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The Algorithm Wants Your Son

Jacqueline Maley reviews a documentary on the manosphere and finds a generation of young men being radicalised by influencers selling grievance as identity.

The manosphere sells blokes a masculinity that couldn't bench-press its own insecurities. Andrew Tate didn't build a movement — he built a franchise model for loneliness, and the margins are spectacular when your product is rage and your customers are seventeen. Menzies's generation stormed beaches. This lot storms comment sections. Somewhere between the Anzacs and the algorithm, we lost the plot on what a man actually is.