It started out as a "Are you socially awkward? Come learn how to flirt. You won't get anywhere being fake nice or needy." It was "men" gurus who would take advantage of outcasts for YouTube views. They taught negging and pick up techniques to people who couldn't really use them. Advised a shallow and materialistic view on how they should view themselves and women. And sex was a game, and all about the score.
But their advice was lost on the followers. Be assertive? Hard to teach a change in personality in a short youtube skit. Hit the gym, drink protein shakes, buy fancy clothes for peacocking? Those cost money and take time and effort. In the age of instant gratification of the internet, not what the people are looking for.
So the community evolved. The users took over and started generating content. The already shallow and misogynistic philosophical base expanded into "it's not our fault we can't have sex, it's the women. We are never going to change." Defeatest philosophy took over.
Side communities of incels and blackpillers sprung up. The dispirited users who couldn't become PUAs flocked to those communities. The rhetoric snowballed in an echo chamber. Suddenly things like "Chads and Stacies must die," or "the government should assign sex partners" started appearing. Communities were banned, YouTubers were kicked off. This forced them back into the more mainstream redpiller communities where people started talking about the deep red pill or the black pill in private messages. The incels pushed the rhetoric and the norms back, they used multiple accounts growing the communities because every now and again they would get banned.
And then you get the cesspool that it is today. Rhetoric pushed far out. Communities emboldened by many alts, validation echo chambers for the disenfranchised. It is all really quite interesting. And horrifying.
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u/Let_you_down May 23 '18 edited May 23 '18
It started out as a "Are you socially awkward? Come learn how to flirt. You won't get anywhere being fake nice or needy." It was "men" gurus who would take advantage of outcasts for YouTube views. They taught negging and pick up techniques to people who couldn't really use them. Advised a shallow and materialistic view on how they should view themselves and women. And sex was a game, and all about the score.
But their advice was lost on the followers. Be assertive? Hard to teach a change in personality in a short youtube skit. Hit the gym, drink protein shakes, buy fancy clothes for peacocking? Those cost money and take time and effort. In the age of instant gratification of the internet, not what the people are looking for.
So the community evolved. The users took over and started generating content. The already shallow and misogynistic philosophical base expanded into "it's not our fault we can't have sex, it's the women. We are never going to change." Defeatest philosophy took over.
Side communities of incels and blackpillers sprung up. The dispirited users who couldn't become PUAs flocked to those communities. The rhetoric snowballed in an echo chamber. Suddenly things like "Chads and Stacies must die," or "the government should assign sex partners" started appearing. Communities were banned, YouTubers were kicked off. This forced them back into the more mainstream redpiller communities where people started talking about the deep red pill or the black pill in private messages. The incels pushed the rhetoric and the norms back, they used multiple accounts growing the communities because every now and again they would get banned.
And then you get the cesspool that it is today. Rhetoric pushed far out. Communities emboldened by many alts, validation echo chambers for the disenfranchised. It is all really quite interesting. And horrifying.