Last week’s release of Louis Theroux’s latest documentary has sparked a wide number of conversations after highlighting various themes and subjects. And one of those in particular was the behaviour displayed by Myron Gaines, real name Amrou Fudl. Arguably one of the most controversial influencers featured in the doc, the 36-year-old is known in the … Read more
“So far, unlike most other European countries, we don’t really have any Irish male supremacist influencers,” says Prof Debbie Ging, “and long may that last”. Ging has been keeping tabs on the so-called manosphere for the past decade. Through extensive research, she has traced the early beginnings of this previously obscure online world right up … Read more
In 2010, British journalist Louis Theroux went to Israel to interview ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers who believed it was their religious and political obligation to populate the West Bank for the BBC doc “Ultra Zionists.” Last year, over a decade and a half later, the broadcaster returned to the region to investigate how the Israeli settler … Read more
HSTikkyTokky has branded Louis Theroux a ‘hypocrite’ in wake of the release of his latest Netflix documentary. The TV star muscled his way into the manosphere – an online realm exclusively led by male influencers who have a lot to say about women and other marginalised groups – for his latest project. It’s prompted a … Read more
Watching Inside the Manosphere, Louis Theroux’s decent new Netflix documentary about influencers with horrible attitudes to women and totally normal names like HS Tikky Tokky and Sneako, has me thinking about the golden age of male role models. I am talking, of course, about the 1980s and 1990s. These are the olden-days manosphere influencers who … Read more
On the pavement outside the Netflix office, I stand in the rain, confused. Was that interview a little off? Louis Theroux seemed not to like my questions, which were typical interview questions, related to him and his big glossy Netflix debut, Inside the Manosphere. He seemed, I don’t know, prickly? A bit testy? I’m prone … Read more
Armie Hammer has broken his silence on the infamous texts he sent during his affair in which he stated he is ‘100% a cannibal’. Hammer has spent a long period out of the public eye after in 2021 being accused of sexual and emotional abuse. He broke his silence in a podcast interview with Louis … Read more