanding is that the ‘pickup artist’ phenomenon burned out around around 2013 or so, I am LMFAO the there is a woman who sells dating advice that includes pickup lines out of mystery’s book. I have not seen a woman get into a fight with a PUA in 2022 but all the other manospherists think they are grifters. (E.g. exploit lonely men, not exploit women.). ‘Friendzone’ is a popular word today, other ones aren’t. A genre of reaction videos to TikTok videos got big recently, trends are evolving on a week to week basis. My take is that YouTubers who think ‘life sucks’ are resonating with people because of the effects of the pandemic, but I also think they don’t have insight into it. Everybody else has their own story. The method of discourse used in this blog post fills pages but never proves anything. (Is that the point of so-called rationalism?)