I've watched a few so called in-field videos on youtube lately and it left me wondering if there are some rules whereby the coaches doing the narrating are not allowed to discuss anything along the lines of seduction or manipulation. It sort of seems as if they talk around the topic of why the viewer clicked on the video. But this article seems to suggest that any deletion of pick-up videos on youtube was merely as a result of sexual content. There has to be more to it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50006240

Or maybe it's nothing to do with that, and simply that the intelligence of mankind has dropped in the last 20 years, because none of these videos are interesting. These coaches are only capable of repeating very basic arguments that we've all heard before, like "stop chasing" or "don't put her on the pedestal". There's no substance, or interesting stories to share that drive the point home. Usually the videos they have involve the guy walking up to a girl and saying something like "hey, you look like trouble" and then proceeds to pretend he's going to an after party. I mean WTF? And they're always so eager to say the line in their head, that when the girl unexpectedly speaks first and interrupts their line, they just go back to the start of the sentence and repeat the line. If they'd any bit of wit they'd be able to use what the other person has said to channel the conversation.

Take A.G. Hayden for example; he has videos of women he approaches and doesn't even bother to blur out their face! There doesn't seem to be any rule against that. He could at least blur the woman's face out of respect. But this same guy doesn't seem to know more than the average guy. Watch here when he analyses a vid of Mystery below. At 2:30 Mystery is asked what he does for a living by a woman and he says he's "a glorified bum"! But at 2:46 Hayden thinks that Mystery made a mistake with this answer! If you watch you'll see that the guy seems to have an empty head like the rest of them at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igUDG9lY6ag

I remember Owen Cook would demonstrate and discuss nuanced social dynamics and power moves. I'm not for a second saying Owen Cook was the pioneer in PUA, but he was the possibly just first guru who happened explain all the eye opening stuff for me. If I were to look back at some of the Owen Cook videos now and probably view them as quite basic. Todd Valentine is probably the best at the moment, though I think one needs to be careful listening to some of his advice he gives.