I remember seeing all over Reddit the talks about the 4B movement and how there were women everywhere that were swearing off dating and men. I was looking at some of those threads today on this subreddit, dating and dating apps subreddits.

If you click on the profile of people who were "committing" to the movement, not only are they already back to writing in all of these dating subreddits, but based on the dates of when they started again, it didn't even seem to go past 2-3 weeks.

So in the end, did this not just end up becoming like MGTOW? Swearing off something while simultaneously talking non stop of that certain thing? Then eventually reverting back to your old ways? I remember even back then when people were making the comparison, there were women saying that the difference was that 4B was not meant as a way of punishing men, but to protect themselves. If that was the case, wouldn't it still have been in effect?

Granted I personally thought it was going to fall apart as fast as it did. I just found it crazy how big the talking point got. It wasn't only on Reddit, but Twitter and everywhere in the online space. It essentially became a mainstream talking point, only for it to go back to exactly the same way it was just a month after.