He can be pretty brutal about men as well as women.
My concern with the self-help gurus, coaches and commentators is that the second they offer advice, they suddenly deny genetics and reality, go full "blank slate" and assume that hard work, the gym and touching grass can solve everything. There was a recent video from Chris Williamson “Genetics Are More Important Than How Hard You Work” that really offended people because they can't grasp the concept that a significant percentage about yourself is outside of your control due to genes, not just height, eye colour or half your personality but also including the predication for someone to work hard, whether you will become a CEO and inclination to not procrastinate. Probably because evolutionary and biological reality doesn't make money.
That will never change. The sentiment from society has always been and forever more will be that it is men's fault, that they are accountable and responsible and it is them that must "be better". Not sure how you can have better genes or height though?
If every man gets a professional photo shoot done, then it becomes the minimum standard and no longer puts you above other men. Same with the "get jacked bruh" advice wheeled out at every opportunity.
Unfortunately in life there will be winners and losers and unlike being injected everywhere else, there is zero appetite for equity in dating.
We've recently had two electric... sorry, I meant "diesel", buses go up in flames recently to the point the whole fleet is now off the road.
(I say "diesel" because there's an ongoing belief where investigating bodies claim all vehicle fires are caused by combustible liquid fuel and never by lithium batteries).
I got served a two hour advertisement once. They have stopped that practice but in turn now serve up to two minutes of ads every five minutes and in particular, within the first two minutes of starting a video.
They're not just becoming cable TV, they're becoming WORSE than cable TV! And the sugar on top will be when, not if, they show advertising to Premium subscribers.
That's a big problem and why YouTube can act in such a monopolistic way. Because they know the content they currently have is with them and the majority of creators do not want to diversify or move to another platform such as Rumble or Odysee. However things are changing as people move toward subscription based long form content via the streaming platforms and short form content via TikTok.
YouTube is slowly being squeezed in the middle and becoming more niche. Niche don't make money and unlike the big streaming giants who can make content with hundreds of people so if one burns out, they can be replaced and the non-committal short form content is cheap and easy to make. I've noticed a big uptick recently in content creators burning out or retiring because you don't have the sub money to sustain the production values needed for the high quality monetised content like the big streaming giants can, the ad revenue is spread far too thinly to be sustainable at a time where ad revenue is declining or the platform for the popular short form content that's now been taken by TikTok and Shorts hasn't captured that market.
YouTube is acting like a monopoly in a market it no longer dominates.
The other ways, and more likely way to deal with it with the new online safety laws, are to either disable the upload button and have the website curated or make non-monetised videos be hosted on someone's Google One storage.
Considering Lira's role in the manosphere (being one of the key architects and personalities within) and recent declaration of it being a "terror threat" by the DHS, it does make you question whether there was an ideological motive by proxy behind Lira's treatment and passing?
Considering the US Government considers Lira to be one of the key architects of the "manosphere" which they consider a terror threat and therefore everyone within fair game for taking out, it's probably more than likely that they will give accolades to the person who took him down.
There also seems to be a fresh push by evolutionary psychologists, researchers and academics very recently to malign single men not succeeding in the dating market in the worst possible way. As far as they are concerned, if you're not partnered or slaying it in the dating market, you're nothing at best.
Some of the stuff I have seen from one of the prominent voices in evopsych in the last 24 hours, Alexander from DatePsychology paints single men as both powerless, pathetic individuals and a greater threat than feminists in terms of extremism and terror threat. I can see people replying to say that they are losing empathy with single men and they deserve to be ostracised and punished by society. To the point where people no longer see them as human beings with ideas, emotions or desires. Which never ends well and usually leads to rule violating suggestions against said men.
Worrying times if you're a single male and you're not succeeding on Tinder on a nightly basis, particularly with the recent fed targeting of single men.
The "beta bux" strategy seems to be fading away. It appears women are increasingly going voluntary celibate because childless women are outearning their male peers due to factors such as affirmative action and because of hypergamy, women do not want to date down, only across and up. If men don't meet increasing expectations as they age, they'll remain single.
