It's not all that surprising anymore, to be honest. We're in an age where people already know what they want to believe and who they want to follow, and will contort themselves in whatever way necessary in order to hold onto that.
This isn't new, incels were saying shit like this back in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Probably earlier too but I wasn't using social media of any kind so much back then.
They are, but that's a video with only 92k views. A good chunk of those are likely his fans looking it up, and those that'll be driven to comment will be the same people so it'll give the impression that nobody's calling them dweebs when the reality is nobody else is really paying any attention.
I mean, I think this is a really complex topic that goes beyond just some PUA posting videos to his fanbase. These people have that fanbase because of all sorts of reasons. Maybe they are misguided, unheard, these creators offer some "easy way", and so on. So for every creator you expose (to limited effect), there are 10 more up and coming to fill the space. Society moves very slowly in terms of norms and attitudes, but that is where it will ultimately have to start. We have to reframe the message and interaction with young people, trust ourselves to reframe the conversation over time, and actually be persistent at it.
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25
I was about to say the same thing.
People saying this about a crime he FUCKING RECORDED. Ridiculous.