So a little backstory.

I got exposed to Red Pill / Black Manosphere content in 2019 toward the end of my senior year of high school. At the time I didn’t really know what I was getting into I just kept seeing videos, clicked one, and went down the rabbit hole.

By 2020 during COVID (community college, mostly at home), I was consuming that content every day. LiveStreams, podcasts, comment sections everything. I bounced between Red Pill and Black Pill from 2020–2022 trying to “figure it all out.”

When I was in Red Pill/Black Manospehere spaces, I remember channels constantly talking about self-improvement, getting your money up and so. I remember at the beginning of 2020 when I was in Black Manospehere they we’re talking about Passport Bros before it went viral a few years ago to people talking about it now and going mainstream because of Kevin Samuels mainstream appearances on Joe Budden, djVlad and Future’s music video etc.

When I was in Black Pill spaces, I remember channels constantly talking about LMS (Looks, Money, Status). They’d break down faces, jawlines, celebrities, even stock photos doing those rating scales. Fast forward now you have guys like Clavicular lol.

I’m 24, at a university, graduating this December, and it’s wild seeing the same ideas come back in a different form. “Looksmaxxing,” rating, Passport Bros it’s basically the same mindset rebranded.

The difference is now I’ve stepped away from that way of thinking (left it around 2023 when I started questioning everything and comparing it to real life). What’s crazy is back then, I had limited real interaction and was learning everything from the internet

Now, being around people daily, I can clearly see how disconnected a lot of that content is from reality I’m not saying everything in those spaces is 100% false, but the way it frames things can really mess with your perception especially when you don’t have real-life experience to balance it out. I’ll probably make another post about life after leaving those spaces.

Has anyone else noticed old Red Pill / Black Pill ideas getting repackaged and pushed again recently?