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  • The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.

    Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).

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    Charles Atlas ad saying let me prove in 7 days that I can make you a new man!

    This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don’t think it’s healthy. Also with print media you saw it once or twice in a magazine, and you didn’t have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.