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Ok I dont want to be rude, but these are common phenomenon known and studied, you can google this for god sake, I am not lying, I wish we did not have to dealt with influencers and politics using Influencer to brainwash youg boys and and men, but here we go: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-growing-gender-gap-among-young-people/ Some Extracts: In politics, we are seeing a gender gap amongst today’s youngest voters—aged 18 to 29—with young women being significantly more Democratic in their political leanings than young men. For instance, a recently released national poll by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School finds that among 18 to 29-year-olds, President Biden’s lead with women is +33 points in contrast to young men where his lead drops to a mere six points. When compared to this stage of the 2020 campaign, Biden’s lead among women was nearly identical (+35), while his lead with men stood at +26, representing a steep drop in just the past four years. Democrats have again lost significant ground with young men. In 2020, 42% of young men in Harvard’s poll identified as Democrats versus 20% who identified as Republican. Now, 32% are Democrats and 29% are Republicans, The Survey Center on American Life’s findings also support a divide in self-identification, with young women being much more likely to identify themselves as “feminists” than young men. Only 43% of Gen Z men identify in this way, much less than Millennial men, while 61% of Gen Z women describe themselves as feminist compared to 54% of Millennial women and 49% of Generation X women. The study also shows young men increasingly feel as though they are experiencing discrimination over the past four years. Nearly half of all men aged 18 to 29 said they felt this way, the highest of all male age groups surveyed Very relevant to what I said: Men in particular feel isolated. Brookings nonresident senior fellow, Richard Reeves, has studied the issue arguing in his book “Of Boys and Men” that rapid societal changes combined with a market shift from brawn to brain have left many men feeling bereft and without purpose. Reeves, a self-described “feminist”, does not make the argument that the liberation of women is a bad thing but instead suggests finding new roles for men and a redefinition of “masculinity” in this changing world. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11033088251371897 Some Extract: While young men in Western societies previously demonstrated more progressive attitudes towards gender equality compared to older generations, recent reports indicate a widening gender gap, with young men increasingly adopting conservative positions. The manosphere, emerging from the late 1990s online forums and now mainstream through influencers like Andrew Tate, promotes male supremacy through evolutionary psychology claims and market-based views of sexual relations. At the same time, manospheric discourse has become increasingly mainstream (Gerrand et al., 2025). A striking example is former reality TV contestant and MMA fighter Andrew Tate, who became TikTok’s top influencer and Google’s most searched person in 2022. Teachers soon reported that boys and young men were repeating his misogynistic messages, drawing on manosphere content and displaying sexist behaviour towards girls at school (Haslop et al., 2024; Wescott et al., 2024). While exceptionally popular, Tate is just one of many ‘manfluencers’ who present themselves as high-status ‘alpha’ men, combining advice about fitness, health, self-improvement and wealth building with misogyny and antifeminism Lets even how it affects other countries: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04903-y Some Extracts: There is increasing academic awareness of the growing ideological gap between men and women across the world (Ella Mebane et al., 2020; Gillion et al., 2020). Recent statistics show the widening of this gap, especially among so-called ‘generation Z’ youth (Burn-Murdoch, 2024). A recent study among Estonian 15-year-olds found that boys’ and girls’ attitudes towards gender roles are moving rapidly in opposite directions (Ümarik et al., 2022). Whilst Estonian girls share liberal views, Estonian boys are more aligned with conservative values (Saar, 2023). Similar trends have been described worldwide (Finlay, 2021; ‘Why Young Men and Women’, 2024). These two trends converge in the internationally produced manosphere content that seeks to provide simple gendered answers to the present socio-economic precarity The manfluencer is a distinct category with commonly used discourses, making entry into this type of content creation relatively easy. Much of the content flirts with the entertainment value of participatory conspiracy culture (De Wildt and Aupers, 2023; Van Prooijen et al., 2022). Such rage baiting (Bryant, 2024; Gabor, 2023) increases traffic and engagement, thus indicating value to recommendation algorithms. Originality is not necessary to profit in the attention economy, as shown by the growing popularity of reaction videos (Binker Cosen, 2024) and the participatory mimicking logic of TikTok viral trends (Galea, 2024). A strong repertoire of victimisation is apparent in the material. Content creators claim that men are victims who are misunderstood and abandoned by the rest of society. Classification systems are used to divide society into ‘brainwashed masses’ versus masculine men trying to do good. Victimisation is heavily tied to anti-feminist discourse, as a common trope in the manosphere sees women’s rights movements as robbing men of their promised futures in employment and love life (Banet-Weiser and Miltner, 2016; Dickel and Evolvi, 2023). This discourse strives to uphold the patriarchal social order and polarise social groups. Similarly to men’s rights activists (MRAs), manfluencers present women and ‘woke’ masses as part of a system where men’s grievances are ignored. They engage in ontological racketeering by amplifying the potential problems of their audiences (Bujalka et al., 2022; Rothermel et al., 2022). Thus, while the content shows the problems created by neoliberal ideologies in Estonia, it falsely attributes victimhood to men without acknowledging that mostly men have been the beneficiaries of the system. And I could bring out more news, more articles, but there is a limited space of how much can I write here, you are free to google it, bring out articles and prove me wrong, I am open to it, FUCK i wish was wrong, PLEASE prove me wrong.