Recently, there's been this idea of '62 million men' in a course/group chat about drugging and SA'ing women.

When I first saw this, I was stunned, but since I saw it on TikTok, like with every take I see, I knew there was some half-truth to it. Digging a little deeper, I found a few things that make more sense. The figure of 62 million comes from a pornographic website's monthly visitors. The website had a now-defunct Telegram group with fewer than 1,000 members; this was the 'sleeper course'. The figure comes from a CNN headline (Link will be attached) and then was spread through a post on X that was interacted with 2 million times (Link for this will also be attached).

When I first saw the number, it caught me off guard, as I said, and when I tried to quantify it, that's what made me realize it's actually just a ridiculous statement. For example, as a Canadian, if you took the 18+ male population and divided 62 million by it, it would suggest that each Canadian adult man took part in the course 3.77 times. When you use the more accurate figure (assuming all were men and active users), it is .006% of Canadian adult men, which is way too many to begin with, but is the closest to the truth we have on this story.

Stop lying for fucking upvotes, as you're only harming society by spreading fear mongering bull shit.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-online-rape-academy/
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html