Is The Manosphere Really That Dangerous? - Louis Theroux - #1070

Louis, you've got three sons, 20, 18, and 11. Why were you interested in doing this documentary? Uh, well, for for reasons closely related to that. I mean, yeah, that's obviously part of it. Uh, as a dad, I saw my kids were consuming

I mean, consuming s maybe sounds more active than it was. They were being exposed to influencer content, manosphere type content, specifically Andrew Tate back in the sort of post-COVID era when he first blew up. And and I remember kids saying, the, you know, the b the boys saying, um, oh, Andrew Tate said this or that. And and thinking like, well, who who is Andrew Tate? Like that's not every

wasn't someone I'd ever heard of. And then the content obviously turned out to be things like, oh, women can't drive or shouldn't be allowed to drive or women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Um and it was hard to, you know, that they were sort of saying, like, well, it just says it as a joke, like, everyone's freaking out about this and but, you know, we we know what it is. Like it's clearly uh clickbait or rage bait, but nevertheless, its level of virality was kind of I I I I it would be too far to say at this stage it was concerning, but it was kind of weird.

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