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I thought the "alpha" men paying women to either appear on their channel or entice marks to pay for their grift... Sorry, I mean "provide men with self-help advice", was a known thing?
It's no different to the "relationship coaches" who are actually single and racking up body counts that would make a lady of the night blush with embarrassment.
We now also have people providing self-help advice to men who they consider nothing more than leeching mouthbreathers in the same way OnlyFans women have utter disgust at their subscribers.
And some of the people doing the coaching and providing advice frankly are the type of people who tell you to "man up", "get clean", "get jacked" and "touch grass" who don't practice what they preach and have backgrounds and private lives that could be considered the opposite of inspirational and qualified to give men advice.
It is the monetisation and scamming of lonely men. And virtually no-one will give a damn about these men or sympathise because of their low status, place in society and singledom.
It's likely they'll ban residential VPN use outright and business VPN use will be restricted to businesses and corporations which have strictly enforced policies on Internet usage which will certainly ban 18+ material.
But of course, don't underestimate the ineptitude of politicians and their inability to understand the technology. They tend to react to knee jerk lobbyists with an agenda.
The UK is proposing not just photo ID but also live, repeated identity facial recognition from 2025 to verify that person matches the photo ID with safeguards in place to prevent trickery. Which would require cameras in a range of devices. And not just for porn but for anything not "safe for kids". Who wants multiple cameras in their home that could be used for surveillance just so you can have the freedom to view porn, gamble, watch an 18 movie, play an 18 video game or post a comment on a website?
If the UK sets the precedent with the Online Safety Act, not just Government photo ID but live, repeated facial recognition checks via a webcam or smartphone to ensure the person is who they say they are from 2025. Safeguards will be put in place to prevent people putting a photo in front of a camera or just handing a device over to an underage person once the initial check has been done.
It's also not just going to apply to pornography but anything deemed not "safe for kids". The inconvenience of having to repeatedly check your identity to play an 18 rated video game is going to lead to console manufacturers bringing back the likes of Kinect and mandating the PlayStation Camera so you don't have the inconvenience of having to repeatedly verify your ID via a smartphone to continue playing the game. Then again, who wants a camera in every device that could be used for surveillance inside the living rooms and bedrooms of every private home?
In terms of VPN's, they're on borrowed time. Several countries have banned them and won't allow payments by either payment processors or transferring fiat currency to crypto. The Labour Party planned to implement an amendment in the Online Safety Bill to ban them but it didn't happen. Labour looks very likely to win the next General Election so will be able to implement a new law banning them and any funding mechanisms.
And the Conservative party with Labour support look likely to eventually go down the road of banning pornography and nudity outside of the bedroom/bathroom outright. The current Health Secretary was recently on BBC Radio 4 declaring a porn pandemic in society and showing her desire to ban it for women's and children's safety. Labour agrees with that stance.
A lot of the arguments that come from that side of the debate and the proposed solutions from self-help gurus and coaches tend to have the concept of the "blank slate". The assumption that everyone is born neutral, genes aren't real and that everyone can change every single aspect about themselves. If that were the case, every man would be in an arms race to grow themselves taller than every other man. Biology informs culture, not the other way round. In the same way that you can install a 32-bit operating system on a 64-bit CPU based computer but you can't install a 64-bit OS on a 32-bit CPU based computer.
We know personality is half genetic and we also know that someone's proclivity to work hard, resistance to procrastinate and therefore aim toward weight loss is predominately genetic! Even height is related to success. People six feet and over make up only 14.5% of the population but make up over 50% of CEO's.
Shaming and outcasting people to lose weight won't work. A Government can mandate everyone go to the gym but it will only work in the short term a la lockdowns. The excessive cost of healthcare in the US doesn't appear to be a deterrent to obesity despite the risk of literal bankruptcy if they're not insured. As I say, biology informs culture, not the other way round. It is to society today what Galileo's heliocentric championing was back in his day - heresy.