who falls for this red pill stuff?

KayRay1994 · 2025-01-23T17:53:51+00:00

Tbh get the right combination of loneliness, unresolved emotions and algorithms literally pumping that shit as soon as you search for anything relating to self improvement and that’s what ends up happening.

I have a complicated view on these guys in that, yes, the RP grifters are monsters and the people who follow them are on their way to becoming monsters if they don’t change course, but at the same time this didn’t come from nowhere. So there is this complicated sense of pity on top of the frustration

xvszero · 2025-01-23T19:02:01+00:00

Think younger even. It's hitting a lot of high school age kids and even younger at times.

ooa3603 · 2025-01-23T22:04:57+00:00

The most common traits of those who are most susceptible to the redpill:

Belief in unrealistic ideals of manhood or womanhood - They believe a man should be unemotional, dominant in everything, invulnerable and never in need of any help. This set of ideals is not possible for anyone rich or poor, but regardless they will hurt themselves emotionally or physically trying to live up to it. In addition, they tend to see women as a fundamentally different species and for whatever reason refuse to accept a more realistic view of them as mostly the same as men with a few differences. (think a venn diagram). So, they judge women by hypocritical standards due to those misconceptions.
Under socialized - they have a deficit of social skills and emotional intelligence. This leads to a lack of healthy and fulfilling platonic relationships with either gender. Reasons vary from things in their control (like their character and actions) to things out of their control (like abusive family or genetic disorders). Consequently, they're typically lonely and isolated from people.
Overdeveloped negativity bias - they are unreasonably pessimistic. Negativity Bias is a cognitive paradigm that occurs when comparing things or events of equal emotional value/impact. The negative thing/event will stick in your mind more than the positive. Most people have this to some extent as an evolutionary adaptation to avoid danger. But some have an overly developed negativity bias, and the negative side of things is all they think about even when positive side is staring them right in the face. They will choose to focus on the negative even when they don't have to.
Overly anxious personalities - they obsess about every minutia of how things may go wrong. Anxiety isn't necessarily a bad emotion; it is a useful emotion to spur you into action to avoid dangerous things that may happen. But the key word is may. The demographic prone to the redpill irrationally indulge in intense and excessive amounts of worry to the point that they assume the worst in themselves and others even when there is no reason to do so.

These tendencies combine to form men with an overly developed desire for self-importance derived from their misconceptions of masculinity, who then seek to get that validation from women in the form of sexual relationships. But due to their lack of social skills and misunderstanding of women, find themselves unable to do so. These leads to an anxious pessimistic spiral where they blame all of their real or perceived problems on women.

luridlurker · 2025-01-23T18:01:10+00:00

It's not a comfortable fact, but everyone (no matter age) is susceptible to some type of grift/propaganda. RP preys on loneliness and insecurity in an uncertain world, so yeah, probably going to appeal to younger men who haven't found their place in the world yet, but there's plenty of reason why it'd also appeal to bitter divorced 40+ men too.

pridejoker · 2025-01-26T08:32:33+00:00

I don't know about now, but back in the 2000's it was sort of positioned very closely alongside men's lifestyle websites. These are websites designed to sell men's fashion and grooming products through advice articles. And much like what cosmo does for women, there's a lot of articles about dating and how to behave and what to showcase etc. It's weird to say but the whole thing is kind of a slippery slope where a few clicks and a few links is it takes to end up in front of someone who speaks very candidly and matter of factly.

Asleep-Reading855 · 2025-01-26T03:12:46+00:00

i was like 22 at the time yeah

Carloverguy20 · 2025-01-27T20:40:24+00:00

I would say males in their teens and early 20s will definitely fall for this.

After 24 years old, you will grow out of this phase.

qenqinqon · 2025-02-09T11:02:28+00:00

i was an insecure 16 y/o girl. that insecurity coupled with how young i was-- that was probably it

SufficientDot4099 · 2025-01-24T00:31:59+00:00

Children.

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Puzzled_Climate384 · 2025-01-23T21:04:50+00:00

generally it is age independent. Typically people who have had their belief system shattered and thus are open to new beliefs.

El-Myrone445 · 2025-01-24T06:31:27+00:00

It’s staring at you in the face.

Title	who falls for this red pill stuff?
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Date	January 23, 2025 5:47 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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