Inside the Manosphere Is the Wrong Documentary to Show your Girl If You Wanna Redpill Her

Inside the Manosphere is quite a misleading title. Watching the new Netflix documentary, I never quite felt like I was inside; rather, it was more like standing on the outside looking in.

When the title first appeared on my algorithm, I told my girlfriend we needed to watch it. She didn't want to, but I make the rules (actually, we come up with the rules together and I follow them [but I have the final say in other stuff that's way more important but that I don't have time to get into here], and according to them, it was my turn to choose), so we sat down and pressed play.

I expected an honest and appreciative exploration of this internet subculture, a corner of the web where I have found like-minded individuals, friends, bros, mentors, and figures to emulate. Instead, I got a beta cuck doing a hit piece on men who have found a way out of the matrix. This isn't new and, sadly, it will never change. Stop me if you've heard the one about traditional media attacking independent thinkers.

I foolishly thought the doc would ease my girlfriend into this world, show her some of the positives for both men and women. Maybe after this documentary, I'd start bringing her into the lifestyle. And then, after a year of showing her this philosophy, she too would be redpilled. We would both escape the matrix hand in hand (with some one-sided monogamy for me [if she's cool with that because not even the guys in the documentary can get their girls to agree to this]). I even envisioned a life where she would fulfill her natural role and become a tradwife. I saw our future, a future paradoxically very much like an idealized version of the 1950s: nuclear family, cottages, your woman staying at home and baking pies or some shit, barely knowing how to count and/or read.

A man can dream (actually, let me get back to you on that one*), damn it. Now, after watching Inside the Manosphere with my girlfriend, I feel like the dream is only that, and that I'm just a wagecuk with a low SMV.

The doc follows some of the most prominent content creators in the manosphere. Luminaries of masculinity such as HS Tikky Tokky, Sneako, Myron Gaines, Justin Waller. If you've never heard these names, don't be surprised. The world is gynocentric, and true men like these are forced to the margins.

Of course, they all have different ways of reaching the masses. Some of them focus on fitness, or crypto, or talking to women (the three pillars of manhood). It's all very informative and not at all made to target young men's insecurities. However, the one thing all these dudes have in common is that they built themselves up from nothing (that and the misogyny, homophobia, racist views, and that some of them believe the Jews control the world [sorry, but I wouldn't touch that last part with a ten-foot pole]).

Through hard work and dedication, they've created an empire of podcasts and social media that boys and young men all around the world try to emulate. They're at the top of the mountain.

Still, my girlfriend wasn't impressed with these guys. That's when I started to think maybe she wasn't getting it, because you can't go higher than the top of the mountain. Even when I paused to explain the intricacies of their philosophies and how women should be subservient to men, she didn't change her mind.

Classic beta afraid of pushing back

And the reason she wasn't getting it is because the doc is not that great (or she's biologically programmed not to).

Apart from being titans of manhood, these dudes are masters of the spoken word. I wanted the doc to show them destroying Theroux in a debate about why women shouldn't vote or why lime green is the most alpha colour for your Lambo, but Theroux doesn't really push back.

He does, sometimes, but it seems to be played for laughs or to catch these guys lying or being hypocritical. How it works most of the time is that Theroux sets traps for them, and then he catches them and stares at them weirdly (see the photo below).

That is not how you explore a subculture, and that's not funny. My girlfriend was laughing at these interactions, but that just goes to show the extent of my struggle.

Theroux's inability to push back robs the show of quality debates. I don't like the fact that my heroes didn't get a chance to flex their debate muscles, but I do appreciate that the documentary shows us their "extremely toxic and problematic and downright dangerous views" and doesn't provide an alternative.

For instance, the main subject of the doc, HS TikkyTokky, is constantly talking shit about Onlyfans models and how disgusting and terrible they are, but he stills owns a company that manages them and he personally hangs out with them, so he ends up making money off the models. You say incongruous, I say grindset and/or poverty avoidance.

And Louis points this out, but it doesn't change anything. It feels like he only takes the first step, and then doesn't go further (probably because he's afraid of their biceps).

Another scene shows podcaster Myron Gaines talking about his one-sided misogyny and how he controls the relationship (yeah bro). Then, Theroux asks him about it in front of his girlfriend, and Gaines is all meek and flustered and doesn't know what to say (boo). Yeah, numbnuts, you try saying that mysoginstic shit to your wife's face without her getting angry and tell me how that works. (no, really, please).

But that's it, this nerd is afraid of going deeper. There's tons of cool shit Theroux could have shown if he'd been actually interested in going inside the manosphere. Instead, he stands there making weird, awkward faces and catching my dudes in lies and incongruencies.

Another example: at one point, Theroux invests $500 following HS' financial services and strategies. By the end of the film, Theroux says he lost all the money... and that's it. Just a throwaway joke to hint that these guys are scamming people. That felt like a wasted opportunity to do some real digging: what does the advice actually say? Where does the money go? How much does HS get? I'm simply talking about what a good documentary would do, and this has nothing to do with the fact that I've lost thousands with these investments.

Cool shit the doc didn't explore

I mean, if for some strange reason, I wanted to make a documentary about how harmful and dangerous this discourse is, I think I'd start with violence. As we all know, red pill and manosphere rhetoric has been used by men as a way to justify their violence. It is also a verfiable fact that boys who consume this type of shit are responsible for a noticeable uptrend in gendered violence in school. So yeah, I'd mention that. God, this soyboy can't even do that.

Or, I don't know, I'd go deeper into investigating how the manosphere works as a funnel that pushes young men over to conservative and, in some cases, far-right views. The doc shows how close some of these streamers are with Trump, but doesn't really explain the process or psychology behind it. Another missed opportunity.

In the end, the doc was timid. It didn't even show all the good stuff about being redpilled, so I thought it was a bust. On the other hand, it was content with lightly condemning these ideas, so my girlfriend thought it was pretty meh.

I have to wonder who this was made for. Hardcore redpilled men like me are years beyond this Manosphere 101 shit, and it's not funny or deep enough to entertain people who want to shit on us (i.e. everyone). If you really want to learn more about the manosphere, I can show you some literature. 

*After spending $150 on a one-on-one session with my masculinity mentor, it turns out dreaming is a feminine trait, and men shouldn't do it.

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere2026