A friend of my friend is a well-known musician. You've heard his name on the radio/tv if you live in the US, unless you've been living under a rock. This dude is chubby, balding, and average-looking. He used to be fit but a couple years of drinking + too much weed means right now he looks shitty.

He got me general admission tickets to his show, where I watched the evening unfold. His fans are all 16-25yo girls attending in packs. He had two opening acts- a mediocre dude singer/songwriter, and a shitty blonde chick with a guitar who the girls in the audience openly mocked, and then a 25 minute wait until my friend took the stage.

During the wait I watched the audience adjust their hair, their lip gloss, their tits, and take a hundred selfies with the stage. I observed multiple status multipliers for this otherwise low SMV musician occur.

  1. Highly competitive atmosphere. There were approximately 5,000 girls there, some of whom were highly fuckable and wearing next to nothing. The skinnyfat 6/10s who assume they're beautiful just sank in their shoes when they realized they didn't match up, I couldn't help but smirk pitifully.

  2. A HB9 female opening act, whom all of audience assumes got the gig by fucking my friend. They have to beat her SMV to have a chance of getting his attention.

  3. He made them wait. The 25 minutes between the guitar chick and my friend made it clear that my friend had better things to do then worrying about the audience's curfews. He was there to play music.

  4. Instagram. My friend "liked" some of the hotter girls pics on instagram when they hashtagged his tour during the show. I know this because shrieks went up from the crowd when one of them got his validation, followed by whispers of envy and mean rumors from the others.

  5. He pulled one up onstage to sing a ballad to. He told me he picks the hottest girl in the front row of every show, but one who was obviously legal so he doesn't get complaints from their parents. I went to the men's room and a couple drunk wall-adjacent girls barged in, talking about how the redheaded slut he chose for this show was probably a hooker because did you SEE her huge boobs?

My friend is so used to this attention he doesn't give a fuck anymore. He spotted a girl he liked and asked a security guard to bring her backstage, so after the show I went back there and found him chatting up this 19yo cheerleader who wanted pictures with both of us. I gained a bunch of instagram/twitter followers out of association with the guy, and if I could be sure any of them were legal, could probably fuck a few of them by dangling HIS status carrots over their head.

Groupies are not news to anyone, but I've never seen a concert broken down by redpill theory before so figured it might be interesting.