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Hi all,
I’m sure many of you will have noticed but there’s a weird trend at the moment of loser dudes on YouTube making videos “debunking” pickup videos. I can see where some of these are coming from; I saw one where it was a 16 year old trying to hit on girls who were clearly acting and it was fairly funny. But now there are big YouTube channels (with fairly wide influence) aggressively denouncing ideas like there being such a thing as an Alpha Male. It’s kind of funny coming from some of these people, who are in no position to give out advice to young men. Looking through the comments on these videos as well, it’s almost all vitriol directed at pickup/seduction. I think there was always some of this, as both regular men and women would feel a bit threatened by the idea of a conniving pickup artist. Lately it’s become much more mainstream and kind of saddens me. On top of that usually the youtubers will give some milquetoast advice like “Look bro, just be yourself.”
For example:
Thoughts?
I’m sure many of you will have noticed but there’s a weird trend at the moment of loser dudes on YouTube making videos “debunking” pickup videos. I can see where some of these are coming from; I saw one where it was a 16 year old trying to hit on girls who were clearly acting and it was fairly funny. But now there are big YouTube channels (with fairly wide influence) aggressively denouncing ideas like there being such a thing as an Alpha Male. It’s kind of funny coming from some of these people, who are in no position to give out advice to young men. Looking through the comments on these videos as well, it’s almost all vitriol directed at pickup/seduction. I think there was always some of this, as both regular men and women would feel a bit threatened by the idea of a conniving pickup artist. Lately it’s become much more mainstream and kind of saddens me. On top of that usually the youtubers will give some milquetoast advice like “Look bro, just be yourself.”
For example:
Thoughts?